Obama Defends (Lies about) Response to Oil Spill Disaster in Gulf

We thought Bill Clinton when he was President lied and spun on almost every subject which culminated in Monicagate and his impeachment for lying even though he wasn't removed. However, Clinton cannot compare to this President. It doesn't take much researching to find the opposite of what Obama said today in his press conference. Does he not think that the American people remember?

5/27/10: "I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure this thing is shut down," Obama declared

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"The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort," Obama said. He was reacting to criticism that his administration had been slow to act and had left BP in charge of plugging the leak.

Compare to what he said on Apr 29, 2010

President Obama says BP 'ultimately responsible' for spill clean-up
President Barack Obama said BP was "ultimately responsible" for the cost and clean-up of an growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico which threatens to develop into an environmental catastrophe.

The US President is to dispatch two senior members of his cabinet to the site of the spill today to ensure that the British oil giant is "doing everything possible not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause".

The explosion happened on April 20, 2010 and yet Obama waited until April 29 to even announce he was sending two senior members of his cabinet to the site. Yet he wants us to believe they were hands on from Day One. Sorry but the facts say they were not and sending two inexperienced cabinet people to oversee this effort has to be some kind of a joke. Never have we seen people so unqualified to hold cabinet positions as the Obama appointees, and it is beginning to show.

Another of Obama's contributions to this disaster was to snap "just plug the damn hole." That is really not something you would expect the President to say in answer to the catastrophe and more proof he has not been on top of this from Day One.

James Carville, the Democrat strategist, who can never be called conservative took after Obama in a Huffington Post article for his lack of action on the BP catastrophe:

Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration's response to the spill has been "lackadaisical" and that Obama was "naive" to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.

"I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here," he said. "They're naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can... They won't tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, 'These people don't wish you well! They're going to take you down!'"

Carville also accused the White House of going along with what he called the "let BP handle it" strategy.

"I'm as good a Democrat as most people, and I think this administration has done some good things. They are risking everything by this 'go along with BP' strategy they have that seems like, lackadaisical on this, and Doug is right, they seem like they're inconvenienced by this, this is some giant thing getting in their way and somehow or another, if you let BP handle it, it'll all go away. It's not going away. It's growing out there. It is a disaster of the first magnitude, and they've got to go to Plan B."

Several others from Louisiana like Cokie Roberts and Donna Brazile have had similar statements.

Then we had this from Chris Matthews of MSNBC from the Huffington Post article about James Carville linked above which shocked us to the core:

Likewise, Chris Matthews argued during a "Tonight Show" appearance that the President was "acting a little like a Vatican Observer."

"The President scares me," he said. "When is he actually going to do something? And I worry; I know he doesn't want to take ownership of it. I know politics. He said the minute he says, 'I'm in charge,' he takes the blame, but somebody has to. It's in our interest."

We are talking about Matthews who during the campaign said Obama sent a tingle up his leg and now is criticizing him for lack of action.

Yet, today Obama said the Administration has been in charge from Day One! This is one big fat lie on top of so many we have lost count. The lies today are outrageous and just glad we are not as dumb as he thinks we are. We don't believe he would have held a press conference this morning except he is catching flack from the Democrats now as much as Republicans.

Obama is showing himself to be inept and is lying to cover up the facts he and his Administration have done little on this disaster.

Governor Jindal of Louisiana to Obama: "We’re tired of waiting for the feds to help with the spill" has been asking for help to build up the barrier islands along the Louisiana coast for weeks and received no answer from the Obama Administration so he is going ahead without help of the Feds. Yet this President wants everyone to think he is on top of everything.

Would Obama have held this news conference today if he had not had lunch with Republican Senators this week when David Vitter (R-LA) took him to task about his lack of interest in this Gulf oil crises. We believe the answer would be NO! Obama also never mentioned sending any troops to the border or more money for Border Security until he had the meeting and was challenged by McCain and Kyl. Thirty minutes after the meeting broke up he announced sending 1200 troops to the border which are turning out to be desk jobs not boots on the ground which they need a lot worse. Circumstantial evidence is mounting that Obama has to be challenged by Republican Senators before he will act.

Obama Defends (Lies about) Response to Oil Spill Disaster in Gulf
Jennifer Loven and Tom Raum

AP WASHINGTON (May 27) - President Barack Obama defensively and sometimes testily insisted on Thursday that his administration, not oil giant BP, was calling the shots in responding to the worst oil spill in the nation's history.

"I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure this thing is shut down," Obama declared at a news conference in the East Room of the White House. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill dominated the hour-long session.

He called the spill, now in its sixth week, an "unprecedented disaster" and blasted a "scandalously close relationship" between Big Oil and government regulators.

Obama announced new steps to deal with the aftermath of the spill, including continuing a moratorium on drilling permits for six months. He also said he was suspending planned exploration drilling off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells under way in the Gulf of Mexico.

The president's direct language on being in charge of the spill, which he repeated several times, marked a change in emphasis from earlier administration assertions that, while the government was overseeing the operation, BP had the expertise and equipment to make the decisions on how to stop the flow.

Taking control carried its own political risks for Obama, because any failure to stop the gusher would then belong to the president. But Obama could suffer politically if his administration was seen as falling short of staying on top of the problem or not working hard to find a solution.

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Obama said many critics failed to realize "this has been our highest priority."

"My job right now is just to make sure everybody in the Gulf understands: This is what I wake up to in the morning, and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill."

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