Maureen Dowd...Rules!
Posted on 05/29/2010 12:51:27 PM PDT by Steelfish
Barack Obama's Credibility Hits Rock Bottom After Oil Spill And Sestak Scandal
Toby Harnden 29 May 2010
The first thing Barack Obama probably should have done was to order the livestreaming Oil Spill Cam to be turned off. As the President insisted to Americans that he was "singularly focused" on staunching the flow, there was that mesmerising image on their television screens of plumes of hydrocarbons gushing relentlessly into the Gulf of Mexico. When any political leader feels they have to declare that they are "fully engaged" in an issue, it is clear that they are in trouble. Talking about it undermines the very point you are trying to make - not to mention that pesky Oil Spill Cam showing that, 38 days into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, not a whole lot had been achieved.
Even judging Obama by his words, he has fallen woefully short over what has now eclipsed the 1989 Exxon Valdez wreck as biggest oil spill catastrophe in American history. He may have described it as an "unprecedented disaster" in last Thursday's press conference but a week into the crisis he was blithely stating that "this incident is of national significance" and rest assured he was receiving "frequent briefings" about it.
George W Bush's unpopularity and perceived incompetence was encapsulated by the way he dealt with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Candidate Obama branded it "unconscionable incompetence". Central to Obama's appeal was his promise to be truly different. His failure to achieve that is now at the core of the deep disappointment Americans feel about him. At the press conference - the first full-scale affair he had deigned to give for 309 days - he appeared uncomfortable and petulant.
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Not that it matters but I think he said “Grand Island La”
not “Grand Isle”. He didn’t know where he was much less what he was doing!!!!
Barak Petroleum and Sestak Sludge.
Greasy stuff.
What I think of him cannot go any lower, on a 1-1,000 scale I rate him -500.
Oilybama.
The only good thing that I can think of that just might come out of all of this is that finally people will get it thru their skulls that
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES..
Some may finally realize that voting for someone just because he is "black", or has a nice haircut, or that they bought the "hope and change" bs is never a good idea. Just maybe some will come to realize that what a person does is a lot more important that what he says.
EVERYBODY knew Zer0 was a lunatic, if for nothing more than his relationship with known and proven lunatics, the Reverend Wright and the lunatic William Ayers...we all saw the good Reverend on TV, and knew Ayers' history, but too many people just missed, or dismissed the message.
You are on to something. How about “Oilspillbama”?
“The only good thing that I can think of that just might come out of all of this is that finally people will get it thru their skulls...”
You are being overly optimistic. The folks who voted for Obama were inveterate imbeciles.
OUCH!
But Isflamism has failed Obama the president. What Obama says is flam and always has been flam.
Flimflam works on the stump but not in the real word of the Oval Office.
I can see a photo shopped Obama logo with Obama's thumb in the "O" and oil spraying everywhere.
Not really. Maureen Dowd and Helen Thomas still adore him.
How can his credibility be suffering when he has the Sink Emperor vouching for him? LOL
You have to read the truth in a UK newspaper. Our msm is still trying to rescue the Liar in Chief.
0bama now has a credibility Gulf.
Slimy.
Obama lied, the Gulf of Mexico died.
Maureen Dowd...Rules!
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