Posted on 06/15/2010 3:29:25 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama doesn't like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor's standing. He'd prefer that the American people be reminded of something else -- something that rallied people around their president.
And so he told Politico over the weekend that the oil spill has "echoes of 9/11."
Americans thought differently about "our vulnerabilities" after the events of 9/11, Obama said, and the oil spill is "going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come."
This is, not to put too fine a point on it, one of the most bizarre things ever said by any president.
It is worth considering the meaning of this profoundly wrongheaded analogy tonight when the president delivers his first Oval Office address -- his latest attempt to minimize the political damage the oil spill is wreaking on his reputation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Only a slimeball, satan worshiping muzzie BASTARD would try to paint 9/11 like this oil spill... FUFUFUFUFUFUbo!
LLS
Zer0 needs a bunch of Truthers to claim he caused it himself on purpose.
Great comments following that column.
Obama: the oil spill is “going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.”
Uh, No.
It is going to shape how we think about the piss-poor job he doing.
Good analogy!
He is just plain stupid or insensitive at best. Does he even remember 9/11? To make this comparison is heartless to the surviving family members of that day. Top this comment with the fact that they will build a mosque and these people have got to just be pulling their hair out. Unlike THAT day, my children aren’t sleeping with me each night and asking “will they come and kill us?” Just me
I like how you think.
Something like Katrina and Carter’s hostage taking!!!
“BPs oil rig failure was an ACCIDENT!”
How can we know that for sure???
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/7523004/
If a Muslim hijacked an aircraft carrier and crashed it into the rig, killing everyone and causing this mess, then yeah, I can see the comparison.
Dolt.
Speculative, but interesting.
Might explain the *media black-out” and failure to send foreign ships into the GOM to assist in clean-up.
Might also explain the weird incompetence of BP to solve an engineering problem.
Don’t know - over my pay-grade.
Thx for the link.
What do the oil spill and 911 have in common?
They are both Bush’s fault.
< / Sarcasm off>
One of the first government’s responses was to send out Swat teams to other rigs, hmmmm???
http://www.infowars.com/obama-sends-swat-teams-to-gulf-oil-rigs/
Even that's an understatement. Nov. 2012 can't come soon enough. God help us in the meantime.
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