Posted on 06/16/2010 9:40:05 AM PDT by BigEdLB
For all his reputation as the nation's Top Talker, Barack Obama took his sweet time giving a maiden Oval Office address to the country. And waiting another nearly 60 days to speak nationally about the oil spill that’s become the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history.
Obama, the first modern president to pass his first full year in office without addressing the country from his historic desk, had the setting right. Just back from a day-and-a-half on the gulf coast listening, reassuring, talking tourism, eating seafood. He wore the proper suit, had the requisite flags and family photos in the background.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
The reason he never addressed the Nation from the Oval office before yesterday is because he couldn’t find it.
This is a devastating, bookmark-worthy, analysis.
LA Times should donate all future issues to help soak up the oil. For once, do the right thing.
Wow. This guy really sticks it to the One from every direction.
I love that photo of Charlie Crist checking the beach for oil!
And I don’t know where to start on quoting a nugget from this. It’s full of nuggets. How about this?
Following the advice of his chief of staff, Rahm “I Got a Rent-Free Apartment from a BP Adviser” Emanuel, Obama is determined to leave no crisis unused. When he got into the decades-long fossil fuel addiction rehab stuff, his eyes shone. His delivery punched up.
Absolutely spot-on article. And from the LATimes. Empty rhetoric, empty suit, and the whole world is watching.
If you listen to him off TOTUS, he is disjointed in his speech giving. He is a good reader, not a good speech giver. Who ever writes the crap isn’t much better.
The LA Times can forget about that newspaper bailout. LOL
This piece is fantastic! And deserves to be read in its entirety
And since everyone, everywhere now knows this for certain, we have much more in the way of disaster -- "man-made disaster" -- to look forward to in the near term as our enemies push the ball down the field.
Indeed, it is.
Obama lost half the left by his failure to provide "bold, decisive action". By which they mean he didn't seize BP and shut down the entire oil industry.
And he lost the other half of the left -- the half including the LA Times and this author -- because he has amply demonstrated that, at bottom, he's incompetent.
Talk about EPIC FAIL...
I don’t think you can improve on that caption. Priceless.
Yah, that piece is awesome. Great picture, great one liners, and the analysis is hilarious and spot-on.
What killed me was the “martial language” he used, “assault, war, fight”, he hasn’t used ANY such language when discussing the war in Afghanistan! When discussing ACTUAL war, he uses words like “strategy, surge”.
What a freakin’ sissy-assed lib’!
He talks like that because he doesn’t know what else to do. He’s just a Chicago thug that couldn’t run a country on a bet without dictating. This guy needs to be removed from office before he completely ruins this country. It will be hard enough to pull it back together when he’s gone but the American people can do it if given half the chance. States need to bring back States Rights and reverse everything that violates the countries Constitution.
“... we have much more in the way of disaster — “man-made disaster” — to look forward to ...”
Absolutely right. The terrorists are rubbing their hands together.
He has been too busy addressing his other nations (e.g. Egypt, Iran, etc)
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