Because When You’re Seeking Advice on Damage Control After an Embarrassing Spill, Experience Matters

By Doug Powers  •  May 27, 2010 12:57 PM

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

President Obama’s press conference is underway as I write this, but a little earlier today, he had lunch with somebody who may be able to serve as an example of what not to do in the area of comprehensive environmental cleanup.

Yell “plug the damn hole” and guess who comes running?

But before the presser, Obama will have lunch with someone who knows something about damage control.

Former President Clinton, whose affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky landed him in trouble with the law, Congress and his wife, might have a thing or two to tell Obama about how to handle a crisis.

Clinton ended up being impeached, but I imagine Obama might take that into account before fully implementing all of his advice.

“Oh, and one last thing Barack… if some of the oil gets on your girlfriend’s dress, pre-treat it immediately with corn starch, get it to the dry cleaners right away and don’t under any circumstances let her take it home.”

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

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  1. #1
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:01 pm, rambler said:

    Cigar any one!

  2. #2
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, jsr said:

    Obama should have the good Rev. Jesse Jackson come to the White House for counseling and a prayer session like he did for Bill Clinton. Because nothing says “I need your support” to the Dem base like a prayer with a ‘civil rights’ leader.

  3. #3
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, 123upnorth said:

    “Oh, and one last thing Barack… if some of the oil gets on your girlfriend’s dress, get it to the dry cleaners right away and don’t let her take it home.”

    Absolutely an example of why I love your sense of humour Powers.

  4. #4
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, tarpon said:

    Did he tell the ChiComs drilling off Cuba to plug the damn holes?

  5. #5
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:12 pm, dcbprime said:

    Oleaginous William?

  6. #6
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:15 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    If he has a spill that lasts more than four hours is this evidence of a serious side effect?

  7. #7
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:33 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Summary report of Obama’s press conference and I paraphrase:

    “Let me be clear, I was in charge from the very beginning and I take responsibility for everything that happened. But let me also be clear that this is the result of corruption under the Bush administration.”

    So far, Obama has filibustered every question. His job apparently is to segue questions into the scripted explanations on his teleprompters.

  8. #8
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:34 pm, swede said:

    If he has a spill that lasts more than four hours is this evidence of a serious side effect?

    Nice. Nothin’ but net. ;-)

  9. #9
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:39 pm, thejim said:

    Pathetic “Liars-in-Chiefs”! OBambi is currently using the advice from “Liar A” (Billy-Bob Clinton) that he got at lunch today, claiming that HE, personally has been in direct charge of repairing the Gulf oil disaster. The only good thing to come out of this is some in the media are incredulous, directly questioning the obvious lie.

  10. #10
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:40 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    I caught a little of the presser while in a waiting room. Some of the questions were good. The answers, not so much.

  11. #11
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, Stoutcat said:

    Former President Clinton, whose affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky landed him in trouble with the law, Congress and his wife…

    Funny how they just can’t bring themselves to mention that he was IMPEACHED! Nope, just a little trouble with the wifey.

    Disgusting.

  12. #12
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:48 pm, J S Ragman said:

    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:15 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    If he has a spill that lasts more than four hours is this evidence of a serious side effect?

    Thanks, Aloha. Now I have an image of Billy and Barry sitting in those adjoining bathtubs stuck in my head.

  13. #13
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, MrOlympia said:

    “Oh, and one last thing Barack… if some of the oil gets on your girlfriend’s dress”

    Doug I’m betting if anything Bam has a boyfriend.

  14. #14
    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:57 pm, Hangfire said:

    It’s a man-made catastrophe, right? Or is it a man-made disaster? Help me out here…

  15. #15
    On May 27th, 2010 at 2:36 pm, txvet2 said:

    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, MrOlympia said:

    “Oh, and one last thing Barack… if some of the oil gets on your girlfriend’s dress”

    Doug I’m betting if anything Bam has a boyfriend.

    Twice as important if it’s on your boyfriend’s dress.

  16. #16
    On May 27th, 2010 at 2:59 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On May 27th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, MrOlympia said:

    Doug I’m betting if anything Bam has a boyfriend.

    His “body man”.

  17. #17
    On May 27th, 2010 at 3:28 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    LOL Doug. Good one!

    But as we learned with Clinton, being impeached is meaningless unless you have an objective Senate willing to convict. Which of course we do not have at the present time.

  18. #18
    On May 27th, 2010 at 3:39 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Impeachment is for those who are eligible to hold an office, but then break the law once in office.

    Impeachment is not for those who were never eligible to hold the office in the first place. For those, the correct response is a Quo Warranto case brought in the D.C. court. If found ineligible, the ursurper is removed from office and every action that they took while holding the office is nullified.

    Obama is a usurper. Remove him via Quo Warranto, and everything he has done in office, including signing Obamacare and every nomination he has made, including judges/justices, will be nullified.

  19. #19
    On May 27th, 2010 at 4:01 pm, spaceycakes said:

    are we ever going to be rid of this Arkansas trailer trash dissipated man?

  20. #20
    On May 27th, 2010 at 4:31 pm, Virginia Patriot said:
    are we ever going to be rid of this Arkansas trailer trash dissipated man?

    Too many Republicans woosed out or we would not have been subjected to Sen. Hillary (now Sec. of State) or seeing and hearing this louse. He should have been removed for perjury, but the sackless Senators would not even hold a full trial.

  21. #21
    On May 27th, 2010 at 4:35 pm, 24Klady said:

    Someone needs to dig out the old cartoon of ‘Bambi standing in a row boat with the tri-pointed hat, with the obligatory jaw thrust.

  22. #22
    On May 27th, 2010 at 5:26 pm, rightisright said:

    On May 27th, 2010 at 4:31 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    We can blame Senator Lott, which I was not a fan of, for not following through with the Senate trial. In his defense, he says there was no way the Senate would have found Clinton guilty, therefore no reason to waste time and money of frivolous trial.

    Clinton’s are like a very bad habit, they just keep showing up. I’ll be so glad when they are gone, once and for all…hopefully taking the fraudulent jerk in the W.H. with them.

  23. #23
    On May 27th, 2010 at 5:40 pm, fuseman said:

    Clinton ended up being impeached

    looks like our current leader is asking us to help him OUT.

  24. #24
    On May 27th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    We should be nice here. Yes, Clinton was and probably still is a womanizing sleaze. And yes he was impeached. But who else would obama turn to? – Gore, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Kerry, Durbin, Waxman, Weiner, Franks, Schumer – need I say more.

    When it comes to incompetent nincompoops, Clinton is the least of them in a party that goes deeper than the BP well to find pond scum and clean it up for elected office.

  25. #25
    On May 27th, 2010 at 8:54 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Obowmao: “Say Bill, how do you keep your cigars lit?”
    Slick Willy: “Well for one thing, you don’t use them to plug a hole, mostly!

  26. #26
    On May 28th, 2010 at 8:00 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On May 27th, 2010 at 8:54 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Obowmao: “Say Bill, how do you keep your cigars lit?”
    Slick Willy: “Well for one thing, you don’t use them to plug a hole, mostly!

    Now now, be nice-mostly ;)

    Yes men are pigs and we thoroughly enjoy it.

  27. #27
    On May 28th, 2010 at 11:05 am, thejim said:

    Hopefully, we are seeing the last of several players, the Clintons, leading that pack. OBambi appears to be doing such a poor job that the media can no longer cover for him & his “Band of Merry Fools”. The best indicator will be a Presidential approval rate at 24%, meaning only those that cannot/will not see OBambi’s performance are left.

  28. #28
    On May 29th, 2010 at 4:11 pm, sillygatboy said:

    It’s always good to have a covicted, admitted liar, cheat or thief on your staff just for situations such as this.

    Obama has plenty of em on his staff.

  29. #29
    On June 1st, 2010 at 4:32 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    In school, the teachers always said that the President and members of Congress were the country’s best and brightest. Hah! We’ve been jacked, bro. I despised Clinton and his criminal wife, and now I am beyond anything but hatred for Obeyme. I wish there was some way to tie obama and clinton together criminally for this Sestak deal.

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