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Ray Mabus long-term Gulf Coast restoration plan. Well, okay, but… why the Secretary of the Navy?Isnt the Navy important enough? If Mabs is to do that, it should be his only job, and somebody else should be Sec-Navy. Frankly, this is an outrage. And what does the Navy have to do with Gulf Coast shore restoration anyway?!?!?!?!?!?!?
He’s LECTURING us again. He’s not unifying people, but hectoring us. And he is moving on to “clean energy future” too quickly; we don’t give a bleep right now about clean energy; what we care about is fixing the current problem and containing the oil that has already leaked. He is not really focusing on fixing the current crisis; he is working to use the crisis to his advantage for his alread-existing agenda. Again, he is “not letting a crisis go to waste.” This is obnoxious.
Oh, and here we go on a climate bill…..
“The one approach I will not accept is inaction.” Who is he to say? How about it not being about him, and how about it not being about government “shap[ing] our destiny????
There is something that just seems cold and remote and insincere about him…
Overall, this was a weak effort, with nothing memorable, and nothing specific enough about the current problem, no stirring phrases, not much substance.
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Cow Rie| 6.15.10 @ 8:25PM
Is it true that Obama's speeches have been trending down in the ratings? It will be interesting to see the Overnights/
But the bottom line is.... I tire of this incessant
shifting to a crisis exploitation moment and speaking down to the American people. Get out of the way and let REAL people fix this problem.
Missy| 6.15.10 @ 8:47PM
"....not much substance." Pretty much sums up Obama and his clueless administration.
What a disaster.
Dixie Pixie| 6.15.10 @ 10:02PM
One thing about the Obama administration is it will give future generations numerous examples on how to screw up by the numbers. To-nights speech is a perfect example.
(1) When in a National Disaster call it a Disaster and call for the People to rally around to fix it. To screw the pooch to the max what did Obama do? Obama has claimed “responsibility” of and stated he was fully in charge of the Crisis making the disaster his and his alone to fix.
Dumb move period.
(2) A private corporation has limited resources and expertise to cope with any disaster. That is why government were created. To correct problems too large for the individual to handle. The Federal Government has the resources to cope if properly marshaled.
To screw up, Obama is restricting the resources available to cope to BP assets. Then to compound the folly Obama is setting up a slush fund supposedly to compensate the “victims” of the Gulf Oil Crisis. This fund can only eat into the funds used to clean up the spill. The fund will then be a trial lawyers playground. There will years of litigation and the people will see pennies on the dollar if ever.
(3) To really screw up, Obama claims the Federal Government is on top of the problem from day one. Obama claims the best people are on the job. Obama claims to have his boot on the neck on BP from day one. Obama owns this Crisis lock stock and barrel.
Yet every one involved has found the Federal Government to be unresponsive and derelict in their duties. Obama has made his claims lies within his own speech.
YES WE CAN --- MY A$$.
(4)To send this folly into low earth orbit, Obama claims the fix of the use of oil has a energy source is a basket of Liberal nonsense called “Green Energy” and governmental commissions.
None of his suggestions has ever fixed the problem and never will.
(5)This speech was Liberal gibberish from top to bottom. It was self contradictory from paragraph to paragraph and idea to idea. It offers no possible way to fix the problem at hand and then wanders into a Obama wish list while claiming Obama is fixing the problem. He is not and his response is an obvious failure. The Democrats will regret the day they met Obama. This speech is a another example of Obama's folly.
Dolli Asaro| 6.15.10 @ 10:41PM
BHO gave this speech to push his cap & tax agenda. He hasno understanding of what the American people are enduringnor does he care about them. He gets his kicks from seeing how much he can tax the citizens of this country. Hurry up and come November, 2010!
TennesseeVolunteer| 6.15.10 @ 11:36PM
Obama, Axelrod and the boys know they are so screwed. Obama couldn't fix a flat tire on his bike!
They don't even have their heart in it.
They'll push hard on cap and trade because that is the final payday for their friends and themselves. By then, they will have billions of dollars put away and the hell with the rest of us.
MissouriBum| 6.15.10 @ 11:56PM
Obama is finished. How do I know it? On Olberman tonight, following The Speech, Olberman, Matthews and Fineman were all aghast. "This speech did not aim high or aim low. It just didn't aim". After that, who needs to watch Rachel?
JP| 6.16.10 @ 10:05AM
The President should have appointed a task force with the authority to get things done. To head the task force should be a hard charging, results oriented person with not only outstanding organization and people skills, but he should have enough Beltway moxie to fight through the bureaucracy, petty politics, and rivalries to get the job done. This person would be answerable to the President and Congressional oversite only. Of course I am dreaming. Those kind of people exist only in the military, anymore. And we know what the President thinks of the military.
Oldefarte| 6.16.10 @ 11:41AM
Don't have a coronary over this imbicile, okay? Just accept him for what he is and isn't, which now should be obvious. Research, write about, and inform us readers the facts needed concerning the upcoming November elections, and thereafter it will beocme all of our responsibilities to do our duty as citizens and VOTE THIS GROUP OUT OF OFFICE AND REDIRECT THIS COUNTRY BACK TO THE CORRECT DIRECTION!!!!!
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