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RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By JasonMick (blog) on 6/21/2010 12:09:04 PM , Rating: 0
While President Obama thought it was a fine time to go golfing....again. Stop being a hypocritical asshat.

Yes, because obviously the federal government has the knowledge to fix the spill, but have just been holding back on us. And that's pretty bad considering it's their responsibility too! Didnt they get the memo that they are supposed to cover for the private sector 24-7 when it screws up? I mean they were doing such a great job with the bank bailout, how could they forget all of a sudden??

Oh and Obama golfing? That's horrible. I mean no president has EVER gone golfing before when serious things are happening on a world arena. Start the impeachment proceedings now.

RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By The Raven on 6/21/2010 12:42:38 PM , Rating: 2
Although I agree that Obama's skeptics have been too hard on him, I have to say that the gov't has basically declared (over the years) that they are supposed to be there 24/7, ready for any emergency that occurs in the private sector. And I'm not clear exactly where you're being sarcastic here but no one thought that the bank bailouts 'should have'/ 'should have had to' happen (depending if you think they should've been bailed out or not). That is to say, no one thought we should've been in the situation that warranted them in the first place.

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People keep forgetting that part.

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RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By Anoxanmore on 6/21/10, Rating: 0
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By knutjb on 6/21/10, Rating: 0
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By rcc on 6/21/2010 2:25:51 PM , Rating: 4
You are absolutely correct. The US government doesn't have the knowledge to plug the leak. Evidently, no one does. OJT sucks when it comes to emergencies.

However, the US government is responsible for protecting it's people, and it is capable of mobilizing far more bodies with a broader range of skills than BP could hope to. Efforts that certainly could and should be charged back to BP once the crisis has passed. Finger pointing is great, and can even useful, and accurate. But when a disaster strikes, it's time to pull together and resolve the issues. Counting coup can come later.

I guess it annoys be because of the way the media plays things. In the aftermath of Katrina they were yelling and squawking about inadequate federal response. This go around, they are conspicuous in their silence, with far less federal activity in sight.

RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By Reclaimer77 on 6/21/2010 5:32:14 PM , Rating: 2

Well of course. That's typical in how there is a double standard between media responses of Democrat and Republican presidential coverage.

I mean, this spill went thirty days before a single federal authority, much less the president, was on the scene. I don't care weather or not they could have "done something", that's unacceptable. Our tax money goes to agencies who, supposedly, are experts in this kind of thing or at least have jurisdiction.

This administration rather shake down BP in Congress and further demonize corporations, meanwhile oil is still leaking. Is BP really getting the full cooperation and support of the federal government on this?

RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By knutjb on 6/21/2010 6:22:52 PM , Rating: 3
You forget the President is acting like his disaster response started and the beginning because the Coast Guard responded to the drilling rig's disastrous fire.

The question needs to be split the disaster response between the accident response and the clean up response. He will refuse to answer that one because it would clearly identify a failure.

I don't see the media getting past their political biases, let alone asking their hero such a question.

RE: Nice Yacht, Tony...
By bety on 6/21/2010 4:48:57 PM , Rating: 2
Make no mistkae, we are at WAR right now...or darn well should be; and we are getting out butts royally kicked. The repercussions are that devastating....

Obama's response has been....impotent, careless, lax, flaccid,'s been beyond words at this point. A few late showboating speeches....neither BP, nor smart citizens take him seriously at this point.

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lol Jason, you are SO in the tank man.

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By bill4 on 6/21/2010 8:47:26 PM , Rating: 2
Wow, Mick really let his true ultra-leftist Obama apologist ways be known here. Pathetic.

And the pics are from "Mother Jone", isn't that some shady ultra-left wing site?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if environmentalists killed all those animals and staged the pics themselves. I'm dead serious. We've seen the types of tactics left wingers like Mick use in the press to advance their agenda.

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