Posted on 06/11/2010 11:40:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
In an interview with POLITICO, the president said: “I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.”
The president also implied that anti-big government types such as Tea Party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.
“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.”
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Obama is for taking responsibility....unless he’s against it
“And in case anybody wonders — in any of your reporting, in case you were wondering who’s responsible, I take responsibility.” - Barack Obama, 27 May 2010
Well there is some good news.
Americans of all stripes don’t like whiny “victim” Presidents.
Carter was the last to try it - that is before Obama...
That’s great!
...and George W Bush is at fault for the flight of Apollo 13.President Obama needs to be locked up in a rubber room!
pathetic is precisely the correct response.
I don’t believe it... the man will say anything, ANYTHING. He’s Bart Simpson’s brother from another mother...
He is on the verge of a mental breakdown.
With two of the most cutthroat libs in America as their parents, they don’t have much of a chance of not growing up to be just as screwed up as mom and dad.
Sorry Ears, this isn’t about “Oil Companies”. It is about one oil company, a major contributor of yours, a known bad actor, that got a pass from your administration. Now America gets to pay for your corruption (once again).
“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said.
Is the man really this ignorant? That one statement is so convoluted it proves what a deep thinker he’s not.
He is edging towards psychotic detachment.
He is on the verge of a mental breakdown.
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LOL! I posted 31 just before reading this.
Yes, the emperor is not merely naked, he is beginning to foam at the mouth.
Hey Hussein Obama, you are not standing on a corner in Chicago, community organizing anymore. You are a pathetic POS
(and that does not refer to President of the United States).
Is the man really this ignorant? That one statement is so convoluted it proves what a deep thinker he’s not.
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I frankly think he is on the verge of stupid. He parrots well, but is not an original or creative thinker, nor even a perceptive one.
Every ‘idea’ he extrudes is some recycled kludge from the 1920s left, the 1930s left, the 1950s left, or the 1970s left. Utterly vapid, utterly programmed.
*Captain Kickass*... has been on top of things from DAY ONE.
Honest.
How can you possibly blame a guy like this...?
wow, he’s all wee-weed up. fo’shizzle, Barry. All I can say is , brotha...puhleeze you actin’ like a little b#tch.
“He parrots well”
He does. But even if someone else is writing his material (pelosi maybe), if he were a deep thinker, he would know this statement is twisted thinking and would not have said it.
He also comes across as whiny... way un-presidential.
Zer0 has nothing and is subtracting from that everyday.
Pathetic. No character no leadership.
The profile of an underachiever is one who cannot take
responsibility nor own up to the consequences of their
decisions. Not unlike the chronic alcoholic or skid row bum.
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