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The dog kicker in Chief

hypocritexposer

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"The buck stops here" Barry sure has turned out to be an extraordinary leader.

May 20, 2010
Obama is Kicking the Dog
By Jeannie DeAngelis

Barack Obama has taken up the fine art of "kicking the dog," which is a narcissistic practice where a person in authority passes blame along to the lowest level, where, for lack of a fall guy, the dog ends up getting kicked. Obama claims that the buck stops with him, yet the president habitually avoids blame by pointing the finger of accusation at animate people and inanimate objects, which translates into presidential "dog-kicking."

Obama has proven to be a master blamer and finger-pointer. In fact, Obama takes finger-pointing to a whole new level. The president even finger-points at and blames people for finger-pointing and blaming. Dog-kicker Barack obviously considers blaming others an executive privilege and exclusive right.

Recently, while addressing the explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf, a temperamental Obama did some public canine-kicking in the Rose Garden. The president "harshly criticized BP and other companies for falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else."

A "visibly angry" Obama chastised big oil for passing the buck, saying, "I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into the matter."

Potentially in a position to ultimately bear some responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, slickster Obama greased the censure wheel to ensure his own seamless slippage through an oily situation, and he did so by kicking a dog or two.

Often guilty of defying prior commitments with contradicting actions, Barack Obama began by holding British Petroleum to their pledge to "pay for the response effort." The president vowed to personally "hold them to their obligation."

Suddenly bailout Barack is a stickler for obligatory liability?

Pointing a long and growing-ever-longer finger toward the camera, void of even a hint of self-awareness, Obama chided BP, Transocean, and Halliburton executives, saying, "I will not tolerate more finger-pointing or irresponsibility."

So does the Obama "I don't have to count my time because I'm the president" exemption also extend to finger-pointing and passing the buck?

Mr. Obama said he was "not going to rest or be satisfied until the leak was stopped at the source ... contained and cleaned up." But rest assured: If the leak is not "stopped," "contained," or "cleaned up," it won't be Barry's fault.

The president assigned blame and did so by masterfully identifying himself with the victims. Barack said, "I saw firsthand the anger and frustration felt by our neighbors in the Gulf, and let me tell you, it is an anger and frustration that I share as president."

Obama even used the "blame Bush" maneuver to excuse himself from culpability. Barry said, "For a decade or more, there's been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill. ... That cannot and will not happen anymore."

For added fortification, Obama hauled out the Gipper, and by doing so exercised the skill of what can only be described as the highest form of manipulative obfuscation. Obama blasphemed Reagan's words and used them as a missile against Bush, B.P., and Big Oil by borrowing and misappropriating the old phrase, "we will trust, but we will verify."

A more apropos Reagan quote would have been, "How can a president not be an actor?"

Still pointing the bony finger of blame, Obama said that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recognized the need for reform prior to the spill, but he "often-times has been slammed by the industry, suggesting that somehow these necessary reforms would impede economic growth."

It's incomprehensible that the President of the United States would try to exempt himself from responsibility by suggesting that the Obama administration was prepared for a spill "from day one" but was hindered from effecting a viable solution by the oil industry. This is the same man who continually blames G.W. Bush for everything and anything, including natural disasters.

Mr. Obama said no one could reach the leak, which is five thousand feet below the surface of the ocean. Precisely, if the ocean didn't insist on being so deep, then there wouldn't be so much "uncertainty," and plugging the stubborn geyser wouldn't pose an ongoing quandary for Obama.

Hitting on a few more points, the president shared the government's use of "every available resource" to address the oil spill. Except, of course, resources unavailable because someone somewhere is preventing their use.

According to the ever-vigilant Mr. Obama, "Over one million feet of barrier boom have been deployed to hold the oil back. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of dispersant helped to break up the oil." Unfortunately, Obama did sacrifice an opportunity to shift blame onto the slippery, hard-to-contain nature of petroleum for a crisis that otherwise would be well under his firm control.

Obama added, "13,000 people and the National Guard had been deployed to help protect the shoreline and wildlife." Surely Barry would have greater success if "sea turtles, birds such as sea gulls and pelicans, dolphins, manatees, and Gulf sturgeon" would collaborate with federal efforts by avoiding the oil slick, as well as by steering clear of the water's edge.

As the Rose Garden remarks concluded, the president reiterated support for offshore drilling, because unlike George W. Bush, British Petroleum and most other living, breathing human beings, the blameless Barack, even in the face of uncontrollable plumes of crude oil, "never tires, never falters and never fails."

Concluding the Rose Garden scolding, Obama did personally accept one key responsibility, saying, "it's absolutely essential ... we put in place every necessary safeguard and protection so that a tragedy like this oil spill does not happen again."

Better think long and hard about that one, Mr. President, because in an imperfect world, having precautions in place could pose a problem the next time the need arises to point a finger, pass the blame, or kick a dog.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/obama_is_kickingthedog.html

How about some help for the ongoing disaster, as requested by Jindal, over 2 weeks ago?



Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said the state will not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Oil has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes, with two major pelican rookeries awash in crude.

Gov. Jindal was critical of the amount of boom his state received to ward off the oil seeping toward the coastline. But his major gripe comes at the expense of the Army Corps of Engineers, who have yet to give the go-ahead for the building of sand booms to protect the Louisiana wetlands. He used photographic evidence of oil breaking through hard booms, soft booms and another layer of protection, before being finally being corralled by a sand boom built by the National Guard.

"It is so much better for us. We don't want oil on one inch of Louisiana's coastline, but we'd much rather fight this oil off of a hard coast, off of an island, off of an island, off of a sandy beach on our coastal islands, rather than having to fight it inside in these wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, making the case for sand booms.

The governor said he has been forced to protect Louisiana without the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers, which is weighing the ecological impact of the construction of more sand booms.

"We are not waiting for them. We are going to build it," Jindal said.

"We can either fight battle -- we can fight this oil -- on the Barrier Islands 15 to 20 miles off of our coast, or we can face it in thousands of miles of fragmented wetlands," Gov. Jindal said, clearing favoring the first option. "Every day we're not given approval on this emergency permit to create more of these sand booms is another day when that choice is made for us, as more and more miles of our shore are hit by oil."

The oil spill, which has lasted 33 days since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, has yet to be stopped by British Petroleum at the source. The situation is dire for Gulf coast states.

"It is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here," Gov. Jindal said. "Oil sits and waits for cleanup, and every day that it waits for cleanup more of our marsh dies."

Material from The Associated Press used in this report.

http://www.necn.com/05/23/10/Jindal-tired-of-waiting-for-approval-to-/landing.html?blockID=240006&feedID=4215

I wonder if the Feds have enough oversight and authority yet?

When the analytical is confronted with breaking from this linear thinking, they often become frustrated. Every decision, particularly outside their realm of expertise, becomes an exercise in paralysis by analysis.

While attention to detail for an analytical is an outstanding asset, it can mean death when they are confronted with leadership decisions. Here is one example I like to use when discussing these issues.

In the civil war, General McClelland was a great strategist. He planned every conceivable option for attack. He evaluated troop strength, enemy strength, resources, weather and every other potential factor. He never attacked. He always found a reason to say “Not now.” Paralysis by analysis. President Lincoln sent General Grant to the same battlefield. Grant pointed the troops toward the enemy and said: “March”.

http://blog.corporatewarriors.com/journal/2009/9/17/paralysis-by-analysis-the-challenge-of-going-from-being-an-a.html
 
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