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Closing the Anger Gap: President Obama Pledges To Find Someone With An “Ass to Kick”

With polls showing the public view of the government’s response to the BP spill as worse than Bush’s response to Katrina and liberals criticizing Obama for not being “more angry” in public, the White House has moved to close the anger gap. Today, Obama is pledging to find an “ass to kick.”

James Carville has publicly attacked the President for his lack of response to the spill. Other friends like Spike Lee have also criticized Obama as being too passive and advised him to publicly “go off” on BP. Bill Maher added “I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president.”

It appears that the White House is listening and sent out the President to go medieval on someone before polls reach irreversible levels. In his most recent interview, Obama stated “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”

This is either a new public stance on the oil spill or the final confirmation of a long rumored bias in the White House against the gentle creatures of Equus africanus asinus. [By the way, there are people in places like Henderson, Texas with a large number of asses to kick].

Of course, with the donkey as the symbol of his own party, the comment could be more prophetic than intended given polls showing a resurgence of the GOP.

I do not happen to be one of those critical of the President for a lack of shouting and posturing — though I do find his overall response to be overall poor. This reminds me of Michael Dukakis being criticized for not pounding the table after a remarkably moronic question from Bernard Shaw about his wife being raped. There is room to criticize Obama for his delay in going down to the Gulf and relatively few visits to the area — as well as the overall weak governmental response. However, I do not need a Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the desk to satisfy my inner angry self.

Even if you wanted more emotion, this type of comment would have been more powerful if you didn’t get the feeling that Axelrod is holding up a board reading “More Anger.”

46 thoughts on “Closing the Anger Gap: President Obama Pledges To Find Someone With An “Ass to Kick””

  1. Yes, of course, I forgot to add eliminating bailouts & bonuses but also the hundreds of billions every year in “public” subsidies to “private” corporations, you know, like making free market capitalists practice what they preach.

    The crooks at Halliburton & the murderous mecenaries at BlackWater (Prince ought to just change the name to a symbol like the other Prince) would be eliminated through the act of troops home now.

    We then employ all the returning troops (and then some) by treating the Gulf Oil spill cleanup like a military operation, you know, like our country was in danger.

    BP will be footing the bill, along with Halliburton & others, who will also be forced to pay back billions in military overcharges to help pay down the deficit.

    The problem with implementing these simple plans is that the greed of the bourgeousie in America is matched only by the spinelessness of its politicians.

  2. vlf,

    Templar Prince

    Now that’s just plain funny. Bravo.

  3. Karl Freidrich:

    Can I add to your post?

    Quit giving Halliburton, et al billions in what amounts to bullsh*t charges. We pay these thieves $100 a bottle of water to deliver to our troops. Hell, I’ll deliver the water for MUCH less. They electrocute our soldiers – we find that their actions amount to negligent homicide, yet we STILL pay them for infinitely marked up, shoddy construction work – WTF??

    Quit giving billions to the mercenaries at Blackwater, or whatever the hell Templar Prince is calling it these days.

  4. Deficit. Not so complicated or painful to end. Quit spending $400 per gallon on fuel for the military in Afghanistan and bring all the troops in the MidEast, Korea, & Europe home now. Then stop all the aid to Egypt & Israel. That’d be a great start. But no, it’ll be more of the same and then some combined with austerity measures for peopel who have to work for a living.

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