A National Disaster Is Just Another Excuse For Obama to Play Politics–
Shameless after weeks of golfing, photo ops and vacationing, Barack Obama took a “drill, baby drill“ swipe at Sarah Palin during his press conference today on the mismanaged Gulf oil spill disaster.
Obama’s energy plan involves expensive wind turbines and solar panels that will force electricity rates to necessarily skyrocket and would kill the coal industry.
“The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile under water and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry. Extraction is more expensive and it is going to be inherently more risky. And so that’s part of the reason you never heard me say, ‘Drill, baby, drill!’
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Rachelle commented:
The one person Obama fears enough to attack from the safety of his bully pulpit is an American mother who doesn’t even hold public office.
The leaders of tyrannical governments like Iran, and Korea never merit his attention.
He’s a sissy, a coward, and a bully, and Sarah Palin is more than a match for him. No wonder this pathetic worm is afraid of her.
logprof commented:
No wonder he hardly ever does true press conferenes. January 2013 can’t come soon enough. I can;t take any more of this Clown College!
Scott commented:
“The fact that oil companies now have to go a mile under water and then drill another three miles below that in order to hit oil tells us something about the direction of the oil industry.”
Yes, it tells us that the federal government keeps pushing them away from more easily attainable resources.
ck commented:
She’ll hand him his bony ass in the next couple of days.
USCitizen commented:
This is fast evolving from Obama’s Katrina into Obama’s Chernobyl.
Tom63010 commented:
Scott,
You are a very smart man….I was going to say that.
The cynic in me also thinks that they are happy this happen. I may give them the benefit of the doubt they didn’t think it would be this bad.
Obama’s statements today reminded me of the testimony of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. He says that Federal Government was directing BP at every step but the BP has messed everything up.
NC Cop commented:
Why shouldn’t he blame BP all the way? The media will allow him to get away with that and much worse.
All in a days work when you’ve got the media in your back pocket.
katy commented:
Once again…we’re just a bunch of Yah hooz.
And the enviro-wackos have nothing.. NOTHING to do with forcing these regulations on the oil Ind. to drill out farther and deeper.
Yup…uh huh.. just a fly over yah hooo…
d_fitz commented:
Obama-Fail
proof commented:
“This is fast evolving from Obama’s Katrina into Obama’s Chernobyl”
With a little Tea Pot Dome thrown in for good measure!
Kenny Solomon commented:
“…..you never heard me say, Drill, baby, drill !”
I also never heard him say “God Bless America” either.
I’d have added a colorful personal descriptive at the end, but this is mixed company and kids might read the site as well.
Kenny Solomon
Typical bitter God-clinging gun owner and barking-mad-insane NASCAR fan.
You know……
High-level domestic terrorism suspect.
NeoKong commented:
That was completely 100% false.
All the easily accessible oil is off limits and is waiting to be sucked out of the ground.
Oops….I forgot that here is where I learned that.
My bad.
aro5o75 commented:
Nice try Bambi….you pathetic loser.
T commented:
Back in the 1970s, the alarmists warned that we would run out of oil by the turn of the millenium. They were wrong because they failed to take into account developing technology which permitted the discovery of unknown oil fields and a return to wells once abandoned as dry.
Obama makes the same misatake by basing a judgement on current oil extraction technology, and yet, he believes that solar and wind technology will carry the day even though those technologies have far to go. What seems to be a disconnect is, in realtiy, not. It’s explained by a consistent ideological approach from a president who claimed that he was no ideologue.
jonyjoe101 commented:
Sarah Palin is more man than the girlyman obama will ever be.
At least one thing obama can take credit for is making the US military a “gay” military. I guess this will be the end of the finest military the world has ever known. We will be just like one of the rest of “gay” militarys in the world, insignificant.
Obama is always blaming someone else, I change the channel everytime he talks. He never said “drill baby drill” because he can’t make the tough decisions to save America. But to destroy the US military he can make those decisions quickly.
jb commented:
The Bammster wants what is happening . . .
You cannot undo America like Lenin did Russia (not yet, anyway), so his doing a Chavez (banks, car companies, demonizing oil) . . .
Has its purpose.
History is repeating itself.
Aussie commented:
First of all, BP is in fact to blame for the oil well explosion. One report that I read, in relation to the Coast Guard inquiry, indicates that there was disagreement between the management of the rig and BP in regard to a request made by the BP management. What BP demanded was a procedure that was bound to have consequences – the use of saltwater in the tube. What took place was the rising oil and gas bubble that exploded. At least one of the men killed was totally against what BP demanded that they do in relation to attempting to shut down the hole in the first place.
However, with regard to the situation after the explosion, the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of an inexperienced POS who is the POTUS. This man took no action when the disaster first took place. He did not make sure that the booms were sent to LA – instead he hid the fact that the Feds had the booms in the first place. From there it gets worse. The Corps of Engineers has been holding up the procedure for the sand booms because they claim they need to do an Environmental impact study…. this is utter garbage…. then the fishermen who are waiting to be deployed to put the booms in place have to undergo drug tests!!
It shows that the White House Regime want a disaster of monumental proportions.
This has to backfire…. if the people of the USA do not catch on that the POS in the White House has been doing nothing… and like Nero he has been fiddling… then they deserve everything that happens.!!! I hope that I am wrong and that more and more people will wake up and realize what is really happening.
Militant Conservative commented:
Obummer is trying to make bigger and bigger mistakes to take over more and more private industries. he is a sleeze.
USMC Thomas commented:
SOBama is a wuss, that why he married someone who looks like a tranny.
myohmy commented:
It is not enough that we have an affirmative action president, but we also got an arrogant and incompetent one.
Ladue Pundit commented:
Aussie, I also read the WSJ account of a fracas between BP and TransOcean 11 hours prior to the blow-up. BP got their way (or at least the one man representing them did), and TO thought there were enough fail-safes in place to protect all on the rig.
BP thought enough of Barack Hussein Obama to hand over almost a million $ in campaign cash. Look what it bought them.
The real victims are the people who live and work in the gulf. If all those people were SEIU asshats, Obama would have been on this from day one.
Skinner commented:
THANKS TO THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, WE CANNOT DRILL ON LAND OR BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS – SO THEY GO OFFSHORE.
MR. PRESIDENT, WHY DID THE UNITED STATES MAKE ALASKA A STATE?
FOR IT’S OIL AND GAS RESERVES, YOUR TURD BLOSSOM.
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Never Ends commented:
Ah, ha! That’s why he put a halt on drilling. He can’t take the truth from Sarah Palin. And, as usual, he’s playing Chicago thug tatics. Too bad for him that Sarah will have even a bigger putdown for him.
By the way, ck has it exactly right! What a wuss!
DocScience commented:
This man knows so much about EVERYTHING that I want him personally on the job.
Suit Obama up Cousteau-style and let him dive the 5000 feet to the rig to fix it.
Yep.
Peggy commented:
I think drill, baby, drill started when we had very high gas prices a few summers ago. Was it 2008 or 2007? In any case, it would precede Sarah’s entry on the national stage. But, yes, she has picked up the phrase since.
antilbr commented:
Thats a good idea doc……just as long as they do it the chicago way…with cement shoes…..
BD57 commented:
What a thin-skinned twit.
Just_Saying commented:
1. Open ANWR, then, if off-shore is riskier. What about the ND shale? How about a little encouragement for the home-oil industry?
2. Obummer doesn’t have the courage to take any stand, unless it’s anti-US.
Flyover Sam commented:
Simply not management material.
Auntie Em commented:
Toonces has a crystal ball. He knew this was going to happen and didn’t say ” drill, baby , drill”. BUT if he was legit he would have warned the crew beforehand so that no lives would be lost.
Toonces the Know-It-All After-the-Fact strikes again!!!!! Da da daaaa!!!!
He makes me ill.
I hate him
CLN commented:
He sat on his hands and whispered “Spill, baby, spill” because he wants more socialist contol over the citizenry
AnnaS commented:
Obama does not encourage or love anything American! I turn off the T.V. when he comes on. Arghhhhh, I cant take any more of him!
Valerie commented:
BO has no business taking swipes at Sarah Palin. Glass houses, and all that.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37863.html
“Now, with respect to Ms. Birnbaum, I found out about her resignation today,” Obama said. “So I don’t know the circumstances in which this occurred.”
“That explanation flummoxed reporters in the room, who seemed surprised to learn that the president wouldn’t know exactly what had happened to one of the key figures in an ongoing federal emergency – the one he was holding a news conference on at that very moment.”
Ladue Pundit commented:
CLN
May 27th, 2010 | 9:00 pm | #34
He sat on his hands and whispered “Spill, baby, spill” because he wants more socialist contol over the citizenry
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So true. He loves a crisis. He is never affected by any of the crises that he mismanages, either. Weak people–they’re easier to control.
Ben K commented:
BO is sick and sickening.
Scotty Starnes commented:
This was another Obama lie. Obama did say Drill, baby, drill: http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/5422/
Obama can’t keep all his lies straight.
JR Dogman commented:
Gov. Palin responds:
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/05/passing-buck-doesnt-plug-d-hole.html
Alana commented:
He’s an ass. He can’t help it. He just really, really can’t talk in public without ragging on Sarah Palin, Bush, Limbaugh, etc.
He simply can’t. It’s like an uncontrollable thing for him.
MathMom commented:
Sarah Palin weighs in.
What’s that phrase? Sarah Palin is living rent-free in Obama’s head. He is such a sissy.
Jim commented:
Isn’t it amazing? Limbaugh, Beck, FOX and Palin live rent free in this guys head 24/7.
He probably gets daily briefings about these people, what they said, when they said it….
Don’t want to drill? Just wait until gas hits $4.00/gallon again! There is no longer a spoiled rich cowboy from Texas in the White House to blame, just a HAAVARD intellectual community agitator from Chicago. What will be the left’s excuse then?
gus commented:
Obama had his TEAM together on the very first day.
That makes me feel more comfortable. A room full of bumbling libtard hacks.
AND THE RESULTS ARE???
present!!!!
NorthernX commented:
Wow. The background in the video looks exactly like the shower-curtain in my bathroom.
Greta commented:
Christ had His Judas. We have Barry. If you ask if this is what a person who hates the USA would do after each of his actions as president, and the answer to most of the questions is yes, that should tell you all you need to know. Barry hates our country and each time he is faced with a decision, he simply needs to ask what action can I push that will hurt America as it existed when I was elected? The second question is what decision can I make that will protect my butt when it goes wrong?
Barry is not an idiot. He hates the USA. He is trying to do everything he can as long as he can to destroy America.
Alana commented:
OK, I’m halfway through reading Sarah’s response, and it occurs to me – every time he makes some snide reference to her, it not only opens up the door to her response, but has the whole country expecting and WAITING TO HEAR that response.
He’s shooting himself in his own foot!
James commented:
Its ironic. The same people who criticise Sarah Palin are the same exact people who supported john edwards.
Bogdan from Australia commented:
A pathetic and ignorant attack on COTUS (citizen of the United States) by TOTUS…
Bogdan from Australia commented:
TOTUS turns GAFFUS…
Bogdan from Australia commented:
Gaffus In Chief…
Bogdan from Australia commented:
GAFFAMA…
Bogdan from Australia commented:
Hussain Gaffama…
gus commented:
Alana, the problem with Obama is that he has never been a leader of anything and he is very very immature. He is the friggin’ President of the United Nations and he bahaves like effing AL SHARPTON.
gus commented:
Obama is an idiot. When he has to account for himself. He cannot. This OIL DISASTER has him spinning like a top. He isn’t interested in fixing the problem.
Name one problem that Obama has even attempted to fix in a year and a half?
He is a Marxist.
What I would ask him is WHAT TYPE OF FUEL DID AIRFORCE ONE use when you flew to Barbara Boxers fund raiser while the GULF was in TURMOIL?
Was it GREEN ENERGY?:
Spec Tater commented:
the kenyan monkey doesn’t have a clue
pamlinson commented:
Yeah Barry, you never say anything you don’t mean…you lyin sack.
Francesca commented:
According to Obama, the drilling goes down a mile and then three miles beyond that. That is 20,000 feet! Can that be true?
Did I miss something here?
Bogdan from Australia commented:
I have just read Sarah Palin’s response on http://www.conservatives4palin.com to Obama’s idiotic attack on her.
It is absolutely devastating!
The intellectual superiority of Palin over Barouq is so clear and overwhelming that there cannot be any doubt who should be in charge of WH and America.
One can only imagine how well would be your great country now if it was the case.
Despite all the doom and gloom, you guys can call yourselves lucky to have such wonderful poeple like Palin, West, Bachmann, Brewer and so many others waiting to take the lead of the US.
Compare to that our own “conservative” brand is just a bunch of sissies.
God bless Sarah! God bless the US!
Bogdan from Australia commented:
The funniest aspect of the whole incident is that the GREAT IDIOT has already been warned by his advisors not to respond to Sarah nor attack her directly.
This loon is so infantile that he just cannot control himself.
Even almost two years was not enough to learn that.
In fact he is totally incapable of learning. He will NEVER learn!
Even the Eastern European commies finally admitted that the were wrong.
I wonder what it will take to open his eyes…
jainphx commented:
Sarah has more intellectual integrity in her little trigger finger than EARS could ever wish to have.
He has now banned all drilling off shore even in Alaska. Can someone tell me why then Russia and Brazil, and Mexico are drilling in the gulf, maybe its because the Brazil co. is owned by George Soros, and Russia is closer to Obama’s way of thinking. He stops us from creating jobs by us drilling, enough jobs to turn the economy around in months. Oil drilling construction, and all related jobs would put millions to work, and then the refineries that could be built making more work for America. The GOP should be hollering every day on this subject, but alas only Sarah has what it takes. I hate this regime and its chief puppet.
Freddy commented:
Ah yes, the name caller in chief strikes again!
Obama will NEVER be a very good executive, and it would seem that is why Palin frustrates him so much.
jainphx commented:
No one can convince me that this group of traitors didn’t sit on their hands on purpose. Jindal wanted to dredge to make barrier islands to catch the oil! Can you believe that the Corp of engineers said that they first had to do an ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY, are these people crazy, look around you Corp of idiots and see the real environment you idiots.
jainphx commented:
Why do I wake up every morning only to be infuriated by something this Kenyan with Ears is doing. Can’t find the time to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, no he needs to be in Chicago on vacation. Can’t be bothered to attend a remembrance of the 11 blown up on the rig, but can sit down to $16,000 a plate fund raiser for Barbara dumb as box of rocks Boxer. The dinner was at J.P. Getty’s house, you know that OIL trillionaire.
JTaylor commented:
Obamas classlessness is embarrassing. Does he think this kind of rhetoric is Presidential? I sure don’t. B. Hussein Obama is so far beneath the Presidency of the United States. But to him thats what he is, The President, he got the brass ring.
Go Obama…
Larry Sheldon commented:
Never heard say anything but plans to put us back in the Stone Age,
Just_Saying commented:
Alas, poor Barack. I knew him…
(He was a bad court jester, you know, but that was what he most enjoyed…)
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AuntieMadder commented:
jainphx
May 27th, 2010 | 11:45 pm | #62
Increasing domestic oil supply would decrease our dependence on, and thus the money we pay to, the Middle East.
OneSTDV commented:
He’s rather catty isn’t he?
Andreas K. commented:
I see. Reforming and regulating against accidents.
Now that’s very smart, isn’t it? Actually, it’s not. It’s totally Obama. Only Obama can be such an Obama.
Yeah, I extended my replacement idea to “zero” and “fool/idiot.”
Patriotic commented:
The good news is that June 3rd marks the half-way point to the mid-term elections on November 2nd of this year. We are almost over the hump, and “accelerating toward history”.
Time is fast running out on the Democrat’s stranglehold on our country, and these power-hungry monsters know it.
We will all witness history soon…as we see dozens of democrats walk the plank for Obama, as they jam through as much of their Progressive agenda as they can, before they have power stipped from them.
Then will come 2012. I have never in my lifetime witnessed as much anticipation by the American people, to see the day that the President leaves the White House. Not even with Nixon or Carter.
One definition of “Dictatorship” is:
“A government controlled by one person or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests with one person. Such power is often obtained forcibly. A dictator usually takes away much of people’s freedom.”
I’ll just say it…we have a dictator, and not a President. Not a dictator in the sense that Hitler was…but nonetheless…still a dictator.
They say that those that fail to learn from history are doomed repeat its mistakes.
I hope the United States of America has learned enough in the last few years, for us to see the beginning of decline of Democrats and Progressives in our society.
so cal chick commented:
Out here in Cali before you put up a damn taco stand (unless of course you’re illegal and run a ‘C’ rated hell hole) you’ve got to pay (union approved) hucksters/con-artists to conduct B.S. environmental studies. Total waste of time and money…and just another way for the Godless Left to steal your hard-earned private property, your rights, etc.
They look for these microscopic (non-existent) fairy shrimp… Construction of badly needly schools have been tied up in legislation for years over these ‘who gives a crap’ fairy shrimp… Environmentalist is just another name for Marxist.
Where in the hell are these sickening enviro-nazis now that their savior has cloward-pivened the coast of LA? These same backassward control freaks turned Cali into a dust bowl over a damn fish… Not a progressive freaking peep out of them…nothing…nada…thunderous silence…
They couldn’t care less about the stupid shrimp, the fish or the gulf… it’s all about control.control.control.
Time to fight back hard against these progressive bastards and defend our Liberty.
kate commented:
I never heard him say “Gee, I love America!” either.
daryl commented:
I never heard of him until the leftists brought him to strut his stuff at their ’04 convention. And I haven’t learned a hell of a lot more about him since. Who is this dunce sitting in the highest office in the land anyway??
TheScribbler commented:
The Presidency is way above Obama’s pay grade.
antisocialist commented:
Isn’t he soooooooooooo clever???? ***swoon***
Barf. What an idiot.
Chisum commented:
The Stench of Elitism Hung Heavy in the Air
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/05/27/the-stench-of-elitism-hung-heavy-in-the-air/
aprilnovember811 commented:
You’re right, Barry. We never hear anything productive out of that mouth, that’s open for business 24/7. We hear nothing but LIE BABY LIE!
Militant Conservative commented:
Yet another reason he is a failure.
EPIC FAILURE!
Chisum commented:
Worst Press Conference Since ” I Am Not A Crook”
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/05/27/worst-press-conference-since-i-am-not-a-crook.php
kansas commented:
If we had a competent press, they would point out that the reason drilling like this is necessary is because of the policies put in place by people like Husseino.
LimoLibsStink commented:
0bama:
Let me be clear, I am on top of this situation like Barney Frank on top of Fannie Mae. For more than a week I have racking my butt and rotating on Barney Frank’s lap trying to figure out who to blame.
I am proud to announce that I blame MSM head Liz Birnbaum… umm,I can’t see. Please adjust my teleprompter. I get confused but, I really mean MMS head Liz Birnbaum. I have tossed her under the bus.
Some people say I lack urgency; look like a deer in Barney Franks head lights and basically suck. This is only partially true. I have been on top of Barney Frank for hours. My daughter can rest assured that this hole will be plugged – just as I insert a butt plug in my rear when Barney Frank is around.
My limousine is belching fumes and I have a meeting with Kevin Jennings. I will be on top of him all of the time. I will not rest until gas prices are $15 per gallon nor will I accept any oil from Alaska. I can’t answer any more questions. Good Day.
Valerie commented:
Today’s political cartoon in the San Diego Union-Tribune is by Steve Breen, making Sarah Palin’s comment that the BP oil spill has to do with their too-cozy relationship with this administration.
Charles Krauthammer, in “Whose Blowout is it, anyway?” http://article.nationalreview.com/435089/whose-blowout-is-it-anyway/charles-krauthammer mentions the successful efforts by environmentalists to exclude relatively easily developed, relatively easily controlled sites from development.
All of this commentary dances around another point that has to be considered: the decisions affecting this risky endeavor were left with the wrong kind of people, because our government has injected itself into the role of picking and choosing economic winners.
When a government does this, it cannot help but make the wrong choices, because the people who make the decisions have the wrong information before them: untimely, incomplete, and irrelevant.
At some point, the overriding criterion for approval to drill for oil became the ability to obtain a waiver from the federal government.
The ability to obtain a waiver is distinct from considerations of cost, location, viability of the project, safety, and downside risk.
Waivers are obtained by people who are politically connected, who have the ability to say “trust us” to someone who has no idea about the relevant facts.
Right now, both the executive and legislative branches of our government are run by people who believe in giving waivers. They have made decisions to, for example, bar drilling for oil and gas in areas that are relatively safe and inexpensive, and yet heap money on “green energy” firms that have thus far failed to demonstrate economic viability.
There is no question that, had this blow-out occurred on land or at least in shallower water, it would have been contained long ago. There is also no question that much of the money showered on “green energy” firms will be dissipated to no good effect. That is what happens when money is awarded based on grant applications instead of angel financing.
Valerie commented:
Unlike BO, I think individual investors should be making decisions with respect to new technologies.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2010/05/28/#005661
Magnum commented:
What’s he doing to stop international companies from drilling in international waters in the Gulf and off the southern coast of FL? Oh yeah, nothing.
He should take this opportunity to kick out the international companies, issue permits to American companies to drill and regulate the shite out of it.
But he won’t. Because he’s an idiot.
kato commented:
The lies just keep piling up. Day after day, another manufactured story, another bunch of lies. The Blowhard doesn’t even seem to care whether anyone believes him. He knows who he’s bought off, and the rest of us can go to hell. It’s going to be tough getting the stench out of the White House after this turd leaves.
Skinner commented:
PERHAPS YOU ARE ALL MISSING THE AGENDA…
OBAMA WANTS THIS CRISIS TO CONTINUE – EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL GAIN FOR HIM AND HIS TEAM.
WE HAVE NEVER HAD A PRESIDENT LIKE THIS.
EVERY CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY – IN THIS CASE TO OUTLAW OFFSHORE DILLING AND MAKE US MORE DEPENDANT ON M.E. OIL.
AND IF THERE ISN’T A CRISIS, THEY WILL MANUFACTURE ONE.
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Follow the law commented:
I heard obama is moving in next door on the other side of Palin’s house to keep tabs on her. Rush Limbaugh is already living rent free in obama’s head, or else he would have given her room there.
Moonbat Killer commented:
this guy cannot be serious…
Jane commented:
Palin’s new post is the best smackdown to date.
Passing The Buck Doesn’t “Plug the D#*! Hole”
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=393619003434
Chisum commented:
“Never Again”: Obama and the BP Oil Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVehAAwh0gY&feature=player_embedded
Chisum commented:
Read the whole article!
BP Buses In 400 Fake Workers to Serve as Backdrop For Obama’s Fake Photo Op
http://minx.cc/?post=302073
Valerie commented:
James Carville is trying to rescue the Democratic Party from the consequences of BO’s bad judgment:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052704545.html
Valerie commented:
“Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There”
http://www.breitbart.tv/newt-in-handling-of-oil-spill-dereliction-of-duty-by-obama/
What the President of the US could have done about the oil spill.
I think the President is playing F*ck the System, see “Revolution for the Hell of it.”
Chisum commented:
Why Would Anyone Have Expected Competence?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026409.php
dee commented:
I have never heard so much racial hatred and disrespect from so called human beings in my life.
This President is highly educated, intellectual and capable of running this country but the only reason you hate him and call him a kenyan monkey is because of the color of his skin. His mom was a white woman but that does not matter in your eye-sight.
Some of the ughly things that are being said about the President should be monitored by the Secret Service I would hate to think what you are teaching your children. You sound like people who wear sheets over their heads and burn crosses God Help you and you call yourself Americans shame on you.
Colonel Walker commented:
I am appalled to read comments from someone in Law enforcement and members of the USForces spew this language including citizens we try to protect each and every day.
It is sickening and people in other countries laugh at Americans if you don’t respect your President then other countries don’t respect us.