“Then he transitions to his “green energy” and “clean energy” program — a program modeled on the Spanish plan, which the Spanish are now abandoning and which remains a plan that will do nothing but make us more dependent on unsavory international characters to get the oil for which there is no credible plan to end our dependency for fueling our vehicles. Hope and change are not fuels.”

by Losers like obama. Just think in 1752 Ben Franklin discovered electricty. If he had use obama standards we would still be reading by candles.

by Losers like obama. Just think in 1752 Ben Franklin discovered electricty. If he had use obama standards we would still be reading by candles.

We all knew he had ZERO leadership experience and ability, but for him to blow his first big Oval Office address when all he had to do was get somebody to write something good for him to read is just astounding.

What we need now is a one-word description of his speech to start spreading around. Remember, Carter never used the word “malaise”, yet the speech became known as the Malaise Speech. If we can coalesce around one similar word to describe this speech, it could have a very similar effect on the public’s perception of Obama.

Also, I find it terribly ironic that he would cite our moon landing as an example of American “can-do” bravado after he just killed the Constellation project and thus made the case that we cannot do that again!

“When Obama announced last week that he was looking for an ass to kick – we all thought he meant BP or the federal bureaucrats whose ineptitude and delays have hindered our state’s response. Tonight Obama made clear that Louisiana families and businesses will be on the receiving end of his ass kicking.”

- Louisiana GOP chair Roger Villere.

were shuffling the three cards being montied about while his lips were moving. It was a lose lose situation. Under each card was another bill for the U.S. taxpayer: Crap & Tax, the everlasting cleanup bill, and the higher enrgy bills immediately.
With the reduction in supply from the moretorium on Gulf oil, petroleum prices will necessarily increase. That will inevitably raise the cost of Obama’s golf balls, his speachwriters beer pong cups, and of course Joe Biden’s water pistols.
Six months from now, Cong H(ow). Ineedawaxman, (Democrap-CA) and Cong Maximum Watersonthebrain will haul in the oil execs demanding an explanation as to why their welfare constituents have to pay such high gas prices. THey will blame Obama’s shutdown of the Gulf, and that will not be the acceptable answer.
Grab the popcorn for that one.

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There is no need to insult President Carter in this way. Comparing him to Obama is just way over the line.

I had to read this again because after watching the speech I couldn’t quite put my finger on what bothered me most. In your article you talked about his transition into “green” and I think that’s what It was.

He is on a mission and the speech he gave was something that seemed to just get in his way. I really don’t think he wants to deal with any of this because it just gets in his way of what he wants to accomplish.

I actually have to remind myself he is the President of the United States of America. When I listen to him speek I have to wonder what country he is the President of.

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I must say it is quite satisfying to watch Matthews, Olbermann and company complain and moan about Obama’s handling of the oil spill. I half expected Chris Matthews to break into a bit of B. B. King…the thrill is gone.

By his own words in his speech we have seen his best: “….we have to recognize that despite OUR BEST EFFORTS, oil has already caused damage to our coastline and its wildlife…….”

What we have watched not happen since April 20th was the best there is or will be…………… pathetic.

There was a bit of Clintonian word parsing in his speech (well lots actually, but one in particular I will trifle with):”…. JUST AFTER the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation’s best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge – a team led by Dr. Steven Chu…..”. The earliest indication of this team being assembled is May 25….. over one month later ……. after over half the time since the explosion had passed. To me, “Just After” generally means within hours or within a day………. if May 25 was earliest than this was “Just After” as measured relative to geologic time.

He was trying to impress us with all the smart power he has on it yet was also saying that maybe next month we might put a stop to the leak.
Maybe.
I watched the whole speech and still have no idea what is being done to contain the spill or cap the well.
He did make it clear however that my taxes may be going up.

He was so laughable trying to portray China as the leader in clean technology when they are on an absolute tear to buy up as much oil as possible all over the world and are even in drilling the Gulf.
That speech went over like a fart in an elevator.

…and tired of hearing about windmills and solar panels when discussing our so-called “addiction” to oil. I’m not addicted to anything. My car, which I use to go to work so I can pay taxes, er, I mean earn a living, burns gasoline.
We have to drive. It isn’t something we can do without so it isn’t an addiction and I’m tired of hearing arrogant, moralizing, gas bags like Obama decry our use of oil. There IS NO SUBSTITUTE and until there is they need to STFU about it.

“[Compared to Carter], I don’t sense executive command.”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_i_dont_sense_executive_command.html

Let me be serious for a second (no more jokes about poor Jimmy Carter).

I live in Baldwin County, Alabama which is directly on the Gulf. Until a couple of weeks or so ago, there was no widespread fear or anger about the spill. There was some concern, a sort of vague worry, but you didn’t have people openly scared.

All that has changed now. Our tourism industry dried up last week and is in intensive care (hotel and condo occupancy is less than 50% and is headed south). Of course, this impacts the area shops, restaurants, and other tourist attractions. Fortunately, I do not work in a tourism-dependent business, but I go to church with many who do. There is real panic brewing now. Tonight’s speech… about a commission here and a commission there and a bill that passed the House but not the Senate… will only exacerbate this feeling because now we know we are truly on our own.

I have a lot of faith in my neighbors’ ability to survive any disaster and meet any challenge. But many of us are now asking a simple question-what happens with all of this oil once several hurricanes pass through the Gulf this fall? A completely uncoordinated federal response, under the leadership of a
“community organizer” of 3 years, isn’t exactly reassuring.

no, errr. my inner wish. Hey Liz, can you give a rebuttal to all the crap we got fed tonight.

Calling out Liz Cheney and any other patriotic American with a pulpit,

Speak now or forever hold your piece.

I’ve been in sales my entire career, both direct and management. His whole speech felt like a salesman describing/defending to his manager what he has done for the past month in attempting to hit quota…appts set, meetings ran, phone call made….etc. His manager, expecting results, not talk, simply replies ‘that all may be the case but you still didn’t hit quota’, then ‘I don’t think this job is a fit for you.’

How can he defend actions that haven’t repaired, stopped or even slowed the gushing oil???

Obama hasn’t hit quota since he’s been in office. The American people want results. Mr. Obama, we appreciate the efforts but this job is just not a fit for you and we are going to have to move in a different direction.

Wasn’t one of the selling points of Obama in the 2008 election the assertion that he would help strengthen our ties with the “intenational community”. Bush was too much the cowboy, we were told; all that rugged individualism and American exceptionalism was so 19th century. Obama would improve our image since he understood the sort of multinational solutions needed for the new millineum.

And what happened when Obama had his first opportunity to accept multinational help in cleaning up this oil mess?

He rejected it.

I guess the Republicans are somehow to blame for that one too.

should lead to Green jobs which will result in his ultimate goal of a Red economy.
I’m feeling Blue.

about this Tweet: “Let me be clear. Some oil spilled. But Katrina. And make no mistake. I’m having meetings. In conclusion, something about China. Windmills!”

If anyone’s been following Glenn Beck’s investigation into the Chicago Climate Exchange, then Obama’s push for Cap and Trade makes perfect sense.

No, it’s true, he said something like that.
So after two months of golf , vacations, pong parties and sitting on his buns…
Now it is Cowboy Obama coming out with guns ablazing???
Get serious..
That speach was talk and talk and talk…talk..talk..
My God, the man will drivel on forever when he has a microphone…
Ya gotta be kiddin’ me…
It did nothing but upset me. BS.

“Barack Obama, like Jimmy Carter before him, has proven himself overwhelmed by the job, not up to the task, and looking for answers in all the wrong places. Let’s hope the nation can survive him”

For a bunch of brave patriots you sure are a pack of pessimistic Cassandra wilting lilies at the first sign of trouble.

Good luck with the blog.

Cheers!

The American electorate chose a man whose entire experience was as a community organizer, a lecturer, and an Illinois state senator who set records by voting “present!” 138 times on legislation.

So, if we needed a President who could mount a demonstration, give a speech, or “pass” on a crisis, we picked the right guy!

Unfortunately, the job usually entails more than that, so we are expecting something from Obama he was never able to deliver: leadership.

… You knew he’d lie to you, you knew he’d blame everyone else, you knew he’d find an excuse to overturn the rule of law – or what’s left of it, you knew it’d be a complete waste of your time & just irritate you.

Seriously – if you wanted to learn about the ocean your time would’ve been better-spent watching Spongebob.

Hey – The Spongebob Speech!! How’s that for a one-word analog to the Malaise speech? Works for me!

Here’s another word: someonebustacaponhisbutt.

Perhaps the dems might sense the time is coming to impeach the O before the next elections to save their phony baloney jobs…

Harumph…

This guy can’t stand God and he’s asking everyone at the end to pray. It’s amazing what happens to liberals when science fails them. That was worth the price of admission though.

http://56rebels.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/obama-asks-us-to-pray-i-guess-we-really-are-screwed/

What finally struck me yesterday is the key emotion which Obama targets in his speeches: anger. He wants me, an American citizen, to be angry at someone or something.

The oil spill is a sad an tragic event. My Christian world view leads me to a point where I’m sad for the people affected by this. I’m sad for the ecological impact. I’m sad for the workers who have to clean it up.

As real, unbiased facts are revealed, perhaps anger is a correct emotion. I’m not there yet.

But it has struck me how, in speech after speech our president…the highest elected official….would prefer that 300million people be angry at another person. The best word I can describe for that behavior is ‘evil’. A less severe word is ‘irresponsible’.

The country is thirsting for compassion, from which springs true Hope. I will have worldly Hope/Faith in a government which responds with compassion and justice, when warranted. Those are not traits which this current administration demonstrates. Obama things retribution=justice, and handouts=compassion. He is deeply mistaken.

excellent article sir, couldn’t agree more: Obama is a blamer, not a leader– and sadly, he is making Jimmy Carter look better every day–

The Won’s trick bag is empty…

Linked at RR, great post:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/06/reviews-are-in.html

and say “Here is what he really meant to say”. But no amount of spin will work.

Deepwater
The Deepwater Speech.

Aren’t these known facts?

1. Obama campaign got a boat load of money from BP
2. Deepwater Horizon got fast tracked by MMS
3. Everyone(except administration) seemed to know there were problems
4. Obama administration gave Deepwater Horizon a safety award
5. Obama head of MMS “resigned”

I think the reason Obama is screwing this up is he is afraid if anyone starts to really look into the connection between his petty dictatorship and BP, he is toast. Why hasn’t Elizabeth Birnbaum been called up to Congress?

Aren’t these known facts?

1. Obama campaign got a boat load of money from BP
2. Deepwater Horizon got fast tracked by MMS
3. Everyone(except administration) seemed to know there were problems
4. Obama administration gave Deepwater Horizon a safety award
5. Obama head of MMS “resigned”

I think the reason Obama is screwing this up is he is afraid if anyone starts to really look into the connection between his petty dictatorship and BP, he is toast. Why hasn’t Elizabeth Birnbaum been called up to Congress?

B…B…B…But you told me I wouldn’t have to make any decisions after I was elected and everyone would still love me no matter what I did.

Wasn’t his speech enough? NO!!
I want him to:
1. Put one person in charge to coordinate all agencies and people involved – the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing in all of this – no one knows who to report to
2. That person can: a. Make sure that Jones Act is lifted; b. Make sure all offers of help from other countries are taken advantage of immediately; c. deal with BP on the leak; d. deal with BP on the compensation of the thousands of people who have lost their liveliehoods, businesses and more than likely their life savings trying to stay afloat since the government waited 50+ days seemingly to start doing anything at all; e. be the person that everyone coordinates actions through, etc., etc., etc.

Problem is – he’s never run a business – he doesn’t know how to lead, coordinate, motivate and spur people to action. He governs by community. He has a whole mess of people doing a whole mess of things on their own and now he’s created…………………a bigger mess.

Finally, don’t use this tragedy for the people on the coast to push his agenda for cap and tax. There was more emphasis on that in the speech than on the cleanup. Everyone here is right, he is worse than Jimmy Carter. And he’s so idealogical that’s not going to change in the next 2 years. I agree with someone else here who said I hope we can survive the rest of his presidency.

If president Obama bogies on the eighth hole, is it Bush’s fault?
Jimmy Carter really did the very best job he could possibly do, and
listened to all of the wrong (alledged experts) people. He did, however, have morals and principles. He was just too nice for our good in Washington D.C. He was also very inexperienced. I salute
him for making his best efforts out of love for his country.
He really needed to pal around with Ronald Reagan for a few years.
The liberals are NEVER going to contribute anything constructive to
our nation as long as they are in power. They need to make the coffee, fetch the doughnuts, and let the grownups get the work done.

Our President is unable to calculate the effects that his decisions, comments and actions have on this country and on the world. He is making enemies of our allies and allies of our enemies. Go to www.moveoverdotcom.blogspot.com to read my article about this and other issues. They have gone from “greed is good” to “green is good”. (But it really is still greed, just with a new color.) Cap and Trade would be devastating if it passes. Write and call your congressmen now to stop it!

I can’t sum it up in one word. Clueless, incompetent, irresponsible, hopelessly inadequate, simply not up to the job.

Obama’s tilt toward Carter was made clear very early on, with his suggestion that we solve our energy shortages by checking the air in our tires. Pretty funny, coming from someone whom I suspect would need a czar to help him with such a task. By the way, how many Obama’s does it take to screw in a light bulb? More to the point — how many committees does it take to recommend how to screw in a light bulb?