Barry O.:
- You have consistently demonstrated your grasp of reality is that of a newborn.
- Your intellect is as shallow as a dry creek.
- Everything you touch has not improved but, in fact, has gone from worse to an unmitigated Disaster.
Barry:
Posted on 06/08/2010 5:39:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama says he would have fired BP CEO By Michael O'Brien - 06/08/10 07:45 AM ET
BP's chief executive wouldn't have a job if President Barack Obama were in charge of the oil company, the president said Tuesday.
Obama said he had not spoken to BP CEO Tony Hayward directly, but added that he thought that Hayward should probably be out of work in the aftermath of the massive oil spill triggered by an accident in a BP-leased pipeline and rig.
"He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements," Obama said during an interview on NBC's "Today" show, referencing comments made by Hayward in which said he wanted his life back before the spill.
Hayward apologized for the remarks, which were seen as dismissive to the families of 11 oil rig workers who died after a massive explosion that set off the leak. But the BP CEO has also faced criticism for his company's overall handling of the crisis, as well as its corporate practices. Lawmakers have called on plans for the company to suspend its dividend to shareholders this summer, and have questioned an ad blitz the oil company has waged to fight back against an increasingly negative perception in the wake of the spill.
The president said he hadn't spoken to Hayward directly, but emphasized that administration officials were constantly in touch with the chief executive and other top officials at BP. Obama reiterated that the company was acting at the direction of the U.S. government.
The company, the president said, would also be made to make sure that those adversely affected by the spill are properly compensated for losses.
"We are going to have to make sure that not only do they shut down the cap, we are not only going to have to make sure any deep well drilling process out there is in fact fail safe, and oil companies know what they’re doing, but we also have to make sure that every single person that has been affected by this is properly compensated and made whole.," he said.
"Absolutely they can afford it," the president added. "If I see BP nickel-and-diming people down there, they are going to have to answer to us."
Typical foul mouthed grandiose rhetoric from the perpetually adolescent narcissists that become "revolutionaries". You can easily find similar hyperbole from such "notable" minds as Lenin and Che. The problem is that when they can fulfill these fantasies, they do with a vengence and glee.
That's what we're told. I don't believe it. I have to verify my academic background for my job, why the hell doesn't 0 have to show some proof that he did any of what we're told he did in order to run the United States of America?
All sounds like B.S. to me. I think the clowns a complete fraud.
I think Obama’s projecting a bit... after taking over U.S. banking and auto companies, it sounds like he’s getting ready to annex BP.
Have you plugged the hole yet daddy?
Exactly. And a long time ago.
Right-o, let’s fire the head of the company that had as it’s first plan to chop off the riser and pop a valve in the stub. You know the plan that WORKED in just a few days After the feds approved it.
Strange, I would have fired the Jack Squat POTUS...
A guy who keeps Holder and Napolitano would have fired the BP CEO? A guy who routinely appoints left-wing frightwigs to government positions would fire the BP CEO? BP has taken responsibility for the leak, but the President and his merry crew don’t take responsibility for anything.
Too bad we can’t Fire ZERO now.
Speaking of fed approval, what about the people that Obama can fire? Does this question make too much sense?
He hasn’t even fired the government workers surfing PORN sites!
Read his biography. He was placed in Harvard. He did not earn it.
There's a lot of senators and congressmen to add to that treason list before we send them on permanent vacation. Oh, and I think Gitmo is too good for them. How about Somalia?
Yeah. And you’d replace him with some worthless apparatchik lawyer too I’ll bet.
American public says we will fire this loser of a president in 2012.
Hey, Obama can cut the pursestrings when he want. Look! Van Jones? Out. Helen Thomas? Out. He doesn’t even go to Jeremiah Wright’s racist rallies anymore.
If anyone should be fired in this country, that would be his Highness HUSSEIN Obama and his Marxist Regime.
Maybe OBOZO should fire some of his communist cabinet members who are responsible for managing this crisis????
It’s nice to know that the CEO of BP is more powerful than the President of the United States...
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