Obama 2008: I ran a big campaign, so I can handle a Gulf emergency

Washington Examiner ^ | 06/06/10 | BYRON YORK

[florm15]

It’s not mentioned much now, but in the late summer of 2008, a major hurricane, Gustav, was in the Gulf of Mexico and headed toward New Orleans, threatening a replay of the disastrous Katrina experience.

On September 1, 2008, Barack Obama, fresh from his Roman-colonnade speech on the final night of the Democratic convention in Denver, talked to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about Gustav and the Gulf.

The question: As president, could he handle an emergency like that? Obama pointed to the size of his campaign and its multi-million dollar budget as evidence of his executive abilities.

“Our ability to manage large systems and to execute, I think, has been made clear over the last couple of years,” Obama said. That executive ability, he added, “indicates the degree to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.”

[Brad from Tennessee]

Obama has spent his career working as an ethnic token. His dramatic and oratory talent helped put him in the White House but his skin color played an even larger role. His campaign was “handled” by experts who used Obama’s cultivated “African-Americanism” to paint any opponent as racist. To paraphrase Geraldine Ferarro, if Obama were white we wouldn't be having this conversation because he would be unknown to us.

[4rcane]

Obama act more like a chairman than an actual ceo. The spritial leader, not the operational planner

[GBA]

More incoherent babbling from the messiah. That's what people want from the President in a crisis.

[mkjessup]

Dear Pres_ _ ent 0bama:

There is a reason you are referred to by large number of Americans as ‘Comrade Zero’, because you have ZERO experience, ZERO knowledge, and ZERO love for this great Nation. You hate America, and it shows. You can’t even bring yourself to put your hand over your heart for the Pledge of Allegiance, and I suspect that is because your ‘allegiances’ are elsewhere than the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

The only thing you have ever run, is your big fat MOUTH, and more and more people are realizing that every day, you have less experience that even Jimmy Carter, and Americans remember how that slow motion train wreck turned out, your political demise will be off the scale, the best thing you could do right now is to resign, and let Joe Biden assume that Office, at least he acts like he’s proud to be an American, unlike you who look like you have a week’s worth of constipated bowels blocking you up.

And about that missing ‘I’ and ‘D’ in my salutation?

That’s “ID”, so where is yours, you lyin’ sack o’ sh*t?!?

Most Disrespectfully & With Utter Contempt,

Mark Jessup

[NormsRevenge]

Classic Politician..
No clue but lots of hope.

[COBOL2Java]

He was the "star", and the producers, director, gaffers, etc., did all the logistics.

Not unlike all these Hollywood glitterati who presume to lecture us on global warming, health care, international relations, you name it...

[opentalk]

He is a PR media creation, cant walk the talk. He will not allow the public into his speeches. Union, Seiu part of the props.

[Oceander]

[MozarkDawg]

Six words sum up 0bama, how he views responsibility:

"Call me if you need me."

[dr_who]

Reminds me of the climax of “Team America: World Police” when all these celebrity “statesmen” hold an academy awards ceremony/peace conference in North Korea. Obama has a lock on the idiot vote.

[brityank]

Byron York spelled it wrong.

Obama 2008: I ran a big campaign, so I can handle a Golf emergency

And no - you don't get any mulligans here!

[W-Girl]

Love it ....when his own words come back to haunt him !!