Re: In Case you Missed It: Obama Making Fun of Special Olympians
Einsteinless:
1) he apologized
2) Malkin even admitted its no big deal
3) Where was your concern for the following?
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-nov1407-special_olympics_funding.1e12138.html"]http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-nov140...[/URL]
Bush vetoes bill with Special Olympics funding
08:40 AM MST on Thursday, November 15, 2007
BOISE - President George W.
Bush vetoed a large funding bill – which included more than $8 million in funding for the 2009 Idaho Special Olympics World Winter Games.
The president vetoed the Labor Health and Human Services bill Tuesday.
This funding was so crucial -- the Special Olympics committee in Idaho says these games might not happen without it!
$28 million is needed for Idaho to host these games. So far $17 million has been committed, but not collected - but that included the $8 million the president vetoed.
Nearly half of the money committed has just been taken away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/washington/11surgeon....
Surgeon General Sees 4-Year Term as Compromised
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: July 11, 2007
WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.
The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues. Top officials delayed for years and tried to “water down” a landmark report on secondhand smoke, he said. Released last year, the report concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm.
Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches. He also said he was asked to make speeches to support Republican political candidates and to attend political briefings.
And
administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name.
“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.
The Special Olympics is one of the nation’s premier charitable organizations to benefit disabled people, and the Kennedys have long been deeply involved in it.
When asked after the hearing if that “prominent family” was the Kennedys, Dr. Carmona responded, “You said it. I didn’t.”
In response to lawmakers’ questions, Dr. Carmona refused to name specific people in the administration who had instructed him to put political considerations over scientific ones. He said, however, that they included assistant secretaries of health and human services as well as top political appointees outside the department of health.
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