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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 06/16/2010 : 16:07:40
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I was listening to Randi Rhodes this afternoon while dodging traffic, and I heard her say that even Bill O'Reilly had lost patience with Sarah Palin. I was so stunned I pulled into a parking lot to listen to the interview clip she played, and she was correct! Bill was stunned that Palin didn't believe that Obama's major concern at the moment is capping and cleaning up the oil spill, the exasperation in his voice was astounding. She was prattling on in her usual way about how Obama was twisting this to his advantage, and even Billo didn't buy it!
Shit, I need a drink, maybe two.
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2010 : 17:13:55 [Permalink]
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It's not at all clear that the BP mess presents the President with any kind of political advantage, Palin's wisdom to the contrary. Indeed, some people want to blame Obama for the spill.
What Obama does have is the need to represent the interests of Gulf Coast residents versus BP, and to organize Federal responses. Like the two wars and the near-Depression he inherited, this mess was thrust upon him by the failures of the Bushies.
Even if Mr. Obama plays things perfectly and pulls a political rabbit out of his hat, the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe will have diverted him from his own agenda. Any possible political advantage he can salvage will be to his credit, but will be pure serendipity. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2010 : 21:57:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
It's not at all clear that the BP mess presents the President with any kind of political advantage, Palin's wisdom to the contrary. Indeed, some people want to blame Obama for the spill.
What Obama does have is the need to represent the interests of Gulf Coast residents versus BP, and to organize Federal responses. Like the two wars and the near-Depression he inherited, this mess was thrust upon him by the failures of the Bushies.
Even if Mr. Obama plays things perfectly and pulls a political rabbit out of his hat, the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe will have diverted him from his own agenda. Any possible political advantage he can salvage will be to his credit, but will be pure serendipity.
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I disagree. This is political gold for a president who is interested in pushing for clean, renewable, energy or who wants to end the use of oil as a fuel source.
Obama, apparently, is none of those things though.
Get cameras in the areas that BP has restricted media access, get some images of the miles long and thousands of feet deep oil plumes in the gulf, get James Cameron out there with his ship and subs to document it from the surface to the bottom (he'd probably do it for free, have him find one of the gulf deep water isolated ecologies that has been wiped out by the oil)... then get those images on TV with ads calling for an end to fossil fuel use. Do that for a month, and then hand congress an energy independence bill and demand they pass it the same damn day.
If they manage to stop the spilling by mid August the ecological damage is something we'll never be able to repair. Yet I see Obama squandering this opportunity.
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HOLY CRAP! Did anyone else hear this?
