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To: wilco200

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.


10 posted on 06/24/2010 6:32:46 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: marstegreg
Here's an earlier-in-the-day interview with a local TV station, at this link.

Some of what Nungesser said in that interview:

"I asked the governor, let me go out there at night to stay on the dredge. Let 'em come out there and try to take the permit away. Tell 'em the radio isn't working. We'll smash it with a hammer."

Also, in Nungesser's letter to BO, he issued a threat, of sorts:

""If it (dredging) shuts down at 6 o'clock, I'll be on Anderson Cooper at nine; and it's not gonna be pretty."

I watched Nungesser's interview last night when it first aired. It was a beautiful thing to behold.

I am still looking for a good vid of the interview.

16 posted on 06/24/2010 6:58:26 AM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
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To: marstegreg
Carville - "We're dyin' down heah!!"

And Obama does nothing.

27 posted on 06/24/2010 7:16:08 AM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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