Updated cover of the day
No, Obama didn’t get the headlines he hoped for with his once a year press conference!
I had trouble today picking the cover of the day. Would it be The Express with “HIS MESS?.or NY Post: “Even Ovama’s daughter wants an answer
or the surprise hit from the cheerleader Daily News striving to keep up with the Post
.Although the worst headline of all comes from Rahm post surprisingly
OBAMA STRUGGLING TO SHOW HE’S IN CONTROL
.as oil-kill finally gets on most page ones. The Miami Herald writes of a karmic turn:
the currents may take the oil to Texas after all
.and sure enough there’s some coverage there now too
.In LA they hang on to the hope (so do I)
.Wall Street Journal continues the exposee on how the rig explosion came about
.And to top it all, USA Today, reminds us about our oldest war in history
.Updating with a few more covers. From Florida
.From Alabama
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.From Minnesotta
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21 comments
May 28, 2010 at 7:29 am
DYB
Isn’t Friday news-dump day?
May 28, 2010 at 7:51 am
edgeoforever
No, that would be Saturday. Maybe Friday late edition, but not morning. This is big news – and I didn’t post many other covers with “Worst disaster” on them.
May 28, 2010 at 7:59 am
DeniseVB
Obama’s being criticized for his response which he so richly deserves. Both parties have been sucking up to oil companies for years, unfortunately “worst disaster” happened on his watch.
I feel so bad for NOLA, those people were just getting back on their feet😦
Hillary was right, the Presidency isn’t for on-the-job training.
May 28, 2010 at 8:32 am
cj
Thanks for the headlines, at least the tabloids got it right. The O-pundits, on the other hand, want us to believe that his icky “plug the leak, Daddy” and trite “this is what I wake up to…” saved him.
Well, not all of them :chuckle:
The president said today his main focus is the oil spill: “My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands, this is what I wake to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about.”
Well, that is a pretty familiar line. Earlier this year the White House press secretary said President Obama: “Wakes up in the morning and he goes to bed at night thinking about how to make people’s lives better — how to create that environment for creating jobs…”
About national security, marking 9/11 last year, the president said: “My greatest responsibility is the security of the American people. It’s the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning. It’s the last thing I think about when I go to sleep at night.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593644,00.html
May 28, 2010 at 11:37 am
Pips
It sure is amazing how utterly different we (humans) perceive the same incidents – or people.
I was reading a pretty good – read: I agreed, heh – take on Obama’s presser from RCP. http://tinyurl.com/3x7tbbr
But then the author, makes me go “Wha’?” with this:
“I thought Obama’s strongest moments came at the end, when he related the story about Malia asking him if he’d plugged the hole and talking in personal terms about his upbringing in Hawaii where the ocean is considered sacred. That spontaneous riff, as well as his final authoritative words about being responsible for fixing the problem made the last five minutes of the press conference far stronger than the first forty.”
May 28, 2010 at 12:41 pm
cj
I don’t know how anybody could listen to that kind of drivel without spontaneously gagging.
And today he continues the drivel with his “I care” photo ops:
…”he is now LITERALLY picking up tar balls on the beach!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433×318508
me —> spontaneously gagging
May 28, 2010 at 10:50 am
Pips
For weeks scores of foreign nations have offered to help with the cleanup. Now, finally the EU’s offer is being accepted.
“A spokesman for the Commission said that the Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC) had reacted quickly to the call for aid, adding that Spain, the Netherlands and the European Maritime Safety Agency had already offered to help.”
http://tinyurl.com/32fxcqu
May 28, 2010 at 11:02 am
DeniseVB
Looks like Bill Clinton’s being thrown under the bus…..by “having an informal discussion with Sestak about withdrawing from the PA primary race”
News dump now breaking…….
May 28, 2010 at 11:22 am
cj
Why the hell is Bill doing the O’s dirty work in the first place? That’s what’s bugging me. For godssakes, the man waged a race war against him and systematically went to work destroying his legacy, so BC knows all about being thrown under the Obama bus.
I’ll wait to hear more about the story, but right now I’m not feeling much sympathy for Bill.
May 28, 2010 at 11:26 am
DeniseVB
What I’m having a problem with, this has been in the news off and on since Specter flipped Dem.
If it was not a big deal, informal and legal, why didn’t Bill speak up to nip it in the bud?
Politics as usual, and it would have been forgotten quickly.
May 28, 2010 at 11:43 am
Pips
And why would Sestak, who apparently is very close to both Clintons, even mention the incident, if the “offer” was made by Bill C.?
Doesn’t make sense.
But would have loved to be “a fly on the wall” at the Clinton-Obama lunch yesterday!
May 28, 2010 at 11:53 am
cj
Yes & yes to Pips too. Seems like there has to be more to this story than meets the eye. I just wish Hill & Bill would start distancing themselves from this WH; hate to see their reputations tarnished by associating with thugs.
May 28, 2010 at 12:07 pm
DeniseVB
Here’s the official WH memo:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/memorandum-white-house-counsel-regarding-review-discussions-relating-congressman-se
The spin from the right and left is out of control now….LOL.
May 28, 2010 at 12:25 pm
cj
Thanks Denise. So they want us to believe that they were enticing Sestak to drop out of the race for an unpaid position on a flunky advisory board?
They really do think we’re idiots. If it’s all so innocent, why didn’t Gibbs spit out that explanation out as soon as the issue come up?
May 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm
cj
Ok, major props to the admin @ Hillaryis44! I’m so impressed to see them take this stand. I know it hurts, but wrong is wrong no matter who does it, even people we admire. This is exactly what seperates us from the BOTs.
“Now Bill Clinton is involved in the slimy Obama potential felony. The White House puts Bill Clinton right into the center of this scandal – and it is now an official scandal – and our sympathy for Bill is limited.
Bill Clinton is about to find out that if you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton should have from the very start kept away from the Chicago corruption, even if Hillary decided to serve her country as Secretary of State. But keep away from the Chicago Corruption. For whatever reason Bill Clinton “did his duty” and helped out the White House. We have little sympathy for Bill here. Bill Clinton is about to find out that:
Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.”
Way to go!
May 28, 2010 at 6:38 pm
edgeoforever
I agree somewhat.
But I also think that this entire Sestak story is way less iportant that the “R”s try to make it be.
The spill is way bigger, but they don’t want to touch it.
May 28, 2010 at 7:57 pm
cj
Well the story the WH is pushing is pure BS, I don’t believe it for a second, but the fact that Rahm/Obama were trying to manipulate yet another primary pisses me off to no end. I’ve had enough of it from these thugs, and I hate to see BC used this way. From Caroline Kennedy to Blago, to Patterson and Sestak, (and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s just the tip of the iceberg?) do voters even have a real choice any more?
Personally, I think the official version was just made up yesterday. I don’t think Sestak was actually talking about his conversation with Bill when he made the accusation.
May 28, 2010 at 8:06 pm
insanelysane
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EXACTLY.
May 28, 2010 at 8:10 pm
insanelysane
Hummm, well, that didn’t work…
I meant to post a quote from cj above me…
about the exact cause for being pissed off.
“but the fact that Rahm/Obama were trying to manipulate yet another primary pisses me off to no end”
the manipulation of a primary and denying voters the choice.
Who do they think they are that can choose how we shall get to vote for…
Oh that’s right.. business as usual.
I’m pissed too.
May 29, 2010 at 6:05 am
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May 29, 2010 at 6:52 am
edgeoforever
Obviously, messing with primaries is how Obama came to power in the first place – in every election of his career.
Paterson has a few things to say about that too.