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FLASH JUDGMENT: Obama's Speech Was A Disaster
Business Insider ^ | June 15, 2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 06/15/2010 6:35:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you watched (or read) The President's Oval Office speech to the nation, please let us know if you feel better.

Because our sense is that this went over like a ton of bricks, at least based on our reading of it and the flash reactions we've seen on Twitter.

Some of the details up top are fine: It's great that a ton of folks going to be deployed in the cleanup, and strongarming BP to set up a cleanup fund is probably a good move.

But the second half of the speech killed the strong opening, because it turned into just another pie-in-the-sky post-oil speech:

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 0dipstick; bho44; bp; britishpetroleum; obama; obamasfault; oil; oilspill; politics; speech
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Yeah, too bad. He can't even act like he knows what he's doing. Pitiful. Time for a party!
1 posted on 06/15/2010 6:35:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The man’s a jiveass shakedown con man.

And so are those who support him.


2 posted on 06/15/2010 6:36:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Definitely not one of Obama’s better speeches.

The man does liberal vision well, but when it comes to addressing actual problems he tends to fail pretty spectacularly.


3 posted on 06/15/2010 6:37:04 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, the speech came from the mouth of a disaster.


4 posted on 06/15/2010 6:37:47 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: combat_boots

Remember folks - The one thing Obama is good at running is his mouth.


5 posted on 06/15/2010 6:38:31 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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I feel better now that I have heard for the 11th brazillian time he has a fellow Nobel laureate on the team . I hope Algore doesn't lose his in the divorce .
6 posted on 06/15/2010 6:39:33 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's the full text of President Obama's speech about the BP disaster/gusher in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Obama's Remarks To Nation On Oil Spill [Full Text]


7 posted on 06/15/2010 6:39:38 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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8 posted on 06/15/2010 6:40:20 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an Obamofo.


9 posted on 06/15/2010 6:42:47 PM PDT by GnL
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No lie, as I listened to this I had this weird feeling and I finally figured it out—I was experiencing the same feeling I got when, as a little kid, I saw Jimmy Carter on TV. He just didn`t seem like a president to me. I listened to tonight`s little chat on radio and what came across was Obama`s weakness. He sounded like he wanted to just start yelling to disguise his cluelessness. He has such a limited intellectual capacity and a complete lack of imagination. All he was required to do was let Jindahl [sp?] build and foreign help in. He can`t even manage that low level of activity [no doubt to push his disaster-based cap and trade policy]. A weak man with a Totalitarian mindset.


10 posted on 06/15/2010 6:44:00 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("You seem to believe that stupidity is a virtue. Why is that so?"-Flight of the Phoenix)
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Matthews, Olberman and Fineman on MSNBC were agast at the shallowness of the speech. It was great entertainment.
11 posted on 06/15/2010 6:46:01 PM PDT by tractorman
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To: Oceander

I understand what you’re saying there, but let’s be careful not to lose the sting of an even more apt application of that phrase.

Obammie the Commie promised to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn’t. He lied. An people are dying there at a much faster pace then under Bush’s watch.

Obama lied. People died.


12 posted on 06/15/2010 6:46:14 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: combat_boots
I'm gonna kick some ass at our our annual family get together this Thanksgiving.

Not gonna let the (former)BO lovers in my family forget what they've helped do to this country.

13 posted on 06/15/2010 6:46:24 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Plug the hole!


14 posted on 06/15/2010 6:47:26 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: skeeter

I too suffer with naive relatives. I’d say it was sweet justice that they are proven wrong, but it makes my predictions true. A Statist with the mentality of a 12 year old is running the country (or not).


15 posted on 06/15/2010 6:49:34 PM PDT by Cathy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein is a disaster. His puppet masters are a disaster. Where they are taking us is a disaster. And they know it and smile.


16 posted on 06/15/2010 6:51:05 PM PDT by 3boysdad (I hate that anti-American Muslim focker from Kenya.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Tonight, bammie....


17 posted on 06/15/2010 6:51:34 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: tractorman

Are you serious? msnbc?


18 posted on 06/15/2010 6:53:04 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of the comments cracked me up...
lyrics to the supertramp song “dreamer”.

dreamer...nothing but a dreamer...

Worst US president EVER.


19 posted on 06/15/2010 6:53:39 PM PDT by nagdt ("None of my EX's live in Texas")
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20 posted on 06/15/2010 6:55:33 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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