i guess Spike Lee got the message across: there's a place in the world for the angry black man. <object width="416" height="374" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2010/06/07/jk.obama.ass.to.kick.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2010/06/07/jk.obama.ass.to.kick.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object> [rquoter](CNN) -- President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick." "I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama told NBC's "Today" show in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be." A variety of critics have accused Obama of being too cerebral in his reaction to the undersea gusher now fouling the Gulf of Mexico, of failing to put the full force of the administration and of putting too much trust in oil company BP. But Obama told NBC his deliberations have been more than academic. "I don't sit around talking to experts because this is a college seminar," Obama continued. "We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick." The disaster was uncorked by an explosion aboard the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon on April 20 that killed 11 workers. The rig sank two days later, and estimates of the amount of oil pouring into the gulf from the undersea blowout grew rapidly in the following week. Obama made a May 2 visit to the Coast Guard command center in Venice, Louisiana, warning during a rain-spattered news conference that the problem may take "many days" to solve. The Coast Guard and the Department of the Interior, which oversees offshore oil drilling, were already heavily involved with well owner BP in trying to corral the leak. But by then, conservative commentators -- some of whom had defended the Bush administration's lackluster response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina -- were billing the disaster "Obama's Katrina," and complaints about the pace and the amount of muscle the White House has put behind the cleanup have come from a handful of Democrats as well.[/rquoter] He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl, and he's always at home with his back to the wall...
This thing that we call our President has no clue. He barley makes such a statement 49 days after the spill and expects us to believe he knows whats going on. He might know now what is going on but he is weeks late on this response and not a very smart remark must I say.
Do you think there was no other response before this remark? Do you think he's done nothing for 49 days? You may want to reconsider about who has a clue.
hilarious, people want the guy to be "political" and dress down BP. what's the freakin purpose. the only thing I want is for this mess to get fixed, if that takes working with BP and the oil industry, so be it. everyone but Obama is making this a political issue.
Not saying he has not made any responses about the oil spill. His "Whose Ass to Kick" response was only in response to growing disgust within his own party and supporters that he has not shown emotion. And no he has not done enough. His foot should have been on BP's neck from day one. I guess you like black gunk floating in our oceans where are children swim?
Anyone who would have barley make a statement for them is clueless, everyone knows that barley is only good for two things... and...
Just exactly what do you think he has been doing? He had the "foot on the neck" speech a couple of weeks ago and has been highly engaged in this disaster for quite some time, anyone who doesn't know this hasn't paid any attention. The US government does not have the expertise or equipment to fix an oil well a mile underwater. However, the parts of the US government that can have an impact have been mobilized. Thousands of people are standing by and cleaning up the spill on the water as well as on land and the Coast Guard has been highly involved since day 1. What more do you expect Obama to do?
That was a context error, not a spelling error. Unfortunately, Google, Word, and Firefox all suffer when checking for context errors.
So I guess you freaks don’t want the government involved in the private sector, unless the private sector wants the government involved.
How dare the president threaten the long-standing U.S./corporate precedent of socializing the costs and privatizing the profits!
I'm reminded of the preamble to the US Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
You don't see an aspect of "common defence, general welfare or secure(d) blessings" in what's going on in the Gulf?
