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YankeeFan · Nov 10, 2010

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality...

(APPLAUSE)

... and lower its costs.

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.

All this we can do. All this we will do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html
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-- Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, January 2009

NoOneLikesUs · Nov 10, 2010

I don't see where instituting a moratorium on drilling was irresponsible. Now, changing facts in a report is a bit troubling, but it's clear that a vast swath of those in the oil and gas industries (or even closely related to it) are bent. To me, the Fred H. Bartlit Jr. findings make no sense either. Especially when Rolling Stone laid it all out back in June.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

Bubbler · Nov 10, 2010

I agree on the moratorium. Remember, there were fears that the ocean floor itself was damaged.

However, changing facts in the report is VERY troubling ... and I've always been in Obama's corner on most issues. His administration's handling of the BP crisis was/is shameful.

YankeeFan · Nov 12, 2010

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal uses a new book to portray President Obama as disconnected from the Gulf oil spill, charging that he was more focused on the political aftermath than the actual impact of the crisis.

Jindal recounts a pair of private conversations with the president which paint him as consumed with how his actions were being perceived.

On Obama’s first trip to Louisiana following the disaster, the governor describes how the president took him aside on the tarmac after arriving to complain about a letter that Jindal had sent to the administration requesting authorization for food stamps for those who had lost their jobs because of the spill.

As Jindal describes it, the letter was entirely routine yet Obama was angry and concerned about looking bad.

"Careful," he quotes the president as warning him, "this is going to get bad for everyone."

Nearby on the tarmac, Jindal recalls, then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was chewing out his own chief of staff, Timmy Teepell.

“If you have a problem pick up the f-n’ phone,” Jindal quotes Emanuel telling Teepell.

The governor asserts that the White House had tipped off reporters to watch the exchange on the New Orleans tarmac that Sunday in May and deemed it a “press stunt” that symbolized what’s wrong with Washington.

“Political posturing becomes more important than reality,” he writes.

And after Obama instituted a moratorium on off-shore drilling, Jindal recounts that the president dismissed his concerns about the economic impact of the ban.

“I understand you need to say all of this, I know you need to say this, that you are facing political pressure,” Jindal quotes Obama telling him. When the governor said his concerns owed to people losing their jobs, he said the president cited national polls showing that people supported the ban.

“The human element seemed invisible to the White House,” he writes.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45021.html
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