Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Sarah growls back

Less Talkin’, More Kickin’

Tweaking a hapless dog

In September 2008, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed Senator Barack Obama.  He asked, "Why you? I mean, why do you think you would be a good president?"  Obama responded with a litany of gobbeldy-gook.

KROFT: But what is there specifically about you? You mentioned disposition. You mentioned disposition. What skills and traits do you have that would make you a good president?

OBAMA: Look, I'm a practical person. One of the things I'm good at is getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas. Who sometimes violently disagree with each other. And finding common ground. And a sense of common direction, and that's the kind of approach I think that prevents you from making some of the enormous mistakes that we've seen over the last eight years. 

 60 Minutes, compelled by desire to get this man elected, later scrubbed that inanity from the public transcript.   Continuing.

KROFT: We've talked a lot of times, and we've talked a lot about the issue of experience. And, according to the latest CBS News poll and all the polls, it still remains one of the things that people are concerned about with you -- the lack of executive experience. I mean, suppose you wake up on the day after the election, the president elect of the United States. What are you gonna do? I mean, how are you gonna govern?

OBAMA: Well, look.

KROFT: You've never run anything. And now, all of a sudden, you're in charge of running the United States.

OBAMA: Well

KROFT: Besides your campaign.

I don't have to remind you that the Obama tyro, with media allies, would belittle Sarah Palin's experience as Governor of Alaska as a joke. Today she gets her digs in.  From her Facebook page:

50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning: “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”

First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)

Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren’t proof enough). [continued]
Aside: Sarry had a pretty good night as a king-maker.

2 comments:

DougM said...

Re: the pic
I think Sarah's doin' the Crocodile Dundee animal mind-control thing wrong. But, hey, that was just a movie; and she's the real thing, so ...

Anonymous said...

One of my D friends, a math teacher who lives in Balto, MD, thought Sara Palin could not put a complete sentence together. She echoed the 'see Russia from my front porch' snideness. She cut off email discussion after I called 535 congress critter morons for thinking they could run healthcare, noting the wonderful successes they have with SocSec, US Mail, IRS, etc.
This is a very well written scorching of the Prez butt. Makes him look like an incompetent ninny, who does not have the guts to face any executive, from BigOil to an army general. Makes Sare look like an intelligent human being.
tomw

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