Who would have been the best president to handle the oil spill crisis?
Whatever else you may think of her, I think the answer has to be “Sarah Palin.” She’s got the experience dealing with the oil companies, and the requisite gumption to do so.
And, if they were being honest, the left would have to give the same answer: Sarah Palin. And that fact must enrage them no end.
Sarah Palin would be a great President. Perhaps, if we had a Vice President with some real world experience…maybe as CEO of an oil services company, say Halliburiton?
Heh. I already said that on another thread. 🙂
Palin certainly would have been more responsive to Jindal’s pleas for containment help to local governments.
I said that too. 8)
http://neoneocon.com/2010/06/11/the-sarah-palin-tata-brouhaha/#comment-165166
What would Palin do if Obama, in a spirit of “bipartisanship”, offered to appoint her as Cleanup Czar for the duration of the emergency?
What would Obama do if Palin, in a spirit of “bipartisanship”, offered to serve as Cleanup Czar for the duration of the emergency?
Neo, you make a good case for Palin as does the post you link. (As a disenchanted former Palin supporter, I must say that her overreaching and self-aggrandizement come through loud and clear to me. Nevertheless, she makes strong points.)
Still, for this particular crisis I’d lean toward Mitt Romney.
Romney grew up among movers and shakers and presumably knows how power works and things get done. He is a successful entrepreneur and CEO in his own right. He rescued the Winter Olympic Games from meltdown. He steered MA through the fiscal crisis of the 2002 recession. He can plausibly claim to be a proven crisis manager.
Overall I am not a Mitt supporter, but for this particular situation he could be just the ticket.
“And, if they were being honest, the left would have to give the same answer: Sarah Palin. And that fact must enrage them no end.”
Disagree. “[I]f they were being honest . . . .” Many of us have a blind spot when it comes to being honest with ourselves, lefties (very much) included.
On top of that, many lefties have shown themselves to have little regard for what the rest of us call, a tad quaintly, truth. What counts for those left-leaning folks in a circumstance is not truth, but whatever “fact” (not) the ideology demands for the moment. And they can no longer be honest even with themselves about it, so besotted are they with the Alinskine kool-aid.
The logical conclusion of Romneycare:
http://market-ticker.org/archives/2391-Stasi-Style-Doctors-On-The-Way.html
A true leader in the White House would not balk at asking those whom he may have political differences with to step up and help their fellow countrymen in the midst of a significant national crisis.
As it so happens, both Palin and Romney would bring significant skills to bear in helping solve this crisis. They would not be alone, of course. There would have to be others that the president would need to call upon from both the public and private sector to help.
A true leader would not be bothered by what party or ideology a person subscribed to when something has gone terribly wrong.
What we have witnessed, unfortunately, is a display of leadership worthy of Homer J. Simpson. Obama is not a leader in any way shape or form.
Having said that, I continue to be impressed with how Sarah Palin is building her case for a 2012 presidential run. Her facebook page is required reading.
This post is a capsule of why I check in every day. Short, to the point and excellent on sooooo many levels. Palin would no doubt be right on top of it but if I may, I think that the “other” Bush (that would be Jeb Bush) would have been right up there had his career not been short circuited by his father and brother. As a Floridian I was very impresses at how he handled the battering from all the hurricanes during his administration as governor. Lots of hits but a no muss no fuss response on his part. I hope he gets a realistic shot at the white house someday but the calendar is stacked against him
Sarah Palin would be the most effective person to handle the Oil Spill as Vice-President, not President.
The President would appoint her to handle the crisis thereby delegating to her all the authority of the Office of the President. She would be able to devote all of her time to the matter, leaving the duties of Chief of State and Chief of Government to the President. She would not have to attend fund-raisers, photo ops, state visits, making threats, or the other many and varied distractions that would distract the POTUS. She would have been able to ask Dick Cheney to advise and help coordinate from the West Wing.
After her experiences as an Alaskan during the Exxon Valdez spill, clean-up, and recovery, she would have taken this matter seriously from the first she learned of the leak.
Considering the probable responses and actions of a Vice-President Sarah Palin, is it any wonder that our current Vice-President is keeping a very low profile — probably in an undisclosed location? Could it be that the President has learned to keep the Vice-President away from any decision making authority?
Please, sir, for the sake of the Gulf residents, reach out to experts who have experience holding oil companies accountable. . . They can help you. Give them a call. Or, what the heck, give me a call.
– Sarah Palin
One word of caution to President Obama: When you call, watch your manners or Todd will kick your ass!
LOL what a great post! Yes indeed, the idea of President Palin deftly handling the situation would send them into paroxysms of rage.
Obama ask Palin for help, the narcissist would sooner kill off the population of the world than ask Palin for a thing. Remember he is the super intelligent being who rescued us from the Bimbo Palin.
Tatyana, honesty now, doesn’t this make you believe in a just interventionist G-d, or at least mischievous spirits. Or perhaps the celestial entity of irony showing its power over the universe? Whatever the truth can anyone think of another crisis that would benefit Sarah Palin more while at the same time more discrediting to the anointed one?
The gods have voted early. I wonder what message they will send us next? The Eskimos getting the bomb?
Let’s give Palin a team that includes Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Obama is taken by this team of rivals thing, but he never noticed that you have to get them working toward the same goal.
Palin. It’s a no brainer.
The manager at an average Dairy Queen would do better than Obama. At least they’ve dealt with spills.
Probably not Millard Fillmore.
What if there were no hypothetical questions? 😉
Well put, Bob!
Jews, of course, have long known that God has a sense of humor… and a sense of irony as well, and is not shy about using either one.
But it never occurred to me until you mentioned it — what are the chances that, having failed to elect McCain/Palin, America would face a crisis tailor-made for them to solve better than Obama/Biden?
(The cynic in me wants to say “100%”…)
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
No matter what I think of Sarah Palin, she wouldn’t have been president unless McCain’s life expectancy was only a few months into his presidency. Just thought I should point that out. I am quite tired of people making the claim of her running for the presidency. She ran for the VICE presidency.