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Responding to Alien-ation

By Quin Hillyer on 6.10.10 @ 6:08AM

Obama, Alinsky, BP, and a$$-kicking.

In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Dorothy Rabinowitz says it all: Barack Obama is “The Alien in the White House.”

I’ve been agonizing over what to write this week, feeling a need to say almost exactly what Rabinowitz wrote but finding that the reality dejected me too much to put it into words. And lo and behold, Rabinowitz did it for me. So please stop, read her piece linked above, and then return here….…. ….

OKAY, WE’RE BACK. Now this alien in the White House boasts about his efforts to figure out “whose a$$ to kick.” The alien is becoming increasingly tone deaf. This is not the sort of crudity Americans want from the Oval Office, and it is ludicrous coming from Mr. Academic/Appoint-a-Commission/Let-the-Bureaucrats-Analyze-the-Data-Before-Issuing-the-Permits. How about setting up double mirrors so he can see his own rear end, and then swinging his leg? I mean, yeah, yeah, we know he’s always been such a tough guy that he broke a schoolmate’s arm in a fight in Indonesia. And we know he can make a jump shot (although he looks like a sissy when he throws a baseball). But if Obama himself is such an a$$-kicker, why did he need to hire somebody to do the a$$-kicking for him, especially somebody as unintentionally self-parodying as Rahm-bo, the self-deluded Chicago would-be tough guy known for ludicrous fits of sticking knives into tables?

The problem with focusing on whose a$$ to kick rather than on how to move heaven and earth (the latter quite literally) to give Gulf-state governors whatever they ask is that Obama ends up kicking the a$$es of the American people he is supposed to serve, but whose interests, as Rabinowitz points out, are secondary in his mind to the dictates of world communitarians. As was pointed out by somebody I read Wednesday morning, at a link I cannot now find, the Obama response to BP’s disaster is to punish all of BP’s competitors by banning their own offshore drilling — which eliminates the jobs for about 46,000 jobs. CNN several days ago reported the same jobs number, and said the lost wages will equal about $330 million per month.

As noted many other places, the president’s most vigorous “a$$-kicking” response so far has been to send in the clowns — or, rather, to send in the lawyers, which in the case of Eric Holder’s Justice Department amounts to the same thing.

But Obama can’t bring himself to return the phone calls from one of the Louisiana congressmen most affected, the excellent Steve Scalise. And he still hasn’t spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. Maybe he figures Hayward can’t talk anyway, because Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s boots might be still on BP’s neck.

All the while, The One points fingers. “Change means movement [and] movement means friction,” wrote Obama’s idol Saul Alinsky in Obama’s bible, Rules for Radicals. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…. All issues must be polarized if action is to follow.” And: “In a fight, almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.”

All ethics, all morality, is to be sacrificed for one’s own, self-determined greater end: “You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.” After all, explains Alinsky, “The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God.”

This is Obama’s conceit, and it is the conceit of the milieu from which he comes. As Rabinowitz writes, “he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class.” Not the voice of the nation, but the voice of the class that sees the nation as a great transgressor in need of somebody to “transform” it, to be a great re-“creator” of the nation.

And yes, in a nation founded on the notion that the people collectively are wiser than their (would-be) rulers, this idea of president as a new creator “play[ing God]” is disturbingly, yes, alien.

About the Author

Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

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Brian Mc| 6.10.10 @ 6:55AM

That's it. From now on, whenever I speak of the one in the white house, he will be referred to as the "alien"!

JimH| 6.10.10 @ 7:48AM

In the White House no one can hear you scream?

Son Of Sam| 6.10.10 @ 8:34AM

That's because screaming emits CO2, and this is warming the planet, which is a far greater danger than the oil spill, double digit unemployment or a national debt bigger than our GDP. Btw, I find it interesting that like the ambulance chaser he is, the TelePrompter in Chief is far more interested in fixing the blame than in fixing the problem

stands trong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam

Gr0w1er| 6.10.10 @ 10:21AM

Not without the proper permits!

gibor| 6.10.10 @ 8:59AM

The Leader of the Regime the alien!

DaveS| 6.11.10 @ 9:57PM

It's not his fault he was Kenyan-born; hence, alien until naturalized. Wait, that didn't happen?

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.10.10 @ 7:05AM

Obama's conceit is well documented and Ms. Rabinowitz's phrase that a "A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs" is an understatement.

Obama may be able to save himself now by doing what he disdains in others and in fact he has started.

For instance, he has armed 1,200 National Guardsmen in a publicity stunt and sent them to the border with guns to which they cling. The only thing missing to make the picture complete would be bibles and bitterness. However, their suspicion of the Hispanic race is evident or would be evident if they repel the invaders. They won't. Their mission is a publicity stunt.

That's all Obama bases his political theater on, publicity stunts. From the Greek columns to throwing granny under the bus to claiming he sat in an anti-white anti-American alleged church for 20 years and didn't hear any anti-white anti-American talk, just more publicity stunts.

Obama is the proverbial empty suit, at all times engrossed in the word "I".

Obama is a community organizer, whose main claim to fame is that he organizes on other people's dimes, never his own. Like all liberals he talks the talk but never walks the walk.

On another note, his statement that he would like to kick some ass is laughable and is simply more evidence of his chutzpah. On an executive and managerial basis he is the proverbial 98 pound weakling.

All we have to look forward to is several more years of his economy wrecking tactics, supported by the the fact of his ideology.

Further proof of his weakness lies in the fact that he hates public debate, knowing all along that it's easy to hide from the facts when you are never confronted by them.

scythe| 6.10.10 @ 8:28AM

Your comments are very insightful and enjoyable to read. Couldn't have said it better.

MAJ Mike| 6.10.10 @ 8:57AM

The National Guard deployment is strickly theater. They will perform administrative duties "...freeing up other enforcement units ...".

Bovine excrement! We have National Guard, Army Reserve and Active Component Military Police units that could greatly augment the Border Patrol. But no Administration in my memory has the balls to properly close the border.

Sometimes I think we don't deserve to win.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 12:48PM

A load of Racist tripe that deserves its place on the garbage heap of history....

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 1:42PM

yes...I agree. this does describe your response to everything political and social.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 3:51PM

Still playing dumb, MORON?

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 6:04PM

You shouldn't call yourself names like that... Didn't your Mommy teach you any better?

Tim*| 6.10.10 @ 9:17PM

Purplepuss Plays The Race Card .

Zzzzzzzzzzzz !

Joe| 6.10.10 @ 9:45PM

In the words of the late Jack Buck, pardon me while I stand and applaud.

I may regret this, but Purpleguy, please explain in detail where the racism is in O'Stalin's comment. (Expected answer: That just proves how racist you are.)

S.L. Toddard| 6.10.10 @ 7:18AM

Oh brother. Saul Alinsky again? Someone needs to shout some new words into this echo chamber because it's really starting to get boring in here.

Zip Doodle| 6.10.10 @ 7:28AM

Why don't you? It's your idea. Like most liberals you're too lazy too follow through on your own ideas.

Bydand76@yahoo.com| 6.10.10 @ 8:27AM

Hey Zip,

Toddard is not a Liberal.
He is a "Paleo_Conservative".
Which is a fancy way a saying he is a Pat Buchanan clone. Also known as a "Dinosaur" no pun intended of course!

Toddard?
Your pedantic complaints about the frequency of the subject matter on AmSpec runs periously close to becoming what you accuse the forum of.

If you don't like it? Then don't read it.
Wow! What a novel idea?

I wonder if you have a little temper tantrum when you see articles that you dislike.

Especially articles about Jews, Obama, Alinsky, or anything you disagree with in general.

At least you are smart about your arguments though. Thats pretty cool!

Pro Libertate!

Bilwick1| 6.10.10 @ 8:32AM

If this were the Cold War, and we had articles here from Sovietologists, SLT would probably write in complaining about the constant mention of Marx and Lenin.

Ryan| 6.10.10 @ 8:39AM

Is it untrue? If it is, why?

Margie| 6.10.10 @ 10:57AM

Don't you have a terrorist to defend somewhere, Snottard?

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 12:53PM

True history doesn't seem to matter to this crowd, only the Fixed News and Rush Loudmouth version or should I say revision of history. They don't know anything beyond that "echo chamber" ... Obama bad, Obama bad, Obama bad ... beginning to sound like a bunch of crybabies... If they don't win in November big, they will be completely demoralized. And with the likes of extemists Rand Paul and Sharron Engle, and the has-beens Dan Coates and Phil Toomey, it's looking a lot bluer out there than I had expected November to be ... Have a nice day!

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 1:46PM

suspicions confirmed by your preoccupations on this board: you don't give a rat's patout about the millions of newly unemployed Mr O has graced us with.

ummm...you live in your own, self-imposed echo chamber. it's actually pretty amusing.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:16PM

If you really knew anything, you'd know that since this Great Recession started in December 2007 over a year before President Obama became president, you would know who is to blame... Your boy, Georgie and his ill-conceived reduction in regulatory vigor that allow the financial, mining and now Oil industries to run wild and screw us all..
From the moment Obama took office, we started reversing the downturn, but you don't care about that do you? GW Bush did nothing but hang TARP and the GM and AIG baillouts around our necks in response to the Recession and continued our trend to bankruptcy started by Reagan.

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 2:34PM

Ah yes,

The same old shrill non-sensical blah, blah, blah , it's BUSH'S FAULT and your a RACIST if you disagree with me argument that Purple-douche espouses so well.

What Purple-douche is really trying to do here is impress Rosie O'Donnell (Nate) with his broken record rantings.

Ignore him like you would an annoying mosquito!

How's your shingles there Purple-douche? Itchy?

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:44PM

Can't negate the truth can you? All you can do is name-call and downgrade your opponent. It's really not useful, nor does it work. You can't stand hearing about Bush because even you can't defend him, can you? He is indefensible because we are living with his legacy now, no matter how much y'all try to pin it on Obama ... It was Bush that put us here, and y'all need to pray Obama can get us out. Or Bush will be remembered as Herbert Hoover, the sequel.

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 3:15PM

Oh shut up, Purple, you whiny little child.

Since when are we "opponents? Hmmm? Trying to debate you is about as useful as make-up on Helen Thomas!

All you do is double speak out of the corner of your mouth and ramble on about how bad Bush was and blah de blah de blah. Democrat Party lines and no substance what-so-ever is all anyone ever hears from you!

I can point out to you the number of times people have been critical of President Bush in here but you won't listen to any of it anyways! If anyone disagree's with your utopian world, nanny state, view they are a racist! I could point out to you that Kensyian economics is a flawed principle and has NEVER worked. I could point out to you the sheer hypocrisy of your ass-backwards argument about President Bush. Or President Reagan for that matter but what would be the point. Your mind is already polluted and you wont listen anyways!

Why dont you complain about Iraq or Afghanistan or any of the policies that President Obama has continued over from the previous administration? Can you say Immigration Purple? Eh? Why is that Purple?

I will tell you why!
Because your silly, pointless, and stupid posts only reinforce what I already think about you Purple-Douche.
You are incapable of sincere, independant, original thought.
You are a left-wing party man through and through!
Thats okay, to be honest with you because there is nothing wrong with that persay. You can think and say what you want. However.

I am going to have a little fun at your expense though because I whole-heartedly disagree with you.

If you dont like being insulted and teased about your inane posts. Then don't post here! Simple as that!
Toughen up or quit playing with grown-ups!

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 5:52PM

Dude, I'm not the one that's po'd ... Your little diatribe is just chock full of harangues at me, but, as usual, you don't counter any of my assertions about Bush, Reagan or anyone else - because you can't. The facts are on my side, or you would counter them. Or do you think the Republican Congress with GW Bush helped this country's finances? How about the world's opinion of us? Oh, and how so competent they were (Iraq army disbanded, looting run wild after "combat operations ceased", Katrina, Harriet Myers (the gem of legal prudence), MMS sleeping with their charges, and on and on and on. Ha! Your boy was a disaster and you try to paint his taint on Obama, but it doesn't work does it.? Even when the media is upset with Obama (as if he had them in his pocket, as your commentators always say) he pulls through for the American People. Maybe not YOU American people, but the majority of us. And, after all, we are a Democratic Republic, so the people will have their say. This is why the Tea Party is fizzling and the so-called anti-incumbency is fizzling ... the majority of the people feel what's really going on. Can't wait for November. Every election y'all looked forward to this year, 'cepting Scott Brown was a loss for you. And Scott Brown hasn't turned out to be all that Conservative, now do he? Have a nice day!

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 9:51PM

Purple,

I am not P'O ed at all and you have no clue what you are talking about.

You need to re-read my post

Oh forget about it. You are a hopeless Lib-tard anyways and I grow tired of your nonsense.

We will see what happens in November, if the polls and the past elections recently are any indication of whats going to happen. Your side is in for a rude awakening!

No doubt, you will by then have convinced yourself of some Hilary-esque massive right wing conspiracy theory. Have fun with that!

Until then have fun eating the lawn mushrooms and make sure you try the brown ones

Pro Libertate!

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:01AM

"We will see what happens in November, if the polls and the past elections recently are any indication of whats going to happen. Your side is in for a rude awakening! " - if you believe that, then you really don't know what has happened lately, do you?

Joe| 6.10.10 @ 9:52PM

Uh, dude? Harriet Myers never served a day on the Supreme Court. Not the best call W ever made, agreed. But hardly worth mentioning in your roster of sins.

Oh, how much has the world's opinion of us improved since BO took office? Has his magic hug gotten Iran and North Korea to give up their nukes?

Radegunda| 6.10.10 @ 3:19PM

Conservatives have long said that Bush was really not especially conservative in office. His left-leaning tendencies were heightened after Democrats took over Congress in January 2007. As you note, the economic downtown began in later 2007, AFTER Democrats got control of the legislature and the budgetary process. (You did know that, didn't you ...?)

Democrats had already been filibustering to stop Republican efforts to clean up the rot at Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, where the financial mess began. Barry Hussein Obama contributed to blocking reform, after contributing to building the mortgage house of cards in the first place.

There were downturns in the markets that occurred IMMEDIATELY AFTER: a) Barry Hussein took the primaries (by fraud & intimidation); and b) Barry got elected by the clueless part of the electorate.

Some things that happen in the economy are anticipatory. Investors knew that no good would come with a Marxist in the White House. They were right---contra your bizarre fantasies of an immediate rebound the second Barry took power.

Margie| 6.10.10 @ 3:56PM

Great post, Radegunda, and all true!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 6:02PM

Yeah, you're right ... the stock market went up 60 % after Obama took office, but yeah, you're right. Investors were all so worried about Obama ... you couldn't be more wrong.

The Recession began in Dec 2007, and Bush would not sign the increase in the minimum wage to help the people, nor the CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) to help the children of this country. And, you think he would have signed a stimulus program? They did pass a $500.00 rebate to everyone that qualified. He WOULD sign that ... how that work out for us. Fizzle again.

Bush not conservative enough? Do you really think he did this mess alone? Really? Did you forget the Medicare Drug program that was completely unpaid for (unlike how much the Republicans screamed that HCR needed to be paid for - and it is) ... YOUR Republican Congress did that, and he signed EVERYTHING they sent his way. He did not veto one thing from the Republican Borrow and Spenders, not one. And, he was a spendthrift only when Democrats were in control in Jan 2007 - Please, what are you smoking? Were you on this planet from 2001 to 2007? Go learn something before you start hunting for an argument or debate. It's not that much fun arguing with the unarmed. But, I can't let you get away with your tripe either.

Convet | 6.10.10 @ 3:54PM

Talking sense to you, SEIU Purple people-beater, is like trying to debate a STUMP. Only you're dumber!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 5:42PM

What is this site's constant drum beat on SEIU ... it's a union, so what? You know that a union is a union of workers, not deadbeats, right? Why are y'all so obsessed with SEIU? Did they pea in your tea?

loulou| 6.10.10 @ 9:10PM

SEIU Union members are much like you, perplecreep. They do not pay federal income tax,

JimE| 6.10.10 @ 8:59PM

Purpleasswipe,
Moron, you need to re-read your posts, all you do is name call. Like you obama is a poster child for failure.

Matt| 6.10.10 @ 3:02PM

Brilliant purple-puff. Bush did it! Brilliant! Obamacare & the continued recession are OBAMA'S fault. Obama has scared banks into not lending, and frightened small businesses from hiring because of the potential costs of new employees (health care costs). We own a small business, can't refinance our house (because of tight credit despite a decent income and high credit score), and are looking at increased taxes (and paperwork) and more expensive health care for our employees. This is Obama's vision of stimulating the economy, but in reality is delaying the economic recovery from getting started. its Bush's fault!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 5:40PM

Yep it is Georgie Boy's fault.... if he would have done something in 2007, if they wouldn't have let Lehman Bros. fail, if, if, if ... but he didn't do anything until we were staring into the abyss and y'all want to blame Obama... except for all the pain it would have caused, too bad you didn't have Bush for 1 more year... You would love Obama now... you're being ideologically short-sighted and can't see past your RUBY RED glasses.

Sorry for you troubles, but your narrative is all spin.

Lindsey| 6.10.10 @ 3:15PM

Purpleguy: The TARP, GM, and AIG bailouts were not supported by the true conservatives. (DeMint, Paul, etc. and the only Democrat worth a crap, Russ Feingold.) All the rest, including Obama, McCain and Bush were for the bailouts and Obama and McCain voted for them! The truth is that FAR more Republicans voted against these bailouts than Democrats. In fact, Tarp was voted down in the House before Pelosi started her arm-twisting. Get your facts straight before you start editorializing on this site Purpleguy!!!!!!!!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 5:36PM

Henry Paulson pushed it, GW Bush signed it all, or it all would have come to nothing ... and your unique right-wing nuts always have the right answer dontcha? Funny how most of Washington doesn't agree with you, except the lunatic fringe. YOU get your facts straight before you go a hunting.

danfromatlanta| 6.10.10 @ 5:52PM

Your not purple, you are an ugly shade of blue. What a crock! Even liberals agree that the housing bubble is what brought on the current economic crisis! And who caused that? Your Chris Dodd and his butt buddy Barney Fag! Forcing lenders to write ridiculously risky mortgages to people that had no realistic chance or intent of paying off, and then guiding Fannie and Freddie to buy them in bundles! You liberals are the cause of everything that's wrong in the world today, and I have news for you, .... November will be like 1994 all over again, and you guys will be left wondering what happened?

Toolbag| 6.10.10 @ 8:32PM

It was President Clinton who began the deregulation.

axbucxdu| 6.10.10 @ 9:56PM

The bankruptcy of this nation began in 1913 under a Democrat named Wilson, then accelerated under another Democrat named Roosevelt, and set in stone under a Republican named Nixon. The rest, is, as you like to call it, spin.

Reagan requires no apologia when you consider the problems left him by his immediate predecessor, another Democrat I believe . Talk about cleanup, Reagan had his hands full. The inevitable collapse we face from the Democratic actions taken in 1913 could have occurred in the 80s, except that Reagan's efforts and his reluctant acceptance of Volcker's strategy at the Fed stayed that event until now.

On another note, you never answered the question, where are we to get the 120T$ to keep this farce of a welfare state going? Where? The numbers simply don't add up. The rest of these discussions are piffle in comparison. But by all means keep sparring with your opponents on the other side about this or that minutiae, if that makes you feel better. Lord knows that your side cares so much about feelings.

Mike| 6.11.10 @ 2:30PM

Purpleguy: if you KNEW anything at all, you'd know that it was CONGRESS led by Barney the fag Frank and Teddy the killer Kennedy who were the ones leading the charge for deregulation AND forcing banks and lenders to give loans to people who could not afford to pay them in the first place. Watch more C-SPAN or do some reading on your own--the evidence is there.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 3:52PM

Your mother raise any children that lived, TROLL?

Tim*| 6.10.10 @ 9:26PM

Thank You ObamaBoy !

We ,Tea Party Rebels Are Supporting Pat Toomey , Sharron Angle & Rand Paul .

5 Months to November 2nd .

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 10:57AM

Thank you, thank you, thank you.. please do ... and more

Ronnie| 6.11.10 @ 6:10AM

Purpleguy,
Please explain in detail where the racism is in O'Stalin's comment.

I wonder if you can actually formulate a rational, well thought out response or if you are just going to respond with nothing but blind emotion and rhetoric? Nah, your not gonna answer because you are an intellectual lightweight who just parrots other intellectual lightweights.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 10:56AM

"Obama's conceit is well documented and Ms. Rabinowitz's phrase that a "A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs"is an understatement." - if you don't see it, I can't help you.

Yep, intellectual retard .. yep

Northener| 7.1.10 @ 2:23PM

Not a trace of racism there, merely a mild statement of fact. Try again, you poor pathetic victim of democrat brainwashing.... Sorry, nothing was found to wash.

George F| 6.11.10 @ 10:49AM

Such silly rhetorical thundering Purpleguy! Do you feel better now that you've had your tantrum?

Christopher Holland| 6.10.10 @ 7:46PM

Speaking of the devil....

Afew Moremonths| 6.10.10 @ 7:44AM

Native Born is not Natural Born.
Nothing else matters.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:45PM

Huh?

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 3:55PM

Stupid is as stupid does...

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:25PM

Closest thing to an intelligent comment this hard left loon has ever made.

Rebecca| 6.10.10 @ 7:55AM

Toddard is right. Barack Obama is scarier as words go, even scarier than the words Jimmy Carter. Alinsky just had theories, Obama has power.

I am reminded of the movie Liar Liar in two ways: it seems the president is a lawyer/liar, and like Jim Carry's character may end up having to kick his own a$$.

The maturation of his administration makes catch up and redo more difficult everyday. The facts are simple: oil is spewing in the gulf making life difficult for man and beast. Like the slogans about stroke, delay raises the chance of a poor outcome. It appears that there were requests for help and offers to help almost immediately after the event that required government action that have been ignored until today. Was a burn off taken off the table because of environmentalist?

I am not saying he wanted this mess, but that he seemed unable to understand what would happen by delay and at least try any of the ways of mitigating the damage. He reaction was not equal to the problem. Remember, he did not waste any time in pushing through an almost billion dollar stimulus and spent most of his time getting a low priority major piece of unpopular legislation through. What good is the health care legislation in dealing with this mess. It is just a distraction.

I realize many of the suggestions and proposed fixes that were not employed may have failed, like top kill, etc. It is that he didn't push to have the other options tried that matter. He didn't use his authority well. He can kick a$$. It won't help the Gulf.

chuck| 6.10.10 @ 8:08AM

I think in some ways he is enjoying the accident in the Gulf. It allows him to further pursue his agenda of "de-Americanizing" America. He has nationalized banks, auto-makers, is working to over-regulate and control all aspects of financial markets and Wall Street, so way not use this so-called crisis(never let a good crisis go to waste) as a way to destroy the domestic energy production.

There is just too much that he is doing to thoroughly mess up this country for it not to be intentional.

scotchieguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:41AM

Chuck, exactly. His entire MO is to divide and conquer...create chaos, havoc, and fear--then he and his thugs can come in and really take over. NOTHING he does is accidental--all carefully planned, calculated and done acc. to script. I read this headline in newspaper today "Anger grows as Gulf businesses fight red tape for compensation from BP." I immediately thought--yes, Obama is enjoying this...which is why he has been so slow to respond...let this sucker really take on a life of its own. It is for these reasons I have come to doubt the "accidental" nature of the oil explosion. "Never let a crisis go to waste." Esp. if you create it. Everything is going to script. Except for one thing. People are beginning to wise up to you, Prez. "Ass-Kicker." Your days are numbered, boy.

Nelson H.| 6.10.10 @ 11:51PM

Oh, come on. How is this any different from idiots who say Bush and his cronies were part of a vast 9/11 conspiracy and the Twin Towers were a controlled demolition? OK, I confess, paranoia is called for when we are talking Obama and his grisly regime, but let's not go totally over the cliff into acute paranoia, shall we? You would have to be insane to think this Gulf spill was deliberate and the hapless BP exec who gave the fateful orders was a White House stooge! OK, Obama wants to destroy the economy...but not THIS way!

jeff| 6.10.10 @ 2:29PM

I believe that it is intentional to the point that Obama and his like-minded colleagues are clueless about the outcomes. In the search for utopia, you must become delusional and clueless because utopia is an absolute impossibility here on earth.

The first sentence from "Rules" reads (from Amazon): "WHAT FOLLOWS IS for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be." The key word here is BELIEVE. You can believe what you want, but it will likely not pair with reality in most cases. There is no mention of the outcome of this change except for some form of social justice, which is code for redistribution.

The only intentional part is the change, whatever happens after that is of no consequence because they are indeed clueless.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 3:05PM

A Republican President "Nationalized" the banks with TARP that he passed, a Republican President bailed out the automakers. Don't lie. Obama is changing the country, for the better in many peoples opinion, re-energizing America, if you will. The Good Ol' Boys are po'd, but who cares about them? They can talk to Haley "what oil?" Barbour.
The disaster in the Gulf is 99% the Oil Industry's fault, and in particular BP. Even other oil companies are complaining that BP was reckless, especially with oil recovery, because they know they will feel the pain of further regulation along with the negligent BP. There are better ways to handle the oil industry without unduly interfering with their obscene profits. Government oversight had become lax, and that needs to change. And it will come now, hard.
But the oil industry is responsible for their own risky behavior and should be held accountable. Just because a cop isn't watching, doesn't mean it's okay to run a redlight, is it? $30 Billions or more - whatever it takes to clean it all up and make the Gulf whole again, paid for by BP.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 3:57PM

A tried-and-true member of the liberal "delete".

George True| 6.10.10 @ 4:09PM

Purp, you are wrong in so many different ways it is difficult to know where to begin. You talk about the "obscene" profits of the oil companies. Well, if you like living in our modern age where virtually everything runs on or is derived from oil, you had better hope the oil companies make huge profits, because exploring for and drilling oil is phenomenally expensive, and extraordinarily risky from a financial standpoint. Ultimately, how profitable it is depends on how much people are willing to pay for the product. And as you saw two years ago when gasoline seemed headed for $5.00 a gallon, people responded by dumping their monster trucks and SUV's and replacing them with much more fuel efficient vehicles. High prices cause changes in consumer behavior that subsequently causes the price to come down. That is how the free market works, but I suppose a leftist cannot understand such a thing.

As for your earlier screed about the credit bubble and subsequent real estate/mortgage/CDO meltdown, you need only look in the Congressional Record to know who to blame. On three separate occasions between 2001 and 2006, George H.W. Bush himself went before congress and urged them to reform and rein in Fannie and Freddie before it was too late. On numerous other occasions, Republicans in both the house and senate pleaded with their Dem counterparts to reform the system. All they got was stonewalling, filibustering, and willful obfuscation of the known facts by Dodd in the senate and Frank in the house. It was Dodd and his cronies in the senate combined with Barney Frank and his ilk in the house who steered the economy over the cliff at full throttle. This is a well known fact of which there is no doubt.

Sure, Bush should not have promoted the ill-advised TARP bailout, nor should he have begun the process of bailing out GM and Chrysler. But your Messiah got in there and proceeded to use TARP money for things it was not intended, and he put the auto company bailouts on steroids. Then he pushed for the disastrous $1 trillion non-stimulus bill. Whereas the highest Bush era deficit was about $400 million. Obama presided over a $1.6 trillion deficit in his first year. (And NO, that was NOT because of Bush.) You are trying to argue that Bush spent like a drunken sailor. But then Barry had a deficit in his first 16 months that is as much as all of Bush's deficits over his entire eight years. So if Bush was bad because of the spending , then how is Barry not four times as bad??? You cannot have it both ways.

Eily| 6.10.10 @ 5:32PM

Not only did Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac need to be reigned in, but so does the Federal Reserve who doesn't seem to be accountable to anyone. This whole mess is more Federal Bureaucracy! We don't need it and don't want it!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:36PM

You do realize that "profits" are what's left after everything else is paid for, right? That includes capital expenses, operating expenses, loan payments, taxes, salaries, benefits and overhead. What is left is "profit". And, yes, oil companies have seen obscene profits in recent years ... hmmm since 2001 I presume (wonder who that is due to). Don't you wonder why the price of oil went progressively up during Bush's reign?

Anyway, back to your specious arguments.
" And as you saw two years ago when gasoline seemed headed for $5.00 a gallon, people responded by dumping their monster trucks and SUV's and replacing them with much more fuel efficient vehicles. High prices cause changes in consumer behavior that subsequently causes the price to come down. " And market forces can do that, sure.
But when National Security is at stake, the US Government should artificially raise the price of gas through taxes to get us off of the oil tit. We are so dependent on others, we can easily be blackmailed. If we were energy independent so much would be better in this country. Instead of sending 100's of Billions overseas every year, we could keep the $$ home and use it for everything from clean, renewable energy and jobs to retrofitting every building in the nation for more energy efficiency. It is a National Security Imperative. The time is now, do we need anymore evidence of the dangers of oil?

"Whereas the highest Bush era deficit was about $400 million. " - you toss off 400 million like so much change. Are you kidding? He also squandered a 5 Trillion $ surplus and put us into the deficit borrow and spend cycle after Clinton got us out. Saying your guy is better because my guy is worse is stupid and childish. What big emergency was Bush dealing with for 8 years that he couldn't balance the budget. And, don't tell me 9/11 - he squandered the 5 Trillion before 9/11 hit. A Trillion $, ill-conceived war in Iraq, when the real enemy was in Afghanistan (but didn't have "a target rich environment" - Donald Rumsfeld) and he let Bin Laden get away when he had him by the balls.

Why don't you ask the employees of the car companies and their suppliers whether they are grateful their industries were saved? Why don't you ask all the teachers, firemen, police that weren't laid off if the stimulus was worth it? Why don't you ask the millions who got a little extra in their paychecks to spend every week whether stimulus was worth it? No, you won't do that because you couldn't accept success from someone you despise, isn't that right?

Do you like what Obama is doing in Iraq or Afghanistan? I'll bet you don't like his stance with Israel or with the Islamic world, do you?

As I said in an earlier post, if you don't like the transformative changes Obama is introducting in Education, Healthcare, the Economy, Defense and Regulation, you sure won't like when he starts working on fiscal soundness and cuts your favorite programs. Then we'll see how much you like his fiscal prudence....

Oh, and yes, I can have it both ways.. .the verdict is in on Georgie Boy, my guy is just getting started. If he didn't have to clean up the mess left by the idiot boy Bush, we'd be a little further along. But he inherited what he inherited. It is what it is. You might as well get used to him; he'll be around until 2017.

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:30PM

Has this poor moron ever read ANYTHING not produced by pathological liars on the hard left??

Christopher Holland| 6.10.10 @ 7:49PM

If Obama is so on the ball with public opinion, why are his polls dropping like a lead balloon? When the guy was elected he was popular enough to sell lung cancer, but now he is lung cancer.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:37PM

Same thing happened to your Messiah, Ronald Reagan. In fact, their poll numbers track pretty close in tandem so far. So your point is?

Nelson H.| 6.10.10 @ 11:58PM

Here's the difference: Reagan's policies, even in the depth of the 1982 recession, had the prospect of working, of turning things around. And they promptly did. But Obama's policies lead directly and irrevocably to catastrophe. Just look at what he wants: higher taxes, higher spending, more government control, less economic growth (the direct result of the other three). Reagan wanted lower taxes, lower spending, less government control and more growth. Well, he at least got lower taxes and more growth.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 10:52AM

Actually, Reagan raised taxes 6 times ... but you ignore that, dontcha? That doesn't fit the neat little dittohead narrative. And it wasn't all that prompt was it - It wasn't until 83-84 that the turnaround occurred, which many economists say is a normal business cycle, little to do with Reagan's policies. His deregulation transformative policies though, we are still living with, just turn on the TV and see the thousands of barrels of oil shooting into the Gulf - result of industry run amook, and lack of regulation. How about a mining disaster, how about a financial meltdown .. how about the borrow and spend mentality - all traceable back to Reagan's policies. He was a disaster for the middle class in this country. His rich buddies are the ones who print all the crap y'all believe. Y'all should wake up, y'all are being squeezed by that bunch to believe what is not in your own interest.

And, there is no evidence that lower taxes translates to higher economic growth. If that were true, why would the largest period of economic growth and 22 million jobs in the '90's come after the 2 largest tax increases in history, 1 under Papa Bush, 1 under Clinton? Huh? Got an answer for that one, Chuckie?

axbucxdu| 6.12.10 @ 10:47AM

Then let's see, since rates of taxation have no effect on economic growth, rates at 100% of income in the current environment would be optimal for the income statements and balance sheets of governments at all levels.

We're now emerging, so we're told, from the "Great Recession". Now since growth, as stated by Bad Bob and historical cases, is independent of these rates and relates solely to the business cycle, complete confiscation from the citizenry must therefore lead to those Broad Sunlit Uplands of economic paradise...

George F| 6.11.10 @ 10:56AM

"A Republican President "Nationalized" the banks with TARP that he passed, a Republican President bailed out the automakers. Don't lie."

Correction: A Democratic Congress passed TARP! Obama bailed out the auto industry and nationalized it. Where were you that you don't know this? Or are your rantings simply theatre that builds your sad little ego.

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:33PM

Bingo, you caught him.

Curly Smith| 6.10.10 @ 8:51AM

"He reaction was not equal to the problem."

I think that the reverse is true if you think like a Community Agitator. According to reports Obama knew on the first day how bad the spill was going to be. He did nothing. Then a month later we hear a story about his daughter and Obama spouts the magic words "plug the hole" while simultaneously BP is conducting a "top kill".

His actions were textbook Community Agitator. He did nothing for a month because there was no glory. He would have just received question after question about what he was doing to solve the disaster, questions that he could not possibly hope to answer, questions that would make him look non-responsive to the problem. Then, a solution is at hand! So, Obama speaks, BP listens, and the "hole is plugged". All glory be to Obama.

Sadly for Obama, although the "fix was in" the fix didn't work. His press-op to cover himself in glory covered him in something else and now BP will pay for embarrassing him.

Ret. Marine| 6.10.10 @ 8:02AM

Alright TODDARD, here's a new word for you today, "get" and the second word for you today "lost". Really is it not clear to you today your LOSER wannabe "king" is nothing but an empty suit disguised as a "leader" While you seem to have nothing but dreams of his father on your mind the rest of us, as in We the People, are very concerned about a person sitting in our house throwing clothing all over the furniture making a mess of anything he comes in contact with. He really should go back to his undocumented-worker status and get deported back to his country of origin, kenya, maybe he can get a job working for his cousin he helped get into power and turn that country into a hotbed of terrorist minded individuals such as himself. Heck, I'd even help him along with a little support if he in fact took all of your kind with him.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:40PM

Does Ret. stand for retarded? Aren't you being a little harsh there Chuckie? Do you even read what you write?

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:35PM

Again, nothing but name-calling from someone with nothing to offer.

Nate| 6.10.10 @ 8:08AM

For someone "to kick ass" -- in the context in which the president used the term -- is obviously referring to the process of getting the appropriate people to do their part to address the immediate crisis AND to allocating responsibility properly, a function of something we call civilization.

The reporter used the phrase first; the president responded in kind. I wish he hadn't used this phrase, but I'm not really all that worried about it.

Your whole sense of his handling of the BP oil spill is weird.

If he'd done half of what you now say he should have done you'd be running screaming headlines proclaiming that Obama was nationalizing the oil industry, more evidence of his attempt to destroy America and turn it into a Stalinist death camp.

I'm sorry. I just don't BELIEVE conservatives when they weep for oil spills. Perhaps you'd have the same response if you found me wringing my hands over the steep capital gains tax rates in public.

You called us sissies, heathens, communists, whatever, when we WARNED you something like this might happen. Drill baby drill, you chanted.

This demented faith in the oil companies is on your conscience.

But still, whether the hell you like it or not, BP and BP alone is responsible for the damage caused to communities and to the environment by this awful spill.

chuck| 6.10.10 @ 8:24AM

Let's inject a little sensibility here.

I keep hearing people talk about the disaster, that its going to take decades for the cleanup, how fishing will be destroyed for years to come, and on, and on, and on.

Reality: Yea, its bad right now, but the relief wells will be drilled, the leak will be stopped, and nature will heal itself. Please, do some research for yourself. In 1979, Pemex had a huge blowout off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. It spewed oil for 18months before the relief wells were completed, and "the damned hole" was plugged. Short term impact: A lot of oil in the Gulf. Long term impact: ZILCH!

The fact is that oil when is released in seawater, it will float to the surface, where some of it evaporates, some is dissolved into the water, and what is left over, that is the heavy components, becomes an asphalt like glob that sinks to the floor of the ocean.

Go look at all the massive oil spills of the past, from the 1979 Pemex blowout, to the Exxon Valdez, to Saddam Hussein flooding the Persian Gulf with Kuwaiti oil, and you'll see that within 1-2 years, nature has completely healed itself.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:52PM

Read something and learn.. stop spouting bullshit.

http://www.wholetruth.net/down.....s/02272008 LA Times.pdf

http://www.democracynow.org/20.....valdez_oil

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 11:23PM

Nothing but fodder for leftist dupes.

Purpleguy| 6.12.10 @ 12:08AM

Oh, alright, try these my ideologueness one...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/n.....aska_x.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/worker.htm

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:36PM

Again, nothing but name-calling from someone with nothing to offer.

ggoblue| 6.10.10 @ 8:29AM

as if you walk to work every day

as if you dont have air conditioning or heat your home

you are responsible for driving them into deep and unsafe waters....

could have gotten our oil in a desert in alaska but noooooo...

hypocrite

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:25PM

And, yet in one second the Sun bathes the Earth with enough energy to fulfill our energy needs for an entire year. The simple green plant can make all the energy it needs, clean, renewable energy from CO2 and H2O... Are we that stupid we can't duplicate the lowly plant and photosynthesis?

And, yet there is more wind produced across the Great Plains to provide all our energy needs in one day that we use in one year ... for want of the wind farms to capture it. Did you know that Denmark is almost energy independent due to Wind Technology?

Why in the world do we want to keep pursuing the dirty, dangerous, disgusting oil and gas pockets that we KNOW will run out one day, instead of investing in the virtually unlimited energy the Sun and Earth provide for the taking?

Nelson H.| 6.11.10 @ 12:02AM

The answer is yes: we need ALL forms of energy. Nuclear, oil, coal, wind, solar, hydro, you name it. Some are more efficient than others. Some are dirtier than others. Some are costlier than others. Some are riskier than others. Right now we can't afford to be choosy: we need them all.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 10:40AM

I have no argument with that, but remember, removal of lead from gasoline only happened because the government mandated it, making us all healthier. The transatlantic shipping trade began with the Government's help, or it would not have happened. The transcontinental railroad was possible because of government support. The Government should provide support and incentives to new energy sources, renewable as well as others .. .it's a National Security issue, if not and Environmental one.

Mike| 6.11.10 @ 12:10PM

BS Purpleguy

The transatlantic shipping trade started the day that Europeans set up colonies on the North American continent. By my rough estimate that was 275 years before a United States Government could have facilitated it.

How did those people do it with out Washington's guidance?

Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)

Purpleguy| 6.12.10 @ 12:06AM

Of course you don't know your own history, why am I not surprised. The Transatlantic shipping, not trade, I speak of was regular shipping routes between England and New York started in the 19th century after the invention of the steam ship. The Congress let a contract for a dozen years to a man, who's name I don't recall, that created that regular route for freight and passengers for a dozen years. Then, along came Entrepreneur Cornelius Vanderbilt (you've heard of him? ) and created ships that were faster and provided more comfort to the passengers ... and guess what? He ate the lunch of the man with the Congressional Contract. So, while Congress started the shipping routes with seed money from the US Treasury, Capitalism took over and the Congressional contract ended. Similarly, the Transcontinental Railroad was conceived .. .and in modern times, trips to outer space are on a similar track. The government put up the seed money to start the process and innovation for space travel and now the private sector, seeing $$$ to be made, is jumping in, slowly, but inexorably.

So you see, the moral of the story is that a partnership between Capitalism (or private industry if you will) and the Government can be good for our country as it has in the past.

Right now the renewable energy sources could use the boost from the Government to get technologies started that aren't immediately profitable, but need that start to end up producing green collar jobs.

Any questions, class? There will be a Quiz at 9.

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:42PM

Every comment completely without merit... No way to trap and store the potential energy mentioned, no way to compensate for cloudy or calm days... Typical moron who knows nothing about a subject, and just throws up talking-points a well educated high-school student would laugh at.

ds80| 6.10.10 @ 8:32AM

I have a clear conscience re: oil companies.
And pharmaceutical companies.
And tobacco companies.

And I am gleefully anticipating the a$$ kicking you sanctimonious sneering libs will get in November. You betcha

BTW: please go buy a Prius so I can burn the gas you would otherwise use.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:38PM

I got something you can burn ...

Christopher Holland| 6.10.10 @ 7:51PM

Won't this add to your carbon footprint? Shame on you. Think globally, act locally.

Curly Smith| 6.10.10 @ 9:11AM

Nate,

Read about the importance of pre-positioning spill response equipment: "Lessons from past disasters come into play": http://www.gosanangelo.com/new.....l/?print=1

Then, compare and contrast the response to the BP spill and a 450,000 gallon one in the Houston ship channel in January: http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....31945.html

The same spill response procedures exist at the Federal level and they're funded by taxes on the oil companies. They wouldn't have stopped the leak but could certainly have done a much better job of containing it. The sad fact is the Federal Government failed to properly execute their statutory spill response duties in a timely fashion.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:41PM

Yep, the policies of the President and VP of Oil, Inc really f'ckd this country. Lax regulation or no regulation, defunding of the agencies responsible - what did they think would happen? Republican idiots on display for all the world to see. They screwed up the response to Katrina, and now they helped cause this Oil disaster.... yep, we want them back in power - NOT.

Ret. Marine| 6.10.10 @ 8:42PM

Hewy dipstick those reg's you keep spouting were inacted by one of your fav communit called
Clinton in 1996 after the valdez spitt, what a tard

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:08PM

Talk about a tard. Blame the right President, will ya?
I think you mean the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (FWPCA)i and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) .. 1990, when Papa Bush was President. The Exxon Valdez spill was in 1989; you know that didn't you? In case you don't remember or never knew, learn something here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/op......htmlstory

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 9:21AM

DRILL BABY, DRILL!

Nate, you and the rest of the democrats, from here on referred to as commiecrats (I got the term from Joe McCarthy; rather apt, don't you think?) don't know what you're talking about. There are thousands of rigs in the gulf. Yet, there have been only two major oil spills in the last 70 years. There have been many more tanker oil spills; the reason being that we have to import so much oil because we can't drill here in the U.S. because of government regulations--hence a much greater incidence of tanker oil spills irrespective of double hulls. The reason the oil companies, without which there would be no oil to power our economy--drill at such depths is because of the wacko environmentalists who forced their commiecrats allies to enact legislation prohibiting shallow and on land drilling. Do you remember when Bill Clinton incentivize the oil companies to drill at greater and greater depths, to appease the wacko environmentalists? No, I guess you don't. Go on trying to convince yourself with the pap you continue to spew; you're not fooling anyone. And by the way, most of my college liberal arts professors here in the U.S. were a bunch of leftist, rude and condescending wackos, and the Tea Partiers, whom you derided in another posting as blind followers of Sarah Palin, were just shown in a poll by Zogby to know most about economics, while the leftist commicrat liberals were found to know the least.

scotchieguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:50AM

JmsA, you read Ron Ross' article "Perspective--lost in the gulf." I love that stat: hundreds of rigs in the gulf...70 years of drilling in gulf...only two major spills. I guess there is always room for one more hypocrite.

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 9:30PM

scotchieguy,

Never heard of Ron Ross. There are not just hundreds of rigs, but thousands, and coupled with the spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, there was the Ixtoc spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979. So what's your point, besides attributing your own shortcomings to someone else?

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 9:31PM

Oh, my what a tangled web we weave when ... we deceive !

"The reason the oil companies, ... --drill at such depths is because of the wacko environmentalists who forced their commiecrats allies to enact legislation prohibiting shallow and on land drilling. " - Not true my uninformed one ...
60% of the estimated oil in this country is offshore on the OCS ... while 40% of the natural gas is on the OCS. The oil companies drill offshore because THAT'S WHERE THE OIL IS, you dolt! Check it out and learn something.
http://www.mms.gov/offshore/

"hundreds of rigs in the gulf...70 years of drilling in gulf...only two major spills." - tell that to the families of the 11 that died - downplay it all you want heartless stone.

It's a dangerous, dirty business left free reign under the lack of oversight by the Bushies and the Gulf will pay for their stupidity for decades, as will we all.

One day all the oil everywhere will run out. And, yet enough energy hit the surface of the Earth from the Sun in one second to provide all our energy needs for a year. Why is that a lowly green plant can use sun, CO2 and H2O and create all the energy it needs, while we can't duplicate photosynthesis? Add some wind power to that and we won't need no stinkin' oil .... be imaginative. The Founders were ...

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 11:17PM

Purpleturd,

Oh, I see, you got your (supposed) facts from a government website. That's original, if not sacrosanct for dupes like you, though not ultimately not surprising. You call me heartless. Where did I downplay the calamity? I just stated facts, including that there have been many more oil shipping disasters than rig incidents because of our having to import so much of our oil, because of the environmental wackos and their commicrat cronies in congress, etc. How long did it take the One to meet with the families of the hurt and dead? Can you say 50+ days? How long did it take the One to finally arrive at the Gulf following the disaster? Wasn't it 12 days or so after it happened? Oh, yeah! He really cares for the dead and hurt. And you call me heartless. I guess the One couldn't forgo his two vacations, fundraising events, and McCartney's party in the White House, huh? I did not wish for those people to die. I have family in St. Bernard Parish, who, as no doubt are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will be severely affected by the inept actions of BP and the One and his cronies, including "boot in their neck" Salazar, not to mention the lawyer they appointed to run MMS. Ever hear of Sylvia Baca? Do a Google search. I'll save you the time. She worked in the Clinton administration as an environmental hack, and then worked for BP for six years. Bush is done and gone. Get used to it. Your boy, the wondrous One, has been in charge for 16 months now. Don't you think it's time to move on? BP was slated to receive a prize for safety from MMS, during its direction by Ms. Birnbaum, who was either fired or resigned, though no one could get a definitive answer from the One about it. Rahm Emmanuel lived rent-free thanks to Stanley Greenberg (the husband of Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D) from Connecticut), whose consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's remaking efforts (Beyond Petroleum) to a green petroleum company. If anyone is beholden to BP is this administration. Also, don't forget that BP also made enormous research grants to a project headed by Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Yes, he of the Nobel Prize. Didn't the One win one of those, too? For the life of me though, I can't recall what he won it for? Can you? But I digress. How many leaking holes has Mr. Chu capped? There is no oil company more politically correct, or politically connected than BP.

Speaking of Bush, during the first Iraq War, Bush, Sr. sent Red Adair's oil capping company into Kuwait, and 628 sabotaged, booby-trapped, and blown up, burning rigs were capped in less than nine months. How many oil wells has the One/BP capped in almost two months. None! How's this for caring?: Governor Jindal declared a State of Emergency; yet, the One hasn't. The Dutch government, with fleets of oil recovery barges and sand berm protection floats at the ready, offered to help with the spill from day one, but the One and BP told them "no thanks"--more than 50 days ago. I guess the One, the ditherer in chief is looking still for some one's "ass to kick" and feigning anger. Yeah, that's going to help a lot.

As to your green technology nonsense, why don't you go tell it to the Spaniards, who are going broke because of it. Stop the conflating the Founders with what's going on today; none of those guys were outright scientists, save for possibly Benjamin Franklin. How about nuclear power? I hear the French not only produce 90 percent of their electricity from 60 or so nuclear plants, but also sell juice to the green dupes in Germany, etc. Now, that's imaginative. Unlike you, who worships at the feet of a demagogue and government, I care for human beings and other creatures now dead and suffering in the gulf, thanks to the ineptitude, if not negligence of BP, aided and abetted by a corrupt and crass administration overly laden with incompetent political hacks. As always, 11/02/2010

northerner| 7.1.10 @ 2:48PM

Do you think ANY left of center forum, would tolerate an educated, informed conservative for a tiny fraction of a second, or show as much courtesy to him, as has been shown for this hard left liar and moron? Not a chance.

chester arthur| 6.10.10 @ 10:08AM

The demented faith of the left in enviro-weenieism is on their limited consciences and consciousness.Due to the extremists demands of no onshore or shallow water drilling,an accident site becomes very hard to reach and very hard to fix(small words used to match leftists' level of understanding).If this accident had happened on land,even in the Alaskan wilderness,or close to shore where deep sea robotic assistance would not be the only safe method useable to fix the leak,it would have been plugged almost immediately.Thank environmentalists for this ecological disaster,they certainly deserve the primary blame for the difficulty in stopping the leak quickly.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:54PM

Oh, my poor dittohead ...

Not true my uninformed one ...
60% of the estimated oil in this country is offshore on the OCS ... while 40% of the natural gas is on the OCS. The oil companies drill offshore because THAT'S WHERE THE OIL IS, you dolt! Check it out and learn something.
http://www.mms.gov/offshore/

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 11:25PM

Purpleturd,

Can you tell me how deep Anwar is?

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 10:06AM

In fact, 92% of the proven untapped oil reserves are offshore ... API, Congressional Hearing on the Deep Water Horizon Disaster.

Hoppy| 6.10.10 @ 7:00PM

Do you suppose that more drilling on dry land or in shallow water might prevent this kind of thing from happening? Demented faith in oil companies? Hardly. You do know of course that the keyboard you type on and the computer connected to it depend on petroleum, don't you? Personally, I'd support a lot more nuclear power. How about you?

martine Z| 6.10.10 @ 8:23AM

He doesn't like America, he doesn't like Americans and he doesn't give a rip about anything but his own socialist agenda.

Jaye| 6.10.10 @ 10:20AM

My thoughts exactly!

kick my ass first, please| 6.10.10 @ 8:26AM

this is ggoblue begging to be first in line to kick obamas ass...

meet me behind the bowling alley mr tough guy...

better bring the secret service...im 55 yrs old and 30 lbs over weight...but i'll let you have the first punch....

it will be like hitting a girl

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 8:36AM

Calm down Hero!

Your forgetting about Michelle Obama!

She would whup your azz like a Sno-cone on a hot Georgia day (FT Benning reference!)

Better bring some back up dude! Laura Ingram or Ann Coultier would be a good choice !

Pro Libertate!

Hoppy| 6.10.10 @ 7:03PM

Hell, I'm 73, have 6 arterial stents and half a lung on the left side, and I'd love to see him try to kick MY scrawny little ass.

Ret. Marine| 6.10.10 @ 8:48PM

I've always warned my opposition " never bring a knife to a gun fight", I'm with you all the way, back up, not for a fricken Marine minute. F*&k with the best, die like the rest. I'm 58 and I believe I have not forgotton the training.

JmsA| 6.10.10 @ 9:33PM

Don't worry, Hoppy. He's only a faux thug. He can't even throw a baseball.

edgard| 6.10.10 @ 8:37AM

The environmental wackoos and they alone are responsible for all the oilspills at sea for their objections to drilling on land, in the ANWAR?, for objecting to "Fracking" For objecting to extracting oil from shale formation etc. I begin to believe that their leaders are in effect paid off stooges by the arab oil barons, in order to suppress domestic production. I sure hope that your socialist enablers get a sound "ass-kicking this coming November and we see some "Real change" ed

Eily| 6.10.10 @ 5:42PM

AMEN! If we had been drilling here instead of sucking up to the Arabs, we would not be having to pay such a big amount to fill our tanks!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:56PM

We use > 25% of the world output of oil and have 4% of the oil reserves .. .just how long do you want to keep your head in the sand, dummy? Can you add, subtract, multiply and divide?

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 10:55PM

edgard| 6.10.10 @ 8:45AM

What ever happen to my :"SHI-SHI comment? ed

ojo grande| 6.10.10 @ 8:45AM

Nate,
Your president is impotent like most liberal men.

The American people want action from the federal government not some silly late "I goona kick some ass" retort.

Only BP can stop the leak. It was up to the Feds to build hundreds of sand berms to stop the oil from ruining all the coastal areas that are the breeding grounds for wildlife and sea creatures. It was up to the feds to buy every buoy they could find worldwide to stop the oil from coming ashore. A factory in Maine can't give theirs away. It was up to the feds to get the best skimming equipment in the world to the gulf to do their jobs. It was up to the feds to get out of the way of the Gulf Govenors so they could get the job done that the feds weren't doing. Instead, Obama sent his Attorney General and other liberal wackos down there to threaten BP with "We have our boot on the neck" bullsh*t. The only man with balls or brains in this debacle has been the head of the Coast Guard who is working with BP to solve this problem, not against BP.

So, you can rave and rant against BP...but they are the only one that have tried to stop the leak, buy the buoys, get the skimmers, clean the beaches, etc. etc. All Obama has done is stand on the shore in his nicely pressed suit pants and dress shirt and complain that he is going to sue BP's ass....but then, that is all we can expect from a typical far-left lawyer.

And if you don't like oil companies and drill baby drill....I suggest you sell your car and walk or ride a horse.

Bob Miller| 6.10.10 @ 8:48AM

Only Obama can find away to do worse than nothing. What a talent!

ojo grande| 6.10.10 @ 8:59AM

egard,
You are right.

The deeper you have to drill, the more difficult it becomes and the more likely there will be oil spills.

But, the wacko environmentalists only cared about not 'seeing' the oil platforms...it ruined their ocean views. They feel that way about seeing Wind Turbines too...so they've gone to court to stop those unsightly things from being built along the eastern seaboard.

Every reasonable person wants oil drilling to be done in a competent environmentally safe way. No one wants oil spills, most of all companies like BP. This is a disaster for them too. I wouldn't be surprised if BP sells it American company after this spill and or closes its doors which would mean thousands of American BP employees would be out of jobs. It will take years for the gulf coast to recover....there are no winners here.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.10.10 @ 9:45AM

Quin,
I understand your dejection when confronting this "alien person" in Our house.

In my mind...we American voters ought to be kicking our own arses. Sir, we have screwed the pooch big time, both in electing this man...and his despicable congress as well.
I am not sure if I will see the complete recovery of America in my life-time, Quin.

The damage already done is simply breath-taking, but the further damage that could still be done on this "regime's" watch... in my wildest imagination I cannot quite get my hands around.

Sir, keep shining your spotlight on these things for us.
God bless

Shamus| 6.10.10 @ 9:52AM

The Ass Kicking Czar will be appointed shortly.

Helen Donnelly| 6.10.10 @ 2:46PM

Good one...

Louis Jenkins| 6.10.10 @ 10:19AM

The American Public is the only ones getting their A$$ kicked. Let not the Pretender n Chief get his hands dirty. It's past time to get moving folks, Nov.'s election is just around the corner, and from the looks of a few primaries the Pretender n Chief is fixing to get his A$$ handed to him. Keep up the pressure.

ElGordo| 6.10.10 @ 10:29AM

Negative comments regarding Obama's "Ass-Kicking " statement are now being called racist.

Mark Halperin tried this tactic on Wednesday's O'Reilly's Factor TV program. Halperin even tried to connect the Tea Party to racism but O'Reilly ridiculed Halperin's attempt at Race-Baiting.

The charge of Race-Baiting should be used more often when unsubstantiated charges of racism are made.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:15AM

Since no one can really know what's in another's heart, racism is in the eyes of the beholder. But, you have to admit, there have been some comments that smack of racism ... "not an American", "an Alien", "lynching" ... do you not?

Ray| 6.10.10 @ 1:09PM

Racism is NOT in the eye of the beholder, it's in the actions of those who are racists. What you're describing is self-victimization, believing oneself to be a victim because of some vague reference or comment that you, yourself find disturbing or insulting your your own self esteem. That's what I would call a wounded ego response.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:12PM

Dude, I know racism when I see it, even if you don't. Moreover, I have never been a victim of it myself.
What you describe is the typical excuse of the racist that wants to point outside himself to hide the true feelings of racial hate he feels that he projects onto others to feel better for the internal guilt he has buried deep inside.

The case is very true that the racist, sexist or homophobe rarely sees it in themselves. Even those that profess themselves clear of all of it can be surprised by the very act or thought they thought they could never be touched by.

Note I throw racism, sexism and homophobism together because they all come from the same "different from me" mentality that is natural, with all beings wanting to seek out their sames, but it is divisive in a civilized society, and it takes work to knock your natural reaction out of you in the interest of the greater good. Have a nice day, and clear your heart for peace and love.

Ms. Jones| 6.10.10 @ 4:03PM

Sir, you claim in one post that "no one can really know what's in another's heart", then proceed to describe in your next post what a racist wants, thinks and feels. Too many people assume that dislike of the President's policies and tactics are rooted in racism.

Hoppy| 6.10.10 @ 7:08PM

You are finally beginning to make a little bit of sense, even if you don't intend to. You criticize others for what you fear in yourself.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 4:00PM

You threatening to lynch the president, melon-head?

bahmi| 6.10.10 @ 8:38PM

Purplefreak, just what does it mean when tons of money was spent by Obama to hide his academic and other facts? How about a job for Kagan who helped hide his info while she was the dean at Haaavaaad? And, remember how the Dems hated W, how they wanted to separate him from his testicles? OK for Dems, not OK for the other guys, right? Of course, purplepunk, it's always that way. Obama has no love for the country, in fact, he wants a TAN complexion from coast to coast, his part of the Marcus Garvey scenario. Obama is the biggest racist we've ever had in politics, and your stupid and limpwristed verbiage calling those who have nailed Obama's motives as racists is typical purplegarbage. Put differently, if the shoe fits, wear it. Obama, the racist, is an alien in both origins and political motivations. You no like, tough. He is what he is, the biggest racist extant in this country as we speak.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:55PM

I thought Dubya was a nice guy enough, but shit, not somebody I wanted as President. 40 years old and still partying? An alcoholic with all the pressures a President has on him, Really? That's why he outsourced his job to Cheney. He couldn't handle it.

On the other hand, Obama, while also a nice man, is able to handle the job. No President since FDR has had as much to handle in his first 1 1/2 years in office. Can you even remember what Bush did in 2001 before 9/11. That is, other than be on vacation ...

Whether you like him or not, Obama is YOUR President and you only have one. Work with him and help the country ... work against him and hurt the country. Which do you want?

loulou| 6.10.10 @ 10:47AM

Dorothy Rabinowitz is brilliant but I wish she hadn't taken that gratuitious swipe at "birthers".

darcy| 6.10.10 @ 4:10PM

I agree, loulou. It was rather ironic of D. Rabinowitz to assert (correctly) that the man in the oval is an alien (to the essence of what America is) and simultaneously dismiss as a POSSIBLE reason for his alien-ness that O has never been one of us because he was born and later bred in countries and cultures inimical to AMERICA.

That she would label so-called birthers as the "demented fringe" speaks volumes about her elitist sympathies. Meanwhile, we "demented" are left to wonder at her blindspot in making an assertion, the possible cause staring her in the face, and her utter inability -- perhaps even her arrogance -- to see the issue LOGICALLY.

Perhaps she's apprehensive about what the possible truth as per O's natural-born status portends.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:05AM

"I've been agonizing over what to write this week" - that's the problem... trying to fill up the article list with controversial topics or something to please the conservative base is not easy, when there is nothing controversial or pleasing to the conservative base. When the President doesn't fit your stereotypes, it gives you fits.. I feel your pain ... but oh, so enjoy it.

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 1:50PM

you mean....something like the primaries in NV, CA, and SC?

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 2:04PM

Oh, absolutely ... the CA women don't have a chance - despite Ms Billionaire buying elections. SC is an aberration, as they always are .. I've written SC off a long time ago as extreme right wing, not worth the effort. NV is going to be fun ... Sharron Angle wants to ban Social Security and Medicare, she's against Fluoride in water, and against alcohol in Nevada! Nevada? Really?
Oh, yes, I plan on enjoying the current spin on the Tea Party and Anti-incumbency going down in flames in November.
Unfortunately for y'all, people remember the roaring '90's under a Democratic Administration rather than the Reagan era - remembering mostly Iran-Contra and End of Cold War from that time. Besides, our borrow and spend habit traces back to bad old Reagan. "Deficits don't matter"- Ronald Reagan, remember?

And, when they are hurting economically, they don't follow the Republican "Big Business is good for you" and "your on your own" mantra. They follow the Democrats "Party of the People Big Tent Party" and "we feel your pain" .

The tossups - PA, IL, NV, OH, WA, FL will all give us Blue Senators... at least FL will not be Red. OH will be a blue pickup. MO, NH, AR will probably go Red. MO and AR are iffy though. MO would be a pickup for Blue.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 4:01PM

Wait 'til November, klown. You'll feel REAL PAIN!!!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:16PM

Oh, you mean like PA-12 or NY-23? And, boy will I feel pain with nutcase Rand Paul running in Ky. And, your boy Rubio is behind in FL ... tsk, tsk. And, to top it off, Sharron "I believe we should ban alcohol, social security and medicare" Angle in Nevada really gives me pain --- from too much laughter. Yep, this is really shaping up to be a painful year for me ... hahaha ... Have a nice day.

Liberal Reader| 6.10.10 @ 8:08PM

Get used to disappointment. Things will be worse in the fall and you will look fondly back on a couple of special elections. The curtain is being pulled back from the moron we call president and there is just a simple minded leftest learning first hand that all his ideas are wrong and all that is left is shaking the public down for bribes. Purpleguy has spent his whole political existence supporting graft and nothing more.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:50PM

Try 9 of 10 special elections went Democrat... kinda ruined the day of the RNC ...

"Purpleguy has spent his whole political existence supporting graft and nothing more. " - interesting you should say that since I voted for Reagan 2x and Papa Bush ...

Petronius| 6.10.10 @ 11:22AM

I would love to see the oil companies refuse to sell their products to liberals. If I owned a gas station all cars with Obama stickers on the bumpers would not get 1 drop. These bastards hate commerce so much, they should get their wish: NO SALE!!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:35AM

Now, aren't we sounding true, blue American today? Wow, way to uphold the Constitution. That's what you want us to think of conservatives?

Progressives and Liberals don't hate commerce, it's just not any more important than other aspects in life. When your baby dies from lead poisoning because some asshole in China took the cheap way out and created lead coated toys, you might feel differently. When your beaches, bays and bayous are loaded with oil in the interest of saving a few bucks, you might feel differently. When an airline has inexperienced pilots flying the plane, in the interest of cost savings, and you almost lose you life or loved ones, or maybe worse, do lose them, you might feel differently.

Unregulated, or poorly regulated, completely laissez-faire policies toward commerce, trade and industry always cause tragedies. We learned that during the Robber Barons era and the sweat shops and meat packing disasters. Why do we not remember the lessons? Why must we be so stupid in the interest of ideology?

Ray| 6.10.10 @ 1:28PM

Show me in the Constitution where you have the right to buy a product from somebody? You have a "right" to refuse to buy any given product for any reason you choose, so others should have a "right" to refuse to sell you their product for any reason they choose. You see, rights are not a "one way street," one that grants you rights by forcing others to submit to your will. They also have a will, they also have rights. Your rights do not superseded theirs. Even the Constitution says that.

The Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

So, if you have the right to refuse to buy a product, others have the right to refuse to sell it to you.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 1:53PM

Nope, dope. Sorry, my low-information one ... this is settled law, consecrated by the Supreme Court. You do NOT have the right to sell to anyone if you are open to the public for business, period, end of story. You have a gas station, grocery store, or restaurant - you MUST serve everyone or anyone that follows civil norms (shoes, shirts, etc. ). You have no choice, per the Constitution. Equal protection under law. Go learn something. Stop listening to Rush Loudmouth, Ann Coultergeist, and Sean Insanity... the echo chamber is wrong.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 4:04PM

You an attorney, meatball? Yeah, thought so!

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:05PM

Wrong again ... Brainiac.

Liberal Reader| 6.10.10 @ 7:57PM

Convet should have just left it at parasite. Troll rehab is the only safe place for Purpleguy. I recommend a site in the advanced kleptocracy of Somalia. This is the end point of progressivism, a failed state with thugs stopping all useful economic activity.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:46PM

Again, a reversal in fortune ... Somalia would be perfect for those who espouse small government ... they have the perfect paradise for you - no government at all. You could do whatever you want, and no one will tell you differently and will not tax you at all. No pesky laws or lawmen. You can keep everything you can hang on to, batter your women, screw underage boys and girls, brew all the moonshine you want, and force everyone to your will with enough firepower. Doesn't that sound like Tea Party heaven ?

Petronius| 6.10.10 @ 9:25PM

Just because the Supreme Court and the beltway establishment shove your policies down our throats means we have to accept it. When the first so called Civil Rights Bill became law, only middle class whites lost our rights to freely associate or not. Thousands of small businesses folded up and fled the cities rather than get robbed to the bare walls or burned out like in the Watts riots. Don't ever speak of "civil norms" from either of your faces. Being forced to treat with ones enemies confers rights and protection to the intruding party. You don't want equality. You demand and get preferment through iron clad control of the legal establishment. And we know that in your lexicon "get" is synonymous with "take". A private business should be exactly that; private. Any person engaging in commerce who owns his building, land, equipment, fixtures, and inventory outright deserves the absolute right to hang a sign declaring his right to refuse service to anyone because it all belongs to him, and not you or whoever else.

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 1:55PM

more fatuous thinking. the laissez-faire argument is a tiresome left-wing/progressive bogeyman we have all had to suffer for decades. it also neglects another side of the argument - at point does government and regulation become burdensome/part of the problem? the whole experience of the last century leading to the present has been an inexorable march to greater government control and regulation. perhaps your analysis on outcomes needs to factor this into the personal decision process.

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 4:03PM

You lie like a rug.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:07PM

Au contraire, Laissez-faire is all GW Bush remembered from his MBA days. Wow that really helped, didn't it?

Ms. Jones| 6.10.10 @ 4:22PM

Unfortunately, there are those who are going to find a way around legislation and regulation. Too many people put blind faith in the government to keep them safe. All the rules and regs in the world can be undone by one unscrupulous inspector on the take, or corrupt CEOs cooking the books (like Franklin Raines at Fannie Mae or Enron's Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling). Caveat emptor.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:13PM

Completely agree with you.. The pendulum swings one way or the other, but it should stay somewhere in the middle, like Goldilocks Porridge.

Trouble is, without the cop on the beat, crime is going to be more rampant. The Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to make all the $$$ they can.. it is the law! Sooo, they do whatever they can to pay low wages, sell high at prices, cut corners, cut safety and anything they can to make the almighty dollar. Did you know they are legally responsible to make all the profit they can? If the Government doesn't at least try to regulate industry, it's a frickin' free for all, and we have no defense. Free market doesn't help you when you've taken poisoned medications and are dead! Or because you didn't plan for a huge oil spill - it could never happen - just like the Titanic was unsinkable... How arrogant Corporations can be. Stupid, but arrogant .. since it's not their lives or livelihoods at stake.

Northern Rebel| 6.10.10 @ 11:22AM

Well done, Quinn!

Rebecca:

Now you've done it!

By saying SL Toddard is right, you've doomed us to listen to even more of his specious blather!

Thanks, Hon.

Purpleguy:

Not to worry. You fit all the stereotypes that need to be filled.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 11:28AM

What a bunch of racist tripe. Alien? The President is cool-headed under fire, not like that idiot John McCain. He's dealing with deregulatory mess left by his predecessors, whether financial, mining or drilling. He's dealing with the hardest problems this country has, so it is no wonder feathers get ruffled. Change is hard, but good for this country.

If you don't like the fiscal spending now, wait until he starts curtailing the spending on all your favorite programs. Mark my words, the screaming will be deafening - but good for this country. We will look back on his Presidency in awe of what he has accomplished. But, as is typical, the people feeling the pain will not give him credit (well, some of us do) - but history will.

The press corps has their own reasons for ginning up controversy that have nothing to do with facts or reality, only ratings. I tend to ignore them, other than for entertainment value.

George S| 6.10.10 @ 1:23PM

Cool under fire... not like McCain. Couldn't agree more, especially when McCain was on the USS Forrestal when it caught fire and engulfed his taxiing jet in flames. He lost his head by jumping out and pulling a fellow pilot from his plane when a bomb exploded, sending shrapnel through his body. Then, he lost his head again by flying combat missions, being shot down and breaking arms and leg, being bayoneted and taken prisoner in North Vietnam. Yeah... can't trust that guy with the presidency.

You owe the Senator an apology.

darcy| 6.10.10 @ 4:33PM

So we are to follow McCain off the cliff because in his youth he demonstrated courage? And his character, integrity, and ideological principles are questions henceforth forever off limits?

It's interesting that you fail to cite his harsh abandonment of wife #1 -- suffering debilitating effects from an auto accident -- to pursue wife #2, an heiress of not inconsiderable fortune.

I would say your comments reflect a regrettable myopathy as pertains to McCain. You say absolutely nothing about his heralding comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty to law-breakers) with the likes of Ted Kennedy; you say nothing about his economy-killing cap and trade support; you say nothing about his campaign-finance reform legislation, designed specifically to violate the free-speech rights of certain groups while exempting other groups.

And yet, because McCain was a 'war-hero,' he can be excused for helping to lead America progressively left-ward? It is a great pity and loss to America that McCain's political goals have not mirrored his military accomplishments. But some people are still fooled by the hero/POW stories.

Purpleguy| 6.10.10 @ 7:03PM

Sorry, Chief, but when he was that age, fine... but not the ol' doddering Grandpa McCain... Did you not see his nittering, nattering , and dithering in the fall of 2008? He was completely useless in the crisis, even told the country "our fundamentals are sound" ... and you think HE should be President. No way, the guy's a washed up has-been. He deserves praise and adulation for his service, but he doesn't deserve to be President or Senator for that matter with his unprincipled flip/flopping of late ... "I'm no Maverick" when he has a book with Maverick in the title for cripes sake. And, yes you're right, can't trust this senile ol' man with the Presidency.

Ray| 6.10.10 @ 1:38PM

Racists tripe? How did you determine that, based upon Obama's skin color? This may come as a surprise to you, but but "aliens" come in all races. You do realize this, right? Besides, we're talking about alien thought processes, not alien, or racial, origins.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:43PM

There was a reason the Nazis had Jews where Yellow Stars and Homosexuals where Pink Triangles - so they could pick them out better for "special handling" ... since that time most "aliens", "minorities", and "undesirables" have been very sensitive too and rightly so being labeled as the first step on a slope to special handling. If they ever target whites, they wouldn't be hard to spot either. In fact, one of the problems Americans had in WWII is that most American men of the day were circumsized, while most Europeans were not. The Jewish religion has a ritual that circumsizes their men. So, it was difficult for some American men to prove they were not Jews, which would mean they would sent for "special handling". Only the carrying of the Christian Bible saved many an American man from the Gas Chambers or Concentration Camps.

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 1:58PM

yes...the corruption and factual manipulation/lying that led to Obamacare was "good for the country". you sure have your intellectual fingers on the pulse of things!

Convet| 6.10.10 @ 4:05PM

Now we're name calling. I thought you wanted civil discourse, RACIST.

Liberal Reader| 6.10.10 @ 7:51PM

"The President is cool-headed under fire..."

Yea like Chance the Gardener. Obama is not as stupid as his followers but it is close. We will remember him but like a Jimmy Carter-like incompetent. We needed some leadership and got a Chicago criminal. When the parasites get through feeding there won't be much left. Unfortunately the host has awoken and the parasites will be removed and dealt with. Go to Somalia Purpleguy before it is too late. You are not sustainable.

bahmi| 6.10.10 @ 8:54PM

To be correct, purplepunk, you should probably blame Abe Lincoln, ace Republican, for what has come along and hurt our country. Republicans, notably, have started all wars, right? Clearly, you have answers for all your weirdo freakshows like Pelosi, Reid, the numbskull Obama and his likewise affirmative action wife. The country is in shambles, just fine with the Dems, right? Obama, with his pencil stick arms is gonna kick some arse, right? Hopefully, he has an aggressive Teleprompter that will attempt the kicking soiree, obviously he can't do diddly. I mean, all whitey's are the same, right? Just racists, hate the blacks and Hispanics, while Dems just luvv all shapes, sizes and colors. Bubba was the first black president, not Obama. Bubba was all black, Obama isn't and you ain't finding out nuthin' about him 'cuz he spent him some big dough to hide all that info from racist Whitey's. Everything about Obama is just all right with fellow blacks, they'd vote for a possum if somehow they could register said critter. Who's the racists now, purplepunk?

Purpleguy| 6.12.10 @ 11:31PM

You are - did you read what you wrote?

JimE| 6.10.10 @ 9:06PM

Retard, he hasn't fixed a thing yet except trying fix blame. Homeboy won't curtail spending on anything. You continue to grovel at his anus and soon you will be rewarded.

Purpleguy| 6.12.10 @ 11:32PM

Why are you so interested in his anus? you said it, I didn't

Melvin| 6.10.10 @ 11:29AM

People here is a frighting thought. The big eared jug-head that sits in the White House has done immeasurable damage to this Country and our allies in a short amount of time.
How many more years does he have to left to complete this cycle of destruction?
He has used his regulatory Facsists by having them systematically choke off coal production because of the mine explosion a couple of months ago and now our oil production will follow suit and and also be choked off all in the name of the environment flavor of the day is.
You see the Global Warming Scam was plan "A" to cause the price of energy to skyrocket. That fizzled in a freezing storm in Copenhagen and what we are witnessing now is the implementation of plan "B" which will have the same effect of causing the cost of energy to rise exponentially
it will just take longer for it to come to fruition.
You didn't think since the failure of Copenhagen that the Environment Facsists were just going to roll over and cry, "Uncle" did you?

"He who controls the energy controls the people."

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.10.10 @ 11:42AM

Melvin,
Your last sentence was ...prescient.

"He who controls the energy controls the people."

Heh, Obama and crew "think" they control it. We Texans and Coon-arses, and Okies, and Alaskans ACTUALLY do.

Obama and crew can raise prices exponentially. We above, (in the words of Mastercard), can make energy "priceless".

Our energy workers...and bosses...just want to make a profit selling our products and services.

Bankrupt us? Shame on you.

Melvin| 6.10.10 @ 2:22PM

Ken, you know my posts for a while now, but maybe I should have supported my statement more.
What I meant was, private enterprise will not be the ones calling the shots on anything because Fascism as defined by Merriam Webster: " the movement or governmental regime embodying their principles
2 a : any program for setting up a centralized autocratic national regime with severely nationalistic policies, exercising regimentation of industry, commerce, and finance, rigid censorship, and forcible suppression of opposition."
This is what is happening to the energy sector, it is being forced by regulation in complying with outrageous government mandated dictates in how they should run their businesses.
Because if the government can control the energy that we need to survive and thrive, it defacto controls how we live our lives.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.10.10 @ 6:24PM

Melvin,
I always appreciate your thoughts, but I'm not sure if you really understand how stubborn and proud the guys are who produce our oil.

Heh, if you think the guys at the Alamo were stupid, you haven't met any roughnecks and pipeliners yet.

Melvin| 6.10.10 @ 9:24PM

Ken, buddy, beats the hell out of me how you and I got on the opposite side of the spectrum here.
I'm not against companies drilling for oil or the men and women who work tirelessly to provide Americans our energy.
What I'm against is the government telling the oil companies what to do.
It's like a government bureaucrat coming into your office and telling you how to run your company. And the bureaucrat hasn't a clue in what your company does.
I don't know how I got you so bumfuzzled. We're normally on the same sheet of music.
But I will tell you this, I'll be the first one to throw Ken Salazar into the Gulf of Mexico off an oil rig, and for consolation prize you can throw that jug-headed President's teleprompter in after him, but please leave it plugged in.
And for you government drones who troll this web site for extremists, I'm making an attempt at humor here. Sorry for this disclaimer Ken, in these times we have to do such things.

Chalkdust| 6.10.10 @ 11:57AM

To bad this oil spill happened to our 57th state.....or was it the 56th state?

Enough Rope| 6.10.10 @ 12:46PM

On the night O was elected I decided that it will be healthier to regard the Dems coming outrages as disclosures of their true radicalism and dislike, perhaps hatred by some Democrats, of America. Instead of my becoming irate as each travesty came, I chose to believe that the majority of the electorate would recognize eventually how fascistic the Dems are and vote them out of office in a tsunami of revulsion. The "Alien" and his thuggish cohort are advancing my hopes.

What appears to be stupidity and incompetence by the Alien should be identified as actions to achieve his goal which is to destroy the United States. Decisions by him that seem patriotic should be regarded as doing the least that he can do in order to placate us useful idiots while he advances his chief goal. Delaying troop increases in Afghanistan, and allowing only 30,000 instead of the 60,000 to 80,000 thousand requested are two examples of his deceit.

Evelyn| 6.10.10 @ 12:56PM

I'm surprised that some hand-wringing liberal "pundit" hasn't wished publicly that Obama would deliver this soliloquy:

"What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' community organizers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a clip board and a raised eyebrow. You hear me talkin', Brit boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."

Oldefarte| 6.10.10 @ 12:57PM

I'll not waste words, since I've said it numerous times before. WE [you, me, all of us] are responsible for this current mess, since we all should have seen it coming. It's NOT rocket science, but maybe it is [or maybe American voters are simply STUPID]. Crying over spilled milk will get you [with a nickel] a ride on the St Charles streetcar [maybe]; and the one/only solution is to go VOTE [for true 'change']. Vote for the Fiorinas, the Whitmans, the Palins, the Pauls, the [whore mongering] Vitters, the Rubios etc out there. Anybody but the Reids, the Lincolns, the Landrieus, the Melancons, the Boxers, the Pilosis, the Rangels, the Conyers,etc out there. It AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE!!!!!!

bahmi| 6.10.10 @ 9:04PM

I don't hate my country, but Obama does. Don't put the onus on that putative hatred on those of us who love the country. Obama has hastened the downward slide toward oblivion. I can not remember a politician who has done more against the country than the jug eared idiot in the WH. What sort of idiot chooses so many Goldman and Harvard ivory tower types than Obama? All that nice perfessor learning, so impractical. Obama was not a professor, he was some lowly instructor type. His grades are hidden, why? "Cuz he's a dumbo, that's why. He is totally out of step with the country and has incited racism far more so than George Wallace, another real beaut but not in Obama's class. The schnook sat in church, if that's what you call it, for 20 years listening to "hate Whitey, hate the US". Well, it worked. He hates whitey, he hates the Old Glory, he wants to see a tan colored racial mix in the country. His gift to Marcus Garvey, the avenger. He's a certified, bona fide dope and he ain't gonna kick no arse, the puny puker.

neo-libertarian| 6.10.10 @ 1:14PM

Out in the gulf a jive-ass half honkey athletically leaps from an air-conditioned helicopter as it settles onto the oil platform, checks the camera angles, and angrily taps his foot while the staff sets up the teleprompter. That completed, he strides over to the first burly roughneck he sees and after checking with the EPA staff dons rubber gloves and grabs him by the arm and shouts,” Listen you capitalistic bastard, I am in charge here. First off I am going to sue your sorry oily ass, make sure you, your wife, and your children lose their income, the house you live in, and all your earning power for the rest of your natural life. That’s later but now I am going to bitch-slap you around a bit for the press while I kick your greasy ass.”
That roughneck who has been on double shifts for fifty plus days, away from his wife and children, pauses from capturing the oil 5000 feet below and slowly turns …………….
Flash to Washington DC (twelve seconds later) and the oracle of gaff is summoned and takes command for the duration of the time it takes Air Force One to Fly to Canada for the surgical procedure needed to remove a very large pipe wrench type bowel obstruction (not covered here under the New National Health Care Plan.) Rushing to the first podium available having assumed the throne, the joyous number two boastfully claims in his first public statement that his prediction of his boss being “tested” has been realized.

Nate| 6.10.10 @ 9:47PM

Oh no. You guys aren't racist. What a joke.

WAKE UP| 6.11.10 @ 1:51AM

Actually Nate, we don't like his white half either - and funnily enough, neither does he. What a sad, homeless man you have elected: truly a Man Without A Country. And he is leading you to Nowhere.

neo-libertarian| 6.12.10 @ 7:58PM

Let me expound a few words on “Racism” and anyone taunted as a racist for criticism of POTUS.
I do not like Obama, quite frankly I find him repugnant. The posturing, the false bravado, the contemptible narcissism, the stealth progressive “dishonesty” of his campaign, all that to me was evident; I was not fooled.
I do not care for the man because he is a democrat/progressive; I am a libertarian/conservative with ideology diametrically opposed to everything he represents. I disparage him in print because I feel he is destroying our personal freedoms, our economic prosperity, rewriting our unique origins and destroying our Constitution. My distrust of him, however, is no more vehement than that which I reserve for either of the Clintons. Is this due to the fact that I am a chauvinistic pig or harbor unwarranted antagonism to perjurers? If you actually suspect this of me then please be so kind as to offer an explanation for my other prejudicial foibles, the ones that include an equal and virulent dislike of Gingrich, Romney, McCain, Specter, Christ, Reid, Powell, Frank, and Pelosy? Am I also prejudicial toward Mormons, Catholics, war heroes, legislative leaders, Democrats, Republicans, or gays?
When the term “black” is synonymous with a ninety plus approval rating that I totally disagree with does that also constitute racism? There certainly exists for me a “them” but it has nothing to do with skin pigment, sexual preference, gender or age. I fully appreciate the elimination of certain derogatory terms from our language. What I will not give up however is my democracy, my freedom of speech, the right to participate in selecting my leaders, and my economic prosperity due to some outrageous “share the wealth” ideology.
Throw around your insults, do your worst but you are wasting your breath. I, the people I place in office this November, and the good people you find regularly on these pages harbor no ill will to anyone for the reasons you suggest. Please stick to the issues; demagoguery only portrays your ineffectiveness, your frustration and your fear.
I propose a summit, but this time let’s have tea.

Ray| 6.10.10 @ 1:22PM

So, your advice to us is to stop whining about the current administration and vote for change? Excuse me, but isn't that what got us into this mess to begin with?

Here's an Idea, why don't we discuss the current situation, define the problem, and work towards a solution through dialog and debate, as the author here is trying to do? That way we can explore multiple points of view and make rational decisions based upon reflection of past and current events (known as pragmatism) as opposed to just making very important decisions that will affect future events based upon emotional reactions to current situations, also knows as the reactionary process. Which, by the way, is what Obama is doing right now, resorting to the reactionary process instead of reasoning processes.

Ken (Old Texican)| 6.10.10 @ 2:03PM

Ray,
Hi!
Screw dialogue and debate...now.

The dialogue and debate is over!

Are you yet willing to DIE for principles?

If not, get up to speed on reality.
Best regards

carnot| 6.10.10 @ 2:07PM

gimme a break all. I'm by no means an Obama supporter. he obviously is an intelligent man who can navigate his way through a challenge. the problem, returning to the original linked theme, is that his thinking is weighted by a value system and set of goals that is not historically in line with America's foundation. The battle that has been waged in letters for decades is now out in the open. Obama and the Left miscalculated on several planes: the popularity of their message; the effectiveness of their methods; and, the willingness of those in doubt to eventually join the march to their notion of social/global equality. on the last..they seriously underestimated the resilience and steadfastness of their intellectual/moral opposition to fight this battle to the end.

WAKE UP| 6.10.10 @ 6:40PM

Carnot, it's bigger than that. Obama is profoundly, unhappily UN-American, in a nation that is still basically happy to be American. No good can come of this dichotomy.

carnot| 6.11.10 @ 8:51AM

yes...but what is the import of this in a nation whose demographics are moving away from its happy foundation?

psutopgun| 6.10.10 @ 2:43PM

Obama is the product of 100 years of the progressive movement. He is a hardened Marxist that knows exactly what he is doing to our country and he relishes in his destructive agenda. My question is where is the politician or lawyer to step up to the plate and help the majority of American people take him down along with his administration and most of congress. We having been telling DC and our so called representatives for a long time no no no and they just ignore us. I know November is coming but the damage mounts EVERY DAY. This man must be impeached and put on trial for treason.
P.S. When I send an e-mail to him I refer to him as THE HEAD PROGRESSIVE OF THE USSA. I do not recognize him as my president.

Marc Jeric| 6.10.10 @ 4:21PM

However dangerous Obama appears to many here, I still think that most people do not see the full extent of danger. Abu Hussein al-Nairobi (or whatever Kenyan hellhole he was born in), our Community Organizer-in-Chief, is bent on communizing America fast. Nationalization of private enterprise is underway; permanent majority consisting of 47% non-tax paying dole-depending citizens will be augmented with 15 million Mexican Indians through amnesty. Cap & trade will lead to nationalization of oil & gas companies, coal mines, electricity companies. After that it is all over for America. His system of local soviets (ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, government empolees unions) will make sure the voter fraud will be employed is the real vote is close.

Margie| 6.10.10 @ 4:52PM

Yes, but Marc! Obama/Biden was soooo much better of a choice than McCain/Palin, don't you know?

Americans are not only asleep at the wheel but comfortably delusional if they believe such a thing. I not only fear that they are ready willing and able to do it all over again, but will be proud to do so.

Bee| 6.10.10 @ 5:38PM

3 days after the BP oil spill - Dutch government offered to help....story link below

http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....43272.html

WAKE UP| 6.10.10 @ 6:38PM

From out here, Obama looks like a Man Without A Country.

Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 6.10.10 @ 7:21PM

Nomobama, the Kenyan.

Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 6.10.10 @ 7:22PM

Nomobama, the Kenyan.

Nate| 6.10.10 @ 7:30PM

You guys have a regular lynch mob going here.

Liberal Reader| 6.10.10 @ 7:42PM

No lynch mob here. We are going to vote the incompetent jerks that you put all your trust in out of office. Get help Nate. If you keep repeating stupid things some of them are going to take root in your very below average mind.

Bydand76| 6.10.10 @ 10:10PM

Only in your pathetic little mind Nate.

Why do you even bother posting here if everyone is so evil and "racist"?

You must have a magical computer that can identify race via the Proxy server or the DHCP.
Well what is my skin color then?

Piss off you silly wanker.

Pro Libertate

Emma| 6.10.10 @ 8:08PM

Purpleguy is a troll (possibly a paid one). Don't help him.

bahmi| 6.10.10 @ 9:13PM

Purplefreak is clearly a shill of the Democratic party. His command of facts is pathetic and beyond partisan. I think his brain was inserted into the Teleprompter, I notice the similarities.

BYdand76| 6.10.10 @ 10:12PM

I think Purpleguy is really Rosie O'Donnell and Nate is Helen Thomas

(shiver)

Pro Libertate!

JT| 6.10.10 @ 10:11PM

Guys, It's this simple ... this maniac is NOT what the United States wants or needs at the helm,period.
Therefore, we MUST REMOVE him and his complete administration from office. To this end, I am calling for ALL UNITED STATES CITIZENS TO CALL FOR AND DEMAND THE IMPEACHMENT of this President and his entire administration for the sake of the UNION and, further, let's make them responsible for repaying the enormous debt they made. They're the ones who ARE RESPONSIBLE for this DEBT, NOT YOU AND I ... we didn't ask for it nor, did we want it; ... THEY DID.
----------------------------------------------------- JT ---

Douglas W. Cooper| 6.10.10 @ 10:34PM

Part of our problem is the degree to which lawyers run our government. Obama is a good example: he thinks it crucial to respond to the oil gusher not by sending engineers, construction workers, marine experts etc. but his Attorney General and a set of lawyers.

This is a country over-run with lawyers, who now have a higher median income than medical doctors. Which group is in fact more valuable?

Obama is clearly alienated from what most Americans value about their country.

As an ideologue, he is unlikely to learn from his
mistakes.

Lacking executive experience and governing from the left, he is likely to continue to make many errors.

November cannot come soon enough.

shipley130| 6.10.10 @ 11:12PM

Obama better be careful. Farrakan's thugs might take care of him like they did Malcolm X. That must be what the 400 million to Gaza was for, a bribe for more time.

rayburke| 6.10.10 @ 11:30PM

What idiot allowed PURPLEGUY to escape? Let's corral him, get him back in his padded cell and throw away the key. He needs to be on tranquilizers.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 1:11PM

Oh, the Founders would be so proud of you... ! NOT. Way to uphold free speech there, Chuckie. You should be ashamed of yourself, just because you disagree with me. Debate me, if you can, don't put me down - it's really not very American of you.

Answers1| 6.11.10 @ 12:08AM

Obama is an ILLEGAL alien.

chanel | 6.11.10 @ 1:27AM

In the words of the late Jack Buck, pardon me while I stand and applaud.

ejb| 6.11.10 @ 1:35AM

Purpleguy is an SEIU plant.
Purple is SEIU's color, he also defends unions in one of his posts here.

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 1:09PM

I've never been in a union myself, but I can see where they have their uses. I don't particularly care one way or the other about unions, but they did bring the middle class a living wage, a whole host of benefits, and made middle class living standards increase over time. The strange thing is why so many of you middle-classers are against the unions that protect so many others wages and benefits. Where do you think a paid vacation came from? The goodness of the heart of the Corporations? Please study history and stop listening to those who are trying to keep you indoctrinated against your own interests. You do realize you are the victims of propaganda, don't you? They say it long enough and you all seem to fall in line and believe it. It's really sad...

Yosemeti Sam| 6.11.10 @ 1:44AM

Alien ?

As in outer space ?

Hmmmm.

Yo, BHO - a gravitational black hole; the Democrat party poised on his event horizon.

Come November - all fall in!

Berl Goetz| 6.11.10 @ 9:52AM

QH should tone it down a little, if only for his own safety. Our empty suit may be just a hack, but he knows people who know people.

Mike| 6.11.10 @ 12:05PM

Purpleguy

I enjoy your posts because they are so educational. Unfortunately for you they are not educating me they way you hope. They are reinforcing my impression of those on the left that I have developed over the years. Keep up the good work.

I have seen you repeatedly post your nonsense about estimated reserves in the OCS. Estimates are worthless. If I estimate that my business will make 100 million next year I am still broke. Please recall the estimates from the 70’s. If those were true we would be out of oil and enjoying an emerging ice age.

Here is a quote from the website you are touting:

“The OCS is a significant source of oil and gas for the Nation’s energy supply. The approximately 43 million leased OCS acres generally accounts for about 15 percent of America’s domestic natural gas production and about 27 percent of America’s domestic oil production. The MMS’s oversight and regulatory framework ensure production and drilling are done in an environmentally responsible manner, and done safely. In addition, MMS has finalized regulations to guide Renewable Energy endeavors located on the OCS. Examples of potential renewable energy projects include wind energy, wave energy, ocean current energy, and more.”

So, reality is that we actually get less than 30% of our domestic production of oil from the OCS. And this is from about 3% of the available OCS acreage, according to your link.

Now for the Coup De Grace:

Using your own numbers we have 86 Billion Barrels of reserves on our OCS. (See Purpleguy’s link) According to the following link we were consuming about 90 thousand barrels a day, worldwide, of crude in 2006. (http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx).

So using the figure of 100 thousand barrels of consumption per day worldwide we have 2356 YEARS of crude reserves on the US OCS ALONE at current consumption rates. Purpleguy, as I expected, we are not running out of oil anytime soon. I appreciate your info as now I can sleep better and cite proof from a leftist that we have plenty of oil.

Damn those numbers hurt, eh Purpleguy?

Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:25PM

slsls

Purpleguy| 6.11.10 @ 11:36PM

Well, yes they hurt really bad ... especially when I realize how sad it is that you can't read a damn graph. The link you site shows Y-axis units in thousands of barrels of oil per day and the x-axis in the actual year 2001, 2002, etc. ... but the actual numbers for 2006 are (85,000 * the units in 1000's), which is 85,000 * 1000 = 85,000,000 barrels of oil/day. That's 85 Million barrels of oil per day!!!! Please double-check your math. You shouldn't be that much off in the numbers.

We in the US use 20, 000,000 barrels of oil/day ourselves, which is roughly 25% of the world's daily output of oil. But, we have only 4% of the world's oil reserves. That is unsustainable.

The oil estimates are not mine, they are the Government's or the Petroleum Institute - pick your poison ...

http://www.mms.gov/offshore/
http://www.api.org/aboutoilgas.....rgysec.cfm

Now, if that makes you sleep better, fine - but now you are armed with the actual facts. And, your welcome, I enjoy teaching those that need a hand, and I don't mind. And, thanks for your initial nice comment about my posts. It does take some thought and research to bring to y'all the real story and facts (although I have opinions to) ... Have a nice day.

JJC| 6.11.10 @ 12:30PM

Dorothy's article is an excellent one except for one thing. I find it odd and irritating to be placed on the 'demented fringe' because I can't square Obama's conduct in the matter of his birth certificate. (Thats the tactics of the left, Dorothy). The man won't present his BC and I find that strange. Whats more, he has reportedly spent about a million dollars in legal expenses to keep it under wraps. If you had nothing to hide, would you do that? Me neither. Something is very wrong here and if pointing out the obvious makes me demented then sanity has moved far, far away.

Gregson| 6.11.10 @ 12:45PM

Obama lectures us on truth and then proceeds to dispense his own jaded view of reality using divisive rhetoric and the dissembling propaganda that would have made Joseph Goebbels proud. This is a man who loves the sound of himself; a man that depends on a soundbite per day to feed his incessant narcissism. His leadership style is long on rhetoric - short on action and I grow weary of his furled-brow lectures whenever anyone dares to counter his narrative with facts.

I have never seen a President who seems to relish the opportunity to demonize whole sectors of our society - a man who constantly plays the partisan himself, and then proceeds to diminish everyone else for their advocacy.

His inability to withstand criticism or even consider perspectives outside of his own, demonstrates the rigidity of his ideology; the same ideology that is intolerant of competing views, a narrative that looks to cast blame elsewhere - always searching for partisan advantage, instead of accepting responsibility and moving forward decisively.

The hypocrisy and political expediency that drives this administration is breath-taking and for the Press to stay silent on this President’s inability to provide leadership is perhaps the greatest abdication of responsibility we have seen in America today, second only to the President's pledge to uphold and protect The Constitution of The United States of America.

ojo grande| 6.11.10 @ 12:54PM

Nate,
You are the joke. I took a lot of time to answer your remarks....and this is the best you can do. Your're Pathetic...just like Obama.

Jimmy D| 6.11.10 @ 7:15PM

Y'all need to stop trashing Purple Guy and encourage him. He's a wacko but he's also an object lesson in why Obama is The Prez. I loved George and still do kinda, but did he screw things up? Was he a RINO in all things other than National Security? Didn't the misguided conservative support he garnered by virtue of that sincere Patriotic bent, ultimately enable him, as a Statist to put to shame the most power-hungry Lib? He sho'nuff waren't no Ronnie Reagan folks! Did he double down on the most reckless Demo spenders that preceded him or did he even excede that. I don't know but I do know that he sure did like to spend and he sure did like bigger government.
Idiots like Purpleballs is all we're gonna have till we become absolute in the determination that larger Government is the antithesis of Liberty.

fjd| 7.1.10 @ 4:54AM

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