Why Won’t Obama Meet With the CEO of BP?
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Presidential candidate Obama, would you be willing to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez and and Kim Jong Il?
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President Obama, have you spoken with the CEO of BP to discuss the oil spill in the Gulf?
“No… when you talk to a guy like the BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”
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That sounds more like a reason to avoid talking to a politician, but not an oil exec. Given the fact that Talker, Chicago Ranger recently expressed an interest in figuring out whose ass to kick over this oil mess, isn’t it a little strange that he’s passing up on the opportunity to take a very public in-person bootswipe at head of the company whose tragic accident further exposed the president as an aloof golf-o-crat who is incapable of grasping a problem that can’t be solved by intimidation, smear campaigns, boycotts, racially-charged accusations and wealth transfer?
My own theory as to why the president won’t meet with BP’s CEO is simple: Obama’s afraid that his opportunity for a public ass-kicking would also give BP a chance to very publicly ask for their money back.
In the meantime, if President Obama wants to know to kick ass, he should take some lessons, not to mention advice, from Sarah Palin.
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Perhaps the whole “Thank you for all of your political contributions” line may not come too well in front of the cameras.
He’d have to bring his tele-prompter
Besides the ManChild being in over his head and not wanting to Waste a Good Crisis I believe it has never even occurred to him to try and actually solve a problem. This Child of the Left and Nihilism ran to Fundamentally Transform America, not to administer a country and solve problems. Those functions are for lesser souls and not for the One Who Won One. “This Liberal” Maxine Waters has Obama’s answer.
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
As a coward, he probably is afraid the ass-kicking will come to him instead.
Words just words.
Quite possibly he is afraid of having his A$$ handed to him on a platter. Of course, he might have Rahmbo take a shower with BPs CEO and deal with it.
O-man: “Rahm? Be a good fellow and take care of my light work. (to Beatle Boy) More Wagu and arigula?
Rahm? Are you still here?”
I seriously doubt that Mr. Hayward would VOLUNTARILY meet with the Asskicker in Chief. He would have to use Federal Marshalls.
One thing that this disaster has proved beyond any doubt is that WBush’s alleged “culture of incompetence” is really a WASHINGTON culture of incompetence. It’s been known for some time that to get a job in DC, it’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know.
Here, here. Huzzah. We need another impeachment ASAP please.
How obvious, Mr. President! Speaking with the BP CEO is above your pay grade!
Another sickening thing going on. Check out MM Buzzworthy: Doug Ross, shades of ray nagin… There is NO reason for this, period! All the gulf states should have these oil booms stat! This bho and team are worse than President Bush ever thought of being on katrina.
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And aren’t most of the bureaucrats in WDC committed democrats? So even if ‘our guys’ come into power, they will have to deal with stall tactics, subversion and leaks.
Why will the Sock Puppet not want to talk to the CEO of BP? Because that is not the anarchist way. The Sock Puppet would rather deflect and create his own Hate to focus his minions on the target not any solution. Where, in any normal situation, there is an incident and the incident is dealt with first before a cause is found and those responsible are called to task – in the Sock Puppet regime it is bass ackwards – you can liken this to the Chinese Cultural revolution, where hate ruled the day and oh does the Sock Puppet hate.
I have a real hard time putting faith in the good Gov anymore after her endorsement of so many ill equipt and or moderate/RINO politiciams, such as McAmnesty and Fiorina for 2 examples.
More of my mixed metaphors… The federal government is a Flying Dutchman ghost ship seemingly on auto pilot. Aside from the military, it is a behemoth with no direction or accountability but possessing unbridled appetites. It has, over the years, proven to be useless in fulfilling its most simple core missions mandated in the Constitution.
Come November, we the People need to scrap this bloated bureaucracy and rebuild it, starting with a solid balanced budget amendment fixed at 15% of the prior year GDP. Remove the incentive for criminal politicians to criminalize the government by taking away the money. Starve the tumor by cutting off its blood supply. A very simple but effective concept.
Because Obama is a street-oriented community organizer. Company executives own those buildings that used to be symbols of community oppression and Obama is used to using them as only as props for “speaking truth to power”.
Obama is a protestor, not a CEO. He doesn’t have the mindset to be representing an entire nation.
Loved this, a humble man who had the country’s interests at heart would have taken this very good advice, but then, we all know that Obama doesn’t do humble. Shame.
Because the urge to give him an iPod full of speeches would be too overwhelming.
The handling of the census is a great indicator.
Bureaucracy, corruption and incompetence.
I’d like to see some videos via government workers with hidden cameras showing the waste/sloth that goes on.
I’ve been told stories but wouldn’t want to mention as it’s second hand.
I am truly frightened for the day when this beauracracy is in charge of my health care decisions. A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. The claim is submitted to the Dept. of Breast Cancer Claims Consideration. No treatments are allowed until the approval by Government. The claim sits on Gertrude’s desk for a week because she is on vacation. Then, she comes back and glances at it…sends it on to the Dept. of How Old is This Patient? After deciding the woman is within the proper age limit to get treated, the claim sits for another two weeks because there are other claims ahead of her, and they are illegal aliens, so they get pushed through first. Finally, the claim is approved. Unfortunately, the claimant has died.
Same scenario with the coast line of LA. Request that Big Government approve protection of precious wetlands by providing the materials needed. 4 weeks later, approval is given for a small portion of what is needed. By the time the decision is made, the oil has already destroyed most of the marshes.
This is not an exaggeration. It is happening. Is there any doubt that this is what will happen with Obamacare? God help us all. (Except for Obama and the DC fat cats who, of course, don’t have to use Obamacare. They are safe. We are sunk!
Sorry, I got OT on my last post…it all just burns me up.
He feels inadequate with people that have more executive experience than he does.
Ditto!
Apparently the community organizer isn’t even very good at organizing a solution group.
Nice job “leader”.
I think it’s more that he doesn’t want to humanize the fictional monsters he is fighting by meeting the people inside the symbolic buildings and company signs he has been railing against. It’s like Eisenhauer refusing to meet Nazi officers during and after WWII. Nazis were sub-human just as corporations are sub-human in Obama’s cartoon bizarro world.
The Chosen One should put Mrs. Palin in charge the government response.
It could be arrogance, but I really believe BHO knows he can not have a common sense discussion with a subject matter expert.
He’s knows only talking-points.
Look how long it took him to talk to Jan Brewer?
Obama is tough. He’s eaten tiger, dog and snake meat—even roasted grasshopper. But, unfortunately for us, his laid-back, super-cool style is “in the genes.”
Sarah’s no nonsense approach, which she shares freely with the White House, should be followed as written. When you read her words you realize that if she were vice-president at this time we would have had a rapid response to this debacle in the Gulf. She thinks and writes well and if she is ever in a position of power again it will be to the benefit of our country.
If he meets with BP’s CEO, Obama will have to face reality and accept the consequences of his failure as a commander in chief.
This is every liberals nightmare and they will do anything to avoid facing reality (truth).
Ya know, I bet this poor response to the spill has improved Palin’s rating.
A poll would be interesting right now.
“…hey Rahmbo — get me someone fast! Preferably someone not too big – maybe a girl, perhaps a little older. She should have a some arthritis and maybe just getting over a bad cold. Betty White? Yeah – I could kick her ass.”
Obama should be polling in the single digits( that’s allowing for all those who have been in a coma for the last two years!) at this moment. How can anyone not see the monumental failure the Dems and this administration have brought upon this country? Every decision has been bad with maybe the exception of planting a garden at the White House. I like gardening.
Seriously, it’s part of his mental illness as well as his thug style.
When will the state run drive-by media do their jobs and expose him for what he really is? It would be sooooooooooooo easy to do. Everyday is a treasure trove of opportunities. He is inept in every way when it comes to the Presidency.
Isn’t there a Woodward and Bernstein from the right that can do the job?
Gosh, did anyone else know that being POTUS was so hard? I mean, it looks so easy on West Wing. There should have been full disclosure that this job was so time consuming and would take away from basketball, golf and other games. I mean, campaigning was so much fun and he got to see all 57 states and meet so many nice people. But someone should have told him that the public is so fickle and demanding.
You guys expect too much from the messiah.
Obama is too busy trying to set up a meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
When I saw that Facebook note yesterday, it was clear to me that Sarah Palin knew exactly who’s a$$ needed kicking, and without a commission recommendation, she set about kicking it good.
This disaster is exposing once again Obama’s lack of executive initiative in any area of leadership aside from the government swallowing up the private sector economy.
That is all he knows, agitate, divide and conquer the engine of productivity in our country.
It must be stopped, beginning this November. We got a good start last night, now let’s finish them all off.
He thinks this is payback for returning the Bust of Churchill to the British Embassy.
Let’s begin with OBambi’s approval numbers; He has a 24% base to work from, meaning Black voters, fringe Left, etc that cannot be changed no matter what happens. So, his current 44% reflects a serious problem for him and even more concern for all Democrat candidates. As to Barry “feeling” inadequate, it’s really more he IS inadequate. Bottom Line: We still have a battle on our hands to recover and repair our great Nation.
I believe UR right on both points.
Obama is both afraid that Tony Hayward might make him look bad or worse, look weak and incompetent…and…as you pointed out, such a public meeting will put a face and a story on BP that could humanize someone that Obama wants to remain a faceless evil-doer.
His avoidance of Hayward has nothing to do with solving the problem and everything to do with Obama’s image.
If Obama was really committed to solving the problem, he’d be on the phone with Hayward daily and would have met him repeatedly already.
When Obama headed up the Harvard Law Review, he gained a reputation for ‘phoning it in’. He can’t quite skate by as easily as President, but he clearly does what is comfortable for him. First. So we get to swanky party shots, podium shots with teleprompters carefully offscreen, daily TV interviews and shows, and games. Basketball, golf, mixing with athletes.
As much as he can, Obama is hiding in plain sight from the responsibilities of the Presidency. That falls on his Czars. He gets to do the fun stuff. He likes to bs the cameras, the interviewers, to make up for not working by glib speech. Preferably somewhere other than at his office.
Talking with Hayward is the last thing he wants to do. Not because it would be so hard to do, but because the existential moment would force him to acknowlege the shabby resume that Obama brings to the table.
They could at the very least PLAY GOLF TOGETHER!!
SNAP went Doug Powers.
LOL
Obama is tough:
I’m with you, Dexter. It’s the same reason he refused to even return the phone calls of Jan Brewer until the heat got to be too much to avoid her when she was standing at the door of his office in DC.
He passively supported a boycott of the State of Arizona, though his empty words claimed otherwise.
She was too gracious to call him a fool when she spoke to the press afterward, but reading between the lines was easy.
Our President is a fraud.
Until he proves otherwise….and he hasn’t yet…. he likely “phoned in” his entire higher education.
Whether you’re a birther or not…
It doesn’t matter if Obama is technically a natural born citizen or not, he is the alien in the White House.
Pompous, arrogant twerp.
It could be the other way around. The BP CEO is too busy working to take insignificant meetings with insignificant politicians.
Obama’s refusal shows two things:
He can never discuss; only confront. Negotiation, compromise, and trying to learn opposing viewpoints are things he has no interest in. His ideology is locked in concrete; like a set of religious beliefs.
Confrontation must occur indirectly or through surrogates. He lacks the skills to debate most any issue. If he confronts directly he places himself in a position to be embarrassed.
He’s waiting for his “advisors” to point out the guy who’s ass he needs to kick. Why not go directly to the top guy? Because Obambi is just another liberal p~ssy.
Obumbler cannot stand to have a conversation with, much less be, in a room with someone who is smarter than himself – which is probably 90% of those who actually meet him. When is he going to meet with Jindal and other reps from the effected Southern states (yeah, like never)?
Perhaps Blue Lips w/ears can send his ACORN-by any other name-and union thugs to protest outside the man’s home. Community Organizers like to do that sort of thing. Pest spray, pepper spray and fire hoses should do as a repellent. Land mines and automatic weapons most likely violate some city code or such.
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
Just watch as our illustrious leader roundhouse kicks himself in the face!
That was cruel; thank you Dave
Let me get this straight – BHO all but invites Ahmanutjob to a WH state dinner, but he won’t even pick up the phone to talk to the BP CEO?! God help us, please!
I still think “Blue lips” is a racial reference.
There is plenty enough wrong with the Marxist in Chief that noting he has dark lips because he is half African is pointless.
Ah, but the Sock Puppet can do this:
“President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States was to unveil a 400-million-dollar civilian aid package for the Palestinians, as he called the situation in the GazaStrip “unsustainable.”
Those rockets they fire into Israel are expensive, aren’t they?
When Bambi comes out of the veil will all four wives have big butts?
May his flocks and herds prosper
May all four wives be submissive
“O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.” HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:56:791]
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Q: Do we know yet why multiple blowout preventers “failed”?
Q: How do we know that there wasn’t intentional sabotage?
Given that the author of Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within, Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned to death using polonium-210
(gee, who do you think had access to polonium-210?)…
… how do we know that the deepwater horizon wasn’t attacked?
The Communists have a lot to gain by shutting down U.S. oil production.
Now, consider that if we were drilling in ANWR… had a blowout happened there, it could have been stopped in hours, not months.
Our proven oil reserves are over 3 times those of the world’s largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia! There is no reason that the U.S. should have to be dependent on any other country for the oil we need. Without oil, this country dies. So, who wants to keep us dependent on Communist and Muslim countries to supply us with oil?
Well, the Communists and Muslims, of course.
Barack Hussein Obama, mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
Because he has no real interest in stopping the leak.
The longer oil spews into the Gulf, the better it is for his agenda.
The “Spike Lee School of Diplomacy” does not include instructions on how to talk science.
Hayward…..You passed me permits without
inspections.
Rahm lived rent free thanks to BP
adviser.
You deposited our checks.
You gave me that great safety award.
You gave BP heads up so I cashed in
stock three weeks before spill.
And get his a$$ kicked?
(Haven’t read the other comments yet – sorry if this is a repeat..)
“Plug the d@mn hole… after we’ve exploited the situation for as much political gain as we can squeeze out of it!”
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If only Obama could somehow shift the news focus on those evil joos and their thorn in his foreign policy state of Israel. After all, his friends and confidants do this daily in their countries.
Look forward to a war in the middle east this Summer.
Korea II
The reason he won’t meet with BPs CEO is very very simple.
He basicly threatened to “kick his ass”… and unless the Sec Service held the guy down, I don’t think he could.
I HIGHLY doube Bambi has ever been in a real fight in his life…
- 31 flavors is too many choices, Big Government should supply one flavor to all, preferably “Big Block Cheese”.
- must be a misprint, 20lbs I’d bet
- mistakenly expecting Chippendales
- …who told him, “No, no, that calendar is down the hall.”
Punahou School rumbles every day.
“My dad’s Mercedes is newer than your dad’s!”
“What do you mean, ‘your dad’s', that’s my Mercedes!”
“Well I’m getting a Porsche for Christmas!”
“Yeah – well it’s probably not even a convertible.”
It’s a tough place….
Very well then I shall use The Sneer w/ears as one of my insults for the ManChild.
Plus – maybe Soros doesn’t have any BP stock like he has in that company in Brazil that got $5 billion from US (you and me) – interest-free from Obama to drill offshore Brazil. Soros bought his stock a few weeks before that “loan” if I remember correctly, but of course it’s all coincidence…
Ahhh… the Terrorist Sympathizer in Chief is at it again.
Hamas must be thrilled to hear this. New rockets, more ammo…. more dead Jewish kids at outdoor cafes. They’re probably thinking “if only we could also kill some Americans with the stuff the stuff the Americans give us.” That would I’m sure be icing on the cake for Hamas.
It matters not if there’s no cash involved. They can convert anything we give them to some amount of cash or weapons.
What’s next? We going to buy some centrifuges for Iran????
Unbelievable.
Because Kaptain Kickass is too busy campaigning for losers and doing the talk show circuit.
OT, but stillontheroad–and so it begins, at the World Cup in South Africa.
Obama is tough. Just a couple hours ago, O asked Bo to help him show off his amazing arm strength at the congressional picnic.
I have to wonder if the KBPOTUS is afraid of another Rev Jessie Jackson and Cypress Semiconductors moment?
This is when jessie went to shake down CS and one of their attorneys shoved a folder into jessie’s hand saying he needs to take a look at this without calling him “Reverand”. Needless to say Cypress didn’t cave in and jessie went home empty handed.
GSP
Bho won’t meet the CEO because the CEO will learn what an idiot Bho is.
spaceycakes said:
I remember years ago a friend of mine said that, I think it is now Rand, that people could rent hand guns before going to Jo’Burg – not sure if thats true but I do know the times I went there I was told to keep the windows up, body parts inside the vehicle and doors locked.
Sneer with Ears works for me.
Traitor in Chief is a trusty standby, as is ‘The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers’.
Just so you know; blue lips isn’t the racial reference, it was blue gum. Old deep South.
Simple.
TOTUS can’t think fast enough and will make POTUS look really stupid.
I’m archiving that one! (snort)
Luckily I wasn’t drinking coffee.
LOL. Perfect. A British/Sovietski-style healthcare system. We’ll be treated by Alan Alda in a M.A.S.H. tent in -20F weather if we’re lucky.
Come November, the American People need to beat these Marxists into a thin paste.
The Alien in the White House - The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
QUIZ: Who said it —
Democratic leaders or Communist Party USA?
I received this email from a friend today:
This is a very good explanation of what the moratorium on drilling will not only do to us in South Louisiana, but to America. Let’s get the word out. I have included links and information on LA Senators and Congressmen. And links on how to find your elected officials if you live in different states.
The reason for this letter is to ask you to write your congressman Charlie Melancon and Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter. Or whoever it might be wherever you are. I know some of my contacts are out of state. We all know what’s going on in the gulf. But all our lives are about to change… drastically! Here’s how.
There is a Moratorium set in place for 6 months or until further notice. And this doesn’t just affect the oilfield, its going to change your life too. Let me explain.
With this “Moratorium” or ban of drilling in the Gulf, that means that 33 rigs are going to be put out of work. For every rig there are about 200-300 people per rig. That’s somewhere in the ball park of around 9000 people. There are an estimated 3 people for every person who works on a rig that indirectly work for each person on a rig (Crew Boats, Supply Boats, Chopper Pilots, etc.) So that brings us up to around 27000 people out of work in the next two weeks. That doesn’t include individual company layoffs. You all know I work for Chouest so let me explain.
ECO (Edison Chouest Offshore) has lost 350 million dollars this week and the oilrigs haven’t even pulled out the Gulf yet. Contracts are being paid off and companies are going to head overseas. Chouest is talking about laying off over 60% of its workforce in the next two months. That’s over 4000 people. And that’s one company among dozens.
Obama is pissing off these companies and they’re threatening to go overseas. Just like the Jones Act protects us in that non U.S. flagship vessels have to employ U.S. citizens in this country, they have the same rules wherever these boats end up. On boats, that means “ONE” American captain and “ONE” American engineer if they push the issue. The rest of the crew is foreign on “OUR” boats.
Well how is it going to affect you?
The oilfield has supported the economy throughout the entire country for a very long time much less South LA. They said that if all the southern Parishes in LA formed a single State, that we would be among the tenth largest economy in the world. That’s how much money is coming through here from the oilfield. What do you think has kept our economy going?
The major exports coming out or LA are sugarcane, seafood, and oil. Do you really believe that sugarcane or can support us while oil production is on hold? How many sugarcane farmers do you know? I don’t know any. They said that if a hurricane come through it will suck up the oil and it will rain oil. There goes the sugarcane. Pour some oil on your lawn and see what happens. What about seafood? Well we already know that’s shot, but even if it weren’t, go take a ride down the bayou. How many rich fisherman do you know? Ask any fisherman and they will tell you that throughout their life they have supplemented their income in the oilfield. That’s right. Most of them work in the oilfield in the off season.
So, let’s say you work in a restaurant. Where do you think all that money for people to eat in your restaurant is coming from? Who’s coming into your restaurant when there no work around. But more than just oil field personnel come in, right? Who’s going to be able to pay the taxes to pay our teachers, fireman, or police force? The sugarcane industry? Nope! The seafood industry? Nope! Well you sell cars. Not anymore. The economy is busted so no one can afford one. Who’s going to buy a car when they can’t pay their bills? Well I work in the medical industry so I don’t have to worry. How many people are you going to see when none of us have insurance. Public health care doesn’t go into affect for 3 years (I think). Well what if your retired? Well, Bobby Jindal (our Governor) said that if Obama doesn’t lift this ban on drilling, that he would put a moratorium on the Loop.(Which is a great idea BTW) [ The Loop is a facility where all the oil is coming into this country and processed.] That means no foreign oil coming into the country. And no domestic oil for that matter. So guess what? That’s means inflation, the likes of which we have never seen. Remember $4 a gallon gas? Wait until its $12-$15 a gallon or more. Then you will see the price of everything really skyrocket. So let’s see how far you can stretch your retirement savings then. Bet you won’t have as much as you thought.
Millions of dollars have been filtering through LA for decades and going straight into our federal governments pockets as “taxes” among other things. Louisianans have been lobbying for years trying to get some of the revenue back in this state. How do you think we pulled ourselves out of that little jam we were in a few years back. OIL MONEY! That’s the answer. Not solely but a very large part.
I’m the first one to say that we need alternative fuels but we can’t just cut off oil overnight. That fact is oil companies have been very safe over the last 50 years. They have among the fewest casualties, per amount of people who work there, in any industry. I realize the impact the this is having on our environment just as well as anyone. I’m right here in the middle of it. I see the birds covered in oil and I hate it as much as you. But we have to get our priorities straight. The birds affected are going to be affected whether we stop production or not. With a moratorium, not only are the birds going to be dying on our beaches, but now our kids will be starving in our homes.
The fact is BP messed up. Not us. We are having to pay for the mistakes of one man (or two men or ten men whatever the case may be) that made a tragic decision that’s impacting the lives of so many. If you think we were in a depression before, you don’t know what’s about to hit us. How much of oil revenue money has affected your life when you put it in perspective? People this is not an “oilfield” problem. This is a national issue.
Obama has compounded the problem by refusing help from the countries who do have the technology and equipment to have cleaned up the spill from the start AND he could have waived the Jones Act…..Now it’s on HIM!
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/06/08/why-did-the-us-refuse-international-help-on-the-gulf-oil-spill/