MAY AS WELL CALL HIMSELF A "CRIP" AND GET THE TWO-FER:

Never again should he be allowed to speak without a teleprompter, even if it does reduce him to Gaelic.

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Champion Special Olympics bowler Kolan McConiughey challenges Obama after the president's "Tonight Show" remark (Jo Mathis, 3/20/09, The Ann Arbor News)

OK, Mr. President. You think your pitiful bowling skills are something you'd see at the Special Olympics?

An Ann Arbor man has a challenge for you.

"Bring it on, Obama!" says Kolan McConiughey, who is proud of the six Special Olympics bowling medals he's won as well as the fact that he's bowled five perfect games. "I challenge him! I'll show him how to do it." [...]

As the media descended on him Friday morning at his favorite bowling alley - Colonial Lanes Bowling Center - McConiughey switched from his denim Busch's shirt to one from the Special Olympics, then donned a couple medals, took out his bowling ball and walked to a lane.
News file photoMcConiughey with a bowling pin ackowledging one of his perfect games.
Then he threw strike after strike and a few spares as well, impressing the crew from "Inside Edition."

His foster mother, Jan Pardy, said that Special Olympics has given him a chance to shine, and that all the recent attention has been good for him."

"He's being recognized for what he does well," he said. "And not just bowling. He does his job well too, and he has lots of friends."

The Unicorn Rider, by contrast, can't bowl, can't do his job, and has no friends.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 19, 2009 8:41 PM