Even MSNBC Thought Obama's Speech Stunk

[red states rule]

You know Obama is sinking fast when the Obama worshipers at MSNBC say Obama gave a lousy speech

No specifics, it is all about me, and Cap and Trade will solve all our problems

Even Keith Overbite said the speech was bad. Chris Matthews tried his best to put liberal spin on the speech



http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/15/msnbc_trashes_obamas_address_compared_to_carter_i_ dont_sense_executive_command.html

[red states rule]

No surprise that MSNBC host Sgt Schultz remains loyal


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[DragonStryk72]

No surprise that MSNBC host Sgt Schultz remains loyal


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Actually, he seems to be agreeing with the main observation of the other panel, that Obama is not showing any leader, no ability to say, "This is what we're going to do, and this is how we're going to do it."

[Insein]

Ed did sound critical in his own inept way. He seemed to be secretly wishing for Obama to become a dictator.

[namvet]

did Hell just freeze over ????

[HogTrash]

The hole gushing the most polution is not in the Gulf of Mexico, it's on Obama's face.

This mouth is the hole we need to cap!

[red states rule]

In the world of Obama and liberals, you must never allow a crisis to go to waste and not raise taxes

[avatar4321]

Ed did sound critical in his own inept way. He seemed to be secretly wishing for Obama to become a dictator.

Actually, he was quite open with the fact that he wanted Obama to be a dictator. Nothing secret about it.

[red states rule]

Actually, he was quite open with the fact that he wanted Obama to be a dictator. Nothing secret about it.

It is fun to watch libs eat their own

I suspect they are pissed Obama was not liberal enough. They wanted him to push harder for Cap and Trade, list new taxes on energy, and demand more government regulation

What else do you expect from the manchild President?

[DragonStryk72]

I don't think it's so much much dictator as it is that they want to see him be a leader, something he has failed miserably at so far, badly enough that he is losing his own side, and that really will cost in '12.

[avatar4321]

I don't think it's so much much dictator as it is that they want to see him be a leader, something he has failed miserably at so far, badly enough that he is losing his own side, and that really will cost in '12.

He isn't a leader. He never has been.

[red states rule]

Well ABC thoiught is was great and waved the pom poms for the Chosen One

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[red states rule]

One liberal is pissed Obama did nto raie taxes and "punish" those who drve SUV's

People like business owners, parents with large families, or those who like the safety of SUV's





Obama Chickens Out on Energy


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In his address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night, President Obama eloquently laid out the case that we have failed to confront our dependence on fossil fuels, and that now is the time for us to do so. Obama acknowledged that our failure to do this so far has been caused not just by obeisance to entrenched interests, but also by "a lack of political courage and candor."

But he failed to use this opportunity to marshal public support for a logical, tangible goal that would reduce our destructive consumption of oil and coal. As Obama noted, he campaigned on, and the House of Representatives passed, a bill that would finally put a cap on U.S. carbon emissions. So you would think that Obama must surely have gone on to note that the bill is now stuck in the Senate, where it has not gained the supermajority needed by the extraconstitutional requirement that is enforced in this Congress by Republicans and conservative Democrats. You would be wrong.


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The idea that we can solve this problem of our massive, inefficient energy use through investing more in R&D is ridiculous. We need to start bringing down our emissions immediately, before Manhattan finds itself under water. Spending more money on research into technologies that may or may not be more efficient, and may or may not be economically viable 10 years from now, is insufficient.

There are plenty of technologies, such as driving smaller cars, or hybrids, or taking buses, or living in smaller houses, that do not need to be researched and developed; they just need to be chosen. And they will be chosen if we make indulging in SUVs and McMansions prohibitively expensive, to reflect the social cost of global warming, and the cost of disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion that forced Obama to make this address in the first place.

Obama should know all this, and his decision to pretend otherwise reeks of the same lack of courage and candor he had just lambasted unnamed predecessors for. Tossing out the pain-free idea that we can invest our way out of this problem is politically convenient, but it is not realistic.

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/06/15/obama-chickens-out-on-energy.html