Yeah, I don't want her anywhere near the presidency; however, I don't mind her trying to get the Israeli mole out of the White House!
WASHINGTON - Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, apologized again yesterday for using the word “retarded’’ during a private strategy meeting last summer, telling advocates for the disabled that he will join their campaign to help end use of the word.
The controversy over Emanuel’s remark continued to dog the sometimes foul-mouthed senior Obama adviser despite his private apology to Tim Shriver, Special Olympics chief executive, shortly after the comment was made public last week in a Wall Street Journal story.
In a statement after yesterday’s meeting at the White House, Shriver and five other disability rights advocates said Emanuel had “sincerely apologized’’ for the comment.
They said he would work with them to help pass legislation to remove the word from federal law.
An Emanuel aide declined to comment after the meeting.
The Journal had reported that Emanuel used the phrase “[expletive] retarded’’ during a meeting with liberal activists in August.
No CONTEXT, Zionist MSM? WTF?!!
The controversy ballooned after Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor, called on President Obama to fire his chief of staff. In a statement on her Facebook page, she asked, “Are you capable of decency, Rahm Emanuel?’’
Short answer: no
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Of course, we will rewrite the definitions for Jews:
"Advocates’ effort to purge ‘retarded’ from laws nears success" by Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post | February 5, 2010
WASHINGTON - A national movement to purge the word “retarded’’ from lawbooks and medical terminology is nearing success, gaining support this week from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who apologized to advocates for the disabled for using the term during a private meeting last summer....
In Virginia and 47 other states, politicians have acted to remove the words from the names of their human services agencies. This spring, Congress plans to consider a bill that would replace the words in all federal education, health, and labor laws.
This is what they are working on down there?
Related: What is Your State Legislature Doing Today?
Mass. House OK’s driving safety bill
Pffft!
We are paying them for that?
The change came after a decade of debate among social workers, psychologists, and educators....
It took THAT LONG, huh?
Some advocates argue that the long campaign to change the term has been a waste of time because the lexicon of insults will probably expand to include any new terms and because it has distracted from more pressing needs such as employment assistance.
Yeah, I'd say so!
But for a new generation of people with intellectual disabilities, who are better educated and better organized, changing the language is priority number one.
I stand corrected; maybe the term isn't that far off.
Pffft!
And their recent legislative successes are signaling their effectiveness as a political force.
Great, ANOTHER DIVISIVE SPECIAL INTEREST getting its legs.
Leadership opportunities have come slowly to people with intellectual disabilities. Campaigns against forced sterilization or institutionalization or exclusion from public schools have been led by family members or the professionals who work with them.
Yeah, and we FED them URANIUM in their CEREAL MILK without telling them so we could experiment on them. Somehow the elite eugenics are vague in the recap.
The nature of a disability that has historically been diagnosed for those with IQ test scores below 70 or 75 makes it harder to give speeches or debate issues. But an increasing number of people with intellectual disabilities are taking the microphone and setting up picket lines to stand up for themselves, following examples set by blacks, women, and other groups.
Yeah, it's okay if you are for an agenda-pushing cause (otherwise, it rarely makes the paper).
Try being antiwar and see how far you get in the war-promoting papers.
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Great!
Get after him, Sarah!
