Barack Obama announced back on May 14, 2010 that,

I will not rest until the leak has stopped.

… Except, of course, for the ball games, golf, vacations, parties, etc.

He shares your anger, Louisiana. Remember that.

Barack Obama attended the National’s baseball game yesterday.
The media lapdogs at the The Washington Post, of course, covered for him:

After hunkering down for several weeks to deal with the oil spill, President Obama finally made it out of the house for some fun – and showed up at the Nationals game on Friday night.

With star pitcher Stephen Strasburg on the mound, Obama also got to see his old hometown team, the Chicago White Sox.

That was more than the president did in Chicago two weeks ago, when he stayed within a security perimeter around his house – avoiding the perception that he was out frolicking during the Gulf crisis. (He played golf recently, but out of view of the cameras).

UPDATE: This is rich: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says BP CEO Tony Hayward has made another gaffe by going to a yacht race in England while oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico.
Is he serious?

UPDATE: Obama went out golfing today again with Joe Biden.

 

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  1. Apparently, his definition of not resting is a lot different than my definition of not resting…sheez..
    Mmmm…Mmmm…Mmmm…

  2. “(He played golf recently, but out of view of the cameras).” -

    If that’s code for: “President Obama is secretly working on the golf course”, why does he have to hide? Is he the greenskeeper?

  3. Another mistake by the Blowhard’s handlers. They took him to see a pitching phenom who is white.

  4. This whole problem, as I see it, is this well is out beyond the twelve mile limit (too bad we don’t still recognize the Monroe Doctrine). The world must come to agree that drilling in the ocean cannot take place deeper than you can send emergency repair crews. With an unstoppable leak taking place, it is going to effect more than the US coast.

  5. Hunkering down for several weeks???? Really? A quick review of the President’s schedule the last several weeks shows a lot of free time out of the office, not hunkered down.

  6. Gulf…… Golf…… Not sure he or his handlers know the difference.

    I can help a bit.

    The Gulf has one hole with a problem.

    Golf has 18 holes that are all problems…… unless there’s a windmill or smiling clown on every hole, then it’s just creepy.

    On a side note…… That kid Strasburg can really bring it.

    He’s the “hope” The Nationals were looking for to “change”.

    Cheers !

    Kenny Solomon
    Living in a golf course condo in South Flori-duh.

    “All lawyers are bastards !”………. “I take offense to that !”………. “Why, are you a lawyer ?”………. “No, I’m a bastard !”

  7. THANK YOU for posting GP. You site rocks!!!

    Steve
    Common Cents
    http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

  8. ++

    I, MR. PRESIDENT, CAN FIX IT – YES I CAN!!

    The President Does a Jones Act

    WSJ, June 19, 2010

    [President Obama has repeatedly said his Administration is doing everything in its power to expedite the oil clean-up and mitigate the damage. But in the two weeks immediately after the spill, 13 foreign governments reached out and offered their assistance. The U.S. response? Thanks, but no thanks.

    Or at least that's how Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston, described the U.S. answer. The State Department phrased it slightly differently: "While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future." One month later, many of these offers are still outstanding.

    The Belgian dredging group DEME says it has offered the U.S. specialized vessels and technology that can help clean up the spill in three to four months compared to the estimated nine months that the U.S. will need. There are only a handful of these vessels in the world, and most of them belong to Dutch and Belgian companies. So why aren't we calling on them?

    Blame it on the protectionist Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also called the Jones Act, that requires ships working in U.S. waters to be built, operated and owned by Americans. Building specialized clean-up vessels in the U.S. is too expensive because of high union labor costs, and unions don't want ships built with foreign labor to be used in U.S. waters. To circumvent the Jones Act, clean-up crews have had to outfit American ships with skimming technology airlifted from the Netherlands. This has resulted in serious delays and greater harm to the Gulf.

    Presidents can suspend the Jones Act in emergencies, as George W. Bush
    did after Hurricane Katrina. But the Obama Administration continues to maintain that this isn't necessary and that there are "no pending requests" for waivers. But Florida Republican Senator George LeMieux disagrees and says his constituents want all the foreign help possible.

    We sympathize with the President's lament on Monday that "I can't dive down there and plug the hole. I can't suck it up with a straw." But there's no excuse for turning away ships that can clean up the oil merely because that might offend Mr. Obama's union friends.]

    all you’re “fixing” Mr. President is the
    downfall of America’s “small people”..

    ==

  9. He’s like OJ searching the golf courses for his wifes murderer.

  10. The President has declared war on an arch-enemy of the United States – the evil empire called Oil Kingdom from the center of the earth.

    In an impassible speech, the President said:

    “About two months ago, the Oil Kingdom stealthily and ruthlessly invaded our country while I was about to sneak out and play my once-a-week round of golf. I believe this attack was well-planned because the enemy seemed to know I would be engaged in many important functions of state like singalong with a former Beatle and fundraising for a soon-to-be-unemployed Senator.

    Let me be clear. This enemy is resourceful and relentless. Over the past months, we witnessed waves after waves of assaults on out shores without even any hint of a pause for retrenchment. Recently, I received credible intelligence that enemy elements have indeed infiltrated vast stretches of our beaches, marshlands and fishing grounds. This is unacceptable.

    Furthermore, there is abundant evidence that the enemy is trying to bankrupt our economy by resorting to the devious tactic of covering our entire country with carbon dioxide. According to one of my fellow Nobel laureates, carbon dioxide is the most toxic thing known to mankind.

    Therefore, my fellow citizens, I am asking you today to follow my lead to kick ass and defeat the Oil Kingdom by passing the Cap and Tax Bill and at the same time ban carbon dioxide from the face of this earth.

  11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oLIUT16ko0&annotation_id=annotation_473255&feature=iv

    Barack Hussein Obama is not your President; he is an usurper punishable with prison. He knows he isn’t constitutional eligible to be President as he is not a Natural Born citizen, which is only more obvious by his refusal to produce a Long Form Birth Certificate. To be a Natural Born citizen both parents must be Amerian citizens, and we all know his father was a British citizen. Wake up America – you have been taken over from within, and you should not stand for it.

  12. Hunkering down? If that’s hunkering down, most of us could use a little of it.

  13. ++

    Joanne @ 9:32 am #13

    like i’ve been saying from the get go..

    the truth is hiding in plain sight..

    BOTH PARENTS WERE NOT US CITIZENS, CASE CLOSED..

    ==

  14. Someone explain to me why some on our side, are not on our side. Some say show us the proof, and then we are belittled. Why? I can’t get my arms around this, finding out one way or the other can’t be politically hazardous. What is the end game of those who oppose finding the truth? This is a large mystery to me.

  15. Aww, come on! Give the poor guy a break! It is a TON of work to fly all over on a private jet, throw million dollar parties for thousands of guests and golf every day. He isn’t RESTING – he is PLAYING! That’s “work” too isn’t it? And isn’t all that play what we PAY him to do after all?

  16. Those FBI files that were given to the Clintons, do they enter into the equation? Seems that questions that should be asked are not. I’m just puzzled by the whole thing, must be something that makes good men suddenly remain quiet on such an item of tremendous importance. He either is or isn’t lets find out.

    Every person that wants to obtain the most powerful position in the world, should HAVE to disclose ALL pertinent material with NO exceptions, period!

  17. ++

    Joanne @ 9:32 am #13

    Failures of Security

    ==

  18. ==
    jainphx r
    June 19th, 2010 | 9:51 am | #16
    Someone explain to me why some on our side, are not on our side. Some say show us the proof, and then we are belittled. Why? I can’t get my arms around this, finding out one way or the other can’t be politically hazardous. What is the end game of those who oppose finding the truth? This is a large mystery to me.

    If you mean why are some not interested in the birth certificate issue, it is because it is too late. You really think if it turns out there is proof of his Kenyan birth that he will be forced out of office? The resulting uprising would make the Watts and Rodney King riots look tame. We have to take the House and Senate to stop his damage, then throw him out via the ballot box in 2012. IMHO.

  19. Yes We Can!!! We Can Try to oust him in 2012 BUT there is a law already on the Books to allow BHO to BE PREZ for ever!! NO TERM LIMITS FOR BHO!! Seriously!! NOW take a look at what HIS OWN SITE SAYS from Fight The Smears .. THIS http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate.html “When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

    Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

    READ THAT CAREFULLY!!

  20. Poor dear, we should all be glad he is not overdoing it! After all, he has to stay in shape for the next party!

  21. As far as I am concerned, a competent US President could do all those things, and STILL have an effective response to the oil spill.

    The current administration’s response is not just ineffective, it is obstructionist.

    It is time to discuss impeachment.

  22. MY FORMER BLOG….NOW is JoAnne’s. But Hey..Look at this. The Best Analysis and “Follow the Money” Trail about Oil Spill. Very indepth although very ACCURATE http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico

  23. Agent 99, you’ve hit the nail on the head. I’ve been saying for nearly two years now (I have a daughter about the same age who was born a dual citizen) that the birth certificate is NOT the issue. It is just a smokescreen for the real issue being used to make anyone who asks questions look like a lunatic.

    If he did not renounce his Kenyan citizenship, then he also did not affirm his US citizenship (this had to be done in writing at age 18), thus he is not a citizen. And in any case, he would have been a NATURALIZED citizen just the same as the governator out in California or my daughter. And the naturalization papers say right on them “not eligible for the US presidency.”

    We did not allow dual citizenship for adults at the time The Won was born and when we did finally get around to it (80s as I recall) there was no grandfather clause for those born under the old rules.

  24. Yep, we are in the BEST of hands!

    The impoltance of being earnest

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026564.php

  25. BO thought that people would believe that he thought deepwater (a mile!) oil drilling is “absolutely safe.”

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Who-told-Obama-drilling-is-_absolutely-safe__-96603724.html

    I don’t know anybody with any kind of technical background that would be willing to give such an assurance; and I don’t know anybody at all that would believe it.

    Why does he think he can get away with saying something that stupid?

    Why doesn’t he have somebody with enough sense to stop him from saying things that stupid?

    Where are the smart Democrats? Did he stiff-arm all of them?

  26. Every day we wake up and see obummer has spit in our faces further, while singing and laughing about it. What a jerk. I hope the RNC uses the clip of him singing “three strikes you’re out” in
    their next vid.

  27. ..I AM OBAMA’S OIL SPILL.. DAY 60:
    http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/

  28. Har har, it’s the white guys that have the problem, let them eat oily fish, and drive around using oiled pelicans.

    We need an eject button for our community agitator freeloader in the White House.

  29. MORE “Sanctioned” Out of Control For Obama. Remember the IG Walpin?? Here is the Ruling today on that http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/walpin-defeat-means-president-can-fire-igs-at-will-96714994.html PLUS Our Gov’t is Hiring A GOV’t LIASION FOR TWITTER!! Recall that it was Twitter that allowed the Iranian Students to ask for our help last summer and/or get Messages out to us and the World. Like the Killing Of Nedda??? So EVEN IRAN does NOT have the TWITTER GOV’T LIASION!! Can the US make it to 2012???

  30. Granny!! God Bless! And BTW there is STILL bunches of info @ Fight The Smears! Such as BHO was NEVER associated with ACORN or Tony Resko OR Ayers …..and On And On!! {{FROM my 2 posts above…WE are LOSING Freedom DAILY}}

  31. Is Obama a bonehead or just brain dead?

  32. Jim

    Give him a break. What is he without the adulation of the crowds? Answer: nothing much. Other answer: nothing at all.

  33. And in every news update today Tony Hayward relieved of duties yesterday is being trashed for attending some yachting event. Geesh.

  34. “..avoiding the perception..”

    It seems that is all that a**hat does these days is “avoid perceptions”. It’s probably the only thing he can do, since he has clearly bombed at giving speeches.

  35. Wow, obama finally got off the golf course to read off his telepromptor and now he is so burnt out he needs to go to a basketball game. Maybe obama should fly on air force one to NYC on the tax payers dime and simulate 9-11 again for the citizens of NYC by flowing low over the city again.

  36. Valerie #30.

    Smart Democrats. Isn’t that an oxymoron?

  37. The noive of that guy – when he should be transforming into his secret identity of Aquaman and swimming down to plug the leak caused by a private corporation’s malfeasance!!!

    Seriously, do you twits really believe that Obama renouncing all other activities will stop the leak? Because if you don’t…well then, your complaints are a bit hollow, aren’t they?

    I don’t recall you demanding that Bush go on a hunger strike/renounce any and all recreation/etc. after he announced “I will not rest until Osama bin Laden is brought to justice,” a mere 6 months before declaring “Osama who? I really don’t spend much time thinking about him.”

  38. I think Obama has Attention Deficit Disorder. The only thing he can concentrate on is his hate.

  39. Jenn of Ark — Do you really think that having Tony Hayward fired will plug the leak?

  40. Jenn of Ark — Bush is no longer President and when Obama is no longer President we will stop blaming him. Until then — the buck stops with him or should is say the 20 Billion bucks.

  41. kansas #22

    Do you really think the Democrats would stand for an Constitutionally ineligible Republican to hold Office? Not bloody likely, and if it wasn’t for the corrupt left media, the Republicans wouldn’t have had to tolerate an usurper becoming POTUS. Would you rather have a few riots in the streets, or would you rather have no America left to cherish by 2012? You no longer live in the USA, you now live in the USSA now, even though I am sure many people would rather not face this reality. Things need to turn around quickly, and another two years of Obama may just be all it takes to flush America.

  42. If only he were clearing brush instead.

  43. …if it wasn’t for the corrupt left media, the Republicans wouldn’t have had to tolerate an usurper becoming POTUS.

    You mean a usurper who lost the popular vote and was ramrodded into office by a corrupt Republican majority on the Supreme Court? That kind of usurper?

  44. ++

    Bitter Scribe @ 2:18 pm #52

    Supreme Court 12/12/2000

    still holding on to the SC gave Bush the election myth i see,
    oh well.. no skin off Bush’s back, or mine for that matter..

    Bush v. Gore

    [In a per curiam decision, the Court in Bush v. Gore ruled that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting ballots was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court also ruled that no alternative method could be established within
    the time limits set by the State of Florida. Three concurring justices also asserted that the Florida Supreme Court had violated Article II, § 1, cl. 2 of the Constitution, by misinterpreting Florida election law that had been enacted by the Florida Legislature.
    ]

    [standard disclaimer: source Wikipedia]

    When the votes were recounted in Florida,
    who won the 2000 presidential election?

    [According to a massive months-long study commissioned by eight news organizations in 2001, George W. Bush probably still would have won
    even if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a limited statewide recount
    to go forward as ordered by Florida's highest court.

    Bush also probably would have won had the state conducted the limited recount of only four heavily Democratic counties that Al Gore asked for,
    the study found.
    ]

    [disclaimer: source associated with Obama/Ayers]

    ==

  45. This half-black boy is really taking advantage of the perks of the presidency and can’t miss a chance to play White people’s games while the country is suffering because of his masters’ policies. What’s next? Ice Hockey?

  46. ++

    Paul_______ @ 3:40 pm #55

    well i’ll be danged if you aren’t an absolute
    audacious personification of Obamanism..

    ==

  47. bg June 19th, 2010 | 3:57 pm | #56

    The boy suffers from White people’s complex. It’s obvious and clear. He hates White people so much, he’ll do whatever White people do. Look how he reads from the Teleprompter. Look at his accent and his sporting habits, etc. It’s his psychology. He’s mentally unstable. It’s his revenge. It’s “I’m better than you, f..ing White bastards!!”

  48. ++

    JennOfArk @ 12:44 pm #45

    you’re an idiot, but lets get past that
    and check in on the evil Boooooosh..

    oh btw (just a sample)..

    Increasing Terrorist Attacks On US Soil Under President Obama

    i’m also betting the percentage is even higher as of today..

    ==

  49. ++

    Paul_______ @ 4:06 pm #57

    well, i agree , but if you feel it necessary to ‘talk
    in his shadow’, as you did in #55, be my guest..

    ==

  50. bg June 19th, 2010 | 4:35 pm | #59

    The way I talk in #55 is already explained in #57 and will remain as such.

  51. Hey Precedentnt Lame-O, a note to your Chief of ‘Free Rides’ from BP,,,,The CEO of BP is no longer in charge!!! I would then expect him to be at a yacht club. However, Precedent ignoramous, you STILL are in charge!!! Hows about you give a bit more attention to the pile in your ‘Inbox’ rather then doing that arm sweep across the desk at the end of the day?
    DORKS!!!!!!!!

  52. ++

    Bitter Scribe @ 2:15 pm #51

    [If only he were clearing brush instead.]

    (just a sample)

    oh yes, but alas, no menial work for him..

    no-no-no, all of his sacrifices are above his pay grade..

    yep.. it’s sacrifice.. sacrifice.. sacrifice & more
    sacrificing for the childr, er, small pe, uh, uh..

    ==

  53. Robb76
    June 19th, 2010 | 12:32 pm | #44

    Right now, it’s looking that way. But I know they existed, at least as late as the Clinton administration. That bunch knew how to answer a kerfluffel and balance a budget.

  54. JennOfArk
    June 19th, 2010 | 12:44 pm | #45

    I don’t recall you demanding that Bush go on a hunger strike/renounce any and all recreation/etc. after he announced “I will not rest until Osama bin Laden is brought to justice,”

    ************

    You seriously never noticed all the claims that Bush was on “vacation” every time he went to Crawford and had a full schedule posted at whitehouse.gov?

    twit.

  55. Gee, so Obama’s never supposed to play golf again? Are you just as outraged about the CEO of BP’s participation in a yachting race this weekend?

  56. ++

    Hoo Hah @ 6:38 pm #66

    yeah, that’s it, maroon..

    ==

  57. He’s on a maroon yacht? I thought it was a white one.

  58. Obama Says He “Won’t Rest Until Leak Is Stopped”… Then Attends Nationals Baseball Game (Video) -Updated

    He should rest in peace.

  59. And Bush lied (again) about quitting golf . . . and he rode his bike no matter what.

    Big deal. to you

    now.

    Has anyone ever told you that you are hysterical?

  60. bg@10:

    Baloney.

    ~~~ Currently, 15 foreign-flagged vessels are involved in the largest response to an oil spill in U.S. history. No Jones Act waivers have been granted because none of these vessels have required such a waiver to conduct their operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

    [. . .]

    “While we have not seen any need to waive the Jones Act as part of this historic response, we continue to prepare for all possible scenarios,” said Admiral Allen. “Should any waivers be needed, we are prepared to process them as quickly as possible to allow vital spill response activities being undertaken by foreign-flagged vessels to continue without delay.”

    To date, the administration has leveraged assets and skills from numerous foreign countries and international organizations as part of this historic, all-hands-on-deck response, including Canada, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization and the European Union’s Monitoring and Information Centre. In some cases, offers of international assistance have been turned down because the offer didn’t fit the needs of the response.~~~

    http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/660195/

  61. NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE

  62. ++

    skylark @ 12:41 am #73

    well aren’t you a skylark on the spot..

    via bg #10 link:

    [But in the two weeks immediately after the spill, 13 foreign governments reached out and offered their assistance. The U.S. response? Thanks, but
    no thanks.

    BIG Oil Rig Explosion Off Louisiana Coast, 11 to
    15 People Missing, Infernal Blaze April 20, 2010

    maybe NOW they are..

    via your #73 link:

    Admiral Allen Provides Guidance to Ensure Expedited Jones
    Act Waiver Processing “Should It Be Needed” June 15, 2010

    April 20 to June 15 & no waiver as yet, hmmm..

    this may be baloney by now, i mean it’s a couple of days old.. /reverse sarc/

    ==

  63. bg@73:

    And exactly what part of “In some cases, offers of international assistance have been turned down because the offer didn’t fit the needs of the response” was not clear?

  64. Sorry, that last was directed to bg @ 78, not @ 73.

  65. ++

    skylark @ 9:11 am #79

    they were currently there, and i pointed out that NOW they were (well several are anyways).. almost 2 months later.. and others that were ready to go from the get go were still being denied, to which you bait & switched to an all too unclear & most likely taken out of context, “didn’t fit the needs of the response”.. exactly what does that mean almost 2 months later??

    i’ll try to explain what it means to me:

    re: [To circumvent the Jones Act, clean-up crews have had to outfit American ships with skimming technology airlifted from the Netherlands. This has resulted in serious delays and greater harm to the Gulf.]

    imo what it means is that it was our vessels that “didn’t fit the needs of the response”.. why else would we need to go to foreign countries (who not only offered help immediately, but were turned down immediately) for technology they no doubt have their vessels outfitted with..

    and please explain what the following has to
    do with “didn’t fit the needs of the response”..

    ["While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future." One month later, many of these offers are still outstanding.]

    to state there’s a contradiction
    would be an understatement..

    unfortunately for & i’m sorry to have to say
    that the evidence is not on Obama’s side..

    ==

  66. ++

    typo correction re: bg #81

    unfortunately for US, etc..

    ==

  67. ++

    clarifying : bg #81

    re: foreign vessels: “some” weren’t equipped..

    ergo, it’s more than obvious that there were others that were equipped, but were still denied.. and sorry, but the link info you provided was lame, uninformative & quite frankly, contained little to no substance & was vague..

    ==

  68. Another golf outing? Obama must like playing with little white balls,But lets leave George Soros out of this……

  69. Good grief…that’s like saying “Obama won’t rest till the spill is stopped”, then bitching he took a friggin’ nap. You morons are pathetic.

  70. THIS DRIVE; WATCH IT (NOW)

  71. NOW WATCH IT (THIS DRIVE)

  72. I don’t care if Obama takes short breaks every now and then. He has more pressure and more serious issues to attend to than most, and he needs a break. He’s unlike bush who took more vacation days than any other President before him. And, remember it was bush, who after he talked about getting them terrorists, he said “now watch this drive,” referring to his golf swing.

    I honestly don’t even care if Tony Hayward took a weekend break to be with his family. Like Obama, he is only human. If people like Hayward or Obama don’t take any breaks at all, they will be worse off combatting these problems than they are now.

    The main problem I have with Hayward is that it was in poor taste that he went yachting….on the water. Seems he could have taken a day off to do something unrelated to the water.

    I wonder what Gateway Pundit is doing to help the oil spill problem, other than complain about Obama?

  73. Imagine that. An idiotic anti-Obama article by a conservative, followed by idiotic comments from conservatives. Just another day on the right-wing funny farm.

    Extra giggles for the clown who mentioned George Soros. Not to mention the calls for the birth certificate. My God, what fools conservatives are. You guys crack me up! I’m serious.

  74. DRIVE (THIS ONE), TO BE WATCHED BY YOU NOW

  75. NOW
    WATCH
    THIS
    DRIVE

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