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Bob D'A
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Boulder, CO
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May 27, 2010 - 04:48pm PT
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Fat...what part of this do you not understand???
""I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down," Obama declared at a news conference in the East Room of the White House. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill dominated the hour-long session".
He called the spill, now in its sixth week, an "unprecedented disaster" and blasted a "scandalously close relationship" he said has persisted between Big Oil and government regulators.
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dirtbag
climber
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May 27, 2010 - 04:55pm PT
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Yeah, well, the Republicans are so full of vitriol, they'll probably now blast Obama's "ownership" of the spill as yet another socialist sieze of private property.
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go-B
climber
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May 27, 2010 - 05:03pm PT
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$5.00 Gas!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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May 27, 2010 - 05:10pm PT
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Fat wrote: The problem is that the Obama admin was slow to respond.
Respond to what...you??
He admitted mistakes were made but said his team was working on it from day one. Again what part of this don't you understand??
BP lied about the situation from the start, misled the government and the public.
Vent your anger in the right direction.
As to Sestak...The burden of proof is on Sestak...he has given no proof what so ever other than he was offered a job...BFD..it happens all the time.
From the internet: "As the Republican Party works itself into a lather over the Obama administration's offer of a job to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn) in exchange for him not entering the Pennsylvania Senate primary, seasoned political observers, historians, and lawyers are responding with veritable yawns.
American presidential history is littered with quid pro quos, implicit and explicit secret job offers, and backroom deals, so much so that the Sestak offer may be more the norm than the exception to it.
"It is completely unexceptional," said Dr. Russell Riley, associate professor and chair of the Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. "I read some place today that this is evidently illegal, which was shocking news to me. I don't know what the statutes are that would bear on this... it just doesn't seem to me to particularly rise to the level of being newsworthy in the first place and the fact that it's spun out into a scandal has been surprising."
George Edwards, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University, says: "There is no question whatsoever that presidents have often offered people positions to encourage them not to do something or make it awkward for them to do it. Presidents have also offered people back-ups if they ran for an office and lost. All this is old news historically."
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Jeremy Handren
climber
NV
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May 27, 2010 - 05:38pm PT
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Actually Fattrad, your complete f*#king idiocy is doing nothing but taking yourself down a peg or two.
You trumpet deregulation for 30 years then blame Obama for its results? who's going to buy that sort of BS?
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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May 27, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
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Fat wrote: It's not that Obama did a poor job on BP or that jobs haven't been traded in the past, it's that Obama set a bar too high for himself. I'm just taking him down to the human peg.
Healthcare, financial reform, "don't ask, don't tell" reform/appeal, stimulus package and so on.
The man has gotten things done with out the help of the republicans. He humans and most of "his mistakes" have to due to the fact that he believed the republicans could be somewhat bi-partisan.
STFU...noob...:-)
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 27, 2010 - 06:34pm PT
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Skip: You seem to be taken by crooks on a regular basis
Yeah, that's why I stopped voting Republican
Being this stupid
Don't be so hard on yourself, Skip. I don't think your stupid, just too trusting.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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May 27, 2010 - 07:11pm PT
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Fatty
How times do you think Cheney will repeat:
“I don’t recall”?
“I do not have any records of that”
“I invoke my independent assertion of executive privilege as ‘The President of the United States of America’ excuse me’ Vice President of the United States of America’ to not answer your questions on that subject”.
“What meeting”?
“Who”? “I don’t recall”
“What was the question again”?
“Oil! What Oil” ?
“No”, I can’t be subpoenaed, I will be in Yosemite for Facelift that day”.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 27, 2010 - 07:51pm PT
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Skip, you misread my posts. If you just want to pick a fight and hurl insults try someone else. Life is too short for that. I thought we could discuss things. Sorry.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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May 27, 2010 - 08:30pm PT
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I'm just glad that Skip is leg humping some one else but I do miss having that attention. :-)
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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May 27, 2010 - 08:30pm PT
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Fatty
You mean in the ditch.
Make sure he doesn’t use that word when he testifies before Congress; they might take it in a different direction.
Ditch: Bringing aircraft down or make force landing at sea.
In this case bring down oil platform. It might confuse them.
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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May 28, 2010 - 09:15am PT
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good questions:
"Nearly 40 days in, our President finally addressed the American people’s growing concerns about the Gulf Coast oil spill. Listening to today’s press conference, you’d think the administration has been working with single-minded focus on the Gulf gusher since the start of the disaster. In reality, their focus has been anything but singular to help solve this monumental problem.
If the President really was fully focused on this issue from day one, why did it take nine whole days before the administration asked the Department of Defense for help in deploying equipment needed for the extreme depth spill site?
Why was the expert group assembled by Energy Commissioner Steven Chu only set up three weeks after the start of this disaster?
Why was Governor Jindal forced more than a month after the start of the disaster to go on national television to beg for materials needed to tackle the oil spill and for federal approval to build offshore sand barriers that are imperative to protect his state’s coastline?
Why was no mention of the spill made by our President for days on end while Americans waited to hear if he grasped the import of his leadership on this energy issue?
Why have several countries and competent organizations who offered help or expertise in dealing with the spill not even received a response back from the Unified Area Command to this day?"
good point:
"The 1990 Oil Pollution Act was drafted in response to the Exxon-Valdez spill in my home state. It created new procedures for offshore cleanups, specifically putting the federal government in charge of such operations. The President should have used the authority granted by the OPA – immediately – to take control of the situation. That is a big part of what the OPA is for – to designate who is in charge so finger-pointing won’t disrupt efforts to just “plug the d#*! hole.” But instead of immediately engaging with this crisis, our President chose to spend precious time on political pet causes like haranguing the state of Arizona for doing what he himself was supposed to do – secure the nation’s border. He also spent much time fundraising and politicking for liberal candidates and causes while we waited for him to grasp the enormity of the Gulf spill."
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tomtom
Social climber
Seattle, Wa
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May 28, 2010 - 01:30pm PT
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Obama wants an oil slick on every shore.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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May 28, 2010 - 01:58pm PT
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I used to wonder where you Republican sheeple came from. I looked at the bottom of the barrel and it was empty. So I picked the barrel up and lo and behold out you all scurried.
Hard to believe that some of you are sentient.
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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May 28, 2010 - 02:19pm PT
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Ding!!! Obama is done. Embarrassing how clumsy this 'Bill Clinton did it'
excuse is.
Today's -Sestak job offer to quit explanation- does not jive with this:
Senior adviser to the president David Axelrod said Monday evening that there is “no evidence” that White House officials tried to keep a Democratic congressman from entering the Pennsylvania Senate race by offering him a high-ranking government job.
“When the allegations were made, they were looked into. And there was no evidence of such a thing,” Axelrod said on CNN’s “John King USA.”
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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May 28, 2010 - 02:29pm PT
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They are desperate and clutching at straws. None more so than the Lil Skipper who offers nothing but insults.
Dr F is one of the best keyboards on this site.
Oh, and they just can't stand it when a competent President actually accomplishes good for the "Commons".
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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May 28, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
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Lordy Skipple you are off in your own eccentric orbit.
You are like the National Inquirer of ST.
Tell us about Hillary's Alien baby.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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May 28, 2010 - 02:46pm PT
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HA HA HA, whew, good one brain trust. Didja cumup wit that'n yosef?
How did you get PTSD?
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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May 28, 2010 - 02:49pm PT
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Well for one thing we could put Cheney back in control, that way he would get rid of the evidence.
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