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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:26 PM Original message |
Presidential Double-Standards |
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SunsetDreams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm so tired of the double standards |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. In spite of warnings of BP violations, the Pres did nothing to prevent this disaster. |
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Gordan Shumway (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Do you have a source link that the President |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Everyone knew of the magnitude of BP's violations. And it was Salazar's business to know. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Really?? So, if EVERYBODY KNEW BP put profit over |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. If BP lies to regulators, it does not make it the regulators' fault. |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Oh! But SUPERMAN (Obama) SHOULD have known!! |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 06:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Where do you think the buck should stop? |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 07:07 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I hold Bush blameless for both of those things |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 07:54 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I wont go as far as blameless. If it happens on his watch and especially if he was |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:54 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Entirely different things |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:04 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. You always come up with such an intellegent discussion. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 06:14 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Your analogy doesnt fit. It appears that the regulators were in bed with BP. |
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Tarheel_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Link? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 06:31 AM Response to Reply #10 |
19. Google is your friend. Do you think the government doesnt share responsibility |
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Gordan Shumway (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. So is there a source link? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 06:35 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Of course. |
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Gordan Shumway (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Thanks for the link |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. They should have insisted on a recovery plan before drilling. They should have had inspections to |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 09:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. The Blame Obama first doesn't work. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 06:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Cheap shot. I dont blame Obama first. But I also dont ignore that the government |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 01:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Cheap shot..it's not as if the "Government did nothing". |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It's a cheap shot when you infer that I blame Obama first. I am a Democrat and supported Obama's |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 10:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Buh bye. |
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Vampire Knight (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
3. Ah, the double standard. |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. Their double-standards bite them ... |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
12. double standard= when Bush did it, dems protested; when Obama does it, it's our guy and it's ok |
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Gordan Shumway (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-25-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I see you read the bizarro version of the article. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 09:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. You really sound like a republican here |
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RBInMaine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
22. ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT ! Perhaps you naysayers would like Bush back. Where's your sanity? |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
26. It is the double-standard characteristic of Totalitarianism, our version: Inverted Totalitarianism |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
27. Absolutely there is a double standard.. K&R |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-26-10 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
33. I maintain that the double standards have to do with his race. If it were a women, say, Hillary, |
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