Crying Laughable

When I saw this I had to laugh.President Barack Obama is telling high school graduates in Michigan not to make excuses, and to take responsibility for failures as well as successes.
In excerpts of remarks to be delivered Monday evening at Kalamazoo Central High School, Obama said that it’s easy to blame others when problems arise. “We see it every day out in Washington, with folks calling each other names and making all sorts of accusations on TV,” the president said.

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He said the high school kids can and have done better than that.
“You could have made excuses—our kids have fewer advantages, our schools have fewer resources, so how can we compete? You could have spent years pointing fingers—blaming parents, blaming teachers, blaming the principal or the superintendent or the government,” the president said.
“But instead, you came together. You were honest with yourselves about where you were falling short. And you resolved to do better.” (AP)

He can’t, but you should.
I guess that was Bush’s fault too!
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One of Obama’s thug unions the SEIU (Government Service union) boycotting Arizona has come out with a parody hotline issuing a travel warning for those visiting Arizona.
The official web site of Service Employees International Union states that “If you plan to visit Arizona this summer, please call our travel advisory hotline first to understand the implications of Arizona’s newest law that allows police to use “reasonable suspicion” to detain anyone they believe may not be an American citizen.”
Interesting point – the hotline message is only in English, not Spanish.
From the SEIU website:
Sign the Boycott Intolerance pledge:
I pledge to stand up against Arizona’s new immigration legislation, SB 1070, and boycott intolerance in Arizona until this radical and unjust law is repealed, overturned by the courts, and/or superseded by comprehensive federal immigration.
The SEIU is the Leftist mob thugs that showed up at a Bank of America CEO’s home en masse to terrorize his family earlier this year, and have been caught beating up people and rioting at Tea Party events in 2009.
Nice People.
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Prince William County, VA General order 45.01: Illegal Immigration
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:X-FGbhjJjBwJ:www.co.prince-william.va.us/docLibrary/PDF/008333.pdf+prince+william+county+general+order+45.01&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShkyLUzWwwAFYM4-QiA25bM0AYsynV_xJY47G2I7JYikhcb1v3QVj1ocmHhgu6qHzcMHGBM8iKpsKmmYvpXxPCO46eJ3gHM4txjWxVhVgX9nUvYU7pzJntsmGW8thg8V7l2z9qm&sig=AHIEtbSZryR_lfdkbuGIFXR_sw2QzrzwTQ
Sounds familiar somehow…
So are they the next boycott victim? Or will the Liberal media ignore it?
Any bets?
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After spending several weeks expressing disdain for pundits’ calls for President Obama to show more emotion and outrage about the environmental disaster in the Gulf — White House officials called it “method acting” and “theatrics” — President Obama showed some anger in an interview to air on NBC tomorrow morning.(ABC)
“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”– President Obama
Yeah, he’s President Badass! He’s Mad! He’s not going to take it anymore!
So when is my next golf vacation and concert!?
“I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf,” he told Lauer. “A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”
Love the elegance of that last phrase.
And when Obama tried to replay his pre-tested soundbite answer that he wasn’t elected to “vent,” but rather to “solve problems,” Lauer expertly led him down the BP path with quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward.
“But to solve the problem you need to have a reliable partner,” Lauer began. “Let me read you some of things that Mr. Hayward has said over the course of this disaster. He said, ‘The Gulf of Mexico is a big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water value;’ – somewhat obvious – ‘the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very very modest.’ And then he said, ‘no one wants to end more than I do, I want my life back, family members of those 11 people who died on the rig, and people’s whose lives are going to be changed for years want their lives back too.’ He doesn’t work for you but if he did, would you want him out?
“He wouldn’t be working for me after any of those statements,” Obama said.
And yet, Obama is still working with Hayward, and for several weeks, was deferring excessively while we now know BP kept crucial facts about the spill from Americans.
President Barack Obama is telling high school graduates in Michigan not to make excuses, and to take responsibility for failures as well as successes.
I guess he hopes they are better at it than he is.
He’s only The President of The United States, after all… no one really important or “in charge”.