Kick your own @$$, Obama

This is my response to this arti­cle and video — go watch it.

Obama said, just in case you missed it or didn’t watch the video:

I don’t sit around just talk­ing to experts because this is a col­lege sem­i­nar, we talk to these folks because they poten­tially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

Well, if we look at the facts, it is appar­ent he should kick his own and his administration’s, as he put it, “ass”.

In Feb­ru­ary 2009, BP filed a 52-page explo­ration and envi­ron­men­tal action plan for the Macondo well, just 41 miles off the Louisiana coast, with the Mate­ri­als Man­age­ment Ser­vice (an arm of the Depart­ment of the Inte­rior).  The plan stated, “[it is] unlikely that an acci­den­tal sur­face or sub­sur­face oil spill would occur from the pro­posed activ­i­ties”.  They were granted a waiver from a detailed envi­ron­men­tal impact study by the Depart­ment of the Inte­rior.  (For a detailed time­line, go here.)

Then on April 20, 2010, a severe blowout occurred and the rig caught on fire, killing 11 peo­ple and injur­ing 17 oth­ers.  Ever since then there has been a blame game ensu­ing, with fin­gers fly­ing in every direc­tion.  The Obama Adminstration’s response has been, at best, lack­adaisi­cal and lack­ing focus.  Like Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina did with George W. Bush, this dis­as­ter will define Barack H. Obama’s tenure as pres­i­dent, whether he likes it or not.

I am dis­gusted with Obama’s choice to use vul­gar­i­ties in an inter­view set­ting as his way to show emo­tion.  It is class­less, totally beneath the office of the Pres­i­dent, and is insult­ing to the intel­li­gence of the Amer­i­can peo­ple.  We don’t need you to kick ass, Mr. Pres­i­dent, we need you to lead.  That is what you were elected to do.  Bet­ter yet — stay out of the way.  We need peo­ple like Gov­er­nor Bobby Jin­dal and Admi­ral Thad Allen of the United States Coast Guard, who are much bet­ter at being lead­ers, and a heck of a lot more competent.  Admiral Allen helped orches­trate relief efforts for New Orleans and the Mis­sis­sippi Gulf Coast after Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina, and he is prov­ing him­self yet again with this crisis.

This is just another clear exam­ple that this Pres­i­dent does not have the experience, capacity, or deco­rum fit­ting that of a United States Pres­i­dent.

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