Gulf Disaster: Things are getting so bad, the "angry Obama" has to make an appearance.

[Karmadillo]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/may2010/pers-m15.shtml

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Right on schedule, in the second paragraph of his prepared comments on Friday, Obama explained that he had seen firsthand “the anger and frustration” of the population in the Gulf, “And let me tell you, it is an anger and frustration that I share as President.”

This has become Obama’s standard operating procedure. In late January 2010, at a press briefing, Obama “furiously slammed Wall Street titans who raked in billions in bonuses” (Associated Press). His press secretary Robert Gibbs let it be known that “the president shares the American people’s outrage on this.” Of course, the bonuses were paid anyway, and a Wall Street analyst understandingly remarked, “It’s good politics for him to say that.”

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On the contrary, he devoted the final portion of his brief comment April 30 to defending, by implication, his government’s support for offshore drilling and making clear that he continued “to believe that domestic oil production is an important part of our overall strategy for energy security.” As far as concern for human life and the environment went, the remarks could not even be called going through the motions.

However, as a river of oil continued to flow out of the sea bottom, threatening to become one of the worst environmental disasters in history, and as public outrage against BP swelled, it became necessary once again for the “angry Obama” to make an appearance.

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Decades of privatization, deregulation, propaganda about the wonders of the free market, as well as the accumulated greed and recklessness of the ruling elite that has emerged out of the socioeconomic and ideological conditions of the whole past period, made the BP oil spill, or something similar, inevitable. As far as the American financial aristocracy is concerned, the global population and the physical resources of the planet are nothing but the ingredients out of which its enormous wealth is made.

Obama and his entourage appear to think they have a magical power to allay popular discontent with the public relations equivalent of a wave of a wand. All the president has to do, according to their conception, is assume the proper persona, offer a convincing rationalization, tell the suitable lie, and the American people will fall in line.

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[Bobbieo]

1. Fall in line? Not any more.

[AndyA]

3. +1. The American people are getting tired of being lied to, taken advantage of,

abused by those who are supposed to be looking out for our best interests, and doing without because it isn't what's best for corporate interests.

NO MORE.

I don't care if they're male, female, Republican, Democratic, Independent, black, white, or anything else. No more falling in line.

VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT! GET NEW ONES WHO WILL DO WHAT WE WANT THEM TO DO FOR A CHANGE!

[ShortnFiery]

6. Exactly, and don't stop at taking up to 75 Billion from BP. Take it over and liquidate it.

Then use the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to clean-up the environment and invest in GREEN ENERGY Jobs with requisite retraining for our work force. :thumbsup:

[notesdev]

2. I half expect a televised appearance complete with finger wagging

"I did not have campaign donations from that oil company"

[gimama]

5. thanks for a smile! nt

[ShortnFiery]

7. And just maybe he'll follow that up with a sternly worded letter to BP?!?

:crazy:

[FreeJG]

11. Exactly, after signing another 27 leases since the explosion, now he can get mad...

[gimama]

4. k&r & I say ..

Please do not patronise the peons, Mr.President.

Thanks for posting this.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. More shit from World Socalists Website? World Nut Daily not good enuf for you?

:rofl:

[Karmadillo]

9. Anything inaccurate in the article? Thanks in advance for pointing it out.

nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Just a matter of credibility. I won't bother clicking on your link though.

Does anyone, anywhere ever quote this rag in the real world? NO? There's good reason for that.:silly:

[Karmadillo]

13. If you haven't read it, how would you know there's a good reason for it not

being cited by Judith Miller et al?

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Repeat after me, "C-R-E-D-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y". Not sure how much clearer I can be.

:shrug:

[Karmadillo]

15. If you haven't R-E-A-D it, how can you know whether or not it's C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E?

nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. Last time I'm kicking this piece of shit thread. Didn't say, I'd never read it.

Fact of the matter is, I have read it, and I never will again. You couldn't pay me to click on that link. I'd sooner pay for a subscription to World Nut Daily.

[ima_sinnic]

16. how is it not credible? Just because ignorant Americans have a phobia about "socialism"?

please don't pretend you read the article, or even the excerpt posted above, because it goes without saying you didn't. it's quite predictable that you'll simply ridicule the source when you don't like what it says, since you have nothing of substance to say about it.

:boring:

[Donnachaidh]

18. so you judge credibility WITHOUT reading the material?

How incredibly puke-like.

Sean Hannity - is that you? :sarcasm:

[Forkboy]

20. Judging things by not reading them, and you talk of credibilty.

Awesome stuff! When do you take your act on the road?

[Sequoia]

10. Cheney did it. It was sabatoge all the way if you ask me.

Got my tin foil hat all shiny and new ya know!

[amborin]

19. if Obama were really angry, he'd put BP into trusteeship

[JTFrog]

21. "World Socialist Web Service can hardly be relied on for constructive criticism of a Democratic..."

As has been http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3631195&mesg_id=3632343">noted in the past, wsws is hardly a reliable source for constructive criticism where Dems are concerned.

Just sayin...

:shrug: