How Obama Thinks

Interesting article in Forbes about President Obama and what drives his philosophy. The last paragraph:

"But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost."

More Media Bias

Below is an article from the L.A. times about people in Louisiana's feelings about the respective responses to Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster. Notice the part in bold type - I do not recall a pro-Obama poll attempting to explain away its results.

Poll: Bush handled Katrina better than Obama dealt with oil spill
August 27, 2010|By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Former President George W. Bush showed more leadership in dealing with the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina than President Obama has shown in handling the oil calamity in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a poll of Louisianans released Friday.

Obama, who will make his 10th trip to the gulf when he travels to New Orleans on Sunday, will seek to reassure residents that he remains committed to rebuilding a region still feeling the effects from Katrina's deadly landfall and flooding. Obama will also reassert his administration's commitment to the cleanup from the BP oil well leak, the nation's worst oil environmental disaster.
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But a poll of Louisianans by Public Policy Polling shows those reassurances may have a hard time. Just 32% give Obama good marks for his actions in the aftermath of the spill, while 61% disapprove.

By contrast, those polled said that Bush's leadership on Katrina was better than Obama's on the spill. A majority, 54%, said that Bush did the better job of helping Louisiana through the hurricane crisis compared to the 33% who chose Obama, PPP said on Friday.

That 21-point spread was more than when PPP asked the same question in June and found Bush ahead by 15 points.

Some of the results reflect Louisiana's conservative Republican tilt. PPP also notes that many of those hurt the worst during the Katrina period have yet to return to their homes, so their opinions aren't included in the poll.

Five years ago, Katrina struck the gulf and the levees protecting New Orleans failed. More than 1,600 people died and images of poor residents clinging to floating rooftops while desperately calling for aid haunted the Bush administration. Bush's praise of his administration's rescue and rebuilding efforts became a national punchline as the disaster unwound.

Obama is scheduled to speak at Xavier University, a university flooded during Katrina. At a briefing this week, the White House said Obama would "recommit the nation to the gulf region and to all those still working to rebuild lives and communities."

Obama will also discuss the BP spill, which pushed more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf waters and on to environmentally sensitive shores. Eleven workers died when a deep-water rig caught fire and exploded on April 20, causing the spill, which was recently stopped.

Sunday will be Obama's sixth visit to the region since the rig sank.