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How many Obama Bashers have bothered to learn the facts about suspension of the Jones Act and the BP Oil Spill?

All the noise about whipped up by Fox News about Obama refusing to suspend the Jones Act to aid the BP Oil Spill is just that, a lot of meaningless noise.

As usual, many have taken the Fox line, hook line and sinker, without bothering to get the real facts.

There are foreign vessels operating now. No suspension of the Jones Act is needed and those who think there is are simply misinformed.

Rather than bore you with the real story, you can go to FactCheck.org who has nicely debunked this nonsense.

But a funny thing about FactCheck.org During the 2000 and 2004 elections, I was bombarded with phone calls from Republican leaning friends. Call after call was to debunk something about Gore or Kerry based on information from the site.

But when FactCheck.org disagrees with the spoon fed Fox News account, Republicans say that the site is a Liberal leaning outlet. Go figure. They like the site when it agrees with them but condemn it when they disagree. Typical Republican stuff.

If you really want to know the truth, visit the site. But let me warn you, Palin fans are not going to like what they see.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    According to FactCheck, there are different excuses for turning ships away.

    Unfortunately, excuses don't soak up oil.

    The Democrats in control, who have no problem funding things like turtle hatcheries, expanded college faculty lounges and a supersize private jet for Nancy Pelosi, suddenly find themselves with shallow pockets when it comes to paying a foreign ships to clean up a mess which affects people along the coast.

    NOW they decide to be fiscal conservatives.

    You're saying that this new batch of excuses prove there was no political motivation for the delays?

    Can the Obama administration TRULY say they are doing everything they can?

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I think Spike Lee said he needed to get mad. He could be acting like a dope following Spike's advice. What I find unconscionable is that from day one he should have had the national guard out with tankers sucking up the oil and buoys being place far from shores to keep the oil out of the eco systems and out in the ocean. Allow BP to do their professional job of stopping the leak rather than threatening them with law suits. He wouldn't even give the States permission to put out buoys saying Oh No this is BP's problem. I say Mr. President it is now your problem for not acting in response to the needs of the people along the Gulf Coast. Our President will not meet with the CEO of BP. What's up with that?? Obama has NO experience running anything. He has thrown just about all out allies under the bus. Yes, the environmentalists are to blame. They are the ones that want oil but they do not want to see the rigs so it has forced the oil companies to go so far out that it makes it much more dangerous to drill.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well, first of all, FactCheck.org is run by a flaming, biased liberal who has no problem with bending the facts. Check his CV.

    Second, Obama did in fact decline to make use of a number of vessels flagged by other countries who would have made a significan difference in the current mess if they had been allowed to assist early on.

  • ak6702
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Kinda funny how you still refuse to believe that Obama has no real clue.

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  • Tania
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    do they bother to learn anything? they think they know everything already and learning is unnecessary. also, teachers are supposedly far to liberal for them, so they don't understand anything anyway and gave up a long time ago.

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  • Because they would rather let Limbaugh and Beck tell them what to think.

    They want to believe it. And, when people want to believe something, they stop thinking objectively.

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