Obama Breaks a Whale of a Campaign Promise
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Throw another one on the growing “broken promises” pile.
It’s just common political sense: If environmentalists (and most everybody else for that matter) are raking you over the coals for a slow and inept response to a disastrous oil spill, try to win them back by lifting a ban on whaling:
Environmentalists, already peeved with the administration’s handling of the Gulf oil spill, are accusing President Obama of breaking his campaign pledge to end the slaughter of whales.
The Obama administration is leading an effort within the International Whaling Commission to lift a 24-year international ban on commercial whaling for Japan, Norway and Iceland, the remaining three countries in the 88-member commission that still hunt whales.
The administration argues that the new deal will save thousands of whales over the next decade by stopping the three countries from illegally exploiting loopholes in the moratorium.
But environmentalists aren’t buying it.
Maybe it’s part of a grand plan. I mean, if you ban drilling, you’ve got to get oil from somewhere. But for anybody distraught over this news, I suggest wearing this t-shirt to show your displeasure:
I thought “no whaling” was one campaign promise even Obama could keep, but the temptation is proving too great, and Pierce Brosnan is displeased.
The underside of Obama’s bus was crowded enough with people without stuffing whales under there too. “You’re gonna need a bigger bus.”
Naturally, there’s a motive for this other than the Obama administration decided last week that they didn’t like whales or the votes of environmentalists. This might all boil down to Rahm Emanuel having invested heavily in a company that manufactures harpoon cannons or something like that — time will tell.
Reminder for environmentalists: Even George W. Bush maintained the whaling ban.
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Whale Wars
I am really trying hard to find one single promise this bho has not broken. I thought of one, to transform America, that he has kept.
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Wild guess: we cut a deal with Japan over North Korea and that controversial base that caused a PM to resign.
No doubt, the only one he fully intends to keep.
LOL, incompetence knows no bounds.
Rosie O’Donnell better stay away from the beach.
Can this bozo get any stupider? It is almost as if he is trying to get fired! Seriously, he just can’t be this dumb…can he???
Forget Bush maintaining the ban… Ronald Reagan established the ban…. I wonder how many environmentalists heads go tilt when they realize that….
When barry hussien wakes up in the morning with the bloody head of a dolphin lying on the pillow next to him, then he’ll realize he shouldn’t mess with WILLY!!!!
I hope the whales eat him.
He also promised to speak at a major Islamic forum in his first 100 days in office. Remember what he said in Turkey on April 6, 2009?
So, yep. All roads (and all other promises made) lead back to the “fundamentally transforming” promise. It’s all encompasing.
Well, if you believe that you have to spend your way out of bankruptcy, then hunting the whales out of extinction just seems logical.
Side note: Does this mean they’ll be selling whale meat at Whole Foods?
Ah, if we could only examine his educational records and papers, such questions can be put to rest.
It would all be too funny if he weren’t determined to take down this nation.
Slightly OT, but this morning, whilst brushing my teeth, I had a revelation in relation to the Gulf oil spill. How can this “healer of the rivers and oceans, yadda yadda” seem so calloused and removed from this situation? Well, folks, he’s the guy who cares more about his agenda than the American people. As Rahm so famously told us, he is not one to let a good crisis go to waste. He’s anti-corporation, anti-oil and all for his “clean energy” vision. So if he has to sacrifice pelicans, jellyfish, plankton, and of course human fisherman, to get everyone to turn against off shore drilling, so be it. He DOES NOT CARE one bit about anything but himself. It’s not that he’s stupid, he will sacrifice anything/anyone to get what he wants (even if it makes him a 1-term president, what’s done is done).
Whale hunting:
Split the power of the environmentalists by pulling some of the whale lovers away from complaining over the oil spill. Typical Rahm style move.
Whatever did the whales do to him?
What’s the politics? What quid pro quo is there?
What good is a “no-tolerance policy” if you can’t enforce it?
This sounds like more grandstanding without any real substance.
And just when I thought the suit couldn’t be any emptier….
Ironic(?)–the petroleum business was born because of the reduction of the whale population.
Nothing but Freaking morons running the country.
From day one of Bambi’s campaign,the majority of people in this country have chosen to believe in fantasy instead of using their God given intelligence to direct them.I still know people who don’t believe they made a mistake voting for Bambi.
Unbelievable.
… to which the Prince of Wales commented, “That Bastard – he promised! He promised!”
Is anyone surprised that O-bow-mao is a liar?
John Deaux, you continue to amuse.
Well… thinking on it… Whale oil IS a renewable source of Green Energy!
And like Wind Power, is soooo 200 years ago!
Gee,I hope whale tastes like chicken!
Well said. he’s not stupid, but he is narcissistic…how all you How all you hope n’changeys feel about him now? Only 2.5 more years for him to destroy as much of America and the free world as he can.
God Save America
I guess the whales will be learning the “Chicago Way”!
This would just be for hunting white whales, right?
Okay…….. somebody has GOT to photoshop Obama’s head onto Gregory Peck’s picture of Captain Ahab.
This is a must!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/positivelypuzzled/1581201566/
does this mean that white headed, white bearded, empty headed terrorist captain on “Whales Wars” (animalplanet) will be out of a job…lord I hope so. I bet that sob doesn’t travel too far north in the Pacific and try to stop Russian or N.Korean whalers, they’d blow his terrorist butt off the water.
Ah, a new program for the Discovery Channel. Mike Roe manning a harpoon gun!
I wonder what the crew from Animal Planets “Whale Wars” has to say. Had to terrorize and stop what is now legal? Huh.
OT sorry, a short answer from the more learned on the site is greatly appreciated. I understand why the price of gold is rising and the stock market crashing. but how is it if oil’s price is determined by world supply(supposedly) why is it the Gulf of Mexico is turning brown from the oil blow off, lowering the available amount of oil to be sold in the world the price is coming down? What happened to supply and demand, did some oil company hit a new well the comparative size or larger to the Deepwater Horizon well we’re not aware of?
Maybe part of Obama’s War On Petroleum is to replace it with whale oil? Plus it could help stop Global Warming by reducing greenhouse gases from whale, er, gaseous emissions.
Just picture it lads…… The whaling vessel “Hope and Change” sailing out of New Bedford
Administration claiming 317,400 new whaling jobs in 6, 5, 4, …..
7,400 whalers and ship builders
310,000 Federal administrators and inspectors.
“Daddy, have you plugged a whale yet?”
Ice tea now covering my monitor…… Thanks AG!
Capt. Obama (from qtrdk.):
“Mr. Emanuel, put your swine of a crew on quarter rations. I will not tolerate this flagrant mockery of my indulgence!!!!“
Uh-oh…
#30 rightisright: Excellent point, usually all it takes is a light bulb in a refinery to burn out and gas goes us 20 cents.
In an interview with Larry King, Obama said he was “furious with swimming mammels.”
“Larry, everyday at the White House when I ‘m watching reruns of “Flipper”, that Dolphin makes that “eeeeeeeeee” sound and I know he’s laughing at me,” the President said. “I will not be laughed at Larry, and though he may be responsible, I am in charge.”
Roger that. Gas went up here in Honolulu immediately after the Tsunami of 2010.
Somebody call Kirk and Spock and tell them to warm up the Klingon starship. Obama is going to need them to fetch another whale from the past.
I did not see this coming.
“He’s dead, Jim…”
“I’m a doctor, not a Sushi chef…”
The only reason Obama made the promise in the first place is that he thought the promise was over Wales and he figured he could get some votes from there in 2012. Once he realized it was Whales he figured there was some way that someone in his administration could make a buck over it and decided to lift the ban.
remember Obama has a hard time distiguishing between words and their meaning:
Wales to Whales
Corpse to Corps
I think we are starting to see a pattern.
There FIFY
Since none of the “learned” have replied, let me take a small shot. First point is that the well wasn’t in production yet – it blew up during completion, as they were converting from drilling to extraction. Second point is that even though the spill is being played up as a huge amount of oil, in relation to the entire supply it’s infinitesimal. Third, it’s already been priced into the market but you don’t see it, because: Fourth, there are too many other factors like currency fluctuations that have much greater impact and that therefore conceal any movement due to the spill.
And five, there’s always something else to push it out of the news for awhile and further disguise any impact on the markets.
Maybe those shrimpers in the Gulf will switch to whaling? Nah! Not going to happen. But if you don’t get oil from the Gulf, you might as well get it from Moby Dick, eh? Now there’s Hope and Change for ya, honey!
What is truly amazing is that so many people bought this guy’s garbage. Now the people that voted for him are upset with him – be upset with yourself for being so stupid.
Hmmm…..he’s removing controls on whaling.
He’s also getting rid of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” for the Military. He wants homosexuals to serve openly.
For the Navy, since they’re bringing back Buggery, are we also getting Rum and the Lash?
Aaaaargggh matey! Think I’ll get me a harpoon and roust up a salty crew and hit the high seas. Nothin’ like whale blubber to get a man’s blood boilin!
Whars that white whale? He heaps me!
Don’t worry, the whales will get their revenge.
“No… Mommy’s not home from her meetings.”
Snort! Yup, I’m 100% politically-incorrect. So sue me!
txvet2, I understand most what you said your possibilities can/could make perfect sense. I’m not attempting to argue or disagree with you, it just makes me wonder when in the past if the CEO of BP or Exxon hiccuped or as anzatree said a light bulb burned out in a refinery and the price of gas went up immediately. Seems to me there has to be more behind it is all.
I do thank you for your reply.
Looks like Someone didn’t see “Star Trek IV”.
With whales, it’s squid pro quo! (somebody had to do it, might as well be me)
IMHO, It would be nice if people were as concerned about the slaughter of infant humans as they are with the hunting of Humpback Whales.
Apparently, The One doesn’t want to see someone “punished with a whale” either.
Seriously, swede, I agree wholeheartedly.
Kill whales to increase their numbers?
Global warming now causes global cooling.
A mosque on ground zero.
I can only hope to see the day liberals grow a brain. I suppose they have to blow their brains out to get some – eh?
At some point you have to acknowledge that the largest mammal on the planet, filled with blubber and able to communicate via clicks, grunts and primal sounds should be…
I’m sorry, I thought this was the Helen Thomas thread. Never mind.
Bumper Sticker.
‘Nuke The Gay Baby Whales’
“Thar she BLOOOOOOOWS!”
“Ready the harpoon!”
“FIRE!!!”
“Alright, haul it aboard.”
“Ooops! That wasn’t a whale. It was Michael Moore swimming to Cuba to visit his doctor!”
I’m thinking that suddenly there’s a lot of Norwegian and Japanese whalers registered to vote in Chicago.
Save the whales! Collect the whole set.
left wing plans do seem to work that way, best of luck to these “brain searchers” if I can help with ammo, I’d be happy to oblige.
I haven’t the words. I can think of nothing to say to describe how I feel anymore towards this “man” and his cabal. I had thought the entire question on whaling had been resolved. How, in this day and age, could a DEMOCRAT…the party of all these enviro-nazis, “progressives”, Liberals and other low-foreheaded, knuckle-dragging, mono-brow, mono-syllabic, mouth-breathing hippie free-thinkers and tree-huggers actually come up with this and not be physically drug out of the Oval Office by his heels by the lot of them is just astounding.
I have never imagined there could ever be someone who would become President and spend the entire time attempting to become the most hated man in the country, if not the world, by the end of his first, (and hopefully the only) four years in office.
I had no doubt that it would take little, if any time at all for him to demonstrate and become everything we have said he was from the moment he stood at the podium in 2004 at the Dem convention, but to do so and go far beyond anything we could think of and break new ground in the realm of monstrousity is something that takes an exceptional idiot to do…and by all means, the Dems have always told us he was an “exceptional” person.(Hey…not bad for not having the words, eh?)