As many of you know, President Obama paid a visit over to Jay Leno’s Tonight Show last week and tried to loosen up the image of the president. He wanted to do-away with the stuffy images of presidents playing croquet, chomping on cigars, and sitting behind desks. I don’t think that it was a bad idea. But there should have been a little more self-censoring. Because everything his critics threw at him about it ‘demeaning the presidency’ turned out to be true.

Somebody needed to get the man a teleprompter. The one joke everybody remembers is about how the president apparently is as good a bowler as retarded kids.

“I bowled a 129. . .it was like the Special Olympics or something.”

Unlike his predecessor, who often spoke blithering nonsense and excelled at mashing words from a teleprompter and ad-libbing nonsense, B-Rock has a different problem. He only speaks truly eloquently when he can read it from a t-prompt.

When he goes off script, he continues to be the smartest kid in the class only because his arguments become circular and he uses big words and nobody notices.

In this instance, he was just a jerk.

I am 99 percent sure before a show like the Tonight Show, producers from the show and/or the host talk about certain things that they’ll be talking about. So, the President knew what was coming up. He should have spoken with foul-mouthed Rahm Emmanuel beforehand to learn the jokes he probably shouldn’t say and then spoken with wonder-nanny Mom-in-law to make sure the chosen jokes were cleaned up.

It’s okay that he’s not good without the prompter. You can’t be awesome at everything. But his staff should have gone over the jokes with him, over and over and over again before he went on.

Because now he’s got Maria Shriver on his ass.

When I was in D.C. the premiere for Tropic Thunder, there were many groups that turned out to protest its repetitive use of the word “retard”. I’m not a big fan of being politically correct religiously; I think it robs a lot of truth from the political process and gets in the way of real progress between different groups of people.

But it was hard to come out of that movie, where I laughed a decent amount of Downey Jr.’s rant about going ‘full retard’ to stare into the face of a man with Downs Syndrome holding a sign saying “I’m not a ‘retard’” outside the theatre. It wasn’t funny anymore and I felt pretty ashamed.

Mr. Obama should go take a look at the incredible kids that participate in Special Olympics. I was blessed to get to know the Boerne Special Olympics team while I was in high school. I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by the lame brief side note, but these kids should look up to people like The President.

Time to man up and remember that. You’re not the adorable candidate on the campaign trail anymore. The thing about being president is that when you say something the words aren’t just magnified by the microphone anymore. Everything has larger consequences, as he’s finding out.

P.S. I’ve seen those kids compete. They’re a lot better than you insinuated. It would have been funnier to say, “Me bowling is like when Michael Jordan tried playing baseball.” That would have shown bravery and that he isn’t afraid to hit his base (a.k.a. Chicago Bulls’ fans).