Just a quick blog post on President Obama's
press conference today. As
Politico headlines he actually said:
“Those who think that we were either slow in our responses or lacked urgency don’t know the facts. This has been our highest priority since this crisis occurred,” Obama said during a rare news conference in the White House East Room. “We understood from day one the potential enormity of this crisis and acted accordingly.”
I'm a supporter of the President. But his I'm smarter than you act is wearing thin on me. It was his Chief of Staff
Rahm Emmanuel saying that those progressives who don't sit idly and go after Blanche Lincoln type Democrats were "fucking stupid". There are other examples but I'm too lazy to go google things for you, my dear reader.
Yes, the President is privy to information that we don't. That doesn't make him our intellectual superior or the average citizen an idiot. It makes him able to make judgements and come to a conclusion better than we can. But the country, already frustrated with the federal governments' slow response and terrible lack of following through on existing laws, doesn't need to be looked down on by our leader. It needs an efficient and good Commander in Chief who doesn't allow for hundreds of gallons of oil to spill and is to worried about not stepping on the neck of British Petroleum
. Who cares about them? The damage they've caused has already altered our environment for decades.
Is anyone surprised by
this?
A Gallup Poll released Thursday found that 53 percent of Americans rate Obama’s performance on the oil spill as “poor” or “very poor.” The federal government came out worse at 60 percent. And worse still was BP, at 73 percent “poor” or “very poor.”
As that article goes on to say:
No less a Democratic ally than James Carville, now living in his native Louisiana, bashed Obama Wednesday for what he called the “political stupidity” of his response to the Gulf crisis. “I have no idea of why their attitude was so hands off here,” Mr. Carville said Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
I'd say Carville
knows a thing or two and isn't "stupid." What's more, he has nothing to gain by attacking or defending this administration.
Sometimes Mr. President, the public can see the Emperor's robes. We know when a mistake has been made, and this time it's your fault.
3 comments:
I am frustrated too. But, lets all face it. The federal government has zero capacity to actually stop the leak. The oil companies do.
What our government does have is the capacity to prepare for the oil hitting land. And only a very little bit has started to arrive on 3 barrier islands in Louisiana. So, while I am frustrated just like everyone, what else the heck can our government do? The leak is 100 miles off shore and about a mile under water.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/22mile-oil-plume-under-gu_n_593658.html
Hardly just one island
Recently I happen to fumble across your pathetic blog. After carefully reviewing this blog Blue it has come to my attention that you are a pathetic, hopeless and a coward. Not only do you copy other people's writings, but you so stupidly attack people and hide behind this lame blog. Are you still upset becuase you cannot become a politician, is your criminal background getting in the way. Or is it that you are such a coward that you cannot tell people in their face what you think.
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