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Obama to POLITICO: GOP shares the blame for spill
politico.com ^ | June 12, 2010 | Roger Simon

Posted on 06/11/2010 11:40:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Barack Obama said Friday that some members of Congress should share the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

In an interview with POLITICO, the president said: “I think it’s fair to say, if six months ago, before this spill had happened, I had gone up to Congress and I had said we need to crack down a lot harder on oil companies and we need to spend more money on technology to respond in case of a catastrophic spill, there are folks up there, who will not be named, who would have said this is classic, big-government overregulation and wasteful spending.”

The president also implied that anti-big government types such as Tea Party activists were being hypocritical on the issue.

“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said. “Some of the same people who are saying the president needs to show leadership and solve this problem are some of the same folks who, just a few months ago, were saying this guy is trying to engineer a takeover of our society through the federal government that is going to restrict our freedoms.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dncfailure; obamadisaster; obamafailure; obamasoil
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama is for taking responsibility....unless he’s against it

“And in case anybody wonders — in any of your reporting, in case you were wondering who’s responsible, I take responsibility.” - Barack Obama, 27 May 2010


21 posted on 06/12/2010 12:21:59 AM PDT by jgilbert63
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well there is some good news.

Americans of all stripes don’t like whiny “victim” Presidents.

Carter was the last to try it - that is before Obama...


22 posted on 06/12/2010 12:27:46 AM PDT by DB
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To: MtnMan101

That’s great!


23 posted on 06/12/2010 12:33:15 AM PDT by RepublicanChick
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To: Free ThinkerNY

...and George W Bush is at fault for the flight of Apollo 13.President Obama needs to be locked up in a rubber room!


24 posted on 06/12/2010 12:40:05 AM PDT by screaming eagle2 (bama)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

25 posted on 06/12/2010 12:40:34 AM PDT by Zakeet (The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving America from WTF to SNAFU to FUBAR)
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To: beaversmom

pathetic is precisely the correct response.

I don’t believe it... the man will say anything, ANYTHING. He’s Bart Simpson’s brother from another mother...


26 posted on 06/12/2010 12:41:23 AM PDT by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: GOPyouth

He is on the verge of a mental breakdown.


27 posted on 06/12/2010 12:41:36 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: ScoopAmma

With two of the most cutthroat libs in America as their parents, they don’t have much of a chance of not growing up to be just as screwed up as mom and dad.


28 posted on 06/12/2010 12:42:56 AM PDT by Gator113 (OBAMA IS NOT SUSTAINABLE.. IMPEACH OBAMA NOW..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sorry Ears, this isn’t about “Oil Companies”. It is about one oil company, a major contributor of yours, a known bad actor, that got a pass from your administration. Now America gets to pay for your corruption (once again).


29 posted on 06/12/2010 1:16:23 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Obie Wan Nairobi from the 1/2 dark side. The farce with this one strong, it is...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Some of the same folks who have been hollering and saying ‘do something’ are the same folks who, just two or three months ago, were suggesting that government needs to stop doing so much,” Obama said.

Is the man really this ignorant? That one statement is so convoluted it proves what a deep thinker he’s not.


30 posted on 06/12/2010 1:25:13 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He is edging towards psychotic detachment.


31 posted on 06/12/2010 1:35:14 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Let me be clear. The voluntary pancipation of Cinco de Quatro is mandated in all 57 states.)
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To: nolongerademocrat

He is on the verge of a mental breakdown.

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LOL! I posted 31 just before reading this.

Yes, the emperor is not merely naked, he is beginning to foam at the mouth.


32 posted on 06/12/2010 1:36:58 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Let me be clear. The voluntary pancipation of Cinco de Quatro is mandated in all 57 states.)
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To: AlexW

Hey Hussein Obama, you are not standing on a corner in Chicago, community organizing anymore. You are a pathetic POS
(and that does not refer to President of the United States).


33 posted on 06/12/2010 1:37:19 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Heart of Georgia

Is the man really this ignorant? That one statement is so convoluted it proves what a deep thinker he’s not.

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I frankly think he is on the verge of stupid. He parrots well, but is not an original or creative thinker, nor even a perceptive one.

Every ‘idea’ he extrudes is some recycled kludge from the 1920s left, the 1930s left, the 1950s left, or the 1970s left. Utterly vapid, utterly programmed.


34 posted on 06/12/2010 1:41:02 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Let me be clear. The voluntary pancipation of Cinco de Quatro is mandated in all 57 states.)
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To: Psalm 144
" He is edging towards psychotic detachment. "

Yeah, demonic possession will do that to ya, every time.
35 posted on 06/12/2010 1:42:20 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: MtnMan101

*Captain Kickass*... has been on top of things from DAY ONE.

Honest.

How can you possibly blame a guy like this...?

37 posted on 06/12/2010 2:10:06 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

wow, he’s all wee-weed up. fo’shizzle, Barry. All I can say is , brotha...puhleeze you actin’ like a little b#tch.


38 posted on 06/12/2010 2:30:32 AM PDT by erman (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.D D)
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To: Psalm 144

“He parrots well”

He does. But even if someone else is writing his material (pelosi maybe), if he were a deep thinker, he would know this statement is twisted thinking and would not have said it.

He also comes across as whiny... way un-presidential.


39 posted on 06/12/2010 2:31:47 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Going down!

Zer0 has nothing and is subtracting from that everyday.

Pathetic. No character no leadership.

The profile of an underachiever is one who cannot take
responsibility nor own up to the consequences of their
decisions. Not unlike the chronic alcoholic or skid row bum.

40 posted on 06/12/2010 2:37:58 AM PDT by ChiMark
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