Obama can't seem to catch a break on his oil spill response (Poor Ole Barrack Hussein Obama)

washington post ^ | 6/2/2010 | Courtland Milloy

[tobyhill]

So now the rap on President Obama is that his response to the oil spill along the Gulf Coast hasn't been heartfelt enough. He comes off as emotionally detached, critics say, and, by the way, isn't it a pity that the white folk from the coastal red states who never wanted a black man in the White House in the first place are complaining that he doesn't care about them?

Talk about projecting their hard feelings onto others.

"The politics of the disaster are Cajun hot, but Obama is cerebral cool," wrote Howard Fineman on msnbc.com. So we get our first black president -- and he's criticized for being too smart and not temperamental enough! Obama just can't seem to catch a break. He gets no credit for doing right and gets blamed even when he does nothing wrong.

Fineman, who penned one of the classier critiques, urged Obama to put some "Tabasco" into his reactions. No doubt the president would then be criticized for being a hotheaded militant. But he should go for it anyway.

[SF_Redux]

and it is really starting to affect his golf game, we must do something

[Oceander]

Can't catch a break? He's gotten nothing but one giant mulligan from the MSM on this fiasco so far. Had this happened on W's watch, and W responded as anemically and with as little leadership as Obuttocks has, he would have been utterly crucified in the MSM. Give me a break!

[Wpin]

“These left wing nuts are simply incredible...what a bunch of malarkey...and what the heck is that about white folks not being deserved any attention from their president?”

These left wing nuts are simply incredible! What a bunch of malarkey, and what the heck is that about white folks not deserving any attention from their president? (Fixed it)

[Brandonmark]

"After all, he took office with the country on the brink of a second Great Depression and, in relatively short order, pulled us back from the brink. And still he gets blamed for the economic mess created by the previous administration."

Let's see...pull out the race card and then for good measure use the "blame it on Bush" card!

[Man50D]

BO/BS may have his own agenda in dealing with the leak.

Bombshell expose'. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

[tobyhill]

This idiot writer forgot to mention that the official unemployment rate was 7.6% when Bush left office and jumped to 10.2% within a year after Obammy took office.

[Ann Archy]

No...what??

[Oldeconomybuyer]

by Courtland Milloy

How did this RACIST get on the WaPo staff?

[FreeAtlanta]

He looks like he might be gay. Birds of a feather....

[nathanbedford]

After all, he took office with the country on the brink of a second Great Depression and, in relatively short order, pulled us back from the brink. And still he gets blamed for the economic mess created by the previous administration.

Obama took office after the steps taken by the Bush administration, Tarp, had saved the economy from a second great depression whereupon Obama proceeded to create an economic mess with porkulus, overspending, health care "reform," demagoguery and class warfare, thus undermining entrepreneurial confidence, ostensibly to create jobs but in reality to subsidize leftist electoral prospects, and has very nearly cast the nation into another economic crisis.

My version is fully as plausible as the authors and it is backed up with just as much data. We must strike back at this election campaign rhetoric which we will hear more and more as we approach November.

[Texas resident]

So, little barry can’t catch a break. Neither can we. We are subjected to their childish and petty behavior and get to pay for it all. Plus, the little urkel made the statement that they were in charge from day one, so ok there junior you own this. If he is going to be in command, then he needs to lead, not float criminal charges at BP. BP didn’t want this and they want it to go away ASAP. If we had a real president, he would have ordered the EPA and all the other federal environmental types to stand down and actually work with BP and the gulf states to contain the damage then fix it. But no we have a historic first agitator who is doing what he knows to do. This goofball couldn’t lead his dog out into the yard to do it’s business. The dog has no respect for him either. Probably pees on his leg like he does to us.
Rant is officially off.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

... isn’t it a pity that the white folk from the coastal red states who never wanted a black man in the White House in the first place are complaining that he doesn’t care about them?

Wow

What a stupid ugly racist thing to say... Courtland....

I’ll bet there are a lot of black people living on that same coast wish they had some assistance from “cerebral cool” sh*thead.

But “Courtland” never goes there and doesn’t care (he? she? it?)

Racist

White hating racist.

[Doogle]

let's bring Hollywood into the "fix", then we can blame them

[gov_bean_ counter]

IMO, Obie responded slowly because he wanted to create fear and trembling in pursuit of his anti-offshore drilling agenda. He had no idea how quickly this could get out of hand. And now we have this...

[tobyhill]

This writer is just demonstrating the Libs true racist selves.

[LibLieSlayer]

Personally I think he should be tried for treason and hung on the White Hut lawn.

LLS

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“White hating racist.”

Exactly, and he and all like him need to be called out on their racism as frequently as they display it.

[LibLieSlayer]

Dumber than a box of rocks.

LLS

[Ev Reeman]

Not only white hating racist. Black hating racist. Cajun hating racist. Jew hating racist. Christian hating racist. Racist with a capital R.

[LibLieSlayer]

Amish?

LLS