Obama can't seem to catch a break on his oil spill response (Poor Ole Barrack Hussein Obama)

washington post ^ | 6/2/2010 | Courtland Milloy

[tobyhill]

So now the rap on President Obama is that his response to the oil spill along the Gulf Coast hasn't been heartfelt enough. He comes off as emotionally detached, critics say, and, by the way, isn't it a pity that the white folk from the coastal red states who never wanted a black man in the White House in the first place are complaining that he doesn't care about them?

Talk about projecting their hard feelings onto others.

"The politics of the disaster are Cajun hot, but Obama is cerebral cool," wrote Howard Fineman on msnbc.com. So we get our first black president -- and he's criticized for being too smart and not temperamental enough! Obama just can't seem to catch a break. He gets no credit for doing right and gets blamed even when he does nothing wrong.

Fineman, who penned one of the classier critiques, urged Obama to put some "Tabasco" into his reactions. No doubt the president would then be criticized for being a hotheaded militant. But he should go for it anyway.

[popdonnelly]

Courtland Milloy got his job at the WaPo after a protest and boycott of the paper by black Washingtonians. His columns can best be characterized as blacks cosmically right on all occasions, whites always wrong no matter how logical, factual, and unbiased they are.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Here's Obama's Washington Post propagandist - notice anything?

Mustache?

[Malesherbes]

Would I be wrong to assume that Courtland Milloy got her job through Affirmative Action?

[autumnraine]

And here is Courtland’s comments on Bush and his demeanor/detachment...

From October 2005, Bush at a black college (THE HORROR!!)

What might have been a public relations coup for Bush — a visit to a historically black college to show concern for at-risk youths — ended up as another Katrina-like moment, with the president appearing spaced-out, waving and smiling for television cameras while students were trying to break through campus security to get to the cordoned-off cafeteria.

[FDNYRHEROES]

Dumber than a box of rocks.

Yeah, but what color rocks?...

[keepitreal]

and, by the way, isn't it a pity that the white folk from the coastal red states who never wanted a black man in the White House in the first place are complaining that he doesn't care about them?

[LibLieSlayer]

That would be muslim colored rocks.

LLS