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Strain shows as White House responds to spill (Barry to do press conf Thursday!)
politico ^ | 4/24/2010 | glenn thrush and carol lee

Posted on 05/24/2010 7:34:41 PM PDT by milwguy

Until this week, the Obama administration had largely managed to deflect responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon disaster onto others — vowing to keep a “boot on the throat” of BP, while slamming lax oversight on the part of federal regulators during the Bush administration.

But now, with crude lapping into the bayou, even Obama’s defenders have turned critical. A White House that prides itself on operational competence and message discipline has been frustrated by an environmental catastrophe it can’t predict, can’t control and can’t out-message — and the strain is showing.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs surprised reporters at the daily briefing Monday by announcing the president would answer questions about the spill in person Thursday — the first presidential news conference Obama has given in months.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bp; climatechange; gw; obama; obamaskatrina; oilspill
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To: milwguy
As the oil arrives on the Louisiana shores, Obama goes golfing

Obama hits the links at St. Andrews Air Force Base

President Barack Obama took to the golf course on Saturday after returned from delivering the commencement address at West Point.

21 posted on 05/24/2010 7:54:45 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Col Frank Slade

“Oh the environuts so loved him before.

He rode them hard and put them down wet.”

Well said! I gather even the moonbats as DemocraticUnderground are catching on. They are kavetching [sp?] about him talking basketball with Marv Albert while oil washes up on the southern coastal shores. When (as a liberal) you’ve lost DU, you’re up that famous creek without a padel—and the repo man is waiting on the banks to confiscate the canoe.


22 posted on 05/24/2010 7:56:05 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: opentalk

Well pictures of bird in oil are starting to come in...

After all it’s Federal waters, it’s the Fed Government’s job here, not BP..

Oh nevermind, this is the ‘age of Obama’ in the Obamamedia...


23 posted on 05/24/2010 7:56:27 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: milwguy

I wish he would just turn the teleprompter around so the audience can see it and save us the pain of listening to him drone on.


24 posted on 05/24/2010 7:57:19 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: milwguy; All

Any one want to take bets there will be a (oh so not) subtle swipe at Sarah Palin in his speech?


25 posted on 05/24/2010 7:57:28 PM PDT by rintense
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To: milwguy

The presser will begin with Press Secy Bobbie Gibbs doing armpit-fart impersonations of the sound made by the oil bubbling out of the seabed. Followed by Obama making similar noises using a different body part.


26 posted on 05/24/2010 7:58:21 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: milwguy
A White House that prides itself on operational competence and message discipline AND A COWARDLY MEDIA afraid to ask any questions of the '1'.
27 posted on 05/24/2010 7:59:36 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: milwguy
I can't wait to see how he responds to the one or two non-softballs the MSM will be throwing his way.

The same way Putin responded to Anna Politkovskaya, and this presser is just a way of determining which "journalist" gets the short straw.

I'm serious, marxist dictators only know one way to deal with non softball questions.

28 posted on 05/24/2010 8:00:00 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: milwguy
The wheels are coming off. Too many things going wrong in too many areas. I don't think he can handle tough questions and if he mis-steps here, the press may actually run something negative as payback. He isn't giving them much -- the love is very much one-way and they're a sensitive bunch. Like a jilted lover, they could turn on him.

This may not be the week it happens, but I think it will happen sometime.

29 posted on 05/24/2010 8:01:07 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Hoodat
the first presidential news conference Obama has given in months.

And don't expect anyone in the media to actually ask any tough questions. They will take whatever Obama gives them like little stenographers.

30 posted on 05/24/2010 8:01:23 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: milwguy

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a presidential press conference at a golf course before.


31 posted on 05/24/2010 8:03:05 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Comrade O has to go; FIRE OBAMA NOW !!!)
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To: milwguy

The RATs (green weenies) caused the spill by forcing deep water drilling.

Obama could have allowed the slick to be ignited early on...but no.

Obama could have allowed the use of hay cannons early on...but no.

He needed a perfectly good crisis which he had planned to not let go to waste.

Now the big mess is washing ashore in the Gulf causing billions of dollars of damage.

He should be forced to wear this one.


32 posted on 05/24/2010 8:03:25 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: bigbob
The presser will begin with Press Secy Bobbie Gibbs doing armpit-fart impersonations of the sound made by the oil bubbling out of the seabed.

So Gibbs is finally going to do something serious at a press conference!

33 posted on 05/24/2010 8:03:39 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: milwguy

Two days to find a scapegoat.


34 posted on 05/24/2010 8:07:24 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (2012, the end of our long national nightmare.)
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To: milwguy

He won’t do a real press conference. He will read from a teleprompter. The press will wet itself.

The press will ask pre-submitted questions that Obama will have scripted teleprompter answers for.

I wonder if the puppet press can look itself in the mirror anymore.


35 posted on 05/24/2010 8:08:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: milwguy

Good time to go golfing!


36 posted on 05/24/2010 8:09:18 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: milwguy
1st Scribe (Reporter): Dear Leader, may I ask a question?

Dear Leader: No need. I know what you want to hear. In fact, I knew before you asked me if you could ask me a question, that you would ask me a question. Next...

2nd Scribe (Reporter): Thank you for gracing us with your immense knowledge of all things worth reporting.

Dear Leader: I'm sure it's your pleasure. Thank you all. I have an early Tee Time tomorrow, so I gots to go...

37 posted on 05/24/2010 8:10:26 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Obama, proving Hillary right that it takes a Village Idiot.)
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To: milwguy

Jindal needs to nail Obama to the wall on his failure to respond to his emergency requests.


38 posted on 05/24/2010 8:12:18 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Carling
..........I'm guessing that's what we're going to see, and the questions will be vetted.

No, tell me that's not true..LOL

39 posted on 05/24/2010 8:12:48 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: milwguy

Softballs will be tee’d up for Soetoro. Then, it’s back to the links. 100% phony.


40 posted on 05/24/2010 8:12:59 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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