It turns out that the Bush administration forbade the Surgeon General from going to the special Olympics.

The reason given?

Why couldn’t he attend? Because of the games’ association with a certain “prominent family.”

Carmona: “I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?'” (Let’s be charitable and assume that by “those people,” the official meant the family and not the disabled children.) When asked after the hearing whether that “prominent family” was the Kennedys, Carmona replied, “You said it. I didn’t.”

Take a breath and contemplate this. The nation’s top health officer wanted to go to a completely non-political event and pin a few medals on the proud chests of disabled kids. And he was barred from doing so because showing up would have constituted lending aid and comfort to the Kennedys.

Bush and his evil minions^™ politicized the bloody Special Olympics.

How small, how petty, and how evil do you have to be to do this.