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Open thread: Obama’s Oval Office Oration on Oil
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Pat Austin 7:00 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Golly, I was wondering where you were!
Jill 7:01 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I was late to my own wedding. But so was my husband.
Pat Austin 7:02 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
First impression? He looks like a kid at his Daddy’s desk.
Jill 7:03 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
President Urkel.
archer52 7:37 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Obama is going to kill off the industry and try to make BP pay for the moratorium he put on the area. BTW- O’Reilly called his new energy desire-“dumb.”
Jill 7:42 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Dumb is right. And don’t forget to inflate those tires!
archer52 7:50 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I like Stossel. He’s making good sense. Best move he ever made was to come over to FOX.
backyardconservative 7:02 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Hand gestures look lame-o
backyardconservative 7:03 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Obviously needs better teleprompter cues on The Hand
Pat Austin 7:04 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Agreed – it’s distracting. “Unlike a single event, or a hurricane”? But, but, I thought this was like 9/11!
Chris Wysocki 7:03 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Leading scientists like James Cameron?
Jill 7:04 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“make bp pay”
Quite Rightly 7:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
It’s our “battle plan.”
Pat Austin 7:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He’s “authorized” the deployment of 17,000 National Guard workers but a very small number of that is actually deployed.
archer52 7:48 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
That is what I meant by him twisting facts. Did he mention the Jones act?
Jill 7:50 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
nope
archer52 7:52 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Of course not. Jeez. He cannot be taken seriously
Quite Rightly 7:03 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Eyes glued to teleprompter.
backyardconservative 7:04 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He’s got a “battle plan”
Jill 7:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Lots of war metaphors
backyardconservative 7:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
It sounds weak, coming from him on this
Jill 7:06 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Authorizing booms after Jindal went ahead with them?
backyardconservative 7:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I guess he’s being “assertive” after the fact.
I’m glad Jindal is getting cover anyway
Chris Wysocki 7:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
We will fight this spill with every golf club in our bag!
backyardconservative 7:06 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
:)
Jill 7:06 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
lolz
Pat Austin 7:06 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
LOL!!!!
Quite Rightly 7:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Got that right.
RightKlik 7:06 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Speed? What speed?
Yukio Ngaby 7:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Leading academics are on the case!
That’s supposed to make us feel better?
backyardconservative 7:08 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yeah. And an “independent third party”
I somehow think he’s not talking about the TEA Party
Pat Austin 7:08 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Hey Yukio!
Yukio Nagby 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Hey Pat!
Jill 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He’s literally pointing his finger.
RightKlik 7:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“That living is now in jeopardy”
…particularly because of Obama’s moritorium
Quite Rightly 7:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“I refuse. . . . I inform. . . “
Chris Wysocki 7:08 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
How can the govt order a private company to set up a fund? Is this a dictatorship?
Pat Austin 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
BP will pay…
rubyslipperblog 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Didn’t you get the memo?
backyardconservative 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yeah, very disturbing. A political slush fund
RightKlik 7:08 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Long-term plan = political power grab
Pat Austin 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs” AND the thousands who service those rigs and run other businesses!
Yukio Ngaby 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
We will take BP’s money despite legal obstacles…
RightKlik 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Nothing is “absolutely safe”
backyardconservative 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He’s so prissy and legalistic
Quite Rightly 7:09 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
BP must pay.
Jill 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Bush did it!
RightKlik 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Commission = witch hunt
backyardconservative 7:11 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yes. And at the same time he is a tyrant
Quite Rightly 7:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“I expect . . . .”
Pat Austin 7:11 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“One of his very first acts”… was to put his boot on the neck of BP
Pat Austin 7:12 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
It entails greater risk because they shouldn’t have had to go out that far in the first place! Open ANWR!!!! We’re not running out of places to drill on land you asshat!
backyardconservative 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yeah. We can all see clearly he’s a bald-faced liar.
backyardconservative 7:12 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Now he’s lying again. Saying there’s no more easily accessible oil on land or closer in.
Jill 7:12 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
You’re just a fossil fuel addict.
Yukio Ngaby 7:11 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I think we’re getting to blame Bush time!
Jill 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
China – great example!
Pat Austin 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Oh here we go. Windmills.
Lostin Lifesways 11:47 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Windmills.
Makes me think of Don Quixote…
Pat Austin 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
That way of life is being threatened by your incompetence!
Jill 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Now is the moment!
RightKlik 7:12 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Drill in ANWR now!
backyardconservative 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
omg he said “Now is the moment” (seas rise for clean energy)
Quite Rightly 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Lies. There are huge deposits untapped.
RightKlik 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I place my hope in clean energy, unicorns & pixie dust.
Yukio Ngaby 7:13 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Bringing up China! Someone’s been reading Friedman…
backyardconservative 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He likes being top dog over the running capitalist dogs
RightKlik 7:14 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Solar panels and wind farms…Jimmie Carter 2.0
The tired ideas and empty promises of the 1970s
Pat Austin 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
As long as it’s not oil.
Jill 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Did he really mention energy efficient windows? That will solve our energy problems.
Waiting to hear that “this path is unsustainable.”
backyardconservative 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yes. I am so sick of this. Synfuels–remember that big boondoggle of the 70’s.
And instead of a population bomb we had a population bust
RightKlik 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Barack Obama, energy expert. Trust him.
Pat Austin 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Straw men …. “some would suggest wind power!”
Pat Austin 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
We did not “harness the technology” to put a man on the moon; we developed it. Human ingenuity.
Jill 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“I will not accept” “I will not settle for”
Quite Rightly 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“Hey. It’s an emergency. My old Climate bill is the ticket.”
Yukio Ngaby 7:43 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Dead on QR!
Yukio Ngaby 7:15 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Ha! Now we get tto the never let a crisis go to waste moment!
RightKlik 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Underlying theme: this crisis will not go to waste
Quite Rightly 7:17 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Now we have “faith.” Interesting.
Quite Rightly 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“I will not accept. . . . I will not settle for. . . .”
rubyslipperblog 7:16 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
We can’t afford another two years of this incompetent.
Breaking out the straw men
backyardconservative 7:17 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Now he’s equating the green schemes to the space program
Pat Austin 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
“The oil spill is not the last crisis America will face. ” You got that right.
Yukio Ngaby 7:17 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Bringing up moon landing?!
backyardconservative 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Isn’t that ridiculous.
He wants to be the new Kennedy with the space new frontier bit. how lame
Jill 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He tells us to pray for courage. Yeah, we’re gonna need it.
Yukio Ngaby 7:21 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
LOL. But you are right.
RightKlik 7:17 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Wind farms & crushing government debt…we owe our children no less.
backyardconservative 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He’s praying we’ll have FAITH in HOPE
Chris Wysocki 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Allah will fix the spill!
Jill 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Was that his shortest speech evah?
Quite Rightly 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yes. This crisis is a good opportunity to deny that “I am a Muslim” statement.
Chris Wysocki 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
That’s his plan? Pray????
Quite Rightly 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Hey, it’s the 14-year-old speechwriter. What does he know?
rubyslipperblog 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Something better awaits us in 2012
Yukio Ngaby 7:18 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
We will be blessed by green enrgy from the storm of the oil spill… Barf from me…
Pat Austin 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Somebody unplugged the teleprompter.
KristinMishmash 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Sorry I’m late. I couldn’t find my brown shoes.
rubyslipperblog 7:20 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
You needed them too, it was waist deep
Yukio Nagby 7:23 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
LOL!
Jill 7:22 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
heh
RightKlik 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Blah Blah, platitudes, Blah blah…
Yay! it’s over!!!!!!!!!!
RightKlik 7:19 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Quick and painful. That’s how I like ’em.
Pat Austin 7:20 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
O’Reilly is going to have Palin do commentary!
Jill 7:21 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
So did that do anyone any good?
backyardconservative 7:22 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yes. I think it was therapeutic.
We are also on the same page. It makes me feel hopeful we can beat the Dems back in November
RightKlik 7:21 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Thanks for having this, Jill. We’ll have to do this with the next big speech!
Jill 7:22 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Thanks for coming. Next time we’ll offer door prizes.
Pat Austin 7:22 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I can’t wait to see what SaraCuda says about it.
Pat Austin 7:23 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Krauthammer ROCKS. “Pie in the sky” Yeah.
KristinMishmash 7:23 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Barf bags for all visitors?
Pat Austin 7:24 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Too late.
Pat Austin 7:25 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Here comes the ‘Cuda!
Yukio Ngaby 7:27 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
All in all bad speech. Delivery to stiff. Too vague. Specific details were sketchy or uninteresting.
Pat Austin 7:27 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Palin = common sense.
Pat Austin 7:29 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Aww I didn’t like her answer there. Bill asked her what she would have said to the nation and she said we need to stop the gusher. Well, duh. That’s not the Palinesque answer I was looking for.
Yukio Ngaby 7:36 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Why is that so rare right now?
KristinMishmash 7:28 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Yeah, but after two months, he decided he had to get off the golf course, look presidential and pretend he’s doing something.
Jill 7:30 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
What was with all the religious talk at the end?
rubyslipperblog 7:32 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Who knows, who believes this guy is at all religious? I certainly don’t
archer52 7:55 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
He was throwing a bone to the people who are worried he is without conscience.
it is an old sociopath trick. I’ve had more than one swear to their belief in God as a reason why they would never do what they did.
Jill 7:31 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
And did Obama approve building the sand barriers after Jindal went ahead and started building them? Weak.
Pat Austin 7:32 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I don’t know, Jill; did he ever approve them?
Jill 7:33 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
I think I heard him say that he just did.
Pat Austin 7:34 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
You’re right then – weak. Jindal was going to build them with or without his approval so it forced Obama’s hand. He had to approve or look weaker than he is.
Pat Austin 7:37 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Okay – Alan Colmes is on Fox. Can’t do that.
KristinMishmash 7:39 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Agree. I need a shower now.
archer52 7:47 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Oh come on. Give ol’ Alan a break. It’s hard getting up every day looking like you just got off the set of another George Romero movie!
Besides, without him how can we point and say to our children, “When I talk about how communists used silly people to advance their agenda they called them “useful idiots.” There goes one now!
Jill 7:51 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
lol
Yukio Ngaby 7:40 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
That’s sort of like this speech. Acknowledge the existence of spill, blame BP and regulators, pretend to be doing something, then push vague green energy using energy efficient windows as an example… Lame…
Jill 8:05 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Heh. Tingles and Spittles hated the speech.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_i_dont_sense_executive_command.html
Jill 8:07 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Quotes from RCP:
Olbermann: “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days.”
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: “Nothing specific at all was said.”
Matthews: “No direction.”
Howard Fineman: “He wasn’t specific enough.”
Olbermann: “I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.”
Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a “commander-in-chief.”
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. “I’ll barf if he does it one more time.”
Matthews: “A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk.”
Matthews: “I don’t sense executive command.”
archer52 8:10 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Wow. FOX is having Luntz on. Good discussion. Most people think Obama was blowing smoke.
I guess that is going to be his legacy and maybe his given Indian name. “President who blows smoke up Buffalo keister”
Jill 8:48 PM on 06/15/2010 Permalink |
Goodnight all. Thanks for playing.