Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with Big Oil

[NJmaverick]

Right-wing darling Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of being lax in his response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and suggested this was because he is too close to Big Oil.


The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and Big Oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.

"I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there's any connection with the contributions made to president Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration," she told Fox News Sunday.

More than 3.5 million dollars has been given to candidates by BP over the last 20 years, with the largest single donation, 77,051 dollars, going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Palin suggested this close relationship explained why Obama was, "taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/05/palin_accuses_obama_of_being_in_bed_with_big_oil.php?ref=fpb

[saltpoint]

1. A Great Dane walks down the sidewalk and from her front porch a

chihuahua yips.

[Bitwit1234]

2. How could he be?

with all those republicans and Her taking the lion share or the bed there isn't any room for a little old Democratic person.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Wow.

This woman is severely detached from reality. I used to think she was just dumb. Now I think she might actually be rather mentally ill, and I say that with all seriousness and respect for what it means to have a mental illness.

[lunatica]

4. Does she want him to 'dive in there' and stop the leak himself?

It sounds like it 'doggone it'.

I'm sure she knows what she's talking about. As usual. She must have read it in one of those many newspapers she reads.

[Berry Cool]

10. Well, you know he's all black and everything already.

so she probably figures, what harm can it do to him? He should sacrifice himself for the good of all!

[uponit7771]

5. Yeap, Palin and handful of DUrs from what I've seen

[NJmaverick]

6. The similarities are as striking as they are telling

[CakeGrrl]

11. I'd say a little more than a handful. n/t

[stray cat]

7. Palin must frequrent DU?

[mkultra]

8. Amazing how She and some DUers totally agree

PUMA's ?

[kestrel91316]

9. Miss "Drill, Baby, Drill" said that??? Who writes her lines?

[Jennicut]

12. Mrs. I sleep with big oil every minute of my life is accusing Obama of the same thing?

Pot calling the kettle black, honey.

[NJmaverick]

13. That would be oil black

[azmouse]

14. Another case of Republican projection.

[Cha]

15. "Well, let's look at campaign contributions from the entire OIL industry..

then"..by Bob Cesca

"Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, the shrill voice of Drill Baby Drill tried to accuse President Obama of being too "doggone" cozy with the oil industry, citing BP's contributions to the Obama campaign.

Well, okay. Let's look at campaign contributions from the entire oil industry, then.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023945.php

During the 2008 election cycle, 77% of the industry's $35.6 million in contributions went to Republicans, and in the 2008 presidential contest, Republican candidate Sen. John McCain received more than twice as much money from the oil and gas industries as Obama: McCain collected $2.4 million; Obama, $898,000."

http://www.bobcesca.com/

[Jakes Progress]

16. This from an oil covered petro-whore.