This first post is forced.

Ah, so my Creative Writing teacher wants us to write a response about Rahm Emanuel's use of the phrase "fucking retarded", more specifically, "retard," as I suppose the rest of the bloggersphere is doing.

Personally, I don't really care, and think it's sort of lulzy. But I guess, as a human being, I owe it to the world to have some humanity. So the question is whether or not the word "retard" should be politically incorrect, and banished with the other non-pc words to the back of our minds to be said quietly in ourselves while we look at people.

So the context of this is whole sitch is as follows: Mr. Emanuel was just a bit exasperated because he believed MoveOn's members were dingbats for planning on smearing the names of those Blue Dog members who voted down the health care bill. He came into the meeting, guns a-blazing, and proclaimed the members to be "fucking retarded."

The only critique I have for this man is to next time, not make such statements in a board-room full of butthurt liberals (I'm not conservative, but c'mon), and other professional types. They're obviously going to whine to the press about you saying something like that, and mask it as politically incorrectness, just to see your name go up in flames. Realistically, saying that something's "fucking retarded" is the equivalent in today's society as saying something's "fucking stupid," or "fucking moronic," or "fucking dumb." LIKE SRSLY? What is the ISSUE? All we need to learn from this is to NOT say any words in a raging political war that might have any gray spot about them whatsoever. "Retarded" should definitely not be deemed politically incorrect.

AND THEN PALIN.
WHAT THE SH*T, PALIN?
ARE YOU RETARDED?
O wait-- I might be offending your down-syndrome child who is
a) not called "retarded" anymore in the first place. Now we have resepctable terms like "mentally disabled" and "socially inept".
b) named after his aforesaid malady. That's disgusting, Palin.
c) a tool you've used to put yourself in the spotlight. God, what a pig.
d) not quite as disabled as you.
That's all I really have to say.