and publicly supported and profited from what brought that death.
Posted on 06/15/2010 3:29:25 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama doesn't like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor's standing. He'd prefer that the American people be reminded of something else -- something that rallied people around their president.
And so he told Politico over the weekend that the oil spill has "echoes of 9/11."
Americans thought differently about "our vulnerabilities" after the events of 9/11, Obama said, and the oil spill is "going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come."
This is, not to put too fine a point on it, one of the most bizarre things ever said by any president.
It is worth considering the meaning of this profoundly wrongheaded analogy tonight when the president delivers his first Oval Office address -- his latest attempt to minimize the political damage the oil spill is wreaking on his reputation.
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He’s delusional!
Very well put. Obama's purpose in this is not only to make himself look heroic (fat chance of that ever happening!) but once again to minimize the 9/11 act of war committed by Muslims.
Well, its kinda like comparing Barry Bonds to Babe Ruth (you can’t).
Well, its kinda like comparing New Orleans with Boise (you can’t).
Well, its kinda like comparing Lady Gaga with Dolly Parson (you can’t).
Well, its kinda like comparing President Obama with Thomas Jefferson (you can’t).
Absolutely no comparison.
Katrina was not orchestrated by Islamic suicide dive bombers.
Typical Muslim blame game using lies and a diversion from the truth.
Obama feels his beach head slipping away from under his feet from the oncoming tide of public anti-Obama sentiment.
He’s a madman.
Which one of his toadies told obuma to equate the oil spill with 9-11?
I can see the fascist Axelrod siding up to Hitler and whispering that getting photographed with dogs and children will make the world like us better.
Yeh, my guess is Axelrod.
Despicable!
9/11 was an Act of War - DELIBERATE destruction of American lives.
BP’s oil rig failure was an ACCIDENT!
Presidential leadership following each catastrophe is the only comparable test. George Bush had it - B.Obama does not.
end of discussion.
With Barak Petroleum, We have a Kenyan Muslim destroying American Icons.
So I can see the some similarities. It may be another rallying point to go after another Muslim.
They were not to DO what they did. Obama should expose that, instead of yearning for some 9/11-like affection.
Obama is a bum.
This oil problem is much worse than nearly EVERYONE is suggesting. If they really do try to cap the pipe, they blow up the sea bed.
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BP was an ‘inside job’. Scholars for Deepwater Horizon Truth say so.
Obama needs to be tried for treason and shipped to Gitmo to rot with his buddies.
I think Senior Democrats in Washington, DC should consider how they might talk this guy into just resigning. Surely none of them is confident that the damage he is doing to their party isn’t going to be the end of it.
Why do you think Congressman Etheridge (D-NC) acted the way he did in that video when asked if he supports the “Obama agenda”? He knows. Most Democrats know.
Even after the Democratic Party gets devastated in the upcoming election, he’ll still be there for another two years. Some like to believe in the fantasy that he will recover the way Bill Clinton did.
But, deep down, they know. They know Obama is no Bill Clinton. Two and a half more years of Obama’s idiocratic tomfoolery will ensure no Democrat is elected President again for the next fifty years.
ditto
Barrack Whosinsane Obama desperately wants to re-shape the US in his mold, a total failure
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