Friday, April 30, 2010

Obama's BLOB GLOB

Helping the Media
The BLOB that ate Nawlins'


Boned Jello

Today's fun suggestion: Google up "Bush Katrina," then use the "find and replace" tool on your text editor to swap "Obama" for Bush,  "BP oil spill" for Katrina, and "spill" for storm.   You get something like this.  [prompted by Obama threatened by heckuva glob]
BP oil spill: How Obama Blew It
Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.
By Evan Thomas
Newsweek

It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Obama can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. The bad news on this early morning, Tuesday, some 24 hours after Hurricane BP oil spill had ripped through New Orleans, was that the president would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington.

The president did not growl this time. He had already decided to return to Washington and hold a meeting of his top advisers on the following day, Wednesday. This would give them a day to get back from their vacations and their staffs to work up some ideas about what to do in the aftermath of the spill. President Obama knew the spill and its consequences had been bad; but he didn't quite realize how bad.

The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Obama could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.

How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century—is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace.



4 comments:

Dan Pelota said...

Obama, who mocked the idea of 'drill baby drill' oddly and suddenly lifts a ban on 'drill baby drill'.

Insert oil spill that we can blame on someone else (British Petroleum) and the oil ban is miraculously back on, while Obama can say that he's FOR drilling and oil independence.

Anonymous said...

Definitely an inside job.

JMcD said...

The poster brings new meaning to the word "diner".
Dang!...Bet they had sweet potato pie.

Alear said...

Just as Charley Crist will never be a senator, Sarah Palin will never be a President. "Drill, baby, drill", however justified, will be juxtaposed to devastating effect.

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