Posted on 05/03/2010 6:10:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Media Bias: As the Gulf Coast faced ecological disaster, the president yukked it up with White House correspondents. His Saturday radio address didn't even mention the oil spill. President Bush, call your office.
Rarely has media sycophancy been on such sharp display as in the largely indifferent response to President Obama's own indifference to the oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The coverage has been far different from that given to President Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The White House announced Saturday morning that Obama would head to the Gulf Coast on Sunday, just a day after saying he would not go. During a brief visit Sunday to Louisiana, nearly two weeks after disaster beckoned, Obama said: "I'm not going to rest ... or be satisfied until the leak is stopped at the source (and) the oil on the Gulf is contained." It was about time.
Eleven oil rig workers are missing and presumed dead in the blast. A mention of them and their grieving families would have been appropriate during Saturday's presidential radio address. Instead, the president droned on about the need for a campaign finance overhaul as the Gulf faced an Exxon Valdez-size calamity on steroids. America's future energy security also hangs in the balance.
As the St. Petersburg Times editorialized about the damage that could soon hit Florida's shores: "President Obama met U2's Bono in the Oval Office on Friday when he should have been headed to the Gulf Coast." The fragile marshes and shorelines of the Mississippi Delta could wait. Bono was in the house.
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Excellent question, but doesn’t that prove that the whole administration along with the arrogant p o s, are nothing but amateurs?
Well, I suppose you're right, at the level of not upholding the Constitution he took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend. But under that standard, FDR should have been impeached, too.
What I'm talking about is an action (or actions) that are calculated to be both blatantly, obviously impeachable and to be crowd pleasers that the MSM will swoon over. That's what he'll do. In his second term for sure, but if it looks like there's no way he'll get a second term, he'll do it before this term ends.
Sorry but this isn’t even remotely of the scale of Katrina.
And the GOP will put its tail between its legs, whimper softly, and roll over on its back.
I don’t agree. Calling this Obama’s Katrina basically requires accepting that Bush was at fault in Katrina’s aftermath.
Nashville is under water and 20 people are dead with nary a peep from our “president” yet the oil spill is Obama’s Katrina?
Well, you have to remember it took him nine days to respond the the oil spill, so you can’t expect him for a quick response to a flood
Probably not. The media won't hang this one on The One because they have one of their usual punching bags (Big Oil) they can blame for the catastrophe. Katrina also was a natural disaster, while this one was created by an ECE (Evil Corporate Entity). He will get a pass.
[He will get a pass. ]
Maybe so but Janet Napolitano may get thrown under the bus. With her misreading of the Christmas Day plane bomb attempt,
Times Square, and now this, Obama may realize he has one too many bull dikes on the payroll.
Agreed, and to borrow their excuse, this administration should have been targeted for being stopped “from day one.”
You can be assured of two things. First, the current Administration will find a way to place blame for the slow response squarely on the shoulders of the Bush Administration. Secondly, look for a name change from BP to Obama Petroleum Oil (OPO). Since the current goons in the Administration will be looking for clean up reimbursements, damages and fines in the range of “billions” we can look for another government bail out, stock trade or out right seizure of assets for the public good.
The standard Obama tactic whenever anything went wrong had been to blame “Bush, President.” With the oil spill he’s just streamlined that to “BP.” Nothing else has changed.
This thing started on April 20th and obama is just now visiting? Pathetic!
The man is too worried about Vera Baker to be concerned about what has happened in the Gulf.
There have been several states with flooding, tornados, or ice storms in this past year, and probably a 100 lives lost so far. I haven’t heard him say a word about ANY of it.
He only speaks to a “disaster” when it plays into his agenda. What a POS
I remember those events. We have the oil spill and flooding right now, but not a word from the MSM. They elected the guy and they will protect him to the bitter end....
Obama is gay. He is not at all worried about Vera. Vernon maybe, but not Vera. Just ask Michelle.
I certainly wouldn’t dispute that. Anyone seeing him throw a baseball would know he’s very suspect.
Additionally, his gay agenda seems more important to him than anything else .... certainly more important to him than the oil spill in the Gulf.
This is really bad and will be worse, but nothing
in this could compare to those poor people standing and
sitting on an overpass for days and days. That was a
horrible day in America.
I cast no blame because I don’t know what happened during Katrina , but this is not yet at that point concerning people. That this land is in great harm and will be worse in days to come I do not dispute.
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