Posted on 06/13/2010 3:10:46 PM PDT by kristinn
Two stories about President Obama this weekend pushed my growing unease with his recent moves into full-blown anxiety. They come on the heels of Tim Dickinson's devastating Rolling Stone piece laying out concrete problems with Obama's response to the BP oil spill – from delays in cleaning up the Minerals Management Service, distrusting scientists who correctly reported the spill was much bigger than BP said, waiting more than a week to declare the crisis "an Oil Spill of National Significance," which corralled new services. Maybe the most damning, to me, section of Dickinson's piece comes when he quotes the president proudly announcing he'd reversed his stand against offshore oil drilling "It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills," the president said. "They are technologically very advanced." Dickenson notes: "Eighteen days later, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Deepwater Horizon rig went off like a bomb."
Of the weekend's worrisome Obama stories, the first was Politico's Roger Simon's interview with Obama, published in full today, in which his self-defense about how he's handled the BP oil disaster sounded whiny and juvenile, and raised big questions about whether he's capable of fighting the battles he needs to enter and win to move the country forward. The other was Matt Bai's "President in Chief?" in the New York Times Magazine, which showed that Obama and his team seem more focused on protecting the "brand" that they believe galvanized millions of new voters, young voters and independents in 2008, to potentially realign American politics, than with helping Democrats hold the House and Senate.
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I don't know where to start with that cavalcade of complaint. First, it sounds like the president has been spooked by the Tea Partiers and their shrill, silly claims he's a socialist. I'm alarmed that he seems to have internalized their crazy charges that he's been over-zealously expanding government. And is he really claiming that he would have loved to crack down on the oil companies with tougher regulations before the explosion, but he didn't, because he was afraid of what his opponents would say? I honestly don't believe that's true, and I don't know what's worse, that he's dissembling here, or that the excuse he's dissembling with is so lame.
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Between the BP oil disaster and the near-collapse of the world economy thanks to the finance industry – both have in common a corporate arrogance that big risks to make big money were worth taking, no matter the impact on the rest of us – Obama has the perfect context for laying out why government matters, and why Democrats run the government best. Instead he's carping about "folks up there" in Washington and complaining that if he'd tried to regulate the oil industry before the spill, people would have said bad things about him. Grow up, Mr. President.
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Well, congrats. Good to know!
I don’t remember the Lenin/Hitler birthday dates well. They’re not on my card list.
But you will be, mom4...
My best friends B-day is Dec. 25th....the running joke between us is that while she shares a b-day with Jesus, I share a b-day with Hitler.....
I definitely think there was foul play - the timing alone is enough to guarantee that people would become suspicious and start looking into it, no matter what Obama says. I’m looking into other stuff at the same time and I’m finding really weird and unexpected connections.
You know Obama just basically shut down NASA (conveniently Houston is also on the Gulf shore). I came across these videos and I’ve just started watching them; I’m maybe 6 or 7 minutes into them. I paused it just long enough to google a family member that he mentioned. So far, that checks out. Some of the Project names he has given are also familiar to me. I think that Project Camelot is Richard Hoagland’s thing and I’m familiar with his work too.
This guy is talking about the Gulf of Aden - see what you think: (he identifies himself as a veteran)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QML3xDbyMEY&feature=related
okay, the magnetic anomalies in the Gulf of Aden are apparently real:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v298/n5870/abs/298149a0.html
So far I’ve checked him on three things that I didn’t already know and he’s telling the truth (so far).
“... environmental terrorists ...”
If I wrote suspense, that would be a great hook for a story
Tee Hee
Yep. Lenin’s B-day, not Hitler’s.
Edit, Earth day is on the 22nd. The 20th, is indeed Hitler’s birthday. Lenin’s birthday is on the 22nd.
This guy was talking about an upcoming ‘false-flag’ attack against the U.S. in February. He also talked about magnetic activity in the Gulf of Aden. Interesting stuff really.
Yeah the claims he’s a socialist who is over zealously expanding government are crazy talk! Utter nonsense.
On what planet do these idiots live?
What your link describes is mind-boggling.
It will kill the Gulf.
Please consider posting it as a separate post.
...not to mention “Beyond Petroleum” BP, which has put millions of dollars behind its campaign to get cap-n-trade passed.
I stumbled onto “The McGlaughlin Group” and saw Eleanor Clift pretty much deranged about BP. Then it struck me. The left is not mad at BP because the leak is going to wreck the coastline, they are mad at BP because the leak is going to wreck the President.
"Principled?" So long as she gets what she wants, maybe.
But, like the rest of the left's heavy thinkers, Walsh refuses to come to grips with the real problem: They elected an incompetent.
A "transcendent" incompetent, perhaps. But incompetent, nonetheless.
Now you’ve got me thinking about Rick Lazio in NY and Crist in Florida...holey moley!!!
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