I already have this vid on a prior post, but it deserves a post of its own because Reed is so dead on in her knocking Obama for stupidly shutting down all oil drilling in the gulf and throwing thousands of people out of work.
I don’t hear that expression much here in New York. The last time I heard I think was a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon I used to watch as a kid.
Julia, count me in as your newest fan.
Some background stuff on Reed
Julia Reed is senior writer at “Vogue” and a contributing editor at “Newsweek.” She also writes for “The New York Times Magazine,” among other publications, and is the author of “Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena” (2005).
Barack Obama had no problem pointing out in great detail just how incompetent he thought George W. Bush was for his mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.
He didn’t care that it wasn’t Bush’s decision to send thousands of Black people to the Super Dome where conditions became deplorable. That decision was made by local politicos but Obama never bothered to set the record straight.
Before, April 20, 2010 when you said “Katrina” nothing else needed to be said.
It was understood by many thanks to a deceitful mainstream media that “Katrina” meant George W. Bush didn’t like Black people, or George Bush was an incompetent boob, or that George Bush lied and people died, and don’t forget those are Black faces you’re watching with tears in their eyes at Super Dome.
It was all a horrible twisting of the truth that Barrack Obama took advantage of without hesitation or apology.
But, was it all George Bush’s fault, really?
Barack Obama and the Democrats didn’t care one way or another.
But then Deep Water Horizon exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico and 50 days later, oil is still flowing in the water. But, now it’s Barack Obama sitting in the White House with his own disaster on his hands and he’s catching an attitude because he’s getting criticized by the same media that had it out for Bush.
By comparison, the media has treated Obama kindly after the first few days but as Obama flew off on vacation, attended this dinner party or that theater outing, all the while trying to say that he’s been on top of the situation since day 1, even the the Obama-boot-licking media have reluctantly become more bewildered that the man who promised to be a competent leader while standing under Greek columns, has feet of clay after all.
The explosion and subsequent oil spill wasn’t Barack Obama’s fault.
But, how he’s handled himself since then, is.
And the only thing Barack Obama knows how to do well is to be an agitator (See Sol Alinsky Rules for Radicals).
So instead of sending Navy Seals or submarines, mega oil tankers to suck up the oil, or immediately give Gov Bobby Jindall the permits he needed to build 6 sand burms, Obama sends lawyers.
Obama was being Obama.
And the same coolness that everybody loved so much about him, has suddenly become a detriment and has fallen out of favor when black-oil covered Pelicans become Obama’s version of Black people trapped in the Super Dome.
As far as I’m concerned the Helen Thomas story is already overdone. and old news.
She was a vile anti-Semite that was able to get away with her prejudice for years because she was a Liberal icon.
Good riddance to bad rubbish and don’t let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you, Helen.
A much bigger story that I’m sure will fall through the cracks of the step-n-fetch it media is the cozy relationship Obama’s chief of staff Rahn Emanuel has with an associate of BP.
In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet way the inner political circles intersect, protect and care for one another in the nation's capital and Chicago.
We already knew that BP and its folks were significant contributors to the record $750-million war chest of Barack Obama's 2007-08 campaign.
Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer.
Shortly after Obama's happy inaugural, eyebrows rose slightly upon word that, as a House member, Emanuel had lived the last five years rent-free in a D.C. apartment of Democratic colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and her husband, Stanley Greenberg.
For an ordinary American, that would likely raise some obvious tax liability questions.
But like Emanuel, the guy overseeing the Internal Revenue Service now is another Obama insider, Tim Geithner, who had his own outstanding tax problems but skated through confirmation anyway by the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Remember this was all before the letters BP stood for Huge Mess. Even before the Obama administration gave BP a safety award.
Greenberg's consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's recent rebranding drive as a green petroleum company, down to green signs and the slogan "Beyond Petroleum."
Greenberg's company is also closely tied to a sister Democratic outfit -- GCS, named for the last initials of Greenberg, James Carville, another Clinton advisor, and Bob Shrum, John Kerry's 2004 campaign manager.
The more I think about all that oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the it appears to be analogous to the Obama administration itself with all its slimy dark and toxic secrets, dirty deals and different set of rules that only applies to them.
I’m not a believer in Karma, but I know the Left is. Those shady Chicago tactics are what’s really spilling into the water.
I already have this vid on a prior post, but it deserves a post of its own because Reed is so dead on in her knocking Obama for stupidly shutting down all oil drilling in the gulf and throwing thousands of people out of work.
