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'Tough' O won't face real oil threat
NY Post ^ | June 17, 2010 | Adam Brodsky

Posted on 06/17/2010 3:54:59 AM PDT by Scanian

Barack Obama has finally become a wartime president. Unfortunately, the enemy happens to be an oil com pany.

Talk about missed opportunities: In Tuesday's Oval Office speech, the president could have addressed a genuine national-security imperative -- specifically, the need to stop showering billions of US petrodollars on America's enemies: Iran, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia . . . Instead, he talked about oil economics -- and got it all wrong.

Obama started channeling George "Bring It On" Bush last week, promising some presidential butt-kicking in response to the BP spill. Likening the accident to 9/11, he said it was "assaulting our shores and our citizens."

Then, on Tuesday, he laid out his "battle plan": "We will fight the spill with everything we've got, for as long as it takes" -- on the beaches, the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; foreignoil; fossilfuels; globalwarming; opec

1 posted on 06/17/2010 3:54:59 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

The difference is President Bush could and did actually kick butt. This twit would end up stubbing his toe on his teleprompter and crying like a little girl.


2 posted on 06/17/2010 3:59:28 AM PDT by Merlinator (Take them all down...one czar at a time FUBO)
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To: Scanian

A partial solution is to drill as many wells as close as possible to the bad boy to reduce pressure in reservoir at the spewer.


3 posted on 06/17/2010 4:00:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Scanian
Cleaning a DNC- and BP-caused oilspill is NOT a war.

THIS is the War, begun by Obama's 57 States, and censored by Pres_ _ent Obama.





4 posted on 06/17/2010 4:02:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Paladin2

nobama’s response to just about anything is “Waaaaah!” Crying so is unbecoming.


5 posted on 06/17/2010 4:03:44 AM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) amounts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: Scanian
Did someone say wartime president?

Others have reminded us of LBJ's lament. I just changed the words to match reality.

"If I've lost Olbermann I've lost nutjob America."

6 posted on 06/17/2010 4:05:22 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Scanian
BO/BS and his fellow socialists want the oil threat.

Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

BP, feds could make millions from runaway well's oil
7 posted on 06/17/2010 4:14:18 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: hal ogen

8 posted on 06/17/2010 4:24:35 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: Scanian

A vagina is not a penis no matter how badly obama wants to believe that it is.

He is no leader... he isn’t even a man.
LLS


9 posted on 06/17/2010 4:43:57 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: Merlinator

“The difference is President Bush could and did actually kick butt. This twit would end up stubbing his toe on his teleprompter and crying like a little girl.”

Right or wrong, Bush was a leader. Obama neither leads, follows nor gets out of the way. But then again, what would anyone expect of a radical leftist community organizer with ties to the muslim world, who hates free enterprise and has to be protected by TASS?

The quickest way to get rid of this pock on our society is to boycott every advertiser of the MSM.


10 posted on 06/17/2010 5:33:27 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (You know it's bad when "Miss me yet" billboards with Carter's picture are displayed,)
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To: Scanian; Thunder90; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Entrepreneur; Darnright; Nipfan; Defendingliberty; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

11 posted on 06/19/2010 10:43:38 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (America should take a mulligan on the 2008 presidential election.)
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