Posted on 06/04/2010 7:17:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
This makes all those golf outings, sports-team photo ops, and celebrity jams with Paul McCartney over the past six weeks feel extra special, doesn’t it?
The White House appears resigned to living with the BP oil spill for some time to come. But that’s not surprising—since President Obama and his team were briefed from the outset that the blowout at the Deepwater Horizons rig was epic in scope—and would not be fixable for a long, long time.
Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, told Obama in late April that the blowout would likely lead to an unprecedented environmental disaster, a senior White House aide told The Daily Beast. Browner warned that capping a well at such depths had never been done before, and that they ought to expect an oil spill that would continue until a relief well was drilled in August, the aide said. (Browner’s office did not immediately reply to a request for comment).
That bleak prognosis, delivered so early on, has infused Obama’s senior team with a sense of fatalism about the spill from the start. Little that has happened since has changed their mindset. Now six weeks later, the president’s top advisers expect the oil spill – and the negative stories – to continue through August.
That’s from frequent Olbermann guest Richard Wolffe.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
and emperor obama just accepted this....once again failed leadership from a pathetic non-leader...
Barack Obama (or whatever your real name is): you’ve just put the blocks to the First and Best Hope for Mankind.
And in less than a year and half!
What are you going to do next?
I’m going to Disneyworld!
That is the single most important question the MSM fails to ask and one they would be all over if there was an "R" in the White House.
Sarahcuda smackdown Facebook post coming 3....2....1
No he didn’t just accept it, he sought to use it to advance his anti-free-enterprise agenda.
LOL. One of the HotAir commentators called it his “My Pet Blackbird” moment.
never let a good crisis go to waste
But he needed to practice his putt.
What?
More transparency.
He was tickled to death!!!!
So “just plug that damned hole” was all for show and public consumption? He knew it was going to be a long-term problem and they released that sound bite anyway? Well, add stupid PR to their list of stupidities.
He needs to resign ping!
It’s time to start calling for Obama’s resignation. I can’t believe what we are witnessing. Bad decisions have been made from the very beginning. This oil didn’t have to cover the entire gulf coast at all. Obama and his administration did nothing to mitigate the spill ‘from the very beginning’.
We all know they can’t cap the well themselves...but for God’s sake, why didn’t they try to get on top of getting the stuff out of the ocean? The only explanation is that they wanted it to cover the entire gulf coast. It’s all too evil to even contemplate...yet that’s all we are left with...the cold hard reality of a POTUS that cares more about his marxist agenda than he does the lives of the American people and God’s beautiful creatures.
Heaven help us!
So “just plug that damned hole” was all for show and public consumption? He knew it was going to be a long-term problem and they released that sound bite anyway? Well, add stupid PR to their list of stupidities.
This guy lies to us in so many ways .
So Barry is a citizen of the world.......ultimate failure.
What do ya expect from a “community leader”?
He’s a “johnny one note”.
That note? Blame “whitey and his ilk”. It is all he knows, and he does it with such eloquence, don’cha think?
God, please save us from our sorry selves, even though we do not deserve it, and You know why.
Instead, we Lawyer up and play class warfare and now speak of the dividends, which I believe he will go after.
Imagine if this was Reagan or even GWB, how many approaches and appointing a point man like Gen. Horore to get it done and not get stuck on stupid.
“This makes all those golf outings, sports-team photo ops, and celebrity jams with Paul McCartney over the past six weeks feel extra special, doesn’t it?
President Obama and his team were briefed from the outset that the blowout at the Deepwater Horizons rig was epic in scope and would not be fixable for a long, long time.
The real disgrace here is why, if he really did know right away that this was the oil equivalent of an asteroid strike, he didn’t scramble some sort of all-hands-on-deck emergency operation to protect the coastline.”
It is Obamas responsibility to protect the coastline, but Obama has voted “Present” since Day 1.
Golfing, Vacationing, Fundraising. If Obama was a company you could sue him for Gross Negligence.
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