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Hello, The Gulf Oil Spill Is Obama's Katrina
The Business Insider ^ | 4-29-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 04/29/2010 8:08:20 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 04/29/2010 8:08:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

No, it will be good for him, he can say, “See, we told you oil was bad for the environment and all living things!” More Windmills!!!


2 posted on 04/29/2010 8:10:07 PM PDT by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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MAP OF THE DAY: BP's $12 Billion Nightmare (Oil Well Leak)


3 posted on 04/29/2010 8:10:11 PM PDT by blam
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I agree. I wonder if it was deliberate for that purpose.


4 posted on 04/29/2010 8:11:11 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: blam

One big exception- no one died in the oil spill.


5 posted on 04/29/2010 8:11:51 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Someway, somehow, they´ll blame this one on Bush.


6 posted on 04/29/2010 8:12:08 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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It is only reported as boy king's Katrina here and maybe on FoxNews - the rest of the state run lame stream media will never ever say anything about it from the Administration negligence point of view. NEVER EVER.
7 posted on 04/29/2010 8:13:01 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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Mr Obama, why did you dither for a week before the federal government sent in help?
Now the entire Louisiana fishing industry will be lost. Shameful.
Obama lied and fish died.
8 posted on 04/29/2010 8:15:05 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Chairman Mao was a community organizer)
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Anyone else find these comparisons tedious?

IMO it serves 0bama’s agenda spectacularly. Offshore drilling is hereby set back 5 years. Because BP didn’t or wouldn’t put one of those shutoff deals (cost = appx $500K = ONE.POINT.TWO frickin’ days of output @ 5000 bbl/day @ $85/bbl) and why one *wouldn’t* put such a device in such a hurricane-prone area is flat out brain dead. OK, *here’s* at last an example of congressites being “smarter” than oil co execs. Or at least the BP a**hat who made this decision.


9 posted on 04/29/2010 8:17:09 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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nah, he’ll get a pass on this and blame bush


10 posted on 04/29/2010 8:18:23 PM PDT by 1st Division guy
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I agree. Obama was very slow to act.


11 posted on 04/29/2010 8:19:16 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Sans-Culotte

I agree. I wonder if it was deliberate for that purpose

i thought of that when it blew up. i would wager we are not the only ones


12 posted on 04/29/2010 8:21:02 PM PDT by 1st Division guy
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We're guessing that unlike Bush, Obama will largely get a pass.

And that's because Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana all have Republican governors.

Bush wasn't slow to react with Katrina because Blanco was a Democrat. In fact, Blanco was slow to bring in Bush because he was a Republican and she was afraid of making him look good. She had to confer with Howard Dean before making any decisions regarding Katrina response.

Obama is so political as a president that he is willing to insert himself in a mine disaster funeral in West Virgina because they have a Democrat governor, but there's no talk of Obama appearing at a funeral for the missing 11 oil platform workers because the Gulf states are Republican.

It's that simple.

-PJ

13 posted on 04/29/2010 8:22:42 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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"One big exception- no one died in the oil spill."

Didn't eleven people die in the explosion that caused the leak/spill?

14 posted on 04/29/2010 8:22:59 PM PDT by blam
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Excuse me but 11 people are missing and presumed dead.


15 posted on 04/29/2010 8:23:31 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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Oh, that’s right. Any death is a tragedy, but this won’t kill anywhere as many people as Katrina did.


16 posted on 04/29/2010 8:27:47 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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Yeah, what about those 11 people? This was initially reported as a horrible accident and loss of human life. Now even the Times-Picayune is painting it as an environmental disaster and a loss of livelihood for fishermen.


17 posted on 04/29/2010 8:29:33 PM PDT by thecodont
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No, this will not be Obama’s Katrina. The MSM deliberately made Katrina a Bush failure, which it was not. And the MSM will absolutely not in any way criticize Obama on and on for any aspect of this tragedy. Heck, if he does look responsible for some negative outcome, the MSM will spend as much time as necessary to absolve him of all responsibility.


18 posted on 04/29/2010 8:35:24 PM PDT by Will88
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I heard that the spill so far was 200,000 gallons and that 100,000 of dispersant have been applied. Someone needs to ascertain the long term toxicity of the dispersant.


19 posted on 04/29/2010 8:37:15 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (2012, the end of our long national nightmare.)
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20 posted on 04/29/2010 8:43:59 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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