Last night Obama appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In the unscripted 35 minute interview he described his prowess on the White House bowling alley as, "like Special Olympics, or something," he said.

Is our president is an insensitive dolt? It certainly looks like it.

During the campaign Obama was trying to show the voters that he was a regular guy and visited a bowling alley where he threw a well documented gutter ball. The White House bowling alley was installed when Richard Nixon was president. Leno brought the subject up tonight, and Obama uttered the offensive remark.

Our Commander in Chief's off-the-cuff comments have drawn criticism before, and I'm sure they will again. What today's comments show is that he is not as enlightened as he wants us to believe. Someone who trips over their tongue in public, probably talks like this in private. The Special Olympics has played an important role in integrating individuals with mental and physical challenges into mainstream society. Obama's comment was demeaning to anyone who has a special needs child or adult in their life. The amount of effort a disabled American puts into living their life is something to celebrate-not humiliate.

During the campaign he made well publicized gaffs when he an audio tape was made of him disparaging small town Americans who clung to their religion and guns.

Yesterday, at the Orange County, California town hall meeting, he compared the Wall Street crowd to suicide bombers with a finger on the trigger--ready to blow up the U.S. economy. Today, it was reported that Attorney General Eric Holder is in favor of bringing the Gitmo detainees-real life terrorist-to U.S. prisons.

Over the course of the president's California visit he commented that he was tired of the finger pointing in Washington D.C.  If Obama wants to stop the finger pointing, he needs to appoint a September 11 type commission to investigate the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the mortgage and banking crisis that is gripping the globe.

I heard a radio broadcast yesterday that played a cut of Obama greeting the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowan on Saint Patrick's Day. In Obama's brief introduction of the foreign dignitary he probably recorded a dozen or more "Umms" and "Ahhs."  This was reminiscent of  the Caroline Kennedy YouTube video of sounding very inarticulate. But, our president sounded equally inarticulate when he was introducing an international dignitary.

Our president has come off like an insensitive oaf more than once.

There is a longstanding tradition of exchanging gifts with visiting dignitaries. His gift to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this month was to re-gift a statue of Winston Churchill that had been presented to President Bush by Tony Blair after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as a symbol of unity from our strongest ally. This was a complete protocol blunder on the part of the White House.  Our president is a re-gifter who returns gifts to the country that gave the gift to us in the first place. This would make a great comedy sketch if it wasn't so embarrassing to our nation.

Maybe the re-gifting explains why Cowan presented the most powerful man in the free world with a bowl of Irish shamrocks instead of something like the beautiful, historically significant, pen set that Brown gave Obama. Shamrocks aren't likely to cause an international incident when the president and his staff forget who presented them.