The Half-Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

Democrats put out a truly bad campaign poster, showing President Bush's face plastered over a kid running in the Special Olympics. It implies that Bush and/or his supporters are "retarded."

The first time I saw this particular hypocrisy was back in the Ford days. President Ford, a gifted athlete, happened to trip a couple of times and the news was ruthless. My girlfriend at the time said, "Well, I can't vote for a klutz." Hm. After he had lost to Carter, I saw two guys on TV discussing this. "Well, I just don't understand what happened. Those of us who followed the President [Ford] around were always struck by how poised and graceful he was." Too late, too late.

So the people who canonize Christopher Reeve, who support the Americans with Disabilities Act, who lionize Franklin Roosevelt (who was in a wheelchair his entire presidency), make fun of kids with Down's Syndrome and a guy who happened to trip. Guess they must think Steven Hawking is a real idiot--he can't talk OR walk! Maybe Dick Cheney is really doing all that astrophysics research for him behind the scenes.