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6/29/2010

Day 70: Obama Finally Accepts Foreign Help

Filed under: International,Obama — DRJ @ 6:47 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

It’s Day 70 of the BP Oil Spill and the Obama Administration has finally acknowledged they need help:

“The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.”

Here is the State Department’s press release.

It has always struck me as odd that President Obama has made world tours apologizing for the sins and omissions of America but when we really do need help, he’s the last to say so.

— DRJ

10 Responses to “Day 70: Obama Finally Accepts Foreign Help”

  1. Some people have a very tenuous connection with reality…
    Our “Lightworker” has broken that connection.

    AD - RtR/OS! (f22b48)

  2. it’s Day Seventy
    a Crisis of Leadership
    Crisis in the Gulf

    ColonelHaiku (9cf017)

  3. You think it’s odd? Did you ever hear the saying “pride comes before the fall”? Case in point.

    PatriotRider (8d9a6f)

  4. It has always struck me as odd that President Obama has made world tours apologizing for the sins and omissions of America but when we really do need help, he’s the last to say so.

    Look up the definition of “ass backwards” and you’ll see a picture of Obama.

    Mark (411533)

  5. President Obama can threaten to use an Executive Order to legalize “illegal aliens”; he can threaten to use an Executive Order to impose a carbon tax–and he can let his own EPA impose a regulation making CO2 a “pollutant”. All those things our President can do or allow.

    President Bush could and did issue an Executive Order suspending the Jones Act for cleanup rescue work on Hurricane Katrina. He did that either 3 or 5 days after Katrina hit land.

    President Obama could have wielded his mighty Executive Order pen and waived/suspended the Jones Act; and could have issued an Executive Order telling the EPA to back off and allow use of less than perfect skimmers; could have told the Coast Guard not to sweat the small stuff, coulda this and coulda that.

    Yes he could have–but the sumbitch was more worried about working on his putting stroke.

    In Obama’s case it’s really his “putzing” stroke.
    What a failure of leadership!

    Mike Myers (3c9845)

  6. He gets NO credit for finally getting it right, 69 days after the fact.

    JD (959071)

  7. I don’t find it odd at all. Obama, like so, so many lefties, is extremely good at apologizing for other people’s mistakes, but terrible at apologizing for his own.

    Sean P (6f6c60)

  8. Isn’t it amazing how the liberals — the absolute kings of the “do something!” mantra — completely CHOKE when something actually needs doing?

    Icy Texan (b865a5)

  9. …that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that’s been accepted.

    Instead of getting down to the nitty gritty immediately, they still find it necessary to go through the government negotiation process…

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (cf2f34)

  10. far more important
    protect union jobs than
    save environment

    ColonelHaiku (9cf017)


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