Colorado’s pride, America’s pride: Welcome home, drillers; Update: Gag: Reid compares Obama to Chilean miner
Last week, I pointed to the American story of excellence, strength, greatness, and generosity represented by Colorado driller Jeff Hart and his team in Chile.
They came home to Colorado on Saturday to a hero’s welcome:
It was a hero’s welcome at Denver International Airport Saturday as four Colorado drillers returned home from the Chilean mine rescue.
Dozens of family members and friends greeted drillers Jeff Hart, Matt Staffel, Jorge Herrera, and Doug Reeves with cheers, claps and warm embraces.
A humble Hart paid tribute to the miners:
“We went out there to do our job. We did our job and we got out of the way so someone else could do theirs. They did theirs properly, and in the end, 33 miners and 5 rescue people, who are braver than anybody because they had to go down and back up, all came out of the ground,” Hart said.
“It was amazing. It’s amazing to be a part of something so important. I’m really glad we could help out. I couldn’t be happier for the families down there. What they went through over those 70 days is just amazing,” Staffel added.
While the men are credited for making the rescue possible, they said they don’t consider themselves heroes.
“The real hero, as I’ve said before, was one gentleman in that mine that took control and for 14 days had 33 guys live on one can of tuna fish a day. That takes tremendous leadership and that guy is the hero. He kept those guys alive for 69 days,” said Hart.
Echoing a point I’ve been making here for months about the demonization of the drilling industry and the war on Western jobs, Hart emphasized the hits his occupation has taken:
When asked how life has changed, Hart said, “I really don’t think it’s changed. It’s just an honor to do what we do. The greatest piece of all this in my mind is that there’s a positive story about anything, but especially about drilling. The drilling industry gets hammered every day. To have a positive story about drilling is phenomenal for us, and we’re so glad to have that happen to us.”
After a short visit with their families, the Colorado drillers will head back to Afghanistan to finish their work there. Open-borders Democrats and liberal comedians constantly demagogue about the jobs Americans purportedly won’t do.
But when the world needs help, it’s unsung Americans doing the “dirty jobs” that need to get done.
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Emetic of the day award: JWF catches Harry Reid lionizing Obama with a most odious Chilean mine analogy. Sharron Angle’s victory over this crapweasel can’t come a day too soon.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has compared President Barack Obama to a trapped Chilean miner.
In a speech to supporters in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Reid said that when Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House he found himself in a “hole so deep that he couldn’t see the outside world.
“It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said ‘I am going to get us out of this hole,’” Reid said at an “Early Vote GOTV” event.
At a Democratic rally in Boston on Saturday, Obama acknowledged Democrats in general were in a hole, heading up to the mid-term elections.
“There is no doubt that this is a difficult election,” he told the crowd of 10,000. “That’s because we’ve been through an incredibly difficult time as a nation.”
Quips JWF: The only things Obama has in common with the miners? “He’s in over his head, he’s leading a party that’s about to be buried by an avalanche in two weeks and he’s completely in the dark.”
I’d add: Sure, Obama is like a Chilean miner — stuck in a deep hole and dependent on competent, can-do Americans to get him out.
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HA! Welcome home driller. . . that’s what she said!
Michelle, I take that all appropriate officials were on hand to welcome them home and congratulate them on the fine job they did, or was it just friends and family?
I checked the link but didn’t see anything about any offical recognition by any politicians.
So that’s why Obama wasn’t talking about this … ehhh.
Good job America … and Thanks
America always offers the best!
Team America @#$% yeah!
The next dirty job is flushing out the Marxist Dems with Obama at the front of the sewer pipe.
This is what Obowmao and his minions don’t get. America is full of people who aspire to good things on their own volition. They don’t want a handout. They want the freedom to be the best at what they want to do. Not everyone is helpless.
Drill Baby Drill. Poor Dingy Harry-the odor of all those smelly tourist fouled his brain-if he has a brain.
But our drillers are home, the miners are home and the Beltway will be sending a lot of leftovers home. Home week?
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God Bless America
Except for the blue states
You mean the one that was lying to whom he was supposed to be committed, while going to bed with a ‘special interest’?
That miner?
God Bless America
Bravo, gentlemen! Well done!
(I was just about to hit “Submit” when I realized that I need to add:
“No pun intended”,
because when they return to Afghanistan, they’ll be driling wells!)
These democrats are just sick sick people. Maybe the most disgusting thing I’ve every heard. They will say and do anything to have power. Let’s home the American people continue to open their eyes and take the steps necessary to remove every last one of these monsters from power.
Well, Harry may have a sort of a point. Out of 33 miners it’s hard to believe there isn’t at least one who is somewhere near as shallow and morally obtuse as our Dear Leader.
And Obama is trapped in a hole he helped dig.
So there are similarities.
A hole that Obama helped dig! (As Senator from Jan 2005 – Nov 2009).
And never forget that OBAMA ASKED BUSH to request the second $350 Billion of TARP money. Obama blames Bush for the debt, but Obama and Geitner got to spend the money!
Got that? Even though he said, “it would be irresponsible for me…” it was one of the few times that he wasn’t actually talking about himself. Obama doesn’t criticise himself.
When he said, “it would be irresponsible for me … to enter into the administration without any potential ammunition” he was really saying “it would be irresponsible for President Bush to leave the administration without giving me the other $350 Billion!”
So Obama got to have his cake and eat it, too. Obama got the $350 Billion from Bush, and Obama got to blame Bush for the increase to our debt under Bush’s tenure!
Obama digging in a ditch? No way. He’d use a shovel in a ceremonial tree planting or in wordage that shoves the opposition. He may eventually get a callus playing shuffleboard.
Elect Sharon Angle and help take the shovel out of Obama’s hand before he completes his tunnel to China!
The funniest thing about this “when Obama took over things stank” meme is that a large part of the reason things stank so much when he took over was because businesspeople were running for the hills because Obama was taking over.
If when he entered office the first words out of his mouth were something along the lines of “Profits are good. Businesses having an expectation of future after tax profits is the only reason they hire people at all,” and then followed through on that thinking, fighting Pelosi and Reid instead of enabling them, then the whole economic crisis would have quickly faded away.
Nice analogy: Obama and the Democrats have dug themselves into a deep dark hole.
It’s time to plug the hole.
Sounds like Reid has his lips on BHO’s behind cause he knows he will probably need a new job next year.
American exceptionalism, even with bumbling leader trying so hard to erase it, it is still there.
Obama wants to drill… into our wallets.
On the topic of dingy and this bho Chilean minors(sorry I don’t know how to put this up) go to ibdeditorial.com Michael Ramirez today. It has the mine and this bho on the cartoon.
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letget#22,
S/B miners
L
Happy for these men.
Reid is a weasel. That hole was dug by Reid and Pelosi. The economy was running quite smoothly before then. Lets hope the Republican only get the American people out of that mine.
Remember this memorable quote:
“Have you plugged the hole yet, Daddy?”
I’m thinking it should be tweaked a little: “Have you dug yourself in a deep enough hole yet, Daddy?”
Keep on letting Dingy Harry do the talkin’ and soon, pfffftttt, the Dems will be gone.
American ingenuity and know how. The fruits of freedom on full display.
Americans doing the job others can’t.
Early voting starts Saturday here, but we don’t have any big dogs in this year’s races (except Perry/White).
It occurs to me that Teh One would be exactly like the Chilean miners if, after the initial cave-in, the miners had detonated strategically placed explosives and caused an additional 787 billion tons of material to fall and further entomb themselves.
On October 18th, 2010 at 11:02 am, vinny said:
+1.
“Plug the damn hole.”
txvet2#28,
Our early voting start here in S TX today. We have ortiz(d) and Blake Farenthold(r) that we really need to vote on for Blake. Our home will vote for Perry, white would crater TX big time, IMO.
L
Michael Ramirez shows Obama The Miner.
Be careful, Biden (ole’ Plugs himself) might think this is another job for him to oversee.
“It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said ‘I am going to get us out of this hole,’”
Barf, Choke, Gag, Puke
More like obama’s the one who dug the hole…
Dave Turson#32,
Thank you so much. Sorry I don’t know how to put up links.
L
Ramirez nailed it, as usual.
The Chilean miners were not capable of getting themselves out of the hole.
And neither is Obama.
Reid is dillusional in thinking that Obama is capable of getting “us” (the two of them) out of the hole.
I won’t waste time responding to Dingy Harry.
Jeff Hart, Matt Staffel, Jorge Herrera, and Doug Reeves, God Bless all of you. Like real heros, you just did your job, then you were humble enough to say that others were more heroic than yourself.
Letget, when you want to link something, right-click the address bar of the page you want to link and “copy” the address. Then click the “link” button on the “comment” page. You can then “paste” the address there. Don’t “preview” that comment or the link will be erased.
On October 18th, 2010 at 11:44 am, letget said:
1) Select and copy the address of the page to which you want to link.
2) You can paste that address directly here and it will automatically become a link, like this:
http://www.investors.com/EditorialCartoons/Cartoon.aspx?id=550672
3) Or, you can type some text, like Dave Turson said, “Obama The Miner”, and then you select that text, click the “link” button above this comment window, and then paste in the address there and hit enter. It should put the appropriate HTML tags in your comment to make the text look like this:
Obama The Miner.
On October 18th, 2010 at 11:52 am, tre said:
+1!
ITookTheRedPill#40,
Thanks a bunch! I printed this information so I hope to be able to put links up in the future.
L
Unless they were able to pass a bunch of lobster tails and arugula down there, O’Bambi wouldn’t have lasted a week.
More like it.
great job men, thank you.
once again American exceptionalism rising to the top.
I’m glad to help, letget.
The HTML tags will look a little unusual in the comment window, but you can then click the “Preview” button below the window to see what your comment will look like once it’s posted.
If you don’t like how it looks, you can make changes. When you’re happy with it, just remember to click “Submit Comment”. (I’ve had times before when I previewed it, liked it, and forgot to submit it!)
That’s a pathetically transparent attempt by Reid to glom onto a topical “feel good” story on the cheap. What’s next? Obama is adorable, like your cute baby? Or in person, he’s kind of like a puppy?
Find something everybody likes then “me too”.
Of course Reid’s analogy is idiotic, but the one that Obama uses, that Bush and Republicans drove the car into a ditch, and the Democrats had to push the car out is just as dumb. Only a mindless partisan would find anything significant about a liberal’s comparing politics with anything else. Usually, it’s an apples-to-hand-grenades comparison.
A far better comparison is a driver who is heading in the wrong direction being replaced by another driver headed in the wrong direction, only he’s driving to get there as fast as he can. Every president in our lifetimes has been down this road, headed towards the abyss; however, they seemed to be taking their time in getting there. Obama is driving the car at about 50 MPH over the speed limit, and it seems that he can’t wait to destroy us.
On October 18th, 2010 at 12:34 pm, yohannbiimu said:
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When something goes really bad in the world–they come to the U.S.A. to get real effective help now. And Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his beauteous wife Moochelle think this is a failed country that needs to become Cuba II.
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Great job, miners and drillers! Let’s do a little spade work on the socialists / marxists / communists in our government on Nov. 2. Some serious voting into Funemployment needs to happen then.
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John Bibb
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In an effort to establish social justice and equal out comes, bho is destroying the very yankee ingenuity that made the mine rescue such a success. Necessity is the mother of invention. He has whorped the “promote the general welfare” clause so that it suppresses “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Only a free people can create what is necessary to serve the public good. The gov can never do it for us.
While I will concede that Obama is totally in the dark, having your head up your bum is not the same as being trapped in a mine.
True, the last two years.
Isn’t this what proctologists are for? When your head is up your….
Sorry Harry – the minors knew when to stop digging. Obama — not so much.
I haven’t seen anything from any official at any level. I did contact our City Council in Arvada (Jeff Hart is from Arvada) and am waiting for a response. They should at least have a resolution acknowledging their contributions to the rescue.
Obama keeps drilling miles away from where he’s supposed to be, yet he wants us to think that if he just keeps blasting through rocks in the same vicinity, he’ll rescue us eventually.
If only more people would exercise a touch of humility once in a while like Mr. Hart, we could live in a more civilized and virtuous society. We can’t count on Democrats to accept humiliation so willingly on November 2nd, but they won’t have a choice. We can send down some smokes to them before we patch up that hole.
If you edit it this way, it makes sense.
He’s losing the youth.