Quote: “We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership.” ~~ Barack Obama
Huffington Post- Hey, remember all that fuss about how Obama was bucking tradition by not wearing his suit jacket in the Oval Office? And how it was going to be much more casual in there? Well, there’s this other side to it: energy waste.
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Sure, but didn’t he spend some time in Chicago? And don’t they make their politicians go through some kind of rigorous acclimation training to get used to the cold?
Trivial? Maybe….maybe not.
Only if he tells me I should.
How about the second and more important part of my post?
You know the part that proves the point.
#121–rlf==your second part. Harping on “Is this change?” is pretty simple minded. Change can mean/not mean anything anyone wants. Hannity is still harping on it==pretty good evidence only an idiot would rely on that criticism.
But yes indeed, it is near impossible to find an honest man in Washington DC. What is Obama supposed to do??? There is an old expression for this that covers a lot: “Don’t make perfection the enemy of the good.”
If you needed brain surgery, who would you use:
A– Best Surgeon in the World. Miraculous technique, all good recoveries, but he cheats on his taxes.
B–Scrupulously Honest in all things. Takes the healthiest of low risk cases and still kills 50% of them.
I’d say our economy/healthcare needs expert surgery.
I would like perfection, but I do understand that it doesn’t exist here. I do want people who have not committed crimes though, I don’t think thats too much to ask for.
You listen to Hannity? I can’t stand him. He rarely puts forth fact which makes it hard to use his statements as a foundation for any conclusions.
It has to be said though that a fact is a fact no matter the source. Mussolini once said that part of governments responsibilities was to get the trains to run on time. I agree with that statement even though the man was a repugnant piece of filth.
What makes the 1 appointment soo hypocritical is that is treasury secretary and the IRS is run by his Dept. Not to mention the multi-TRILLION dollar bailout.
I just don’t know how you can call him anything but a hypocrite.
RLF–I get most of my hannity (the manatee) from Olbermann. He gets better all the time. Hannity does have on guests that disagree with him, some quite agressively unlike the co-conspirator Combs.
I just don’t know how you can call him anything but a hypocrite. /// Well, I think there has to be more an element of self-dealing or harm to other people before “acting inconsistently” arises to that moral judgment. Perhaps its realism? Perhaps we would all choose the good surgeon over the honest one but be hypocrites ourselves for not being honest about it?
# 123 RLF said, “I just don’t know how you can call him anything but a hypocrite.”
It’s the same phenomenon as with the Bush apologists. No matter what the action, they’ll make excuses…
No argument–Man is wanting.
We strive to put the best of us into such lofty positions. If these people were the very, very best for the jobs I would expect a non-hypocritical man to stand in front of the nation and tell us why. That is change–It does have meaning.
There are plenty of other equally qualified individuals who have not broken Laws from which to choose. But their reaction was typical knee-jerk circle the wagons and protect the politico.
He made us expect more, and if he does not like the chatter he should not have raised the expectations.
Obama could turn and be the worst hypocrite in 100 years and that would still be a beneficial change from BushtheRetard. The change we all voted for, no more McSame, is undeniable.
I think the stimulus package is not enough and misdirected and will fail and come to be seen as failed by the 2010 elections. I think the economy will be in bad shpae in 2012 and Obama will be a one term President unless we can get Palin to get nominated.
Sad, Obama could have been great if he didn’t have BushtheRetards mess to clean up.
But a hypocrite? No, not yet.
# 127 bobbo said, “Sad, Obama could have been great if he didn’t have BushtheRetards mess to clean up.”
And Bush coulda been great if he didn’t inherit a recession and terrorist sleeper cells from Clinton/Gore.
Riiiiight. ROFL