Posted on 06/16/2010 12:55:53 AM PDT by tlb
Obama could have called for a “moon shot” tonight to make a transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy, and he failed to do that. He made his first-ever speech in the Oval Office, and he had all three networks at the 8 p.m. slot, and he didn’t make good use of it.
The speech was flat and uninspiring. He recited a litany of the things the administration has done to try to bring the spill under control, but it was a rehash of things the public has already heard. Yes, he’s going to make BP pay. That’s good — as far as it goes. But he didn’t use the moment to assert a resolute sense of command.
Nor did he use it to call on Americans to make the sacrifices that will be necessary to make the transition from petroleum to cleaner fuels. Yes, he said a little about it. But he didn’t even endorse the energy bill currently languishing in the Senate.
The president has wasted a crisis.
Tucker is as vain as obamination. It must have almost killed her that he didn’t follow HER game plan now that she’s a big DC insider.
....and what 'cleaner fuels' would those be? Pixie dust? There is no alternative to petroleum, only wishful thinking at this point.
but this is a complaint from someone who wants him to do MORE
-—Booh freakin Hoo. Who's playing tonight at the White House Wednesday concert series bye the way?
Wow! I can’t believe Cynthia Tucker dissin’ Ø I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read it. She is one of the BIGGEST Ø apologists.
Why sacrifice anything?
Remove the capital gains tax
Swat the gadfly environmental lawyers
Build 50 new nuclear plants
Transition to electric cars for personal transportation
Use oil resources for trains, planes, ships and trucking
Guess I’ll drag my perpetual motion machine out of the closet, dust it off and see if I can get a billion dollar grant.
Just wave the wand and make it so...
$$$$$
Since leftists believe in magical thinking, they are constantly angry when their wishes do not come true.
Then they look around for who to blame for their anger and focus on conservatives - (who happen to be realistic rational thinkers).
That is what happens when you only have ideals/philosophy and no real ideas about anything. He doesn’t know a great deal of take pride in America thus he can’t solve any sort of crisis. He is a community organizer which essentially mean he can whip up trouble but the true test of a leader is being able to solve problems. I truly felt more sympathy for the gulf coast last night than since this whole thing began. I thought “you guys are really out there alone”. I felt bad for the gulf when this happened but got a “truly sick” feeling during the speech last night.
I heard a lot of narcissistic magical thinking expressed in Obama’s speech.
I was struck that O doesn’t know any “heavyweights” to call upon so he appoints a commission. GWB had a whole rolodex of people who are giants in doing things. Obama who has done nothing in his life, who has been coddled and protected and allowed not to be a real man knows no real men. He knows hacks and marxists but nobody with the stature to go down to the Gulf, take over and get things done.
All he can do is call on rhetoric and trial lawyers and ocmmissions. He is a light weight.
This is the influence of Islamic upbringing layered with Marxist fine tuning.
The result is what you see.
Anti-American in every aspect, doesn’t care for a “United States”.
America just cannot keep pretending he was ever eligible to be POTUS.
He failed to qualify but millions thought if they looked the other way and kept silent nobody would notice, we would get used to it, we were making history.
Yes, Obama has definitely made history.
FReeper Pre-Quiz [time limit 60 seconds]
Which is LEAST likely (pick one):
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1. Pres_ _ent Obama was the biggest recipient of BP cash
2. British Petroleum (BP) pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
3. Pres_ _ent Obama's White House chief is tied to a BP adviser
4. Pres_ _ent Obama's White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is connected to BP
5. Pres_ _ent Obama shrewdly made money in the dispersements.
6. The dispersants contain PCB made by NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
7. BP's Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world
8. Pres_ _ent Obama exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
9. Pres_ _ent Obama did this despite BP's long record of legal, ethical violations
10. Pres_ _ent Obama's Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon
11. Pres_ _ent Obama exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study
12. Pres_ _ent Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement
13. Pres_ _ent Obama continued this despite that "Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig
14. Pres_ _ent Obama allowed drilling 'without required permits' (also Drilling Without Needed Permits)
15. Pres_ _ent Obama will willingly release his birth certificate, like every other American citizen.
Obama dissed for not being cruel and tyrannical enough...
Cynthia Tucker makes Alvin Greene look like a genius.
He has no intention of ever leaning right except a few right fakes to keep the idiot suburbanites on board. Mostly though he can count on the Media to bash republicans to keep those idiots lined up. He needs to destroy the economy and middle class before they wake up and still have enough votes left. I personally think he'll win that race easily.
And these same disillusioned leftists hated President Bush because, in their magical world, he also had the power to ‘do’ whatever he wanted to do. They never acknowledged that W respected the law, our Constitution, and the limits of his executive authority.
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