Why is it that you never see B.O. saluting our National Flag?

Every other President before him did, even Clinton, although his saluting was less than admirable...

USARMYPILOT (retarded).......Even if he doesn't salute the flag, what does it have to do with the BP oil spill? Civilians don't "salute" the flag military style anyway. They place their hands over the heart like Obama does!

I think it is clear that Obama has no respect for the flag of the United States. I believe that most Americans who voted for him are recognizing he is a fabrication of the liberal, left-wing media and has done little but weaken this country. I knew of him in college, where he did nothing memorable other than appear to be a radical, anti-establishment type, and am amazed that his past has been largely suppressed by the political PR machine. Isn't it funny that we have never seen his college transcript or other bonafide credentials, nor have we had unfiltered interviews of people who knew him at that time in his life?

And Momus2009, if you ever called a member of the US military retarded in front of me I would have you on the ground apologizing for your lack of respect. You apparently think that Obama is a civilian by your comment, and although I would agree that he has never served in uniform, as Commander-in-Chief he is no longer a civilian and is required by protocol to salute in either a military manner or by hand over heart.

LOL...USNAVYPILOT

The President IS a civilian, just ask George Washington! There's no misconstruing that FACT as much as you two want to try and do it! He is only REQUIRED to render honors by placing his hand over his heart. That's it, nothing more and nothing less. If he CHOOSES to render a military salute, it's completely up to him. President Obama's renders honors appropriately and if you two can't understand that, then that's your problem. It still hasn't a damn thing to do with the oil spill though!

BP needs tp step up tp c;ean energy! They fooled us with propoganda about clean eregy which was a token investment to lull uw into complacency

You're right Navy, OB does not care about our flag, country or the American people. Only the money that can be suck out of the tax payers. If you have ever noticed, on the news, he and his princess bride both salute using their left hand over the right side of their hearts. Now ALL AMERICANS

have hearts on the left to center. Just like tying military shoe strings. As for as the environmental impact in the Gulf. BP's hand are tied, OB is using this to push his CAP & TRADE thru. Stand by for GOV.

own gas stations in the USA.

Obviously Obama is Daniel in the Lion's Den: antichrist to the Palinites, forsaken by the liberals unwilling to give one step back.

BO was pressured into allowing offshore drilling by talking heads until the Deepwater horizon popped its top, and now Palin twitters about using Alaska to supply the world. She's lucky that the oil is on the north slope, far out of the eyes of the rest of the world.

"BO was pressured into allowing offshore drilling by talking heads..."

You CANNOT be serious! BO does what he does (each and every single thing he does) because he is a goddamned POLITICIAN! Nothing more, nothing less. Daniel in the Lion's Den? PUH-LEEZE!!!! That statement is blasphemous.

Obama, Obama, Obama! Find someone else to blame. Like the president REALLY made this happen, you moron! So let's say BUSH were still in office, or McCain for that matter. Would you still blame who's in office, or are you a Republican just pointing fingers like the rest of them do?

how could you say that obama is just man how could you expect him to fix the countrys worst oil sprill in the matter of months. two you must be a idiot beacause IRAK IS OVER ok its over so BUSH SUCKS Obama is gonna fix this @!$%#ty world cause were all killing ourselves and this world and if you honestly think that bush was a better president you have serious problemos

The Surge finished things in Iraq, that's why it is over. Thank Bush and McCain.

patriotgirl....i find it odd that u make a statement about something being blasphemous when not just a few words before you used the Lord's name in vain...which is also blasphemous.

alli - technically, I think they say that "god damn" is not actually blasphemous. Certain other usages are, but I read up on that recently and it seems like "oh my god" is blasphemous, but not calling on god to damn something.

Irrespective of that, you can suck my blasphemy, patriotgal. And point out that a politician actually bent to the political winds of oil drilling? That is what a politician does, after all. The far left wanted a leader, the far right wanted a puppet, but BO was a much better choice than the alternative. Definitely better than Bush/Cheney (and no, things aren't over in Iraq, the media has just decided to focus more on Afghanistan for the moment).

Obahma is someone who grew up surrounded by socialists and communists. Thiswas his upbringing THATS THE TRUTH what do you expect? You people voted him into office and now you have the change he promised. He will destroy our way of life and that is the change YOU voted in .. Thank you Democrats nice job. People say Bush was bad, O.K. Obama has spend more of the countrys money in his first year the Bush did in the entire eight years in office!!!! You got your change with Obama for sure, now God help us all. He doesn't believe in (the small guy's He is surrounding himself with socialists and communist in the white house This is the truth, do the research!

Obama's trying to clean up the mess Bush started

The oil spill in the Gulf is not Obama's fault. PERIOD! It's BP's fault. Is it up to the federal government to clean it up? Somewhat, but the bulk of the burden is on BP. To tell you the truth though, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida state governments should have had contingency plans in place for something like this. These people expect the federal government to come in and save their asses, but at the same time are screaming for smaller government? WTF????????

Obama's continue to cleaning up bush mess in America, give him a break

Do you know Obama is trying to stop federal funding to private schools. All so he can control ALL money,s. Huge parts of this economy are based on th private school sector. Why would he do this ?? CONTROL OF ALL AMERICANS and to create a giant slush fund for his special intrest company's that receive funding through this guy. We are so blind as a Nation the facts are horrified and not enough people care enough to just research this guy. when the banks crashed some blamed Bush. Did you know that Bill Clinton went to the banks before Bush was in office and asked them to loosen loan restrictions so everybody can get a bank loan on a house. This is why the banks made risky loans.

You are ill informed. Obama has not spent more than Bush in i year. Bush was secretive and bloodthirsty to the nth degree. Obama is a puppet-that is true, but at least he is a real man trying his best, not a puppet for his families aristocratic friends. Please, be patriotic and support America first not Republican agendas or Democratic ones.

Obama isn't a communist, that is just the political fear-mongering of the conservative media, and he definately isn't a fascist, since he hasn't executed the entire republican party or seized control of the media(despite said fear-mongering). He isn't a socialist either, though some of his proposed changes are socialist to a degree. For those who fear socialism, look up what it actually means. Socialism isn't anything bad, though like all ideologies if it is taken to the extreme than it becomes oppressive (capitalism does this too). Our military has some socialist policies, and so is public education. Like the roads we drive on or city bussing? DOT (Department of Transportation) is a socialist institution. The further socialist changes Obama wants to put in place aren't seizing power from the people, nor are they taking away options of the wealthier Americans. In truth, Obama's change is providing a safety net for the lowest of the low in terms of wealth, stopping them from living in the extreme poverty and squalor that would be expected in countries of the third world.

As for Iraq and Afghanistan, people keep saying to pull out, which is what Obama is trying to do. Unfortunately when we invaded, we destroyed the entire infrastructure of these countries and we cannot leave until they are stabilized enough to not be taken over by other groups with Anti-American interests. Iraq cannot be allowed to become West Iran, and the last thing we need is for Afghanistan to become Al-Queda's country.

If you want to tell people to do research, then use multiple sources yourself (and don't trust TV), just about every place to find the facts has bias so cross-referencing helps provide a better picture.

Scott, you are amazingly ignorant. First of all, Clinton simply modified an existing law to prevent discrimination in lending practices. If you actually did your research, you'd know that banks still weren't required more than 4% of their assets to low income households; they weren't required to approve people for amounts greater than their income could support, or give loans to people with poor credit; and you would also know that people who received loans under this program actually had a LOWER rate of default than the general public.

As far as your nonsense about private schools, I can only imagine that you mean Obama opposes school vouchers. So do a lot of the rest of us, actually. We believe that taxpayer funds should not be used to support private schools, but should instead be used for the public schools they are intended for. That is why they are called "public" schools. The argument that "My kids don't use the public school system, so why should my tax dollars be spent teaching other people's kids" is inherently flawed. I might as well argue that my tax dollars shouldn't be spent on fixing roads in another community where I don't drive, or that they shouldn't be spent on a new fighter plane since I don't get to fly it. Besides, if public schools were only supported by the taxes of the parents of children in those schools, it would amount to charging tuition, thus undermining the entire concept of public schooling. And lest you once again raise the selfish argument that you are not responsible for paying for educating other people's kids, it really is in your own best interest that all kids get an education. Education benefits everyone.

motorhead, you're one smart cookie there! I agree with everything you said in your post.

Scott.....If Obama is trying stop federal funding to "private" schools, I say GREAT! What the hell does that have to do with the BP oil spill though?

Was this a legitimate reply to the actual subject or just BS political rhetoric?

WHAT?? the bills were in circulation before 9/11 ???? tell me how to fold the bill??

wow... seriously?! You really think the gov't would plot to assassinate 1000's of it's own and demolish a landmark to it's power? Loose Change has been debunked before and the authors had to "edit" the video for a second release bc they didn't know what the heck they were talking about. Check out the History and Discovery Channels. They both debunk this conspiracy.

Judging by BP's response, I'm pretty sure they already see this disaster as just a game.

Yes but BP did not "manage risk" very well ahole. BP is a very evil company that has killed many workers due to their negligence and putting profits ahead of safety. If you can't see this please get your head out of your a*s!

David-423398,

Your points may all be very true, but if all you do is comment by cussing and name-calling, then people think that you're just one more "kook" to ignore!

What's with all the sensitivity to profane language in this country all of a sudden. If a good point is made by using profanity, it's still a good point!

David is just another internet "tough-guy". If he talked face to face like that, he would get the @!$%# slapped out of him.

Not even remotely similar. If Elvis had put out a board game warning about the dangers of doing drugs and dieing on a toilet then we would have a similarity.

You obviously did not read the article or you are not very bright. The game is not "Mocking BP" it was a game put out by BP 35 years ago and shows they knew about the dangers of oil drilling but still did not take the proper precautions because they care more about profits than safety.

Thanks David. I read the article and am not stupid. Other than the one statement about mocking BP, what else is inaccurate?

how can a game made 30 something years before this event happened be "mocking" it? There is nothing sad about this, nor was it supposed to be humorous. "What is truly sad is the way that ALL the major oil companies in the Gulf have made drilling off OUR coast and preserving OUR ecology a game" No, that's not sad at all. games about war are made.

"Not only did they make it a game on the grandest of all possible scales, they pulled their star players, used inexperienced hacks, cut corners, and never had any intentions of playing the game well." didnt realize playing a hypothetical game was a prerequsite to working at BP.

what is truely sad is someone getting all bent out of shape about a game that someone made about a event that no one even considered happening. By the same token, how dare movie producers make movies with terrorist hijacking planes in the plot lines. They must be cold callous bastards who obviously wanted 9/11 to happen.

but of course BP knew about the dangers, just as everyone knows there are dangers in flying. Making a game about it doesn't mean they didnt care about the safety of the job though.

You read a little too much Dan Brown chief. Conspiracy theorists crack me up!! Get a life

Brian, very insightful. It is about money and control and those who have it control the fates of all of us. Just like the 2007 mortgage crisis...simply engineered as means to an end. In my opinion, a new leader is about to emerge.

Greece fell because of entitlement/ socialist programs. Canada and England going next. USA current administration emulates liberal socialists. doesn't work...

Interesting how Brianisanidiot doesn't refute any of the "facts" that Brian brings up. Just dicounts them as "conspiracy theories".

I used parentheses around the word facts because I am going to go look up as much information as I can before I believe or discount the post.

Perhaps, Brian, you don't read enough. I don't know how I feel about so-called "conspiracy theories," but I am not going to stick my head in the sand, either. It becomes more obvious every day that this world is in the grasp of thuggish corporations. I'm also beyond just thinking "simple" greed drives those entities. Not to get too "biblical," but as I get older I become more and more convinced of the existence of evil as a palpable force in the world, and many of the largest corporations are evil.

Come on people! Let's open up our eyes to all the lies we've been told throughout the history of our country. Obama and every other president that has successfully run this country into the ground are just puppets for the Trilateral Commission that murdered JFK when he tried to warn us of these secret societies that exist in our world. The Illuminati, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Freemasons, Skull and Bones, Black Boule are a few that come to mind. Do your own research sheeple! We need to educate ourselves about the evil that exists because they have an alternate agenda. The New World Order is not a joke and they're loving it every time someone blows it off as so called "conspiracy theorists". Please don't take my word for it. Do the research and come to your own conclusion about the lies we've been told. Native Americans, 9/11, JFK's assassination, MLK's assassination, Princess Diana's assassination, HAARP and the list goes on and on. We need to get our nation back on course and it the only way it will happen is if we unite and become "One nation under GOD"

Greece didn't fail because of entitlement programs. That's like pointing to an individual cup of jet fuel and blaming that on the WTC collapse. Their economy failed because of their national debt, poor financial management practices (the same practices that caused our meltdown at a time when republicans were just chock full of blind confidence in the economy), poor national resources, and just plain bad economic practices which included massive borrowing to cover expeditures.

Bodine,

It's high time that evolution caught up with your family tree. You must be thrilled at the prospects of being able to have a cogent thought.

Bodine: Now THAT is funny. Too bad that not enough posters will know what you are talking about.

LEEROY JENKINS!!! I bet he could fix this.

Sarcasm only for Bodine's humor. I think this spill is a horrible tragedy

Bodine,

A cogent thought is one that can stand alone and be understood by those reading it. Your post fails this test epically...

Do you mean coherent thought?

Come on you guys. Stop argueing with each other and stop trying to belittle the other. Bodine was trying to get Disgusted to understand that he was using sarcasm. Disgusted, you are now trying to find a way to prove that you are more intelligent than Bodine and it is not working, you are coming off as an ass who is trying to hard. Bodine, I respect that you are trying to make sure it is known that you were being sarcastic, please don't retaliate to Disgusted's post. This will just go on forever and as humans I would hope you both are better than that.

Cogent is a synonym for valid. google it. Usage is correct.