Posted on 05/16/2010 12:06:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Let's try a political thought experiment. Imagine that a few months after a new president takes office, his administration approves an offshore oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico. It is to be run by BP, whose employees were very generous donors to the president's campaign. The oil company airily dismisses the possibility of a catastrophic leak that might destroy the coastline. Nearly a year later, the president—to the dismay of his environmentalist supporters—says he wants to greatly expand offshore drilling. Soon after that, the BP well explodes, and oil spews into the gulf. It's clear to everyone that the blowout is a major catastrophe, requiring a federal mobilization. But the president's initial response is to say, in effect: do not worry, BP will pay for the cleanup. Eleven days pass before he goes to survey the scene.
Of course, this is a sketch of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the president is Barack Obama. But here is the rest of the experiment. Imagine the reaction of Washington—the media, Congress, the "national conversation"—if the president wasn't Obama but George W. Bush. "We would be under siege," says Dan Bartlett, who was communications director in the Bush years. "There'd be calls for special prosecutors, investigations everywhere. The focus wouldn't be on what was happening out in the gulf—it would be on what happened in the West Wing."
Now, I hold no brief for George Bush, and I have no desire to launch a screed against the home-field advantage that Obama still gets in the non-Murdoch media.(continued)
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I just posted a comment about knee pads just below yours. GMTA!
...is a result of the absolute slobbering devotion by the State Run Media.
If Bush were to have done half of what obama has done, the SRM would have first crucified, then shot Bush themselves. Apparently they are more afraid of the truth and obama's attack ballerina than they were of Karl Rove.
Fineman. You know better than this.
On the left (meaning YOU), you know that there would be REPRISALS for straying from the obedient, lockstep, Pravda-esque and servile "journalistic" duties as prescribed for you by this W.H.
You KNOW this, yet you choose to whistle past it, in faked amazement.
You have voluntarily, and most cowardly surrendered your First Amendment rights; and, now you pretend to wonder where you put them.
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I have friends in TN and am so impressed with the people of that Great State. You didn’t see them sitting on their “Behinds” waiting for the Gov’t to do it for them. They got busy: Helping themselves and one another!! The difference between Tennessee and New Orleans, LA was astounding to say the least! Also a Thank You to the TN. National Guard, Red Cross,and many other Groups who helped as well. To this day, I haven’t heard a word out of Obama’s mouth re the Devasation in the South! Hopefully, all Americans will be more careful re voting for a Communist next time around!
However, Zero doesn't WANT to do ANY of this. He campaigned on the opposite of all this and he legislated 180 degrees different than this. It's just that because of FOX, Rush, etc. he's being pushed to the right of what he and his rabidly leftist cronies want to do.
nice try howard ... just keep drinking the kool-aid ... i can’t wait until november ... LOL
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