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Obama Likens Gulf Disaster to 9/11
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| Monday, 14 Jun 2010 09:03 AM
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Posted on 06/14/2010 6:21:05 AM PDT by maddog55
President Barack Obama likened the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the September 11 attacks in an interview published on the eve of his fourth visit Monday to the stricken region.
"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he told Politico.com.
Obama said he would be making a fresh bid to get Congress to pass a major energy and climate bill.
He was quoted as vowing to "move forward in a bold way in a direction that finally gives us the kind of future-oriented ... visionary energy policy that we so vitally need and has been absent for so long."
"One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster," he said.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:21:05 AM PDT
by
maddog55
To: maddog55
Oh, please!
The main difference is that the real damage, the delay, is caused by a terrorist in the White House!
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:22:15 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
To: maddog55
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:22:20 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
To: Redleg Duke
So you’re saying...
“Obama knew, well blew”
or
“Obama teed, oil peed”
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:23:36 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
To: maddog55
“move forward” = “sweep this one under the rug”.
To: maddog55
“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come...”
Here it comes...the takeover of the Oil Companies is next.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:24:23 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
To: maddog55
Good luck with that premise. I don’t remember President Bush going to a fund raiser instead of a memorial service for those that perished. This guy is a real piece of work.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:24:29 AM PDT
by
kempster
To: Redleg Duke
What's that saying?
Never let a crisis go to waste?
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:24:40 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: maddog55
Too bad his leadership skills aren’t like what we had back then.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:24:59 AM PDT
by
MissEdie
(America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
To: chuck_the_tv_out
Obama teed, oil peed
More like Oil peed, Obama we weed
10
posted on
06/14/2010 6:26:17 AM PDT
by
diverteach
(D.C. has become Jonestown.)
To: maddog55
Oh brother. He's completely pissing on the graves of the men and women who died on 9/11. There's only one reason he's making this comparison- so it seems like he was powerless to stop it.
Hey, dumbass, it isn't that you couldn't stop it. Its the fact you haven't done jack squat in the aftermath- and have continually refused help from other countries.
Imagine if Bush had acted the way Obama did in the hours/days after 9/11...
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:26:29 AM PDT
by
rintense
(God bless Israel!)
To: maddog55
Psycho, no other word to describe him.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:26:53 AM PDT
by
Carley
(For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
To: maddog55
"One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster," he said. In other words, on the job training. Great! Just frikin' great! Asshat!
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:26:53 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: maddog55
I liken Obama’s election to 9/11.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:27:19 AM PDT
by
ILS21R
(A 200 year supply of oil... in Alaska....right now)
To: maddog55
Komrade KickAss has been spending the last 50+ days reading 'My Pet Goat'!
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:27:35 AM PDT
by
mellow velo
(Obama has no past; America is losing its future.)
To: maddog55
Gulf Spill Was an Inside Job! |
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:28:18 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: maddog55
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:28:37 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: maddog55
If that is true then he’s been hiding under the bed!!
To: maddog55
Well...
Someone with the intelligence level of zero might really, truly believe that!
What a piece of work indeed...
To: maddog55
The right lessons are to fix the oil blowout, overcome Dear Learder’s attempt to prolong and use the crisis, and to remove Obammie the Commie from office.
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posted on
06/14/2010 6:29:36 AM PDT
by
Truth29
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