More reason many on the left (and right) can't be taken seriously...

[Drunken Irishman]

I mean, comparing a massive oil spill to the destruction of an American city and the loss of nearly 2,000 lives?

That's just the worst type of hyperbole I've seen yet.

Yes, this oil spill is unfortunate and horrible. But it doesn't even begin to fit into the same realm as Hurricane Katrina. Not even close. You could multiply this by a billion and it still wouldn't be as disastrous as that hurricane was to a city and its people.

:eyes:

[Cha]

1. It's cheneybush deregulation

that was the crux..and the Obama Team have been on top of it since it happened.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8249833

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x284358

[CBR]

2. I totally agree. I am amazed and saddened by this comparison.

Not to mention when the coal ash spill happened in TN a few years ago, it WAS bigger than the Valdez and nary a word.

[NJmaverick]

3. Hey the haters have been comparing every disaster as the President's Katrina

the Haiti earthquake, H1N1, the crotch bomber and so on and so on

[Arkana]

4. The new thing is the Predator drone joke he made at the WHCD.

Apparently the President is a callous murderer because he made a joke about being an overprotective father.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I love how they get offended by the predator drone part...

But had he replaced predator drone with sharpshooters, no one would be complaining.

Apparently, joking about killing the Jonas Brothers is only bad when you're killing them with a predator drone.

Fucking dumbass hypocrites!

[Arkana]

6. But but but don't you see?!?!?!?!

Predator drones may or may not at some indeterminate point have been used as a weapon of war! That means that it's ABSOLUTELY VERBOTEN to make jokes about using them! ACHTUNG! SCHNELL!

[Born_A_Truman]

7. Anything to downplay the total failure of Katrina