Live from the Oval Office!

Tonight the Campaigner-In-Chief is going to tell us whose ass he kicked, and we're all supposed to understand that he's been involved in the cleanup effort since before he was born, or before oil was first discovered, or before the Big Bang, and that he definitely did not waste a single moment since the spill thinking about anything else like his golf game or Barbara Boxer fundraisers or which third-world dictator to support over our historical allies. If he mentions tonight how he had to stand near some rain when he was chatting it up with local folk I'm gonna puke.

Gibbsy was on NPR this morning claiming the United States has legal authority to take $20 Billion from a foreign-based public corporation which employees thousands of workers in this country and directly affects tens of thousands more and redistribute it as they see fit to anyone impacted financially by the spill. On the face of it this action usurps due process and the legal system in total. This from the administration that wants to give enemy combatants a "fair trial" in US courts. It's pretty obvious whose side Bara Bama is on, and its likely this thing is going to get ugly in the courts when BP decides to start disputing bogus claims.

The underlying message is, "Don't blame Obama." While I could have supported this (and did) during the first few weeks after the spill, Bama's actions since he decided to finally get involved have been devastating. He's been everything but a leader, deflecting blame by way of his incest partners in the media to anyone else, including President Bush. He might have blamed God except he thinks he is the second coming. I'm sure it was difficult for him yesterday to have to admit he could not personally "Dive to the bottom of the ocean and plug the leak with (his) finger or suck up all the oil with a straw." If I was sitting next to him at that point I would have tore him a new one. He has threatened indiscriminately and been visibly annoyed with the concerns of everyday people. And he has actively divided, pitting environmentalists against oil workers against fishermen against British Petroleum against the whole of the American people against everyone else on the planet. Good job, prick.

The thing to remember tonight is that Barack Obama is a brazen liar. From the first time he sat on Leno's couch he has been dishonest about who he is, what he believes, and how he intends to get things done. Thus far the "Free Press" has maintained its complicity in this scam perpetrated against every US citizen, but as the barrel count rises that bond will show its cracks and start to leak. Maybe he'll be able to plug it with his finger, maybe not. November will tell us how much of this barrel of hope and change we are able to swallow.