1

Oh, well then he must just be comparing a piddling oil spill in the Gulf to the largest, deadliest, most disruptive terrorist attack in United States history because he's an asshole.

Yup, pretty much.

2

Obama is just in over his head, like 48% of us knew Nov. 2008.

3 So does this mean some asshole is building a mosque out in the Gulf of Mexico?

4

This iconic print says it all.

http://bit.ly/aIoJql

 

5 Oh, but you didn't fix it either, buddy boy. Simon suggests that this interview previews the White House strategy for the elections this fall. If so, I pray that they stick with it. 'Cause God knows that the electorate always perks up for a whiny, sad-sack President.

Obama built up this Superman, "I can fix anything with gov't", image during the campaign.  Now he's had to resort to whining about press coverage and blaming Bush because his awesomeness can't plug one damn hole.

Eat it up, Pres Narcissist.  Eat every bite of humble pie. 

6

Obama is just in over his head, like 48% of us knew Nov. 2008.

Posted by: Hammer at June 13, 2010 09:28 PM (1kwr2)

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!  I just put the tip in, okay.  That's it.  I don't care what she says.

7 Clueless. 

8 Oilbama's SOP continued after giving this whiny interview.  He played four hours of golf.

9 Brazil only gets to drill because the company doing it is owned by...

George Soros.

Coincidence? I think not!

10 Oilbama's SOP continued after giving this whiny interview.  He played four hours of golf.

Posted by: RushBabe at June 13, 2010 09:32 PM (W8m8i)

Which means, the way he plays, he only got through the front 9.

11 Everytime I think he can't be more of a jackass, he proves me wrong AGAIN.

12 Just out of curiosity, where was Prissypants on 9/11? Was he home in Chicago? I wonder if there's any documentation of his reaction to that day.

13 12 Everytime I think he can't be more of a jackass, he proves me wrong AGAIN.

I wonder what jackassery he'll say about this on Tuesday.

/My expectations of Obama can't get any lower.

14 by conflating the two, obama reveals not that he needs to increase the significance of the oil spill as much as 9/11 doesn't really mean much to him. it doesn't mean much to any lib/leftist. they pay lip service but that's it.

15

Just out of curiosity, where was Prissypants on 9/11? Was he home in Chicago? I wonder if there's any documentation of his reaction to that day

He was at church...."The chickeeeeens, have come home.............to ROOST."

16
This is exactly like 9/11, except an oil rig got knocked down and several thousand fish died instead of two office towers getting knocked down and several thousand Americans dying. I can totally see the similarity between the two.





_{(Thoughts and prayers to the families of the 11 people who died in this event)}

17 I wonder what jackassery he'll say about this on Tuesday.

Green jobs. Windmills. Cap n tax. Failed policies of the past. Inherited. Boosh. I just work here.

18 I don't recall and can't find any story saying what Obama was doing on 9/11.

19 Yup.  Loathe him more.  The streak continues!

20

Obama is just in over his head, like 48% of us knew Nov. 2008

Imus said Bammie is in so far over his head that he needs SCUBA gear

21
Just out of curiosity, where was Prissypants on 9/11? Was he home in Chicago? I wonder if there's any documentation of his reaction to that day.

Posted by: wherestherum at June 13, 2010 09:35 PM (gofDd)

He was probably in his living room in Hyde Park jumping up and down for joy just like the Palestinians were doing in the Gaza Strip.

22 He is directly responsible for a lot of the mess we are in. We should not let these destroyers deny any of it.This spin of him fighting against ruin and for the good of the country is just so outrageous that we cannot continue to allow them to front their narrative unopposed.

23 Oh, but you didn't fix it either, buddy boy.

Well, yeah...he (and the dems) actually did create it AND is making it worse.

24 The greens on the fairway?  Just like Normandy Beach, I tell ya'!

25

By NANCY BENAC
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On Sept. 11, 2001, Barack Obama was driving to a state legislative hearing in Chicago when he heard the first sketchy reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center on his car radio. The 40-year-old state senator spent the afternoon in his law office watching "nightmare images" of destruction and grief unfold on TV.

Within days, he'd issued a statement about what the nation should do next.

Beyond the immediate needs to improve security and dismantle "organizations of destruction," Obama wrote, lay the more difficult job of "understanding the sources of such madness." He wrote of "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers," of "embittered children" around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

The nuanced musings of an obscure state senator, Obama's statement never even made the big Chicago dailies.

26 17  This is exactly like 9/11, except an oil rig got knocked down and several thousand fish died instead of two office towers getting knocked down and several thousand Americans dying. I can totally see the similarity between the two.

Yes, we should grieve for and support the families of those men who died on the rig when it exploded, but it's not to the scale of the 9/11 attacks in any fashion.

Don't joke, Blazer.  Eco-idiots like Peter Singer like to compare killing animals for food as so-many "9/11s". 

27

Would someone please teach President Asshole how to juggle flaming chainsaws or how to spin plates on sticks? Cuz that's the ONLY way I'll watch that cocksucker on TV.

Fucking clown.

28 He was at home, on a rug, prayin, facing east.

29 Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit hit this one out of the park: "Obama: Gulf Oil Spill Echoes 9-11... Except without the leadership, the terror, the Islamists and the 3,000 dead Americans."

30 Obama's reaction to 911 was to pen an op-ed, saying we should somehow understand the frustrations of the terrorists (well, of course, he'd never call those barbarians "terrorists"). I suppose his next move will be an op-ed or a speech about th legitimate frustrations and aspirations of BP.

31 Would you proles please shut the hell up?

I'm in the rough right now!

32 I wonder if our Genius-in-Chief has figured out just how much tax revenue the Federal government will lose out of this fiscal year due to his Gulf drilling moratorium.  That's gotta put at least a little additional crimp in his push to Federalize the budget deficits of the various states.

33 #27   Thanks Editor.

Beyond the immediate needs to improve security and dismantle "organizations of destruction," Obama wrote, lay the more difficult job of "understanding the sources of such madness." He wrote of "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers," of "embittered children" around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

Typical liberal mush from Obama.  Was Osama part of a poor family? 

Don't want them understood, unless it's used to figure out how to defeat them permanently! 

34 You bleed!

BEHOLD! A god who BLEEDS!

35 Since Obama isn't allowing the press to overfly the gulf full of oil has anyone that knows how looked at google earth or are either being censorsed or self censoring too?

36 Don't joke, Blazer.  Eco-idiots like Peter Singer like to compare killing animals for food as so-many "9/11s". 

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 13, 2010 09:42 PM (c0A3e)

I'm sorry, didn't think I needed to put the sarc tag on, plus I should have called them sea-kittens, not fish.

My apologies.

37 The galling part of this is that his personal likability, according to Frank Luntz,  is still in the 60s, while his policies are in the dumper.  He's been successful with those 52% as far as disassociating himeself with all the horse manure he's directly responsible for. 

38 It's as though he has no executive experience at all.

39 Would you proles please shut the hell up?

I'm in the rough right now!

Posted by: King Barry the Cool at June 13, 2010 09:43 PM (Mmw0q)

May I suggest the 7 iron....

40 I think most of the AoSers realize there really isn't much B to the O can do.  What he could do to be most effective is tell the governors of LA, MS, AL, FL and TX they will get all the support and help they need.  He should kick down every barrier to the local entities handling this issue to the best of there ability.  He can't and won't though, because that runs counter to his narrative and core belief that he can do everything.  Let's face it...lowering seas and healing planets were his words.  Spout of that type of puffery and people will hold you to it.  So, we'll continue to get political spasms, sophmoric trash talk, childish finger pointing, and no solutions.  Because, we all know he has no solutions.  Not his fault, in all honesty, but he wants everyone to believe government (and he is the embodiment of government) has all the answers.

So, I continue to weep and recoil at every image of the spill...and I continue to pray that out of this disaster the grand lie that government has the answers to every problem will be exposed forever. 

41
Actually Obama, you did create the mess.

ObamaCare and Stimulus etc... created this mess.  Public sector unions created this mess.  Barney Frank and the Fammie Freddie mortgage meltdown created this mess.


Nice try, tho.

42 Daaaaayyyyyyyyummm!

Great lay, just a 12 foot putt.

I'n gettin' good at this!!

43 But what IÂ’m going to remind people of is we didn't create this mess So, dems have controlled congress since '06 and congress+white house since '08 but they aren't responsible for anything that's happened? Allrighty then

44 I think he's getting close to a melt-down.

And that comment about the maps and the booms?   He didn't think it would be interesting to the public because HE is bored with this type of stuff.  You don't get to get applause for meeting with poor Admiral Allen.

45

The galling part of this is that his personal likability, according to Frank Luntz,  is still in the 60s, while his policies are in the dumper.  Posted by: RushBabe at June 13, 2010 09:45 PM (W8m8i)

Well the galling part about Frank Luntz is that he is full of crap. All of his approval ratings are below 50% except for the Washington Post and he could eat babies on the white house steps and never fall below 50% in that poll

46 He wrote of "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers," of "embittered children" around the world, of the seeds of discontent sown in poverty, ignorance and despair.

Atta and his crew were educated and middle class, led by a trust fund Saudi mult-millionaire.

Yeh, they did it out of the frustrations of their poverty and lack of education

47
He better not be micromanaging.  He can't even find his own ass with a map and compass, even with directions from his own teleprompter.

48

Daaaaayyyyyyyyummm!

Great lay, just a 12 foot putt.

I'n gettin' good at this!!

As much as you play, you should be able to qualify for the Senior Tour in a couple of years....

You throw like a girl and wear mom jeans so I'm not counting on it.

49 I wonder if our Genius-in-Chief has figured out just how much tax revenue the Federal government will lose out of this fiscal year due to his Gulf drilling moratorium.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't care.

50 Green jobs. Windmills. Cap n tax. Failed policies of the past. Inherited. Boosh. I just work here.

It's above his pay grade.

51
I think most of the AoSers realize there really isn't much B to the O can do. 



He still hasn't temporarily repealed the Jones Act so that's one thing he could do, but he wont. He's beating his dick over this catastrophe just like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace are doing.

52

Republicans need to fight back against this bullshit.

During the Bush administration, most people were thriving, unemployment was low - and we were fighting the aftermath of 9/11.

Democrats take over, and we get a fast track to socialism and an economy to match. 

53 And when is the MFM going to remind Obama that Admiral Allen had an offer from Packagen for oil booms and that the Dutch offered to help with the spill 3 days after the rig exploded?

/I know, I know - never.

54 I believe you could have just reused the title of the previous post for this one.

55 Yeh, they did it out of the frustrations of their poverty and lack of education

I've been wondering if the people who keep say that are merely trying to give our native-born uneducated poor a green light.  Pre-emptive excuses.

56 Me sitting in a meeting with [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu and [Gulf national incident commander] Thad Allen and looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace, thatÂ’s not something that is high theater.

Nope, not high theater

57

As much as you play, you should be able to qualify for the Senior Tour in a couple of years....

You throw like a girl and wear mom jeans so I'm not counting on it.

Posted by: Delta Smelt at June 13, 2010 09:49 PM (0pYSi)

That's what I like to see: envy, baby!

P.S. I won!

58 57 Republicans need to fight back against this bullshit.

They need to, but they won't for the most part, with several notable exceptions.

/Always stealing a defeat from the jaws of victory. 

59

I think most of the AoSers realize there really isn't much B to the O can do. 

That genius declaration of a six-month drilling moratorium is something he damn sure could've skipped.  Wave goodbye to the tankers heading off to Brazil to make all that sweet capitalist $$ for George Soreass.  There's a shiteload he could've done.  He doesn't want to do it.  This is called payback in Zero's commie brainbox.

60

We have the worst environmental disaster in the history of this country..and the fucking jug-eared idiot sends lawyers.

I'm telling y'all...the fucking piss-poor reaction of this administration is no accident...remember...never let a crisis go to waste

The marxist motherfucker purposely let the damage to the spill become exacerbated

Several countries and multi-nationals with experience in this situation offered help..Wee Wee refused it

Jindal has been screaming for berms and boom for weeks..few berms approved and that guy in Maine has miles and miles of boom and can make a shitload more

He gave Brazil billions of our tax dollars for oil exploration

He put a moratorium on drilling

The idle rigs are being moved to Brazil

Now he says he is going to create a   “new way of doing business when it comes to energy"

Add it up...think Occam's Razor folks

61 No of course this is just like 9/11, to the typical watermelon enviro-nazi.  Obama just revealed himself.

62 What greater narcissism is there than this? Every thing is about Easy Bake. This is hard! I'm not to blame! Find out who is to blame! Mommy! Even the Lefties are mad enough now to mention Easy Bake's faults. They knew they were there all along, but now they are pissed enough to vent.

63

Is there any way this idiot can win another term?

 

What am I thinking?  He'll probably win in a landslide because the average American voter has a very short memory.

64 His Majesty is most displeased. That whole "the buck stops with me" thing only lasted about a minute and a half, didn't it? It's like a reflex with him now -- something goes wrong on his watch, and his first instinct is to blame someone else for it. It's all been said already, but it bears repeating: imperious, thin-skinned, elitist, arrogant, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

65 58 And when is the MFM going to remind Obama that Admiral Allen had an offer from Packagen for oil booms and that the Dutch offered to help with the spill 3 days after the rig exploded?

Why follow the advice of people who know shit from shinola when you've got James Fuckin' Cameron offering his universal expertise?

66 He reminds me of my one year old pug when I catch him doing something naughty.

Same sad face, same wasn't me, it was one of them other two "previous dogs over there" kind of reaction.

Only thing is, I'm pretty sure that Romeo is smarter than Toonces.

67 imperious, thin-skinned, elitist, arrogant, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

I am too that smart!  Daddy Ayers, they are saying bad things about me again!

68

I think most of the AoSers realize there really isn't much B to the O can do. 

That is BS. He could have every skimmer in the world cleaning up the oil in the gulf, he could have approved the barrier islands that jindel wanted a month ago. If he was on top of it he could have had enough equipment at the wellsite to contain the oil on the surface and suck it up, he could have returned the guy in Maine's call who  has miles of boom and the ability to make 20 miles of it a day. He could have dicided it was a major disaster when it happened instead of waiting 12 days.

Those are just things off the top of my head.

69 How in the world does he have a 60% likability ? They must ask that question in a public setting and people are too cowardly to admit that brah sucks cocks by choice .
I can't fuckin' stand the SOB .

70

42 It's as though he has no executive experience at all.

There, I think that's got it

71 You know what's going to be so awesome?  When Harry Reid picks up on the fact his only chance (slim as it is) to win will be to run AGAINST Barry, and he'll actually do it.  Mark. My. Words. 

Popcorn, anyone?

72
That whole "the buck stops with me" thing only lasted about a minute and a half, didn't it? It's like a reflex with him now -- something goes wrong on his watch, and his first instinct is to blame someone else for it.




Possessing an Affirmative Action mentality that's been beat into you from day one by commie role models will do that to you.

73

It's all been said already, but it bears repeating: imperious, thin-skinned, elitist, arrogant, and not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

Solid free throw shooter though.  Putting getting better.  And who can forget the mastery he has for the teleprompter? 

74 Fire never burned oil !! Google it !!!

75 I'm sorry.

I ---- SPILT --- MY --- MILKSHAKE......

76

The insanity is still out there.  The creepometer is still stuck at 10 on indoctrination of school kids.  They're not giving up.  They're not going quietly.

http://bit.ly/cPPnuv

77 At some point, Barry will have to get jiggy with that mop.

78 The golf course is his bunker. You will find him there more and more often.

79 57

Republicans need to fight back against this bullshit.

Go ahead, and we'll pass rumors that your tits are fake and put it at the top of every newscast and above the fold

80 You bleed!

BEHOLD! A god who BLEEDS!

Posted by: Salish at June 13, 2010 09:44 PM (sYxEE)

Neither God nor Devil but a MAN!

81 All trolls over to the AoSHQ Hate Site stat!!!

82 I'm on top of this crisis

Now, watch this putt!

83

Me sitting in a meeting with [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu and [Gulf national incident commander] Thad Allen and looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace...

Wow, DEAR LEADER just cares so much. ... It is always about him.

The President of the United States, with competent subordinates, has no need of making such relatively minor, tactical decisions.  We already know that the RINette Senators from Maine already notified this administration weeks ago about the hundreds of thousand feet of boom ready to be manufactured in that state.  The response from this administration has been crickets.

We know that the the federal government is hindering state and local governments through the EPA.  BP also doesn't seem too energized to do shit either.

A POTUS that actually gave a fuck would do three things:

1.  Declare the Gulf region a disaster area.

2.  Waive the Jones act.

3.  Tell the EPA to stop being officious twits and let the state and local governments take action.

Instead, at best, we have a man with zero executive experience voting present or, worse, a man actively sabotaging the response to this disaster to further a political agenda.  In my opinion, the latter option is what is going on.  You don't need 60 days to still be fucking around trying to determine where assets are.

84 The creepometer is still stuck at 10 on indoctrination of school kids.

When I see something like this, I wonder what the school's average math proficiency is.

85 ...and they say I'm not qualified for the Senate!?!

86 73....I think we're on the same page.  You list things he could do to allow others to do their jobs.  That's exactly what I mean...kick down barriers for others.  That's different than him "solving" the problem.  And that's why he's paralyzed.  He has to be the answer and if he isn't, then he's out.

87 I'm pretty sure he doesn't care.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 13, 2010 09:49 PM (M9BNu)

I wonder if he considers it a feature instead of a bug.

88 As for the 2012 election...I just read the WaPo article on Justice Thomas for president in '12 and I chubbed up some...

89 Ofiveiron's inane patter about looking over maps and booms just brings to mind another delusional socialist poring over maps and making plans no bearing on reality in an underground bunker.

"Der Angriff Steiners war BEFEHL!"

90 When I see something like this, I wonder what the school's average math proficiency is.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at June 13, 2010 10:04 PM (M9BNu)

Good solid B+.

91 As for the 2012 election...I just read the WaPo article on Justice Thomas for president in '12 and I chubbed up some...

Posted by: The Hammer at June 13, 2010 10:11 PM (YBTwf)

They just want him off the Supreme Court.

92 looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace

That sounds about right. People study and work for years to get good at that kind of logistics. Narcissists figure all it takes is a couple of meetings for them to get up to speed and they can make better decisions.

93

I attended a ceremony welcoming home a National Guard Unit from Iraq today. These guys are pros and fine people. They don't say much, but their families think Obama is a traitor pure and simple. Now I hear he is going to speak to the nation Tuesday night and bash BP some more. Seriously, who is this guy?

94 Oh, but you didn't fix it either, buddy boy.

whoops - you called him a BOY!

95 99

He's the nightmare we get when the sane half of the country falls asleep, Kansas.

96 This is exactly like 9/11, except an oil rig got knocked down and several thousand fish died instead of two office towers getting knocked down and several thousand Americans dying. I can totally see the similarity between the two. While we know that was sarcasm, there is no doubt that at least 20% of our citizens quite literally believe what you offered as snark. The 20% who are hard leftards.

97 It's all about the ticket evolution..

Just Hang Ticket -- Opps, oil leaking from BP, BP big donor, maybe it's not a big leak. BP and Halliburton will get fixed, so just hang...  Everything be good... 

Big Deal Ticket -- Hmmm,  seems the leak is not getting fixed...  Maybe we should do something -- hmmm, my econuts heavy department of Interior has no clue, none have any experience dealing with oil, so hmmm...   We'll come out and say this leak is a big deal...  And hope BP and Halliburton fixes it.  Got to play some golf...  Hows the NBA playoffs looken,,,  Got an Indonesian trip planned, how fun... Could use break...

Just Plug the Damn Hole Ticket- Oh Scat...  Still leaking...  Just plug the damn hole...  Use my daughter as a tool...  That's the ticket... 

Uh, Damn Deep Hole Ticket...   Wow, this Deep Hole a big deal that ain't going away.  How do we turn this into a political money maker...?   Let's ban all drilling... 

Uh, We're in Charge Ticket -- Need to look like we're in charge, so let's say 'we're in charge'.  Fire someone who doesn't know anything about oil so we'll look important...  Iny meany minee moe, catch an econut by the toe..  & fire them...   It's not difficult, everyone we've got working on this administration is an econut...  Got to look Presidential... 

Uh, We're in Charge Ticket Sequel -- Congressional question -- 'Has BP done everything you asked'...... ......  (Uh, we really haven't asked them to do anything because we don't know what we're doing to make any intelligent requests of them, the best we can do is hand out permits for them to do what they want)..... (so...)  (hmmm)....  'yes, BP has done everything we've asked (because truth be told, we have asked them to do anything because we're clueless)...'...  or something like that... 

BP is going to pay Ticket --BP needs to speed up handing out money to anyone claiming to be damaged by the spill.  Who cares if no evidence of damage is provided -- just start throwing BP money at it...  Force BP to put some third party, like government union bureaucrats, charge of handing out money...   No one will complain the program will be corrupt and full of fraud and political graft like Katrina...  Now we should start getting some traction...

Super Suck Ticket -- Yeah, Super Suck up the oil... Opps, US unions might get cut out because a lot of this technology is foreign owned...  Hmmm...  Need to study that a bit...  Obsfuscate, stall, ....  Don't get sucked in... 

Get Attorney's involved Ticket -- Attorney's are always good about giving political money to Obamacrats that promote full attorney employment...  Who cares of they scare off other oil folks that might want to help...  Just get the damn money flowing back to us...  (but don't make it obvious)...

.......................
We're Clueless Ticket -- The only ticket that really covers all those above, and  those that will follow...

98 O/t:  read an article today in the NYT's.....guy building on the Ogden Phipps estate somewhere on long island.  165 acres, twenty homes,  most of the homes will end up selling between ten and twenty million....he has sold 8 and hasn't been marketing them that long....

Most of them have no mortgages....

Who are these people?

99 Me sitting in a meeting with [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu and [Gulf national incident commander] Thad Allen and looking over maps and figuring out how boom gets someplace
Yeah. It's all you, big man. Sitting there figuring out how shit gets done between hoops and playing the front nine. You probably got it all spread out on a game board like a game of Risk or something.

What a fuckin stud this cat is to know the logistics better than engineers with 20+ years of experience. Nothing would get done without him. He wakes up and just figures shit out, right? Hey, homie, move that shit over there. Never thought of that, didya?

What a fucking JOKE. God DAMN it pisses me off that this fucking clown still has better than 40% approval from the citizenry of this country.

100 Maybe Obama said it because he knows something we don't -- namely, that the well may have sustained deep structural damage and may be about to blow apart. If it does, the amount of oil released will be orders of magnitude greater than what we've seen so far. That, at least, is the pessimistic prognosis of one website covering the oil industry: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967 If this forecast is accurate, the disaster may ultimately rival 9/11 in its impact.

101 I have no patience with liberals and Obama voters who are now criticizing him for having such poor leadership, mishandling the oil spill, and being thin skinned. There was absolutely NOTHING in his background to indicate that he could handle anything. His qualifications consisted of a law degree from Harvard, and reading from a teleprompter while standing in front of styrofoam columns. But hey, after the criticism of his seeming too cool and unemotional concerning the spill, he did do a GREAT job of talking about "kicking someone's ass". Yup, that's his strategy, respond to the criticism of his demeanor by using a couple of tough words. Jeebus, what a loser.

102

Non-union America needs to understand how this

Obama machine is hell -bent on forcing us ALL to

pay for his union reelection minions to feed ad finitum

at the public trough.

103

Obama is "effete".  In any milieu or venue not overrun

by Pelosiophiles, this should be fatal!!

104 #104 - no matter how bad things get, there are always rich people. In a crap economy, it's easier to sell a ten million dollar house than a $200,000 house.

105 What's the affirmative action version of the Peter Principle, where a guy who's been passed along eventually reaches a high enough point that there is no longer a guilty white liberal above him to give him another pass? I guess it's the Obama Principle now.

Dude did nothing - NOTHING - to deserve more than a comfy mid-level job in a government bureaucracy. He should be managing a DMV location, not the goddamn nation.

106 Posted by: schizuki at June 13, 2010 11:46 PM (Xd9fe)

I guess your are right but man, ten to twenty million dollars for one house seems like an awful lot of money to me, an awful lot.  And that has to be cash because it is my understanding that you can only deduct your mortgage interest on an up to million dollar mortgage so the other 9 or 19 million are your own money.

Wondering, since it is long island, if the wall street guys are taking their money on shore and putting it into their dwelling to make sure they keep it.

107 IT'S MALAISE, THE NEXT GENERATION...

108 The buck stops......did it ever stop anywhere but at Bush?

I don't think so.

And does like 9/11 mean the moslems blew it up?

109

But what IÂ’m going to remind people of is we didn't create this mess

But you did.  Unemployment was 4.9% when Democrats took control of the Congress (Jan 2007).  The economic panic was in anticipation of complete Democrat governance - just because it happened before you took office doesn't mean it's not your fault.  Our economy tanked because the market correctly predicted what a Democrat House, Senate, and President would do: borrow, spend, tax, regulate, and pay back the unions.

110 To bad the mid-terms don't have a box to check.... Should the President complete his duly elected term.[] Should the President not be allowed to complete his duly elected term [] Greater than 55% in the nay.....we have a special election! I love this country!

111 114, u r a s s h a t b a r r y b u d d y

112 he thinks he's LeBron...but he's really eddie currey

113

'Cause God knows that the electorate always perks up for a whiny, sad-sack President.

---------

So my beloved Broncos^tm have been mired in mediocrity since the John Elway era.  The last four seasons have been pretty much 50/50 exercises in frustration.  Pat Bowlen tries to shake things up with a new coach who (I hope only hypothetically) goes 3 and 13 his first season and things are not looking better after a terrible draft.

New coach calls a presser.  "Y'know, things are bad, and don't look much better down the line. But bear with me, I inherited this mess from Mike Shanahan. I think the fans understand that and have reasonable expectations about our current course."

Um. No. We expect you to man up and field a competitive team.  That kind of statement gets you the dreaded "vote of confidence" from the coach.  And you are out golfing the next weak telling your caddy that you used to coach the Denver Broncos.  You whiny weasel. 

Obama, you deserve no pity, and based upon the promises you made during your campaign, I give you no quarter.  The only thing you deserve is a swirly and an old-fashioned atomic sit-up.

114 Today, we are all pelicans.

115
The oil spill was an inside job!
Bush lied seagulls died.

116

This next speech on the oil he's going to give.  This is going to be the cornered rat speech. 

Look at the way he's vainly trying to lash out at BP.  Like sending that idiot Eric Holder down there.  He's dying for anything to point to.  "Don't look over here; look over there." 

He'll take any distraction from the oil.

Maybe he could treat our friends even worse?  Maybe... something.  If he could just manufacture a conflaguration in any other area, he could say "look over there" and not feel so hurt and afraid.  And cheated.  Cheated out of his rightful due, since he's so awesome and all.

This could be a hell of a revealing look at, well, what we've known for quite some time around here.  It was a year ago we started talking about the NPD suffering man-child lashing out with a temper tantrum when he started not getting his way--the easy peasy way he's had things float his way all his life.

We have a dysfunctional brat in the White House.  He's an ugly soul, and we're not done paying dearly for electing him.

117 Nice post, Gabe.

118

Dear Obama:

Here's "leadership."  Come out boldly with reasons to resume oil well development in the gulf.  Point out that we've drilled over 3000 or so wells down there, IIRC, and we've never had a blowout.  Really make that case.  Tell everyone that you're satisified that with your new regulations and increaserd oversight, things will be fine.  (See, you get to pat yourself on the back there.)  Point out this has to be done immediately to save jobs down there (true), and talk about how you really care about the people dependant upon the gulf for their livelihood.

People will think, "Wow, he's got balls, and he's right.  And he's saving all those jobs.  And we need that oil."

119 Or, continue to be an embarassment, a weakling, and a douchebag.

120 Where were YOU on that terrible day when 3,000 fish were killed ?

121 So is Obama now saying Islamo-Fascist terrorists blew up the well? My guess is it was massive big government porn watching regulatory failure that let the well blow up.

122

It's Bush's fault!!

It's Bush's fault!!

It's Bush's fault!!

 

Say, what are the odds of getting the big guy back in here to clean things up?

123

I think most of the AoSers realize there really isn't much B to the O can do. 

Wrong.  He sets the priorities for federal agencies.  He can waiver rules and provide funding.  If he declares an emergency, he can appoint managers for the situation to coordinate federal response. 

All he had to do is declare an emergency and appoint Russ Honore' his representative.  Shit would have been fixed by now. 

124

Yes he did create this mess of an economy. The last time Republicans were in control if the budget, 2006, the deficit was 166 billion and unemployment was 4.6. Then Democrats got the majoriites and in 2007 the deficit went up and unemployment started up. And unemployment has been going up relentlessly every quarter since the start of 2007. by 2009 democrats had quadrupled the deficit. The housing crash is directly releated to democrat policies of 'free houses for everyone' Then democrats got the Whitehouse and the the deficit was almost two trillion dollars. The democrat promises of higher taxes, higher costs for less healthcare, and Cap And Trade energy taxes designed to bankrupt (in Obama's own words) energy companies scare teh hell out of everybody so that no one dares to hire because you can't tell how much money the democrats are going to take from us in their efforts to cripple the economy so they will have the emergency they need to destroy the free market forever.

The democrats made this economy. They have been in control since the beginning of 2007. It is lie that they inherited the economy. But if a democrat is talking they are lying.

125

If the oil spill is like 9-11, then shouldn't Obama be apologizing to BP for America and bending over backwards to show BP what a nice guy he is?

Maybe we shouldn't use the word "oil spill". Instead, we can call it "man-caused enviornmental difficulty".

After all, the oil industry is an industry of peace and cleanliness. We should recognize that this disaster is not a reflection on the industry. It was just an over-worked, frustrated oil platform that reacted like any oil platform would have in its situation.

Instead of attacking the oil companies, we should change our environmental policies to make them more oil-industry friendly. Then there would be no more spills.

126 The next time Obama has one of his "Town Hall" Plant fests, I want to see somebody take his microphone away and start kicking him. 

This is by far one of the worst experiments in the history of this wonderful country.  This man wanted to downplay 9/11 as if it were just something the GOP invented during his campaign.

Now he has gall to claim the SPILL echos 9/11?

What a shameless fucking clown.

I keep hoping that this is all just a bad dream or that I am merely watching a really long Monty Python episode..

127

I filled out a claim form at BP dot com over the weekend and sent this:

"No claim. Trying to submit an idea or two:
Hello & I Hope y'all are doing okay under these circumstances.
How about forging as heavy an anvil (for lack of a better word, as this would be a custom foundry job) as can be hauled out to the site and accurately positioned on the hole as to have the horn end go into the hole as deeply as possible. Wrap the cylindrical part of this massive weight with an appropriate gasket material. Make sure you forge / cast / weld a ring on the thing in order to pick it up A: in case you miss & B: in case it doesn’t work! Bonus points if the metal used comes from all the cars out there gobbled up in the cash for clunkers fiasco! Freighters carry entire train loads of rail cars, right? They have to have MASSIVE anchors and the ability to pull them up, just jerry rig this (I dunno, 100,000 pound massive custom shaped cork?) to that system and guide it in remotely with whatever the hell you brainiacs make that can do that stuff. Google “mile long anvil”, go to that site, look at those pictures to see what I mean by the “horn” of an anvil and brainstorm the shape and weight and gasket from there. I think it is a damned good idea and smart people might be able to run with it. Good luck!

As far as clean up goes, how about kitty litter? It works on driveways. Drop it from fire fighting planes or dump it out of C-130Â’s. I imagine you can figure out how to recover it later. HasnÂ’t extracting it from shale become less expensive over the years? Hopefully you can find and access this oil source from another point after the skyscraper anvil cork is dropped on it. And I also hope you can recover what ends up in the bottom of the gulf after you drop eighty billion trillion googol tons of kitty litter on it. Note to self: find episode of how itÂ’s made to learn how to manufacture kitty litter. Or, find and invest in every kitty liter manufacturer in the world. This is a potential gold mine. Er, oil field? Again, good luck!

Now, be honest. Have I just done more than President Obama? I sought out a way to share ideas that I think might work and found no way to do it, so I am sending them to BP the only way I can figure out: here. Has he floated any ideas by anyone? Or is he just looking for "asses to kick" in between rock parties and golf?"

Someone way smarter than me summed up my stupid ideas something like this: "So, 5000 feet of chain and a giant stopper". The point still stands, WTF has Obama done? I submit that I have done more. At least my conscience is clean. Thank you very much,

128

He sure will.  In Portuguese.

Brazilian, to Obama.

129 . … But what I’m going to remind people of is we didn't create this mess.”

Why am I constantly reminded of that Simpsons episode where Bart's catch phrase is "I didn't do it!"?

130 Wee wee wee all the way home.  If I were Jewish, I'd call him a pathetic little pisher.

131 This is not comparable to 911 it is comparable to Chernobyl a ecological disaster caused by a corrupt and inefficient socialist regime. This disaster was caused by the corrupt and inefficient socialist administration. Chernobyl in the end helped bring about the collapse of the USSR.

This Oil Spill will bring about the end of Obama Administration and the DEM congress.

132 Stop your belly aching, ALL OF Ya'll you know most of you voted for Obama. But just because he has not done everything he promised, now all of ya'll want to bad mouth about him. Your anger is SO DISPLACED. He didn't cause the oil spill, BP Oil Co. did, why don't you get mad at the source. The Unitied States get some kind of SICK Perverted thrill when they bash their Leader.

Do you know that anyone who is an appointed official, whether they are President, or King, or Prime Minister, is appointed by God. I think Obama was appointed, because of the evil that the United States has tolerated. He is in office as a judgement for us, to pay for our many sins, and our many crimes against other nations, and to our own people. Like the widespread acceptence of "same sex marriage." God is not going to stand for that.

Obabma can only do so much anyway. If Obama wants something, he has to get permission(approval) from Congress. Congress can deny anything, so truthfully your anger should be at Congress. Don't be mad at the President, he is just a puppet in the hands of the people who are really in charge. Google "The Illuminati" and you'll will see the force behind the World leadership, and control.  The President is only doing what he is told to do. Contact Bush and he will agree, because he and his family have a long history with The Illuminati. PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO GET SOME TRUE KNOWLEDGE, educate yourself, the information is there FOR "FREE" here on the Internet.

Stop being so gullable, and stop believing everything you hear in the NEWs, they are controlled by the Illuminati too, and they feed the media the propaganda that they want YOU ALL to believe.  IS THERE ANY INTELLIGENT LIFE OUT THERE. CAN YOU HEAR ME?  Get help people YOU ARE ALL BRAIN WASHED. Obama is NOT the enemy!

We are controlled by a much BIGGER FISH than Obama.

133

Natalie, you'd probably be much happier over at Huffpo.

But you are right about the Obamamesssiah not being the enemy.....he's just a dweeb that is way, way over his head.  We consider him totally incompetant.   But, hey!  Proves that George Soros can get his way when he puts his money to it.  And, by the way, if you haven't noticed Nancy and the gang pretty much control both Houses.  And they love their Obamamessiah! 

But, hey!  Proves that George Soros can get his way when he puts his money to it.

134 ¡¡Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self.