I wish, but the General probably has more class than that.
I was waiting for this to be posted. I saw Nungesser last night, I hope this thing goes viral. Finally Nungesser isn’t carrying Obama’s oily water anymore. Being stabbed in the back repeatedly, will do that.!
The military is there.
The Gulf is there.
Some TV comedians are there.
The rest of the folks are coming down that road as well.
To judge by my chance encounter with a couple of marines in transit this past spring, they sure are. It was sometime after 11 PM that a friend and I repaired to the "courtyard" at our Marriott to enjoy our cigars. After a while two young guys in an interior first floor room came out and sort of asked us "what was going on out here." One of them, or maybe both of them, came out with glass quart bottles of beer. They let it be know that they were on their way to redeployment, in Afghanistan I think. My friend is ex-Navy, and it didn't take long for the conversation to become friendly. I think I must have asked them what they thought about their Commander in-chief. Well they just launched, especially the one who had obviously consumed more than his daily ration of beer. Sometimes it wasn't pretty. One of those quart bottles found its way to the cement. And the marine who was still in control of his beer bottle sometimes tried to get his buddy to calm down. We wound up passing around my cigar, as I imagine hippies might do with a joint. And no one spoke an encouraging word about the Commander in-chief.
ML/NJ
It’s a huge file but here is a link to AC360 podcasts including last nights.
http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/ac360/rss.xml
This is all I could find (not sure if it is from the same interview)
President Obama: The BP oil spill has hardened negative perceptions of President Obama’s leadership style, playing into the flipside of “No Drama Obama” — namely that the president is so analytical as to seem aloof. It has highlighted questions raised during the campaign about his readiness to take the “3 a.m. call” and provided evidence of why we’ve only elected three people without executive experience to the presidency over the past century: Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy and Obama. Comparisons to President Carter are overdone — a reflexive attack by the right against any Democratic president. But the tick-tock of each day that passes has been compared to the Iranian hostage crisis in that they seem to symbolize an impotence of government.
When the president of Plaquemines Parish, Billy Nungesser, told a Senate subcommittee, “I still don’t know who’s in charge. ... Is it BP? Is it the Coast Guard? ... I have spent more time fighting the officials of BP and the Coast Guard than fighting the oil.” It was a scathing condemnation of a lack of leadership. And when Nungesser said he wanted someone “with the guts and the will to make decisions” — well, that’s what we elect presidents for. There is still time to turn this around — the $20 billion escrow account was a step in the right direction — but for the Obama administration, it’s later than they think.
It’s not just the people in the Gulf that see O for what he is....an utter incompetent failure.
It’s the entire thinking world, and that includes his fellow muslims.
Fascinating interview. It was interesting to see Cooper try to turn the conversation back to BP instead.
Some background information might be appreciated..
Mike Church was playing it this morning. He was great.
“It could, would, should... It could rain cats and dogs tonite!!!!” Now that is good stuff there no matter who you are!
What is a Nungesser?
Interesting Louisiana facts:
Total number of barrels of oil produced by LA in 2009: 48,164,979. Not including this new and very significant find.
Royalties charged to oil companies: somewhere between 12.5 and 16.7 percent.
Current price of a barrel of oil: $77.63
Doing the math, based on the current price of oil total oil royalties are worth between $467 million and $624 million per year. Again, not including this new and very significant find.
State budget for Louisiana: $28.986 billion
Total amount of Federal income taxes paid by Louisiana: $33.676 billion.
The Port of New Orleans is the only deepwater port in the United States served by six class one railroads. By volume, it’s the 3rd busiest port in the world.
I never watch CNN and am only vaguely aware of Anderson Cooper. He had what should be every reporter’s dream - an explosive interview with someone publicly and effectively criticizing the President. He looked like he needed to go to the little boy’s room he was so uncomfortable. Does he carry Obama’s water like his network or what? I’ve never watched him.
Second time I’ve seen/heard Billy - thoroughly enjoy that guy. Says it like it is and damn the personal consequences.
Who is “Nungesser” and why are you watching Anderson Cooper?
It’s interesting to see people post threads without key information.
Who? What?
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NUNGESSER: It could, just like the -- just like we have been hearing, could, would, should have, maybe. Those are not comments made when you go to war: It could.
You know what? It could rain cats and dogs tonight. Come on, guys. We're at war here. It could. We're going to replace the sand.
Let me tell you something, Anderson. I thought about this a little while ago when you talked about the general being replaced. And I don't agree with anybody speaking out that's in the armed forces against our leader and our chief.
But I think it's time for the president to take a step back. He has got a bigger problem. Just like the problems we have with the interior secretary, with Thad Allen, with everybody with the administration. The only way anything ever got done was the president coming down here himself.
Well, the people in the military have those inner thoughts about his administration, the same thoughts all of Louisiana has. He has got a bigger problem than a loose-lipped general. He better take a soul-search and look at the people surrounding him, because the job ain't getting done here and it obviously ain't getting done over there.
And we got a serious problem in this country, and the president of the United States better address it, because it's not just somebody like me or him or anybody sounding off at the mouth. It's what we truly feel, that we are getting the runaround.
The -- the -- we're not getting the truth half the time, and nobody has the sense of urgency to do anything, whether it be here or obviously overseas. And I'm sure whoever he replaced him with may not say that, but if that -- that hero is thinking that, I guarantee you it's widespread in the military.
(CROSSTALK)
NUNGESSER: So, the president needs to do a little soul- searching. I don't want to tell him how to do his job, but he needs to take a step back and say, I have got some problems up here in Washington, and I better address them, and quit letting bureaucrats stand in the way of defending this country and protecting our wetlands.
I'm fed up with it.
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This is the VERY first I’ve heard of ANYONE saying, “Ya know, it looks like the MILITARY DOESN’T THINK THE WHITE HOUSE CARES ABOUT THEIR VICTORY.”
Because you damn well know if this were President Bush, THAT WOULD BE THE STORY.
It’s about time he and Jindal and the people on the Gulf woke up. They need to rise up and march on Washington — and bring some of that oil with them to paint the town.
Thanks for posting!!! Wow. This guy was trying to be nice about it too. He just got sick of being lied to (who isn’t). The most amusing thing to me was the silence of Cooper and the inability to defend Obama. He barely even tried but when he did try he was quickly corrected. What IS evident through all this mess is that the President cares most about himself above all else.