A Walking Contradicteration

As President Barack Obama geared up for his first full press conference in 304 days, I wondered if he'd give long rambling answers in order to minimize the number of questions. I wondered if he'd... uhh... ummm... use lots of fillers when off-script. And, I wondered if he'd continue to blame George W. Bush for all his recent troubles.

Lucky for me, BHO never disappoints.

Other highlights from today's rare question-and-answer with the media:

• The President isn't "contradictering" himself (skip to the 9:05 mark of the video).
• The President offered his solution for failed bureaucracy: different bureaucracy.  Slightly contradicterive, I'd say.
• Like his Press Secretary, the President wants nothing to do with answering questions about the Sestak Situation.  Contradictering his vow for "the most transparent White House ever".
• The President claims "the federal government is fully engaged," in the BP oil spill. "I am fully engaged."
  But, in the same conference, he also claims, he doesn't know "the circumstances" of  the dismissal of the head of the Mineral Management Service. 
  
  That, too, sounds like he is contradictering himself.

Brain Farts

(warning: cartoon is unrelated to post)

* Oil.
Lots of politicians and media-types are obsessed with focusing blame on BP.  And, don't get it twisted, I think the cost of clean-up is their's and their's alone... but what do these people think BP's motivations are?

I think BP is motivated by making money by selling oil.  So, if they are losing oil, and spending money trying and failing to clean it up, all while giving themselves a name forever tarnished with this incident, what could they be possibly have to gain?

** Mexicans.
Mexico's President, Felipe Calderon, showed up in Washington D.C. to bad mouth a U.S. State law (Arizona's improved illegal immigration bill).  Instead of having rotten fruit thrown at him, American Congressmen stood in applause.  They even had cute little bracelets made aggreeing with him.

Opinions of the law aside.  I fear for the state of things when ANY outsider-- no matter their title or commentary-- can address a joint session of Congress and slander one of America's 50 states.  It's not just appauling... it is downright weird.

*** High Crimes & Misdemeanors
The Obama White House offered Joe Sestak a new job if he dropped out of his primary race against Arlen Specter.  He didn't take the job, but he did win the primary.  And, although Sestak's bribery admission happened in February, it is still getting a lot less play than I'd like.

The media is allowing Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to bob-and-weave his way out of "transparency" with clever misdirections like: