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kane · 06-06-2010, 02:52 AM

Somehow I have a feeling that Obama is going to spin this into his favor.

Realistically there isn't much more he could do than he has already done short of activating the national guard or military to help with the clean up. All the clean up in the world isn't going to help much until they plug the freaking hole and unless Obama is actually Aquaman that doesn't look like it is going to happen too soon.

My thought is that once the hole is plugged and the real cleanup begins Obama will spin this to make it all about the anti-climate change pro drill baby drill republicans. He will shoulder some of the blame, but he will also claim he was lied to and misled by them and he will act out against them to make it look like he is angry with them.

The guy is pretty slick. I won't shocked if a year from now he has sidestepped it all and actually somehow made himself look pretty good in this whole mess.

To me, he has a much larger danger to his political life on the horizon called immigration. Once Arizona starts enforcing its law you will see other states starting to pass laws like it. He is going to be forced to act fast and get some kind of federal immigration reform done otherwise he is going to come off looking very soft on immigration. The last I read about 50% of the country supports an immigration law like the one Arizona has passed. If the law starts getting enforced and there are no problems with it and he still waits until a dozen red states have similar laws then tries to make a federal law that is not as tough, it is not going to be good for him.

06-06-2010, 02:52 AM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Somehow I have a feeling that Obama is going to spin this into his favor. Realistically there isn't much more he could do than he has already done short of activating the national guard or military to help with the clean up. All the clean up in the world isn't going to help much until they plug the freaking hole and unless Obama is actually Aquaman that doesn't look like it is going to happen too soon. My thought is that once the hole is plugged and the real cleanup begins Obama will spin this to make it all about the anti-climate change pro drill baby drill republicans. He will shoulder some of the blame, but he will also claim he was lied to and misled by them and he will act out against them to make it look like he is angry with them. The guy is pretty slick. I won't shocked if a year from now he has sidestepped it all and actually somehow made himself look pretty good in this whole mess. To me, he has a much larger danger to his political life on the horizon called immigration. Once Arizona starts enforcing its law you will see other states starting to pass laws like it. He is going to be forced to act fast and get some kind of federal immigration reform done otherwise he is going to come off looking very soft on immigration. The last I read about 50% of the country supports an immigration law like the one Arizona has passed. If the law starts getting enforced and there are no problems with it and he still waits until a dozen red states have similar laws then tries to make a federal law that is not as tough, it is not going to be good for him.