Posted on 05/23/2010 2:01:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of leading a lax response to the Gulf of Mexico spill because he is too close to the big oil companies.
The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.
"I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there's any connection with the contributions made to president Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration," she told Fox News Sunday.
More than 3.5 million dollars has been given to candidates by BP over the last 20 years, with the largest single donation, 77,051 dollars, going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Palin suggested this close relationship explained why Obama was, "taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."
The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers, and sank two days later. Ever since, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil, perhaps millions, have been spewing each day into the sea.
The resulting slick, now the size of a small country, threatens to leave Louisiana's fishing and coastal tourism industries in tatters, ruin pristine nature reserves, and cause decades of harm to the ecology of fragile marshes ..
The Obama administration has been forced to defend its response to the disaster as some Republicans have sought to portray it as their Katrina, ..
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Hehe. Paybacks.
“Right-wing darling Sarah Palin” in the press, but “RINO Sarah” to some here.
Hilarious.
NO NO. The Democrats are all selfless advocates for the people against corporate interests.
I’d like Sarah to be the first to say
“Gee, that’s a HELL of an oil deposit! Let’s get to it!”
I don’t see posters calling here a RINO. I see posters criticizing her for endorsing some RINOs over conservative candidates in GOP primaries.
“BP will pay for every bit of this,” he (Gibbs) said. “We have to figure out and make sure that the relationship that is had with government and oil companies is not a cozy relationship as the president said.
So Sarah is right.
Why isn’t it socialist’s darling Barack Hussein Obama? Isn’t that profiling?
LOL. She’s been called worse than RINO here, but I think you know that also.
But Gibbs was not talking about Obama having a cozy relationship with oil companies...he was talking about some federal bureaucrat who was supposed to be regulating offshore drilling not doing his or her job because of closeness to big oil.
Sarah is saying the problem is Obama himself.
Big difference.
I don’t agree with her that this why he was so slow to act.
I think he wants Americans to hate oil companies so much that they will gladly let HIM take over their management like GM and Chrysler.
Therefore, let the oil destroy what it may. In addition, it’s a way to punish Louisiana for electing Bobby Jindal.
If you kowtow to Obama, you get all kinds of goodies. But if you don’t, you will get hurt, he will see to it.
I think that Sarah is just trying to score political points and not every well I might add. Obama is many things but being too cozy with oil companies certainly isn’t one of them.
I think Obama has not come down harder on BP just yet because he wants to watch this play out and actually wants it to be the mother of all spills. He will use this crisis to jumpstart some massive alternate energy program. I think Obama may try to literally shut down oil production in the Gulf - not just new rigs - but shut it all down. I bet he has an army of political hacks now trying to figure out how to get these oil companies to pay for his new program so he can permanently change the shape of the US. Whatever it is he will not let this crisis go to waste.
Obamah’s hanging onto his BP Stash, it’s almost time for a summer vacation with the kids.
The reason he is slow to act is incompetence!
I'll post part of the WaPo article below if anyone is too lazy to follow your important link:
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely. ...... "The agency's oversight role has devolved to little more than rubber-stamping British Petroleum's self-serving drilling plans," Suckling said. BP has lobbied the White House Council on Environmental Quality -- which provides NEPA guidance for all federal agencies-- to provide categorical exemptions more often. In an April 9 letter, BP America's senior federal affairs director, Margaret D. Laney, wrote to the council that such exemptions should be used in situations where environmental damage is likely to be "minimal or non-existent." An expansion in these waivers would help "avoid unnecessary paperwork and time delays," she added. ..........
Not quite up to the standard of the Palin Alaskan administration, it looks like.
Well he did allow them to by pass safetly standards....I’m sure that big contribution had nothing to do with that? *eyeroll*
It’s a Big Tent, and the Ringmaster gets a Big Bed.
And don’t ask why the mattress is so lumpy.
Ever get the feeling that Andrew Gully doesn’t like Sarah Palin?
Do I remember reading that this regime actually gave the BP oilrig that sank a SAFETY AWARD last year?!? D’oh. That’s gonna come back to haunt them, LOL.
"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"
"Obama admin exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "
"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"
"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "
"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"
I think her father raised her on a diet of Jimmy Stewart movies.
I tried to give credit to UCFRoadWarrior for their quote in my tagline and I ran out of space! I used their quote but I didn’t like that I couldn’t give them credit for it. Thanks for your tagline so I can finally give this Freeper credit for a great quote!
Yes BP was going to get some award. The event was suppose to be a couple weeks ago but got canceled.
Big Oil. So that is Michelle’s nickname?
Andrew Gully
Senior Vice President, Communications and External Affairs
B.A., Northeastern University
He joined the university in November 2009 from Sovereign Bank, part of the global Santander Group, where he headed corporate affairs. Prior to that, he worked for Kelley Habib John, a Boston branding firm, where he developed communications and public relations campaigns for clients including health and auto insurers, commercial and residential developers and Boston-area hospitals.
Previously, Gully spent 21 years as a reporter and editor at the Boston Herald, the last 11 years as managing editor.
Andrew Gully
Nothing wrong with watching Gen. Stewart’s movies.
LOLOL.....Gibbs was not amused.
That’s it right there
Trace the bammers’ contributions back to their origin; Wall Street and big oil didn’t give him millions to be regulated. His trash talk about Wall Street is pure hypocrisy, and they’re counting on it.
Or doing a remake, with a female lead, of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
Hey, Gully, shouldn't your news article be a little more fair and balanced? Like, maybe:
Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused Left Wing Darling Barack Obama?
“I bet he has an army of political hacks now trying to figure out how to get these oil companies to pay for his new program so he can permanently change the shape of the US” ~ plain talk
bttt
BP was ALREADY doing it for Obama because they were told that “the future” was in “carbon trading” schemes and “green energy” alternatives.
Read on:
Blame BP [Chris Horner] 05/02/2010
I hope to elaborate later I’m wrapping up two weeks on the road promoting Power Grab but it seems to me the issue with the recent oil-platform explosion and subsequent leak issue is BP, not offshore drilling.
Offshore drilling has a very good track record in the past few decades and especially recently; BP has a terrible one. The Deepwater Horizon incident is consistent with only one of those track records.
Like Enron and indeed, in close cooperation with Enron on the “global warming” rent-seeking BP got distracted from its core businesses and spent its energies getting into solar ventures and carbon-trading schemes, and otherwise losing the plot of an energy company. The absurd re-branding to “Beyond Petroleum” (really? your balance sheet doesn’t quite agree) speaks volumes.
They thereby also lost focus on these operations and implicitly told their best people that the future did not lie there.
And for a decade we have seen BP facilities blowing up with human and environmental consequences all over the place.
The newsiness of this spill is testimony to its aberrant nature. The issue today isn’t offshore drilling so much as it is the company that, in violation of all laws of probability, continues to be involved in a preponderance of its various industries’ high-profile workplace tragedies.
More: Obama’s Katrina’: an Illustrated Timeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=106#106
The Luxury of Conservation
Writing on her Facebook page about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Sarah Palin explains why she remains committed to developing domestic oil resources, even though she had a front-row seat to the Exxon Valdez disaster:
Continue: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=104#104
I disagree.
He is using this catastrophe as a weapon toward achieving his agenda to completely remake America.
He wants it under Dem Federal Gov’t control...all of it.
Sure, he doesn’t know how to properly do his job as President (incompetent, you said), but he DOESN’T CARE what his “proper job” is.
He only wants to grab this country by the throat. That’s why he’s there, and not for any other reason.
Looks like he’s a Left-wing sweetie...lol.
Calling it just as she sees it.
No bias there.
Hey, has anyone ever seen any article from the lamestream media that started with, ‘Far left pinup Barak Obama” before?
Didn’t think so.
Good move by her. This needs to be hammered away at nonstop from now until November.
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