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Gibbs: Obama hasn't talked to Hayward because BP board calls the shots
wapo ^ | 6/9/10 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 06/09/2010 6:26:32 PM PDT by Nachum

When President Obama was asked by NBC's Matt Lauer why he had not yet called the CEO of BP about the Gulf oil spill, he said he assumed CEO's just told presidents things they wanted to hear.

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had another answer.

Gibbs said Obama hasn't called CEO Tony Hayward because -- according to what Gibbs called the "executive structure of corporate governance" -- the CEO alone isn't the final word on company decisions, which are made by the board of directors.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: board; gibbs; hayward; obama
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1 posted on 06/09/2010 6:26:33 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 06/09/2010 6:26:52 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Heckuva job, Barry!


3 posted on 06/09/2010 6:27:18 PM PDT by counterpunch (GOP: Government's Other Party)
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To: Nachum

So then, he has talked to the BP board right?


4 posted on 06/09/2010 6:27:57 PM PDT by chris37
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To: Nachum

What a mess these people are.


5 posted on 06/09/2010 6:27:59 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Nachum

OK, so has he offered to kick BP’s Boards Ass?


6 posted on 06/09/2010 6:28:27 PM PDT by AU72
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To: counterpunch

I don’t believe it is ineptitude or incompetence any longer, the more we hear, the more it appears to be willful malfeasance.


7 posted on 06/09/2010 6:28:47 PM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: Nachum

“the CEO alone isn’t the final word on company decisions, which are made by the board of directors.”

Well that is technically correct. Took those geniuses how many days to come up with that?


8 posted on 06/09/2010 6:28:56 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nachum

Oh Please, the BP board is keeping the US faux president of the US from talking to Heyward?

Gibbs is a dolt.


9 posted on 06/09/2010 6:30:12 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Nachum

So he has been in charge from day one, but he is not in charge?


10 posted on 06/09/2010 6:30:14 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Nachum

Obama would rather meet with Hamas than Hayward.

In Obama’s world, the underwear bomber gets mirandized and access to a lawyer, BP is guilty before there is any information about what happened on the Deepwater Horizon.

It’s easier to malign the man and the company on camera than it is to meet with him and tell him what your thoughts are about the problem. Because if you meet with him, you have to have something coherent to say. And usually one on one conversations don’t permit use of a teleprompter.


11 posted on 06/09/2010 6:30:38 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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To: Nachum

Matt Simmons says BP will file bankruptcy within a month


12 posted on 06/09/2010 6:30:43 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Nachum

Glib Gibbs speaks for his nibs.


13 posted on 06/09/2010 6:30:52 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: Nachum

But, but, but, I thought Caligula said that HE was definitely in charge from DAY ONE and that the WH was making all the decisions.

They must think we can neither remember nor read.


14 posted on 06/09/2010 6:31:07 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: Nachum

What a STUPID DOOFUS Gibbs and the WH PRESS CORPS ARE!!!!!


15 posted on 06/09/2010 6:31:12 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: AU72

I’d imagine the Board doesn’t have the time to talk to BO right now. Some impressive experience in that group.

http://www.bp.com/AnnualReview2003/files/RP_ar2003_bd.html


16 posted on 06/09/2010 6:31:51 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Nachum

How Gibbs has managed to stay in that job for so long is beyond me. The man is a daily laughingstock. Well, his lapdogs in the media don’t thing so, but everyone else in America does.


17 posted on 06/09/2010 6:31:56 PM PDT by GnL
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To: Nachum
You mean to tell me that the guy who tells everyone who will pay attention that he is the President. You mean to tell me that the guy who fired the GM president can't talk to the president of BP?

What do we have for a President and an administration?

18 posted on 06/09/2010 6:32:39 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: mylife

Obama ALWAYS says BOTH SIDES of EVERYTHING!! ALWAYS!! Just depends on who he is talking to, but he LAWAYS takes BOTH SIDES......VERY CONVENIENT FOR THE STUPID PEOPLE!!


19 posted on 06/09/2010 6:32:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: chris37
He didn't have that “Board is in Charge” attitude when it came to firing the head of GM...
20 posted on 06/09/2010 6:33:04 PM PDT by az_gila (AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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