Blow it Up
Rob Long ·
Jul 2, 2010 at 6:59am
Bill Clinton -- remember him? Admit it: you miss him -- has weighed in on the BP oil well leak. At a CNN-sponsored forum he declared:
Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary - you don't have to use a nuclear weapon by the way, I've seen all that stuff, just blow it up - unless we're going to do that, we are dependent on the technical expertise of these people from BP...
The whole video is here. It's worth watching. There's something....comforting....about him.
It's amazing how much better he seems, now that we know that so much worse is possible.
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May '10
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And his area of expertise is....?
Jun '10
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There is an outside chance that the two relief wells won't work to relieve the pressure. If nothing else is working, they may have to rearrange some rocks, using chemistry.
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That's the thing about Bill. He really made no pretensions to any area of expertise. HillaryCare was about as divorced from the ideology of expertise as any gigantic government program we've seen. Yet I hesitate to make any deep comparisons between Obama and Clinton until another round of scorching, epochal midterms. The Bill we wound up with was not the Bill we voted in. Maybe the same will happen with Obama.
May '10
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Meanwhile, read this piece by Forest Gump author Winston Groom. My blood is boiling hotter and hotter as I read this stuff. What in the h@#!!#@&*#! is government good for, anyway, other than buying power using other peoples' money?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/oil-messed
May '10
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Bill was a governor and so understood where jobs come from. He was never anti-business in the way the current administration is. How could he be coming from Arkansas?
But what I'd like to know is what do all the die-hard Hillary supporters think about our President? Have they fully ingested the Kool-aid, or do they also have a voice in the back of their heads saying, ""If only..."
I wish some pollster, or someone in the media would research and write that story. After all Obama won big in November, but it was more of a squeaker in June...
May '10
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Obama:
Making Clinton look honest
Making Carter look competent
Making Bush look like a genius
May '10
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Nick Stuart: Obama:
Making Clinton look honest
Making Carter look competent
Making Bush look like a genius · Jul 2 at 10:28am
And to Long's point from earlier Podcast: Making McGovern Look Reincarnated.
May '10
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James Poulos, Ed.
Yet I hesitate to make any deep comparisons between Obama and Clinton until another round of scorching, epochal midterms. The Bill we wound up with was not the Bill we voted in. Maybe the same will happen with Obama. · Jul 2 at 8:05am
That is so ridiculously true. Bill found the moderate path when he realized that his presidency was in trouble and that he didn't have quite the mandate for change that he imagined.
Thing about Obama is that he isn't showing quite that same self-awareness yet. I'm convinced that Clinton was always more interested in political survival than he was in political activism. I'm not sure the same holds true with Obama.
But you're right: his reaction and the changes that he makes after the midterms will define whether he's a second Carter or a second Clinton. Right now my money is on Carter--and his incompetence leads me to believe that he might well be at a sort of tipping point in his presidency where recovery might be impossible.
Letting the gulf baste in oil will be hard for people to forget.