Posted on 05/23/2010 2:01:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of leading a lax response to the Gulf of Mexico spill because he is too close to the big oil companies.
The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.
"I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there's any connection with the contributions made to president Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration," she told Fox News Sunday.
More than 3.5 million dollars has been given to candidates by BP over the last 20 years, with the largest single donation, 77,051 dollars, going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Palin suggested this close relationship explained why Obama was, "taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."
The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers, and sank two days later. Ever since, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil, perhaps millions, have been spewing each day into the sea.
The resulting slick, now the size of a small country, threatens to leave Louisiana's fishing and coastal tourism industries in tatters, ruin pristine nature reserves, and cause decades of harm to the ecology of fragile marshes ..
The Obama administration has been forced to defend its response to the disaster as some Republicans have sought to portray it as their Katrina, ..
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“I bet he has an army of political hacks now trying to figure out how to get these oil companies to pay for his new program so he can permanently change the shape of the US” ~ plain talk
bttt
BP was ALREADY doing it for Obama because they were told that “the future” was in “carbon trading” schemes and “green energy” alternatives.
Read on:
Blame BP [Chris Horner] 05/02/2010
I hope to elaborate later I’m wrapping up two weeks on the road promoting Power Grab but it seems to me the issue with the recent oil-platform explosion and subsequent leak issue is BP, not offshore drilling.
Offshore drilling has a very good track record in the past few decades and especially recently; BP has a terrible one. The Deepwater Horizon incident is consistent with only one of those track records.
Like Enron and indeed, in close cooperation with Enron on the “global warming” rent-seeking BP got distracted from its core businesses and spent its energies getting into solar ventures and carbon-trading schemes, and otherwise losing the plot of an energy company. The absurd re-branding to “Beyond Petroleum” (really? your balance sheet doesn’t quite agree) speaks volumes.
They thereby also lost focus on these operations and implicitly told their best people that the future did not lie there.
And for a decade we have seen BP facilities blowing up with human and environmental consequences all over the place.
The newsiness of this spill is testimony to its aberrant nature. The issue today isn’t offshore drilling so much as it is the company that, in violation of all laws of probability, continues to be involved in a preponderance of its various industries’ high-profile workplace tragedies.
More: Obama’s Katrina’: an Illustrated Timeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=106#106
The Luxury of Conservation
Writing on her Facebook page about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Sarah Palin explains why she remains committed to developing domestic oil resources, even though she had a front-row seat to the Exxon Valdez disaster:
Continue: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=104#104
I disagree.
He is using this catastrophe as a weapon toward achieving his agenda to completely remake America.
He wants it under Dem Federal Gov’t control...all of it.
Sure, he doesn’t know how to properly do his job as President (incompetent, you said), but he DOESN’T CARE what his “proper job” is.
He only wants to grab this country by the throat. That’s why he’s there, and not for any other reason.
Looks like he’s a Left-wing sweetie...lol.
Calling it just as she sees it.
No bias there.
Hey, has anyone ever seen any article from the lamestream media that started with, ‘Far left pinup Barak Obama” before?
Didn’t think so.
Good move by her. This needs to be hammered away at nonstop from now until November.
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