{"id":5654,"date":"2010-06-10T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:52:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:52:59","slug":"so-obama-will-meet-with-dictators-but-not-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5654\/so-obama-will-meet-with-dictators-but-not-ceos\/","title":{"rendered":"So Obama Will Meet with Dictators, But Not CEOs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Americans don&#8217;t blame Mr. Obama for the oil spill, but they are beginning to doubt the competence of a President whose decisions suggest political panic more than careful policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was the cogent <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748704575304575296782675625258.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">observation<\/a> of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> today, and it captures the essence of why Americans now rate the federal government&#8217;s response to the Gulf oil spill even worse than its 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 It obviously wasn&#8217;t Barack Obama that caused the oil rig collapse, but he&#8217;s ultimately responsible for the manner in which his administration has reacted.\u00a0 For example, Obama&#8217;s order of a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling has exacerbated job loss in the region and further eroded our ability to access non-foreign oil sources.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the same Barack Obama who breezily offered to meet such dictators as Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad &#8220;without preconditions&#8221; now refuses to even meet with the CEO of the corporation desperately trying to cap the oil leak and minimize the damage that will ultimately hit its bottom line.\u00a0 In a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/4233006\/obama-wont-meet-with-bp-ceo?playlist_id=86858\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> interview for NBC&#8217;s Today show, Obama proclaimed his childish refusal to sit down with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have not spoken to [BP CEO Tony Hayward] directly, and here&#8217;s the reason.\u00a0 Because, uh, my experience is, uh, when you talk to, uh, uh, a guy like, uh, a BP CEO, he&#8217;s gonna say all the right things to me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not interested in words, I&#8217;m interested in actions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And precisely what do you expect from murderous dictators with whom you gladly offer to meet?\u00a0 Earnest concessions?\u00a0 Honest negotiation?\u00a0 Substantive results?<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that Barack Obama actually holds corporations and their CEOs in higher contempt than genocidal dictators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Americans don&#8217;t blame Mr. Obama for the oil spill, but they are beginning to doubt the competence of a President whose decisions suggest political panic more than careful policy.&#8221; That was the cogent observation of The Wall Street Journal today, and it captures the essence of why Americans now rate the federal government&#8217;s response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1215,1383,1386,1384,565,24,1385,1387],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bp","tag-ceo","tag-dictator","tag-meet","tag-nbc","tag-obama","tag-today","tag-without-preconditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}