Well, as it turns out…
In the nearly eight weeks that the ancient oil has been escaping its subterranean imprisonment, Obama has found….
…time for a couple mini-vacations with golf, a dose of party fundraisers, healthcare town halls, TV interviews, a high school graduation, a festive White House lawn picnic with members of Congress, a Paul McCartney music hoedown, an ABC July 4th TV taping and a session with a key Palestinian leader.
Thursday Obama issued important statements celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau and King Kamehameha Day, and mustn’t forget, Portugal Day.
But Obama hasn’t found a few minutes to chat with Tony Hayward, the talkative CEO of BP, the petroleum protagonist in this environmental drama. Not even on the president’s ubiquitous, magically-secure BlackBerry.
HA! And in the LA Slimes, no less.
That’s going to leave a mark I think.
“And in the LA Slimes, no less.”
There’s even a critical article in Rolling Stone, although they manage to blame George Bush as well. Still, when Rolling Stone turns on him, it’s tough to see how he’s going to survive this unscathed.
“I have not spoken to him directly – and here’s the reason: because my experience is when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me.”
How wonderful. Our first psychic president. He doesn’t need to talk to Hayward cause he already knows what Hayward will say. Must save a lot of time.
Oblameya hasn’t called Hayward because he hasn’t a clue how to talk to a company executive or a CEO.
(Acorn doesn’t give audited financial reports)
If he called Sarah he could get some palm notes for the conversation.
(and put Gibbs on a speaker phone so he can get his story straight.)
Ironic. He wants the government’s big fat nose in private industry when it’s not wanted or needed. But in a national emergency, he’s got other priorities.
Forgive me for this EBD…
I recently saw this 60’s video on another website and I thought that Hopey-Changey land’s love affair with The One needed a theme song, for the socialists to sing, now that America has woken up.
Picture our resident trolls as the dancers if you like….
Dusty Springfield sings Wishin’ & Hopin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Dgw_LSJ5w
Well, as long as he is not dealing with the problem at hand…
“I have not spoken to him directly – and here’s the reason: because my experience is when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me.”
—————————–
I have not spoken to him directly – and here’s the reason: because my inexperience with anything besides serving my own self-interests are non-existent, and besides,I don’t want him seeing what an assinine failure I am as the TOTUS.
There. Fixed that for ya, Obozo.E-mail me so that I can send you my addie for some of that thar stimulii monies.
Another poll at the G&M….if you are interested.
Has Barack Obama’s presidency lived up to your expectations?
Yes, it’s been great 25%
Yes, but I had low expectations 19%
No, it’s been a disaster 18%
No, but expectations were unrealistic 38%
Don’t forget National Gay Pride Week, or month, or whatever.
Everything will be OK for the anointed One. Nancy Palosi says they will continue to blame George Bush for everything. I guess you gotta love the lefties, you can’t use them to plug the dam hole!!!!!
Hey! Come on now! Chairman O should be granted the time and tenure of other Great Chairmen ie – Mao/Fidele/Karl – you know – the great and accomplished Communists of the world. The only trophy they can dispute is for the title of how many of their people they have murdered.
It’s getting obvious to everyone our incompetent dear reader is way out of his league when the teleprompter is switched off. Oil oil spill and splat.
The LA Times for goodness sake, who knew they knew.
Let us see now,
The thing is, the President of the US can’t do a damned thing about the oil coming out of the gulf bottom. He is utterly ill-equipped to take anything like this on. Surprising as it may sound, it is not his job. It is the job of BP to fix what went wrong.
Agree that this is not necessarily time to use Reagan’s quote, though it is appropriate, “Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” And current president is rearranging them without even knowing what he is doing.
The current president appointed two pointy heads from the academia to solve an engineering problem. They could no doubt intellectualize about Eyjafjalla for a number of years, possibly to their retirement, thought they can not solve a real life engineering dilemma.
The government seems to be the problem right now, not because of doing nothing; it is because they are seemingly doing everything to screw thing up as if by design. To be sure BP is giving them a helping hand. The BP CEO is well versed in rhetoric, though, not so much in listening to an advice, after all he is the most wise, much like POTUS (using the term loosely here)
If you watched Hannity for past few days, he seem to collect people that know, at least it appears that they know of how to at least stop the spread of oil.
Every other year, maybe now every year, there is an oil show in Calgary, used to attend it regularly some 10 years ago and before. There were all kind of contraptions to tend the very event that has taken place in the Gulf of Mexico and as many realize Calgary is nowhere near big water (some, in Ontario and the land of lotus eaters are surprised). One wanders what happened to the technology.
Anyway the job of fixing the problem is for oil companies to solve, the government should only enable them to go for it, not to hinder at every opportunity.
Instead of learning his lesson and scaling back his ambitions as Bill Clinton did after repeated electoral rebukes, our current president seems merely to have redoubled his efforts to speak the problem away. After all, that is what worked best in his previous highest “occupation,” candidate for president.
Unlike before, however, giving a speech declaiming an oil spill can’t make it disappear à la Jeremiah Wright. That’s a problem, especially since that spill has happened within federal waters.
More from Matthew Sheffield
•Obama, Dems can’t put blame genie back in the bottle
•Is Mitch Daniels feeling his presidential moment?
•Bankrupting America? New video shows how it’s being done
•Next up for Dems: Health care fatigue
•Massachusetts and the bigger picture
Topics
Barack Obama , BP , democrats , george w. bush , presidency , republicans
Follow The Examiner
Friday night news dump: White House says 51 percent of company health plans won’t meet Obamacare guidelines
At Investor’s Business Daily, Sean Higgins and David Hogberg have a doozy of a story: Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish…
—Mark Hemingway
Meet the Neo-Marxist behind Obama FTC’s campaign for ‘reinventing journalism”
What is the most spectacularly mis-named far left activist group in America? Hands down winner is Free Press, the organizational vehicle for the Neo-Marxist American college…
—Mark Tapscott
UPDATE: AmeriCorps scandal figure un-invited from AmeriCorps conference
On Thursday I reported that Kevin Johnson, former NBA star, mayor of Sacramento, California, and friend and political ally of Barack and Michelle Obama, was scheduled to speak…
—Byron York
Maybe Sen. Lindsey Graham is confused, instead of just dense
Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, got lots of well-deserved grief during the 2004 presidential race for saying he actually voted for the War in Iraq before he voted against it. But Sen….
—Mark Tapscott
More Beltway Confidential posts…
Today’s Featured Writers
Michelle Malkin
Summer of corruption plot thickens
Timothy P. Carney
EPA regulation of emissions = profit for energy companies
Linda Chavez
Labor bosses have eggs on their faces
Byron York
UPDATE: AmeriCorps scandal figure un-invited from AmeriCorps conference
David Limbaugh
Another round of Obamacare propaganda
Harry Jaffe
Politicians promise to open juvenile crime records
School administrators, an education problem that remains ignored
A lead story in the New York Times “Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper with Test Scores” quotes two well-known Atlanta officials for their take on high-stakes…
—Mary Helen Ramming
W. is on Facebook?
“Thanks for tuning in for my Inaugural Address … on Facebook.” With a hint of a grin and a familiar twinkle in his eye, former President George W. Bush greeted guests…
—Lynn Mitchell
America’s nuclear future must involve the public
Things have not looked so good for nuclear power since the dawn of the Atomic Age. The public is more accepting of the potential role of nuclear power than at any time since the…
—Iain Murray
More Examiner Opinion Zone posts…
Remaining Big 12 schools to the Big East gaining momentum
Billions for ‘green jobs,’ whatever they are
Obama, Dems can’t put blame genie back in the bottle
Glenn Reynolds: Higher education’s bubble is about to burst
Obama falls headfirst into the hypocrisy trap
Noemie Emery: Democrats suffering from ‘Messiah Fatigue’
Sen. Tom Coburn: Obamacare PR campaign anchored in spin, not reality
Landon School scrambles to contain ‘slampigs’ scandal
85 percent of Americans say freedom of the press more important than saving struggling newspapers; No comment from FTC
Senate surrenders to the EPA
Obama, as noted, does not live in ‘reality’; he lives in a virtual world where he alone writes its content. He retreats to words, for in his world, words-make-reality.
“Instead of learning his lesson and scaling back his ambitions as Bill Clinton did after repeated electoral rebukes, our current president seems merely to have redoubled his efforts to speak the problem away. After all, that is what worked best in his previous highest “occupation,” candidate for president”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-dems-cant-put-blame-genie-back-in-the-bottle-96127809.html#ixzz0qbhmcrgz
That’s the strangest reason not to talk to a CEO. Notice that Obama implies that he, Obama, is of such a magnificence that a CEO of an international company will be too awestruck and even, afraid, to speak ‘man-to-man’ and will instead, grovel and speak only as a sycophant. Heh – that’s the only type of person Obama can have around him.
Is the real reason that Obama can’t show his ignorance? That he doesn’t know enough to question him?
Obama cannot interact with the real world directly. People don’t understand how psychologically damaged he is – and are expecting him to live in the real world and, when ‘bad things happen’..to take charge.
He can’t because his world must always be virtual, a realm where he is God and controls everything. He can’t handle situations caused by others or by nature because that means that HE is not in control.
Compare Bobby Jindal and how he is actively involved in the clean-up..while Obama parties, plays golf and issues words, words, words about the spill, blames others, delegates everything..and gets upset when criticized.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-dems-cant-put-blame-genie-back-in-the-bottle-96127809.html#ixzz0qbhEZKlO
whew -sorry about the messed up cut-and paste. I was referring only to Obama.
Like I said in an earlier thread, “Heck of a job, Baracky.”
He stood in the rain on the beach without an umbrella – then complained about it.
Doesn’t he even have the sense to use an umbrella on a rainy beach? It’s not like he was doing anything anyway, except picking up little bits of oil balls and rubbing them between his fingers. Did he get some sort or honorary chemical engineering degree at Harvard also? The real scientists use a lab and equipment. Most of them also have the sense to use an umbrella standing on a rainy beach.
Why won’t he just come out of the closet and be proud of his gayness? More people would understand his irrationality better; and probably give him a freer pass than he already has.
Barry has a massive inferiority complex regarding everything British and knows the Brits are masters at slyly enjoying themselves while he fumes and wonders why he is always the cartoon coyote when they get face to face.
Like most of the American public, I see increasing incidents like this as moments to ask exactly who is in charge.
The oil spill not the prez’ fault, hey. Unlike those pesky man-made hurricanes.
Come now. He hasn’t changed colour and he hasn’t left the Democratic party, so all these people will continue to support him. They’re mouthing these “criticisms” because they know that the sane people around them can see perfectly clearly that Obama is incompetent, and they don’t want to lose all credibility with them. Though I myself think they’ve left that a bit late.