King Obama and BP

[ISASO]

Anyone see where King Obama stated that if BP were a U.S. company that he would fire their CEO?

Not defending BP at all, but where in the Constitution is the power to fire an employee of a private business bestowed upon the President? Who would he put in the CEO slot on the org chart, Hugo Chavez? He has experience in the oil industry, right? Maybe he would anoint himself as the CEO of BP. He is King of America after all, and is fully confident he should be King of Planet Earth.

Further, he's looking for an "a$$ to kick". Holding meeting after meeting and talking, talking, talking.

He said that he is responsible for the situation. Will he kick his own a$$ for allowing the oil to foul every beach on the Gulf? Why isn't he helping solve the problem instead of talking about it and posturing to bend the curve on his poll numbers?

You can only look busy for so long and then you actually have to do something. When will that happen?

[SubGod22]

Talking and posturing are about all he knows how to do.

[WuDrWu]

No, no......remember, this guy's IQ is "off the charts". THE smartest President in the history of the country.


Never mind that he never released his grades and his undergrad work was FAR less than stellar (perhaps the heroin had some effect) although we'll never know for sure because he refuses to say and why would he?

Idiots like Michael Beschloss proclaim him to be a genius, so why clutter up the beliefs with any facts?

You don't hear much about President Bush's 128-130 IQ, a number that would put him in the top 2% of intelligence in the country, much smarter than most college professors, for example.

[Maggie]

Everyone on the Left is all in a tizzy because this disaster effectively and vividly illustrates there are limits to what government can do - even while they are in charge. This absolute truth runs counter to the Left’s world view.

So there has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that are in large part the proper domain of local and state governments.

After Katrina - in which the mess was attributed to Bush rather than to the mayor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, the miscalculations of generations of hydraulic engineers, and local communities’ lack of initiative - we were indoctrinated into the notion that “he,” the president, either fixes things or pays. The media, hurting after the 2004 election, either figured that a Democrat would not be president for a long time, or that nothing like Katrina would happen again, or that they, without much shame, could simply rewrite the rules of attributing culpability.

But Obama’s flight to “They did it” has been hard. Obama got more Wall Street and corporate money than did his Republican opponent; those contributors can’t be cast in the role of “they.” And “they” can’t be Bush; after 16 months, that argument has become shrill and monotonous. If Obama wants to philosophize, he will run up against this basic dilemma: Drilling at these depths is risky, but to transition to the next generation of new fuels without going broke, we must exploit what we have; oil drilling has risks and costs, just as do coal, nuclear, wind, gas, and solar power.

So if you can’t blame Bush or the big money and you can’t explain the disaster, you are left with the “I’m Obama, after all” voting-present strategy/politicization of the mess, which explains the deer-in-the-headlights reaction we have witnessed and the preoccupation with trying to appear assertive, angry, engaged, concerned, etc. – c.f. “Plug the !*#% hole”, a premature criminal investigation, and the looking for someones “a@$ to kick”.

[WuDrWu]

Re: King Obama and BP

Anyone see where King Obama stated that if BP were a U.S. company that he would fire their CEO?

In fairness ISASO, he said if the CEO worked for him he'd fire him. Not if BP was an American company.

I still understand your point. If the President had his way, there would be no BP, EXXon or any other oil company because the government would own the oil.

Of course, since Obama has NEVER worked in the private sector and never will, he wouldn't have the first clue as to how to run a company. He is however an expert on how to destroy a country.

[WuDrWu]

Everyone on the Left is all in a tizzy because this disaster effectively and vividly illustrates there are limits to what government can do - even while they are in charge. This absolute truth runs counter to the Left’s world view.

So there has been a lot of noise about the oil plume and the proper responsibility of government, but the real lesson is that, during Bush’s two terms, the media began to hold presidents culpable for many things that used to be attributed to tragedy, and also for things that are in large part the proper domain of local and state governments.

After Katrina - in which the mess was attributed to Bush rather than to the mayor of New Orleans, the governor of Louisiana, the miscalculations of generations of hydraulic engineers, and local communities’ lack of initiative - we were indoctrinated into the notion that “he,” the president, either fixes things or pays. The media, hurting after the 2004 election, either figured that a Democrat would not be president for a long time, or that nothing like Katrina would happen again, or that they, without much shame, could simply rewrite the rules of attributing culpability.

But Obama’s flight to “They did it” has been hard. Obama got more Wall Street and corporate money than did his Republican opponent; those contributors can’t be cast in the role of “they.” And “they” can’t be Bush; after 16 months, that argument has become shrill and monotonous. If Obama wants to philosophize, he will run up against this basic dilemma: Drilling at these depths is risky, but to transition to the next generation of new fuels without going broke, we must exploit what we have; oil drilling has risks and costs, just as do coal, nuclear, wind, gas, and solar power.

So if you can’t blame Bush or the big money and you can’t explain the disaster, you are left with the “I’m Obama, after all” voting-present strategy/politicization of the mess, which explains the deer-in-the-headlights reaction we have witnessed and the preoccupation with trying to appear assertive, angry, engaged, concerned, etc. – c.f. “Plug the !*#% hole”, a premature criminal investigation, and the looking for someone “a@$ to kick”.

Maggie, seriously, you need to write books. Not a book, but books, plural.

Every time you put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, everyone that reads it becomes more intelligent.