Posted on 06/16/2010 6:51:58 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
I think this was Sarah Palin’s best appearance to date on Fox News as a pundit. She was very strong and powerful at times, giving indication that if she were in command she would be able to handle this mess and come up with plans to keep the oil at bay. She is really starting to sound presidential.
Sarah Palin didn’t only go after Obama on his address, but took issue with O’Reilly’s soft stance on Obama’s energy policies. Palin told O’Reilly that we can’t just get rid of oil, but we need to develop all three legs of the stool – conventional, renewable, and conservation. She then chided Obama for not understanding the linkage between our energy and national security.
She took issue with Obama allowing BP to control the facts and thus the situation. She has cautioned on several occasions, tonight and in the past, that you can’t allow BP to control the situation because their interests aren’t always in line with the American people’s interest.
But one criticism that I thought was especially true was that Obama has failed at communicating that stopping the oil gusher is his top priority. Sure, we all assume that, but when you look at what he plans to do, he’s left it all in their hands and has no plan to make it happen. What if BP can’t stop it? What then?
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This really highlights the fact that she has executive experience, she has environmental experience, she had lots of experience dealing with oil companies.
Obama, on the other hand, is a community organizer who motivates unproductive people to complain and demand money from others.
Watching the Palin response with my wife, BOR asked her what she would say is top priority tonight. I said to my wife--stopping the damn leak. Palin then answered: stopping the gusher. She aced the question. Seems obvious, but it wasn't obvious to Obama or his writers/handlers.
He should have sat down with BP within a couple of days of the explosion....and not to put his boot to their throat...but as a nation with the means to prevent the oil from getting to the shores.
Barack Obama’s top priority has never wavered: it’s Barack Obama. An empty suit at an empty desk.
I disagree with Sarah. Ya, he has shown us his top. That is all he has.
There's a huge difference between someone who accomplishes real things, like Gene Kranz, and a community organizer who sees crises not as problems to be solved but as opportunities to be exploited. It may well be that in Obama's totalitarian mind, doing nothing now is the best path to more power.
Apparently, doing something is above his pay grade.
She sure shut Orielly up.
Now she should move in on Obama’s failed policies, like the Pelosi, Obama, all Democrats, the whole media and some Republicans claimed about the former President.
Why do we need a President to tell us that? Anybody with a half an ounce of brains can see that.
I'm not one of those who expects Soetoro to plug the leak. I just expect him to give those who have the ability to clean up the mess while BP works on plugging the leak the authority to do so.
Repeal the Jones Act, you (Biden)!
She sure did! Right from the start and even managed to finish her thought at the end when he tried to cut her off.
A child at the age of 4 could handle the presidency better than the tanned version of Jimmy Carter.
The very first paragraph of is speech said otherwise:
Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever it exists. And tonight, I’ve returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we’re waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens.
Am I wrong? He appears to say that the recession is his top priority. That Al Qaeda is number 2. And oh by the way, this gulf thing. And this in a speech ostensibly about the gulf! Amazing. I couldn't believe it when I read it. He opens by saying the spill is NOT his top priority.
It's about time someone did. His "fair and balanced" is leaning so far to the left, it's going to fall over.
Minimizing the damage and expediting the clean-up is 100% Washington's responsibility. That's where bozo is once again failing, big time. That is what should be hammered, non-stop......
Ok, Mr. President, the leak happened, only the oil industry can fix it, why are you not leading the charge and knocking out the obstacles to containment and clean-up? That is your job. Why aren't you doing it?
Maybe no one wants to talk about stopping the leak now because of what the guy on theoildrum.com had to say, namely, that it might be impossible to stop it because it’s gushing all around the pipe, not just through the pipe.
Sorry Sarah...but its not on his priority list at all. He wants this to go on as long as possible so that he can devise another scheme to grab more power in Washington.
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