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SteelerEmpire
06-07-2010, 09:47 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/07/gulf.oil.obama/index.html?hpt=T1

President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama told NBC's "Today" show in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be."

A variety of critics have accused Obama of being too cerebral in his reaction to the undersea gusher now fouling the Gulf of Mexico, of failing to put the full force of the administration and of putting too much trust in oil company BP. But Obama told NBC his deliberations have been more than academic.

"I don't sit around talking to experts because this is a college seminar," Obama continued. "We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

The disaster was uncorked by an explosion aboard the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 20 that killed 11 workers. The rig sank two days later, and estimates of the amount of oil pouring into the gulf from the undersea blowout grew rapidly in the following week.

Obama made a May 2 visit to the Coast Guard command center in Venice, Louisiana, warning during a rain-spattered news conference that the problem may take "many days" to solve. The Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior, which oversees offshore oil drilling, were already heavily involved with well owner BP in trying to corral the leak.

But by then, conservative commentators -- some of whom had defended the Bush administration's lackluster response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina -- were billing the disaster "Obama's Katrina," and complaints about the pace and the amount of muscle the White House has put behind the cleanup have come from a handful of Democrats as well.

Vincent
06-07-2010, 09:54 PM
That's reassuring. Standing in the rain. Examining tar balls. Talking to fishermen.

"So I know whose ass to kick". Classy.

But what have you actually done about it? On day, what, 50?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BKgDxiYVbRE/SpkvOcKfh1I/AAAAAAAAA-o/YtQdbP02_w4/s400/obama_post_turtle.jpg

HometownGal
06-07-2010, 10:12 PM
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/files/2009/10/madmagazine.jpg

steel9guy
06-07-2010, 10:17 PM
957 days,1 Hour, 42 minutes and 12 seconds till this joke is over. lol

Godfather
06-07-2010, 10:20 PM
That's reassuring. Standing in the rain. Examining tar balls. Talking to fishermen.

"So I know whose ass to kick". Classy.

But what have you actually done about it? On day, what, 50?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BKgDxiYVbRE/SpkvOcKfh1I/AAAAAAAAA-o/YtQdbP02_w4/s400/obama_post_turtle.jpg

Remember the picture collage of Bush eating birthday cake and playing the guitar and in the corner there was a memo saying "While you were out -- FEMA called"?

I wanna do one of those for this. I already have Obama golfing and hanging out with Paul McCartney...now I just gotta find one more picture from the past six weeks where he's clearly goofing off.

Vincent
06-07-2010, 10:30 PM
...now I just gotta find one more picture from the past six weeks where he's clearly goofing off.

http://www.steeluniverse.net/forums/showthread.php?235-The-Official-Bash-Make-Fun-of-Democrats-Obama-Thread!&p=4949&viewfull=1#post4949

http://www.steeluniverse.net/forums/showthread.php?235-The-Official-Bash-Make-Fun-of-Democrats-Obama-Thread!&p=3362&viewfull=1#post3362

http://www.steeluniverse.net/forums/showthread.php?235-The-Official-Bash-Make-Fun-of-Democrats-Obama-Thread!&p=3428&viewfull=1#post3428

suitanim
06-08-2010, 08:21 AM
He cared before anyone else did?

Sounds like Al Gore inventing the internet...or the movie "Love Story" being based on him and Tipper...or his mom humming that union song to him when he was a baby, 10 years before it was even written.

This is all "He who doth protect too much".

stlrtruck
06-08-2010, 08:33 AM
That may be Obama's problem. He's too busy trying to place blame or an arse to kick, when he should have been busy looking and putting in to place a solution. Then he can focus on who to point the finger.

cakmakli
06-08-2010, 08:34 AM
Obama: "I Want To Know Whose Ass To Kick"...

How about Iran????

Shoes
06-08-2010, 08:37 AM
He cared before anyone else did?

Sounds like Al Gore inventing the internet...or the movie "Love Story" being based on him and Tipper...or his mom humming that union song to him when he was a baby, 10 years before it was even written.

This is all "He who doth protect too much".

:chuckle:


http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z211/vestkap/Gore.jpg

smokin3000gt
06-08-2010, 08:43 AM
That may be Obama's problem. He's too busy trying to place blame or an arse to kick, when he should have been busy looking and putting in to place a solution. Then he can focus on who to point the finger.

He thinks talking tough is what we want to hear.

Mach1
06-08-2010, 08:55 AM
The title should be "I Want To Know Who to blame, I need a scapegoat"...

Vincent
06-08-2010, 10:43 AM
The title should be "I Want To Know Who to blame, I need a scapegoat"...

"I need a scapegoat because I am a 'man' of inaction. I am a talker. And I need a teleprompter just to do that." Ineffectual. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ineffectual

Killer
06-08-2010, 11:07 AM
Bwahahahah

Barry goin' thug?

http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt231/mojitojoe1/BO%20NERDSOLIKEURKEL/ea626526.jpg

steelax04
06-08-2010, 12:03 PM
Anyone able to photoshop Obama kicking his own ass?

suitanim
06-08-2010, 12:09 PM
To be fair, what did we expect? He's simply not equipped to deal with all the problems facing the country right now...and thank God he has SOME experienced people around him to keep him from completely wrecking everything he touches. That, and the fact that he keeps cribbing "failed Bush policies" is the only thing keeping his presidency afloat...

And I'm sure he's cracking under the pressure...by the end of his one and only term, he'll probably be cussing up a storm and throwing things at people...

SteelerEmpire
06-08-2010, 03:43 PM
Looks like their setting up a fall guy for this whole fiasco... the CEO of BP... Well, he probably deserves it.

7SteelGal43
06-08-2010, 04:14 PM
Yeah, Barry needs to know whose ass to kick. :lol:

"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"

The Incredible Dolt

http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Tough_Guy24.jpg

Wallace108
06-08-2010, 05:17 PM
He need look no further than right here:

http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/victoria_cheval_mirror.jpg

st33lersguy
06-08-2010, 07:30 PM
OBAMA- One Big Ass Mistake America. Obama, once again proving he is just a community organizer posing as president, not a leader

Killer
06-08-2010, 08:40 PM
http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/tempest/4446/Image/Ministry_of_Silly_Walks.jpghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e143/debwar_bucket/kicking.jpg

7SteelGal43
06-10-2010, 09:58 AM
Obama:
"I Want To Know Whose Ass To Kick"...

that still cracks me up :rofl:

Dino 6 Rings
06-10-2010, 05:04 PM
I mean, really, when I started the Original Bash Obama thread on the old forum...I mean, I was half kidding. I really didn't think it could possibly be this outrageous.

I'm still trying to figure out the one thing this Moron has gotten right? Health Care bill? 4 missed deadlines and now its projected at 10 times the cost or some nonsense like that. Immigration? They are just running across the border still. Iran, NK, Afganistan, Iraq, all still messes to deal with. Bin Laden...nope. Anything?

Now he's going to kick ass over an oil spill, that happened about a week after he said we should "drill more" seriously?

Dude...this would be Freaking Hilarious if it wasn't FREAKING REAL LIFE!

I can't believe this guy got elected. Seriously. Its at the point of pathetic.

Next thing you know, people will start googling the stories about Barry Obama and Rahm hanging out at Man's Country in Chicago...or maybe, maybe that'll all come out during the Blago trial.

This guy is a total joke with no qualifications at all. Its sad really, makes me sad.

Kind of, then I LAUGH! HA HA HA MORONS!

Dino 6 Rings
06-10-2010, 05:07 PM
And another thing, I don't know how tall Barry O actually is, but he is not all jacked up P90X style. So Barry, you better be careful, I'd bet there is a scientist or engineer out there that might take you up on your offer and stomp a mud hole in your skinny scrawny non-fighting asssss!

Mach1
06-10-2010, 05:32 PM
I mean, really, when I started the Original Bash Obama thread on the old forum...I mean, I was half kidding. I really didn't think it could possibly be this outrageous.

I'm still trying to figure out the one thing this Moron has gotten right? Health Care bill? 4 missed deadlines and now its projected at 10 times the cost or some nonsense like that. Immigration? They are just running across the border still. Iran, NK, Afganistan, Iraq, all still messes to deal with. Bin Laden...nope. Anything?

Now he's going to kick ass over an oil spill, that happened about a week after he said we should "drill more" seriously?

Dude...this would be Freaking Hilarious if it wasn't FREAKING REAL LIFE!

I can't believe this guy got elected. Seriously. Its at the point of pathetic.

Next thing you know, people will start googling the stories about Barry Obama and Rahm hanging out at Man's Country in Chicago...or maybe, maybe that'll all come out during the Blago trial.

This guy is a total joke with no qualifications at all. Its sad really, makes me sad.

Kind of, then I LAUGH! HA HA HA MORONS!

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/jrpeet/Blogging/BFH_Obama_creamofnuttin.gif

SMR
06-10-2010, 06:26 PM
http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/mm/tempest/4446/Image/Ministry_of_Silly_Walks.jpghttp://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e143/debwar_bucket/kicking.jpg

Perfect! lol

Killer
06-10-2010, 06:48 PM
meanwhile

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/2010/oil_sat_jun9.jpg

I see a spider

http://ocg6.marine.usf.edu/~liu/Drifters/roms19.png

MasterOfPuppets
06-10-2010, 08:07 PM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e6qnEMwZ8fo/SREe0POJGsI/AAAAAAAAAKs/T7x45ht_f6g/s400/alex-ross_barack-obama-Oman-superhero-painting-2008.jpg

NJarhead
06-10-2010, 08:10 PM
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb226/jrpeet/Blogging/BFH_Obama_creamofnuttin.gif


:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:



wait........

:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

Godfather
06-10-2010, 08:15 PM
To put Killer's satellite photo into perspective, the large lake in the west is Lake Pontchartrain (just north of New Orleans). The thing that looks like a very wide river is Mobile Bay.

NJarhead
06-10-2010, 08:17 PM
To put Killer's satellite photo into perspective, the large lake in the west is Lake Pontchartrain (just north of New Orleans). The thing that looks like a very wide river is Mobile Bay.
Been to both. Pardon my French, but this is such a fucking shame!

Killer
06-11-2010, 11:54 AM
They had a special on the Discovery channel last night - up close and personal with all the people involved trying to solve the well problem. What a clusterfuck.


Hire some new engineers - all those guys sucked.....everything they tried was a huge failure. It was a thrown together at the last minute 'save the Apollo 13' type misssion.

It's all new because nobody in the industry even considered what to do if something like this happened. And the govt bureaucracies overseeing these things were paid off to not ask any questions.

Fire everyone in the EPA for starters, or at least get all ther lazy asses down to the beach with mops and buckets, that's a start.

and the severity of the problem was covered up from the start - Obama LIHOP - he wants that cap and trade bill passed and will use this as his lever.

HometownGal
06-12-2010, 06:19 AM
2013 can't get here soon enough. :wave: Barry. :yay3:

Texasteel
06-13-2010, 07:35 PM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_e6qnEMwZ8fo/SREe0POJGsI/AAAAAAAAAKs/T7x45ht_f6g/s400/alex-ross_barack-obama-Oman-superhero-painting-2008.jpg

He could alway go down there and siphon the oil up. We all know that he can suck.

Wallace108
06-13-2010, 09:34 PM
BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA STOPS OIL SPILL ... OK, not really, but I'm sure he thought about it during his latest golf outing.

Obama golfs for four hours in sweltering heat
By Bridget Johnson - 06/13/10 06:12 PM ET

President Barack Obama spent four hours on the golf course Sunday in temperatures that peaked in the low 90s.

The White House pool reported that they left Andrews Air Force Base as it started to rain after 4 p.m.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was among the group golfing with Obama.

The president leaves Monday for his fourth trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP oil spill began nearly two months ago. On the trip, the President will visit Gulfport, Miss., Theodore, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., to survey the response efforts, visit with Gulf residents impacted by the spill and meet with area officials.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/102893-obama-golfs-for-four-hours-in-sweltering-heat

Killer
06-13-2010, 10:02 PM
what an incompetent fool

http://i39.tinypic.com/bjhnhc.jpg

Wallace108
06-13-2010, 10:14 PM
I forgot about this interview with Bush. This clip is interesting considering Obama's frequent golf outings.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRxNPqqUH4

Killer
06-14-2010, 07:15 AM
Barry is an abomination. He mobilizes the Marines for Haiti yet lets BP drag their feet on the oil clean-up here.

irony anyone?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/172797/BP-SIGN.jpg

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/B_Oceander/2010%20Campaigns/unconscionable-incompetence2_sm.png

HometownGal
06-14-2010, 08:03 AM
He could alway go down there and siphon the oil up. We all know that he can suck.

:lol: :thumbsup: :lol:

He most likely sucks better than his wife. :heh:

Vincent
06-14-2010, 08:28 AM
:lol: :thumbsup: :lol:

He most likely sucks better than his wife. :heh:

There have been rumors to that effect...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxmn1ZuMw4

Good Ol' Rev. Manning

Killer
06-14-2010, 07:16 PM
He's letting it get worse on purpose


Get ready for the cap and trade tax takeover - can't let a good disaster go unexploited

Maybe even nationalize the oil industry - Chavez will tell him how to do it

Mach1
06-14-2010, 07:32 PM
He's letting it get worse on purpose


Get ready for the cap and trade tax takeover - can't let a good disaster go unexploited

Maybe even nationalize the oil industry - Chavez will tell him how to do it

Ding Ding Ding We have a winner.

Just watch his teleprompter reading tomorrow night.

Hammer67
06-14-2010, 09:50 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/07/gulf.oil.obama/index.html?hpt=T1

President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick."

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama told NBC's "Today" show in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be."

A variety of critics have accused Obama of being too cerebral in his reaction to the undersea gusher now fouling the Gulf of Mexico, of failing to put the full force of the administration and of putting too much trust in oil company BP. But Obama told NBC his deliberations have been more than academic.

"I don't sit around talking to experts because this is a college seminar," Obama continued. "We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

The disaster was uncorked by an explosion aboard the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 20 that killed 11 workers. The rig sank two days later, and estimates of the amount of oil pouring into the gulf from the undersea blowout grew rapidly in the following week.

Obama made a May 2 visit to the Coast Guard command center in Venice, Louisiana, warning during a rain-spattered news conference that the problem may take "many days" to solve. The Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior, which oversees offshore oil drilling, were already heavily involved with well owner BP in trying to corral the leak.

But by then, conservative commentators -- some of whom had defended the Bush administration's lackluster response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina -- were billing the disaster "Obama's Katrina," and complaints about the pace and the amount of muscle the White House has put behind the cleanup have come from a handful of Democrats as well.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNHuqHWefU

suitanim
06-15-2010, 08:05 AM
I expect the Oval Office Speech to consist of many different variations on the central theme of: "Bu-bu-bu-Bush"

HometownGal
06-15-2010, 08:13 AM
Get ready for the cap and trade tax takeover - can't let a good disaster go unexploited

Maybe even nationalize the oil industry - Chavez will tell him how to do it

Sad, but unfortunately probably true.

Killer
06-15-2010, 12:48 PM
Here's the big plan.....another "Czar"

“I take full responsibility. Let me be clear — if anything goes wrong, we’re gonna blame the new guy.”



Obama to name oil recovery 'czar' in first Oval Office address


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, in his televised speech to the nation Tuesday, will announce the creation of an oil recovery “czar” to oversee progress in siphoning crude from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, his chief spokesman said.

Speaking on ABC television’s “Good Morning America” program, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the position is envisioned as “somebody that will be in charge of a recovery plan, putting a recovery plan together...when we get past the cleanup and response phase of this disaster.”

http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Obama+name+recovery+czar+first+Oval+Office+address/3155919/story.html



Get out the hipboots, it's getting deep


Obama: "Gulf will be better than it was before disaster"


In his speech, Obama also is expected to name an oil recovery czar who will oversee the cleanup process, Gibbs told ABC News


Obama on Monday told residents in Theodore, Alabama, that “it’s going to take time for things to return to normal.”

“This region that’s known a lot of hardship will bounce back just like it’s bounced back before. We’re going to do everything we can, 24/7, to make sure communities get back on their feet.

“And in the end, I am confident that we’re going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before.”

http://news.gnom.es/news/obama-gulf-will-be-better-than-it-was-before-disaster

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sunshine and rainbows

http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_p4/assets/widget_dLo-gjDwPpu5w4vYn3SDCL.jpg

Mach1
06-15-2010, 01:02 PM
2012 can't get here soon enough.

Throwing more red tape at it isn't the answer.

Killer
06-15-2010, 01:56 PM
don't forget, Obama's the victim here - it's all Boooosh's fault

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/digger48/lester2.jpg

Killer
06-15-2010, 07:50 PM
If you missed his speech - don't worry.

You missed - nothing. Less than nothing.

A drivel gusher


We are on our own

Mach1
06-15-2010, 08:00 PM
If you missed his speech - don't worry.

You missed - nothing. Less than nothing.

A drivel gusher


We are on our own

The biggest part I heard was "we need to be more like China" :doh2:

Get ready for Cap n Scam

Killer
06-15-2010, 08:01 PM
full text

Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever it exists. And tonight, I've returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we're waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens.

On April 20th, an explosion ripped through BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven workers lost their lives. Seventeen others were injured. And soon, nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean, oil began spewing into the water.

Because there has never been a leak this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge — a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's Secretary of Energy. Scientists at our national labs and experts from academia and other oil companies have also provided ideas and advice.

As a result of these efforts, we have directed BP to mobilize additional equipment and technology. In the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90% of the oil leaking out of the well. This is until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely.

Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced. And unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days. The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years.

But make no mistake: We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused. And we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.

Tonight I'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward: what we're doing to clean up the oil, what we're doing to help our neighbors in the Gulf, and what we're doing to make sure that a catastrophe like this never happens again.

First, the cleanup. From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation's history — an effort led by Admiral Thad Allen, who has almost 40 years of experience responding to disasters. We now have nearly 30,000 personnel who are working across four states to contain and cleanup the oil. Thousands of ships and other vessels are responding in the Gulf. And I have authorized the deployment of over 17,000 National Guard members along the coast. These servicemen and women are ready to help stop the oil from coming ashore, they're ready to clean beaches, train response workers, or even help with processing claims — and I urge the governors in the affected states to activate these troops as soon as possible.

Because of our efforts, millions of gallons of oil have already been removed from the water through burning, skimming and other collection methods. Over five and a half million feet of boom has been laid across the water to block and absorb the approaching oil. We have approved the construction of new barrier islands in Louisiana to try and stop the oil before it reaches the shore, and we are working with Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida to implement creative approaches to their unique coastlines.

As the clean up continues, we will offer whatever additional resources and assistance our coastal states may need. Now, a mobilization of this speed and magnitude will never be perfect, and new challenges will always arise. I saw and heard evidence of that during this trip. So if something isn't working, we want to hear about it. If there are problems in the operation, we will fix them.

But we have to recognize that despite our best efforts, oil has already caused damage to our coastline and its wildlife. And sadly, no matter how effective our response is, there will be more oil and more damage before this siege is done. That's why the second thing we're focused on is the recovery and restoration of the Gulf Coast.

You know, for generations, men and women who call this region home have made their living from the water. That living is now in jeopardy. I've talked to shrimpers and fishermen who don't know how they're going to support their families this year. I've seen empty docks and restaurants with fewer customers — even in areas where the beaches are not yet affected. I've talked to owners of shops and hotels who wonder when the tourists might start coming back. The sadness and anger they feel is not just about the money they've lost. It's about a wrenching anxiety that their way of life may be lost.

I refuse to let that happen. Tomorrow, I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party.

Beyond compensating the people of the Gulf in the short-term, it's also clear we need a long-term plan to restore the unique beauty and bounty of this region. The oil spill represents just the latest blow to a place that has already suffered multiple economic disasters and decades of environmental degradation that has led to disappearing wetlands and habitats. And the region still hasn't recovered from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That's why we must make a commitment to the Gulf Coast that goes beyond responding to the crisis of the moment.

I make that commitment tonight. Earlier, I asked Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy who's also a former governor of Mississippi and a son of the Gulf, to develop a long-term Gulf Coast Restoration Plan as soon as possible. The plan will be designed by states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, businesses, conservationists, and other Gulf residents. And BP will pay for the impact this spill has had on the region.

The third part of our response plan is the steps we're taking to ensure that a disaster like this does not happen again. A few months ago, I approved a proposal to consider new, limited offshore drilling under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe — that the proper technology would be in place and the necessary precautions would be taken.

That was obviously not the case on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and I want to know why. The American people deserve to know why. The families I met with last week who lost their loved ones in the explosion — these families deserve to know why. And so I have established a National Commission to understand the causes of this disaster and offer recommendations on what additional safety and environmental standards we need to put in place. Already, I have issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety, and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue. And while I urge the commission to complete its work as quickly as possible, I expect them to do that work thoroughly and impartially.

One place we have already begun to take action is at the agency in charge of regulating drilling and issuing permits, known as the Minerals Management Service. Over the last decade, this agency has become emblematic of a failed philosophy that views all regulation with hostility — a philosophy that says corporations should be allowed to play by their own rules and police themselves. At this agency, industry insiders were put in charge of industry oversight. Oil companies showered regulators with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations.

When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency. But it's now clear that the problems there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow. And so Secretary Salazar and I are bringing in new leadership at the agency — Michael Bromwich, who was a tough federal prosecutor and Inspector General. His charge over the next few months is to build an organization that acts as the oil industry's watchdog — not its partner.

So one of the lessons we've learned from this spill is that we need better regulations, better safety standards, and better enforcement when it comes to offshore drilling. But a larger lesson is that no matter how much we improve our regulation of the industry, drilling for oil these days entails greater risk. After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20 percent of the world's oil, but have less than 2 percent of the world's oil reserves. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean — because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.

Killer
06-15-2010, 08:01 PM
For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we have talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again, the path forward has been blocked — not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight. Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be right here in America. Each day, we send nearly $1 billion of our wealth to foreign countries for their oil. And today, as we look to the Gulf, we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude.

We cannot consign our children to this future. The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Now is the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to unleash American innovation and seize control of our own destiny.

This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels is going to take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels. Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that will someday lead to entire new industries.

Each of us has a part to play in a new future that will benefit all of us. As we recover from this recession, the transition to clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create millions of good, middle-class jobs — but only if we accelerate that transition. Only if we seize the moment. And only if we rally together and act as one nation — workers and entrepreneurs; scientists and citizens; the public and private sectors.

You know, when I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill — a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses.

Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And some believe we can't afford those costs right now. I say we can't afford not to change how we produce and use energy — because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.

So I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party — as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels. Some have suggested raising efficiency standards in our buildings like we did in our cars and trucks. Some believe we should set standards to ensure that more of our electricity comes from wind and solar power. Others wonder why the energy industry only spends a fraction of what the high-tech industry does on research and development — and want to rapidly boost our investments in such research and development.

All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fear hearing in the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to meet. You know, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is the capacity to shape our destiny — our determination to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we're unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don't yet know precisely how to get there. We know we'll get there.

It is a faith in the future that sustains us as a people. It is that same faith that sustains our neighbors in the Gulf right now.

Each year, at the beginning of shrimping season, the region's fishermen take part in a tradition that was brought to America long ago by fishing immigrants from Europe. It's called “The Blessing of the Fleet,” and today it's a celebration where clergy from different religions gather to say a prayer for the safety and success of the men and women who will soon head out to sea — some for weeks at a time.

The ceremony goes on in good times and in bad. It took place after Katrina, and it took place a few weeks ago — at the beginning of the most difficult season these fishermen have ever faced.

And still, they came and they prayed. For as a priest and former fisherman once said of the tradition, "The blessing is not that God has promised to remove all obstacles and dangers. The blessing is that He is with us always," a blessing that's granted "...even in the midst of the storm."

The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. This nation has known hard times before and we will surely know them again. What sees us through — what has always seen us through — is our strength, our resilience, and our unyielding faith that something better awaits us if we summon the courage to reach for it. Tonight, we pray for that courage. We pray for the people of the Gulf. And we pray that a hand may guide us through the storm towards a brighter day. Thank you, God Bless You, and may God Bless the United States of America

Wallace108
06-15-2010, 10:50 PM
You know it's bad when MSNBC is trashing Obama ...


MSNBC Trashes Obama's Address

Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:

Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."

Matthews compared Obama to Carter.

Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."

Matthews: "No direction."

Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."

Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."

Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."

Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."

Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."

Matthews: "I don't sense executive command."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_i_ dont_sense_executive_command.html

Killer
06-16-2010, 04:44 AM
http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/6/5/654980/1269524948459.JPEG

Killer
06-16-2010, 08:05 AM
Where are all his cheerleaders now?


A great big gusher of presidential goo

In a peculiar instance of synchronicity, President Obama's Oval Office speech to the nation last night resembled the very calamity it was intended to address: Like the oil spewing into the Gulf, it began as a focused and narrow stream of words -- and quickly spread out into an amorphous cloud of goo.

What started as a just-the-facts-ma'am explanation quickly got caught up in political currents -- by the end we were treated to bromides about the Greatest Generation and putting a man on the moon and preposterous insinuations that the Red Chinese will turn Green before us. (China, mind you, is the country where the rivers burn, the air is crunchy and the government is building a new, filthy, coal-fired power plant every 10 days for the next decade).

Last night we saw just the latest installment of "Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste," written by Rahm Emanuel and performed by The One. The immediate goal: to create the political climate where BP will bend over and say "thank you sir, may I have another" in perpetuity. Beyond that, to browbeat the public and Congress into accepting some version of cap-and-trade legislation that will export jobs and raise energy prices in the middle of a recession.

If we could defeat Hitler, we can hike your utility bills! If we could put a man on the moon, we can put an American manufacturing job in India! Yes, we can!

This points to the intractability of the political mess Obama is in. The White House desperately wants to focus on job creation and fiscal responsibility, or at least appear that way. But Obama's agenda incontinently blows in the opposite direction, and every other direction as well.

Every calamity, according to the president, proves that his prepackaged campaign agenda is exactly what America needs to fix things. He somehow managed to convince a lot of people that we needed to overhaul health care in order to deal with the financial crisis. Now he wants us to believe that switching to a "green economy" will somehow ensure that we won't have environmental disasters like this anymore.

This is, quite simply, absurd. And it's also sad. The Obama presidency itself is becoming diffuse and amorphous -- because it is becoming clear the president is in over his head.

He admitted last night that he has no clue how we'll switch from fossil fuels to the new clean-energy nirvana. He conceded we don't "what that looks like" and we don't "know how to get there."

All he knows how to do is to keep talking

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/great_big_gusher_of_presidential_kMQL1DQwkgff5hCGM G0SjI

suitanim
06-16-2010, 08:18 AM
He only said "I", "I've" or "My" about 30 times...and he said we a lot more than usual, so he's at least learning how sick we are of hearing about him.

Killer
06-16-2010, 08:29 AM
He was wearing a flag pin....that's how you know how bad it is.

Mach1
06-16-2010, 09:30 AM
http://777denny.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/obama_oil_large_obamaprompter.jpg

suitanim
06-16-2010, 10:07 AM
Fact checking the speech...not great for Barry...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100616/ap_on_bi_ge/us_oil_spill_obama_fact_check

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 16, 6:19 am ET

WASHINGTON – In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either.

That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.

Obama aimed high in his prime-time Oval Office address Tuesday night — perhaps higher than the facts support and history teaches — as he vowed to restore livelihoods and nature from the still-unfolding calamity in the Gulf of Mexico.

A look at some of his statements and how they compare with those facts:

OBAMA: "We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused and we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy. ... Tomorrow, I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party."

THE FACTS: An independent arbiter is no more bound to the government's wishes than an oil company's. In that sense, there is no certainty BP will be forced to make the Gulf economy whole again or that taxpayers are off the hook for the myriad costs associated with the spill or cleanup. The government can certainly press for that, using legislative and legal tools. But there are no guarantees and the past is not reassuring.

It took 20 years to sort through liability after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and in the end, punitive damages were slashed by the courts to about $500 million from $2.5 billion. Many people who had lost their livelihoods in the spill died without ever seeing a check.

___

OBAMA: "In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well."

THE FACTS: BP and the administration contend that if all goes as planned, they should be able to contain nearly 90 percent of the worst-case oil flow. But that's a big "if." So far, little has gone as planned in the various remedies attempted to shut off or contain the flow. Possibly as much as 60,000 barrels a day is escaping. BP would need to nearly triple its recovery rate to reach the target.

___

OBAMA: Temporary measures will capture leaking oil "until the company finishes drilling a relief well later in the summer that is expected to stop the leak completely."

THE FACTS: That's the hope, but experts say the relief well runs the same risks that caused the original well to blow out. It potentially could create a worse spill if engineers were to accidentally damage the existing well or tear a hole in the undersea oil reservoir.

___

OBAMA: "From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation's history."

THE FACTS: Early on, the government established a command center and put Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen in charge of coordinating the overall spill response. But officials also repeatedly have emphasized that BP was "responsible" and they have relied heavily on BP in making decisions from hiring cleanup workers to what oil dispersing chemicals to use. Local officials in the Gulf region have complained that often they don't know who's in charge — the government or BP.

___

OBAMA: "We have approved the construction of new barrier islands in Louisiana to try and stop the oil before it reaches the shore."

THE FACTS: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and local officials pleaded for weeks with the Army Corps of Engineers and the spill response command for permission to build about 40 miles of sand berms along the barrier islands.

State officials applied for an emergency permit to build the berms May 11, but as days went by Jindal became increasingly angry at federal inaction. The White House finally agreed to a portion of the berm plan on June 2. BP then agreed to pay for the project.

The corps was worried that in some cases such a move would alter tides and drive oil into new areas and produce more harm than good.

___

OBAMA: "Already, I have issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue."

THE FACTS: Obama issued a six-month moratorium on new permits for deepwater drilling but production continues from existing deepwater wells.

___

X-Terminator
06-16-2010, 10:31 AM
This is, quite simply, absurd. And it's also sad. The Obama presidency itself is becoming diffuse and amorphous -- because it is becoming clear the president is in over his head.

He admitted last night that he has no clue how we'll switch from fossil fuels to the new clean-energy nirvana. He conceded we don't "what that looks like" and we don't "know how to get there."

All he knows how to do is to keep talking

It's funny...many of us tried to tell this to the Obama supporters in 2008, but we were all dismissed as "haters" and that it really wasn't any big deal. If his handling of this crisis doesn't convince even the most hardened Obama supporter of this obvious fact, then nothing will.

Killer
06-16-2010, 10:38 AM
Tonight, we pray for that courage. We pray for the people of the Gulf. And we pray that a hand may guide us through the storm towards a brighter day


He wants the sky gods to plug the leak?


we're doomed

fansince'76
06-16-2010, 10:45 AM
http://garychapelhill.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/leave-barack-alone1.jpg

:chuckle:

suitanim
06-16-2010, 10:46 AM
It's funny...many of us tried to tell this to the Obama supporters in 2008, but we were all dismissed as "haters" and that it really wasn't any big deal. If his handling of this crisis doesn't convince even the most hardened Obama supporter of this obvious fact, then nothing will.

I honestly think that it could be a lot worse. I think we've greatly benefited by the fact that he's got a few key people around him WITH some real experience, as well as the fact that when he comes up against things he's not sure of (which apparently is a LOT of things), he just cribs from Bush. Which, of course, isn't anywhere near as bad (usually) as Bush's opponents would have you believe.

If Barry was running things solo, taking guesses and stabs in the dark, we'd be exponentially worse off....

X-Terminator
06-16-2010, 10:57 AM
I honestly think that it could be a lot worse. I think we've greatly benefited by the fact that he's got a few key people around him WITH some real experience, as well as the fact that when he comes up against things he's not sure of (which apparently is a LOT of things), he just cribs from Bush. Which, of course, isn't anywhere near as bad (usually) as Bush's opponents would have you believe.

If Barry was running things solo, taking guesses and stabs in the dark, we'd be exponentially worse off....

Yes he does have some experienced people around him, but he's still the man in charge, and they answer to him. If he wants something done, or not done, in his view it's going to get done whether they may have reservations or not, because he's the president. I think what's really saving our bacon right now is the public outcry against his decisions coming from both sides of the aisle. Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann blasting him? Two guys whose lips you couldn't extract from his balls with KY jelly and a crowbar during and after the election?

suitanim
06-16-2010, 11:07 AM
Regardless, he's clearly cracking under the pressure. I fully expect him to pull a "Johnson" and announce he won't be seeking a second term. He'll step aside for Hillary...it's the only chance the Dems have to keep the WH.

Will any of his cult-like following on here jump ship, you think?

BigNastyDefense
06-16-2010, 01:16 PM
He can start by kicking the governments ass. The people that oversee the offshore drilling constantly let companies do things that are against offshore drilling laws. By letting them do this "just this once" have the oil companies more power and more power until it got to the point that the oversight panel was nothing but a bunch of yes-men. If I were the president, that is where I would start.

X-Terminator
06-16-2010, 01:41 PM
Regardless, he's clearly cracking under the pressure. I fully expect him to pull a "Johnson" and announce he won't be seeking a second term. He'll step aside for Hillary...it's the only chance the Dems have to keep the WH.

Will any of his cult-like following on here jump ship, you think?

Just like any member of a party, they'll back whoever they think can win and keep their party in power. So yeah, I think they will jump ship if that happens.

suitanim
06-16-2010, 03:20 PM
I've said this a few times before, and it's becoming more and more evidently obvious: Hillary Clinton would have been a much better President. I'm not ignoring all the myriad failings and shortcomings of the "Clinton Machine", and will never forget some of the things they did while in power, but this is all relevant. And compared to what we have now....eeeshk!

She seems to have matured, and she's definitely benefited immensely from being Sec State. She will emerge from this more conservative in her views, and definitely more educated about the ACTUAL state of the World around us. Bear in mind, she was an Elephant before she was a Donkey, and she's sharp as a tack. I'm not ever going to vote for her over a true conservative, but she was ALWAYS part of the "New Democrats", the most conservative element of the Democratic party. She knows to govern from the middle, and maybe even the middle-right. I could actually see her being a more conservative President than Bush II was.

Mach1
06-16-2010, 03:55 PM
George W. Bush waived the Jones Act following Hurricane Katrina, allowing foreign ships into Gulf waters to aid in the relief effort. That is what he needs to 'crib' from Bush.


1. "The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States Federal statute that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters and between U.S. ports. Section 27, also known as the Jones Act, requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. The purpose of the law is to support provide protectionism for the U.S. merchant marine industry."

2. David Warren: "We learned a simple thing this week: that the BP clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico is hampered by the Jones Act. This is a piece of 1920s protectionist legislation, that requires all vessels working in U.S. waters to be American-built, and American-crewed. So while, for instance, the U.S. Coast Guard can accept such help as three kilometres of containment boom from Canada, they can't accept, and therefore don't ask for, the assistance of high-tech European vessels specifically designed for the task in hand."

3. Howard Portnoy: "In order to accept offers of help, which have come from Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian firms that claim to possess some of the world’s most advanced oil skimming ships, Obama would need to waive the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (also known as the Jones Act). So why not simply waive the act? Other presidents have under similar circumstances. George W. Bush waived the Jones Act following Hurricane Katrina, allowing foreign ships into Gulf waters to aid in the relief effort.

The explanation of Obama’s reluctance to seek this remedy is his cozy relationship with labor unions. Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation is quoted as saying: “The unions see it as … protecting jobs. They hate when the Jones Act gets waived, and they pound on politicians when they do that. So … are we giving in to unions and not doing everything we can, or is there some kind of impediment that we don’t know about?"
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/06/is-protectionism-and-union-power.html

Seems to me that ol barry is more worried about his union buddies.


As of last Wednesday, 13 entities had offered assistance with the Gulf oil spill cleanup including Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations. The list offers came from a State Department email to the press corps. "These offers include experts in various aspects of oil spill impacts, research and technical expertise, booms, chemical oil dispersants, oil pumps, skimmers, and wildlife treatment," the email said. But yesterday, the State Department refused to tell reporters which countries had offered to help, Josh Rogin reports at The Cable.

A lot of these countries are world leaders in the oil industry. You'd think they might have some valuable expertise and state of the art gear to lend the U.S. in its hour of need. Nope. Evidently the Coast Guard has absolutely everything under control and doesn't need anybody's help with anything. The spill is on track to become the largest in human history, but the Coast Guard has it totally covered. Those pesky "other countries" need to butt out while the company that caused the spill figures out how to fix it.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/19996

suitanim
06-16-2010, 04:13 PM
Too late for that. Obama already started alienating the Union when he backed Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas. She fucked over the Union (which is actually smart, since it's playing game of diminishing returns to back that Dinosaur anyway), and Obama campaigned for her anyway.

The Union ain't that smart, but they never forget. They won't vote for Lincoln in November, and they'll recall this in 2012 when they vote for the next President.

Killer
06-16-2010, 04:51 PM
Better late than never.....only 2....we need a fleet


Dutch Skimmers now working in Gulf

Tankers with skimmer arms supplied by the Dutch are now working in the Gulf. Each of these skimmers has the capacity to collect up to 5,000 tons of oil per day. That is 36,500 barrels of oil per day for each skimmer. That’s about equals the newly revised high estimate of how much oil is leaking from the well.

On June 14th 2010, BP reported that “Operations to skim oil from the surface of the water now have recovered, in total, almost 475,000 barrels (19.9 million gallons) of oily liquid”. That is only a small fraction of the oil being leaked. These new skimmers should dramatically increase that amount.

http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID325/images/resized_Skimming_vessels2_375.jpg

Skimming vessels, 70 miles off the coast of Alabama. Gulf of Mexico 14 June 2010

http://www.examiner.com/x-325-Global-Warming-Examiner~y...

smokin3000gt
06-16-2010, 04:57 PM
I haven't read the whole thread but I was just wondering if he has kicked enough ass to stop the leak yet?

Killer
06-16-2010, 09:16 PM
you missed the best part

http://i48.tinypic.com/23sg8sw.jpg

The WH
06-17-2010, 04:02 PM
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Wallace108
06-19-2010, 10:36 PM
The media slammed BP CEO Tony Hayward for attending a yacht race Saturday, but Obama's latest golf outing Saturday went largely unnoticed. Seriously, Obama spends more time on the links than Tiger Woods. Of course, they both get in far less trouble when they're focusing on golf ...
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President Barack Obama hit the golf course Saturday with Vice President Joe Biden.

The White House pool report noted that Obama left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base, and his golfing parters included White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and David Katz, the energy efficiency campaign manager at the Department of Energy.

Obama left the course shortly before 6 p.m.

Nicholson and Katz, along with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, joined Obama for four hours of golf last weekend. The Republican National Committee released an ad soon afterward taking aim at Obama's golfing during the ongoing BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

The temperatures in the Washington, D.C., area Saturday were similar to last weekend, in the low 90s and humid.

Obama attended the Washington Nationals game Friday night wearing a cap for his hometown Chicago White Sox. Sources told the pool reporter that Obama sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and left in the ninth inning, before the White Sox edged out the Nationals 2-1 in the 11th.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/104313-obama-hits-golf-course-with-biden-on-another-hot-humid-weekend

Wallace108
06-22-2010, 12:25 AM
You can't make this stuff up ...

White House mocks BP CEO's yacht race, defends Obama golf

WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman mocked BP's chief executive Monday for attending a luxury yacht race despite the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but then defended President Barack Obama's own weekend golf game.

Tony Hayward, the British energy giant's embattled chief, drew fire from the White House over the weekend for having gone to the yacht race Saturday off the Isle of Wight.

White House spokesman Bill Burton took him to task again on Monday, suggesting that Hayward take part in the cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico with the 300,000 euro yacht he co-owns.

"You know, look, if Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on that yacht and bring it down to the Gulf, we'd be happy to have his help," Burton said to laughter in the White House briefing room.

"But what's important isn't what Tony Hayward's doing in his free time; it's what BP is doing to take... responsibility for the mess that they've made," he said.

His comments echoed those of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who called Hawyard's decision to go to the yacht race "part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes."

But when asked about Obama's day Saturday, in particular his four hour golf game at a course near Washington, Burton said the president had the right to decompress a bit after a hard week.

"I don't think that there's a person in this country that doesn't think that their president ought to have a little time to clear his mind," Burton said.

"I think that a little time to himself on Father's Day weekend probably does us all good as American citizens," he said.

http://thehill.com/images/stories/news/2010/06_june/062210/obamagolfgetty.jpg

HometownGal
06-22-2010, 07:08 AM
"I don't think that there's a person in this country that doesn't think that their president ought to have a little time to clear his mind," Burton said.


I wouldn't have a problem with him "clearing his mind" if he ever USED his mind. He's too busy sitting his bony ass in his comfy chair in the Oval Office wracking his melon over whose ass to kick. :jerkit:

The WH
06-22-2010, 07:30 AM
I think he's dumb for going golfing to wind down. Golf is, to me, one of the most stressful sports in the world. If he wants to relax, watch baseball.

The WH
06-22-2010, 07:38 AM
Maybe he should kick that ass of the countries that offered to ''sell'' help to the US when the US gives them buckets of free aid every year.

7SteelGal43
06-22-2010, 11:03 AM
I can't see Obama choosing to not run for re-election. He thinks too highly of himself, and he'd never admit defeat.

Wallace108
06-22-2010, 11:15 AM
I wouldn't have a problem with him "clearing his mind" if he ever USED his mind. He's too busy sitting his bony ass in his comfy chair in the Oval Office wracking his melon over whose ass to kick. :jerkit:

I'd rather he sit in the Oval Office than play golf. At least then it would LOOK like he was doing something useful. :grin:

On second thought, it might be safer for all of us if he just keeps playing with his putter. :thumbsup:

Wallace108
06-22-2010, 11:23 AM
I think he's dumb for going golfing to wind down. Golf is, to me, one of the most stressful sports in the world. If he wants to relax, watch baseball.

Or the Browns offense ... that'll put him to sleep. :chuckle:

HometownGal
06-22-2010, 01:28 PM
I'd rather he sit in the Oval Office than play golf. At least then it would LOOK like he was doing something useful. :grin:



I'd rather he was honest with himself and the American public - admit that he duped the voters, is as phony as a three dollar bill, is nothing more than a sinking turd and step down. Oooooooh shit - that would mean the foul-mouthed drunken vagabond would become the POTUS and if he were to step down, Madame Pitbull would be tbe CIC. :horror:

I'd say all the way around, we're fucked. :uhoh:

Mach1
06-22-2010, 03:05 PM
They all need to go to prison as far as I'm concerned.

HometownGal
06-22-2010, 03:20 PM
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/razak/obama_kick_ass.gif

Dino 6 Rings
06-22-2010, 04:18 PM
he can kick the golf coarses arse...