Posted on 06/24/2010 5:54:36 AM PDT by wilco200
I have followed the oil spill closely from day one and I don't know who he is. Perhaps you could enlighten those of us who are not as "in the know" as you seem to be.
Speaking of the oil spill...it has washed up on the white sands of Pensicola, FL. It looks pretty bad!
We need to get Rolling Stone on this disaster. /s
I do know from someone who has a relative in Afghanistan that the troops are very depressed over this fiasco. Please, everyone, keep them in your thoughts and prayers!! They are being betrayed by the very people they are sworn to protect!
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!
Billy Nungesser Transcript
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/anderson_cooper_360/49/CNN/Wednesday_June_23_2010/239765/
EXCERPT
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00:06:23 I talked to a guy from the interior department last night who said, look, we have legitimate concerns about where this sand is being dredged from and that it’s going to cause greater harm to these barrier islands which have been eroding.
00:06:38 >> It could cause harm.
00:06:38 >> You’re saying they’ve been eroding for years?
00:06:41 >> Just like we’ve been hearing.
00:06:43 Could, would, should have, maybe.
00:06:45 Those are not comments made when you go to war.
00:06:48 It could.
00:06:49 You know what?
00:06:51 It could rain cats and dogs tonight.
00:06:54 Come on, guys!
00:06:55 We’re at war here.
00:06:57 It could.
00:06:57 We’re going to replace the sand.
00:06:59 Let me tell you something, anderson.
00:07:01 I thought about this a while ago when you talked about the general being replaced.
00:07:05 And I don’t agree with anybody speaking out that’s in the armed forces against our leader and our chief.
00:07:11 But I think it’s time for the president to take a step back.
00:07:15 He has a bigger problem.
00:07:17 Just like the problems we have with the interior secretary, with thad allen, with everybody with the administration.
00:07:24 The only way anything ever got done was the president coming down here himself.
00:07:28 Well, the people in the military have those inner thoughts about his administration, the same thoughts all of louisiana has.
00:07:36 He has a bigger problem than a loose-lipped general.
00:07:41 He better take a soul search and look at the people surrounding him, because the job ain’t getting done here and it obviously ain’t getting done over there.
00:07:50 And we got a serious problem in this country and the president of the united states better address it because it’s not just somebody like me or him or anybody sounding off at the mouth.
00:08:01 It’s what we truly feel that we are getting the run around.
00:08:05 We’re not getting the truth half the time and nobody has the sense of urgency to do anything, whether it be here or obviously overseas.
00:08:15 And I’m sure whoever he replaced him with may not say that, but that — that hero is thinking that, I guarantee you.
00:08:24 It’s widespread in the military.
00:08:26 So, the president needs to do a little soul searching.
00:08:28 I don’t want to tell him how to do his job but he needs to take a step back and say I’ve got some problems up here in washington and I better address them and quit letting bureaucrats take over washington.
00:08:48 I’m fed up with it.
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Thank GOD for this man.
BTTT
WOW!!
This is a DU response regarding the Kindra Arnesan video that’s going viral... I said it weeks ago - the Democrats are going to force Obama to resign before this is over...
breadandwine (1000+ posts)
“So his advisors tried to keep the White House out of it as much as possible as a “lost cause.” But a fish rots at the head first and he’s the head right now. You can’t just say, welp, the Gulf is a write-off, let’s get on with climate legislation, where we can win.
At every step of the way Obama has been living in a bubble. I constantly know more about the Gulf situation than he does just from my little computer.
What Kindra is also telling us is that these BP people are STILL F*CKING UP even in the aftermath of the disaster. This means that there is a very high likelihood that the relief wells will NOT work. Not because they can’t but because BP is probably cutting corners even on THEM. Did you know that even the relief wells have blowout preventers? What do you think are the odds that THOSE blowout preventers are ALSO faulty? EVERYTHING BP does is slipshod, slapdash and HALF-ASSED. We are going to have two failed relief wells, then they are going to try explosives down below to collapse the well and if that doesn’t work they are going to have to use an underground nuclear explosion, something the Russians have done successfully several times to stop out of control gas wells. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. And if one-third of the ocean is poisoned, as Kindra warns, that means that the whole planet becomes oxygen starved because most of our oxygen comes from plants in the oceans. Does Obama even KNOW this while he prattles on about the number of feet of boom they put down?
Obama used to say, “Yes we can.” Now his middle name is “No we can’t.” His whole attitude is “What do you want ME to do about it?”
Obama has clearly abdicated his role as president by writing off the Gulf as a lost cause and moving to climate legislation. What about fixing the leak RIGHT NOW? He’s the leader. If he doesn’t WANT to lead, why doesn’t he just resign? And Biden too. Pelosi is next in line of succession. I’m sure there are lots of qualified Democrats who would be happy to take his job if he doesn’t want it.
Really. I’m serious. It could be done. Our own party could easily replace him if he doesn’t want to be president. Here’s how it would work. Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill would begin by “taking the walk.” They would walk over to the White House, sit down with the president and explain to him that he has lost their confidence. Obama and Biden resign. Then Pelosi becomes president. If she doesn’t want to be, she can appoint a worthy Democratic vice president, who becomes president and she resigns and goes back to leading the House. This is more like how parliamentary democracies work, where the party in power sometimes replaces their own leader/prime minister if they feel he has become damaged goods. They do it for the good of their country and for the good of their party.
It could be done for us too. It all boils down to, does Obama want to lead or not. If he DOESN’T, why doesn’t he just resign?
Now, I can understand how he might feel. There are probably days when he sits there thinking, “I’m SICK of being president! All this good food, cooked just the way I like it, the paid chefs, the butlers, the maids, the servants, the luxury living, secretaries and staff by the truckload handling my every need, a federal workforce that answers to me of FOUR MILLION PEOPLE, the lavish protection and assistance for me and my family, Air Force One, Chopper One.... What a miserable life! I am just SICK AND TIRED of being president!”
Mr. President. That’s just FINE. If you don’t want to lead, if you don’t WANT to be president, you can resign right now and go back to Chicago where you can sit around the campfire singing. Nobody MAKES you be the leader. Resign right now.”
ML/NJ
Obama’s too busy going to taxpayer-funded, expensive White House parties every night, flying in new chefs to cook his meals, hamming it up with celebrities, and honoring himself.
As Maximus told the corrupt Commodus - “Your time of honoring yourself will soon be at an end.”
Which may be the reason they have to stay overseas.
ML/NJ
My son, a paratrooper currently in Afghanistan won’t even talk about it. He just locks up. Can’t say anything, but I know what he’s saying...
My neighbor’s son is going to be a senior in high school this year. He has expressed a desire to become a Marine after graduation. Both his mother and father have told him absolutely not- but perhaps he could look into PLC after he goes to a college for at least a couple of years- but NOT in the near future.
Dad is an ODS veteran with a dozen years in USMC. Mom was a longtime USN reservist.
Look him up.
Frickin' Caspar Milquetoast book-keeper. Inventory clerk at the ladies shoe store. Can't play golf. No balls. Doesn't know how to use the clubs.
Republicans get beaten to near death on his streets, we know who did it ... no action ... no arrest. No Nuttin" Man-up, Jindal.
But the ladies show inventory will come out perfectly And that creepy voice! The guy is harmless.
If Idi Amin was president, black support would still be over 90%.
I can’t get Church since he changed times. Does he have a download available?
He does, but I think it’s by subscription. Check your Sirius Patriot schedule, I know they do replays on Saturday afternoons.
not my grandparents Jewish friends in the Boca-Miami Beach-Coral Springs Yenta triangle are concerned. They still think he’s “absolutely won-der-fuhl”
these DU people should start demanding to see the birth certificate
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