Obama Can’t Be Bothered To Speak To BP CEO
Via Allahpundit at Hot Air, Matt Lauer interviews Barack Obama and is understandably incredulous when Obama reveals he hasn’t spoken to BP CEO Tony Hayward. There is so much wrong with this I hardly know where to begin:
I have not spoken to him directly and here is the reason. Because my experience is when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.
So Obama’s experience when speaking to business leaders is that they misrepresent facts? And these leaders have been so consistently duplicitous, in Obama’s experience, that he doesn’t feel the least bit curious what the CEO of one of the world’s largest energy companies—and a company responsible for the worst environmental catastrophe in American history—might have to say? No interest whatsoever?
Moments later, when Lauer asks the president if he’d fire Tony Hayward, Obama replies that “he wouldn’t be working for” him– despite never having spoken to him.
If Hayward’s reaction to the spill is so patently horrible that it merits his firing without so much as a conversation, then why the hell is Obama still permitting him to lead the efforts to fix this mess?
Maybe Obama believes that chief executives are just impotent figureheads. He certainly seems to have embraced that role for himself.
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UPDATE: MikeM adds,
For someone so “cool, calm and collected” he’s really a rhetorically careless fucktard.
UPDATE: Touched By Fire has more.
I think this exchange does a lot to wipe away the guise that Obama has any idea what he’s doing. And it’s genuinely kind of frightening.
Why is anyone suprised? This is a man who boasted that the seven months he worked in the private sector he felt like "a spy behind enemy lines."
All of this – every single last bit of it, was predictable and was in fact predicted by many people, including me.
But you folks aint seen nothing yet. We now have Turkey, a NATO memember, threatening an act of war on Israel. The president of our largest ally in South America, Brazil, is now literally holding hands in a photo op with Ahmadinejad. PM of Britain has to buttonhole the President in the Kitchen. The Dali Lama has to leave the White House through the backdoor by the trash cans. Poland and Czech republic are cut adrift against Russia. And on and on…
So sit back, grab a big bucket of popcorn, and watch the fireworks and this freak destroys the whole global order. If you are lucky, less than a million will be killed before this guy is out of office.
Michael Bradley
8 Jun 10 at 2:09 pm
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