Obama’s BP speech: a crisis is a terrible thing to waste

After waking up from a short nap I flicked on the TV and thought I was still asleep and in the middle of a horrible nightmare. Every channel I turned to I saw an angry looking Barack Hussein Obama sternly lecturing me. After a minute or so I realized that I was unfortunately awake, and that my visions of Obama were in fact all too real. Our great leader was making a very rare address from the Oval Office regarding the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast. After a mere 57 days Obama finally decided to address the issue. That’s OK, I know he was busy vacationing, golfing, and playing basketball for the past month or so. Being president can be a stressful job particularly when your approval ratings are dropping faster than whale crap in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In reality, I think that Obama knows exactly what he’s doing. When this oil spill began 57 days ago I immediately thought that he was secretly cheering this disaster. I knew that he would use this incident to bash big oil, ban offshore drilling, and to concoct radical environmental and energy policies. After all, both his Chief of Staff (Rahm Emanuel) and his Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) are on the record in their belief that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”

Obama in very unfamiliar territory - behind his desk in the Oval Office

There was nothing new about Obama’s address other than that he actually stayed in the White House for once and saved the taxpayers a million bucks or so. Otherwise, Obama did what he does best. He blamed everyone but himself, he made threats, and he held himself up as morally superior to everyone and anyone. He also used this opportunity to propose radical energy and environmental initiatives.

I really don’t know what the Administration could have done to help stop this oil leak, but I truly believe that if Obama had a secret weapon that would plug the leak he wouldn’t use it until it politically suited him. To radicals like him the ends always justify the means. If it takes a couple of billion gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico destroying millions of small businesses to finally put an end to oil drilling once and for all, so be it!

Obama clearly sees the writing on the wall. He knows what will happen to his congressional majorities this November, and he probably also knows that his chances of reelection in 2012 are not much higher than the chance of Joran Vander Sloot winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I believe that he’ll try to ram through as much radical legislation as he can while he still can. He would love to leave us with economic crushing energy legislation and some sort of Cap & Trade, or carbon tax.

Seeing this disgraceful president speaking from the Oval Office tonight reminded me for the 18,653^rd time of the colossal blunder that the people of this country made in November of 2008. It also reminded me of the pathetically irresponsible mainstream media and their unholy alliance with this president and his radicalism. It’s not enough that we take back the congress and the White House in 2010 and 2012; we have to be ever vigilant that this type of person never gets to be in this position of power ever again.