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As a woman that tries to be sensitive to the needs and feelings of others, I supported President Barack Obama’s run for the presidency. I felt that he really understood the feeling of women and that he connected with me personally, and we really needed the change that he offered. Now I am rethinking that position.

I am no lover of Rush Limbaugh, but I do respect his right to practice free speech, and even though I don’t agree with 90% of what he says, i certainly wish him no harm nor think that he is a traitor or a terrorist. This weekends white House Corresspondents dinner, was the stage for comidienne Wanda Sykes unleashing a barage against Mr. Limbaugh, in what i would term terrible distatse, and President Obama laughing hysterically at the jokes.

According to the Telegraph: ” I was at the dinner and I began by laughing at Sykes’s gentle teases about the press loving Obama so much they never capture him on film smoking but often seem to get him on the beach.

It was amusing when she quipped that Obama trying so hard to be all things to all men that the next thing is he’ll be seen mowing the White House lawn.

But the speech took a very ugly turn when she laid into Limbaugh.

This is what she said: ”Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails, so you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails’, you’re, like, ‘I dont care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq’. He just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason.

“He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.”

She then concluded: ”Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that’s what he needs.” Obama seemed to think this bit was pretty hilarious, grinning and chuckling and turning to share the “joke” with the person sitting on his right.

There’s not much room for differing interpretations of what Sykes said. She called Limbaugh a terrorist and a traitor, suggested that he be tortured and wished him dead.”

Now let’s not forget Obama’s appearance on Jay Leno a few months back when he made his infamous ‘Special Olympics’ joke.

This stuff is not funny and it shows a disrespect towards anyone who is not cut out of the same mold. This is not how Obama campaigned, but to my chagrin, it seems like a pattern, and it’s not something that I am proud of. As a parent, this is not the kind of bahvior that i want my kids to be exposed to.

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