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President Obama’s Statement On The Earthquake In Japan

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At the top of his hastily-scheduled news conference on energy policy, President Obama delivered remarks on the tragic, still-unfolding earthquake in Japan. He spoke about how the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the people of Japan, and the steps that are being taken to protect American territories affected by tsunami waves that originated from the quake. Elsewhere in the press conference, Obama also addressed concerns over Japan’s nuclear power plant, reassuring reporters that while the situation is of concern, it is being closely monitored.

Here’s a clip of the President’s remarks at the beginning of his press conference:

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  • WCinWI

    This presser was beyond horrible.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Under my plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket – Barack Obama

  • Liberal Tormentor

    God be with those effected by this tragedy.

  • More Liberty3

    To be honest, I’m liking President “57-states” Obama’$ current non-interventionist policy towards Libya. However, I’m aware it’s not because he’s an actual libertarian. It’s because he can’t make a decision.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    “So could these high prices help us?”

    OBAMA: “I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.”

  • Liberal Tormentor

    No questions on WI. Hey Tommy, were you instructed NOT to bring it up by your master?

  • VoiceofReason

    More Liberty3 said:
    To be honest, I’m liking President “57-states” Obama’$ current non-interventionist policy towards Libya. However, I’m aware it’s not because he’s an actual libertarian. It’s because he can’t make a decision.

    Getting sick of liberating people from ruthless murdering dictators only to have them utilize their freedom to take up arms against us or at minimum take to the streets and chant death to America.

  • More Liberty3

    Voice of reason said:
    “Getting sick of liberating people from ruthless murdering dictators only to have them utilize their freedom to take up arms against us or at minimum take to the streets and chant death to America.”

    Yes I am. I’m getting sick of spending US tax dollars, and risking the lives of us servicemen and women on these third-world dumps. We need to stay out of their business.

  • Paul G

    Yea…All those golf courses that are ruined now. Meanwhile Libya………

  • TampopoLoco

    Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.

  • More Liberty3

    Tampopoloco said:
    “Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.”

    Who says we can’t send money? There are numerous non-profit organizations that provide aid. Please feel free to give your money, as much as you can afford to the victims of this horrible incident. Additionally, such private donations are tax deductible. Furthermore, these organization have a much cost of business percentage compared to the defunct federal government.

  • TfT

    MSNBC’s Chuck Todd got the first question.

    Prayers for all of those affected by this tragedy.

  • timzank

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.

    That is just such a typical crock of sh*t remark. Republicans have NEVER blocked funding for aid in ANY natural disaster. Partisan is one thing, lying is another.

  • Pablo

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.

    Oh, did they cut your welfare check? Because otherwise, you can send all the money you want for tsunami relief.

  • Arkansas Steve

    TOMMY,
    Your best headline ever!

    Please study this headline carefully & repeat its characteristics over and over.

  • TampopoLoco

    timzank said:
    That is just such a typical crock of sh*t remark. Republicans have NEVER blocked funding for aid in ANY natural disaster. Partisan is one thing, lying is another.

    “Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal: National Weather Service”

  • TampopoLoco

    Pablo said:
    Oh, did they cut your welfare check? Because otherwise, you can send all the money you want for tsunami relief.

    Yea, you really got me pegged there Pablo.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    tampopoLoco says:

    Yea, you really got me pegged there Pablo.

    I’m guessing he’s a lot closer to the truth than you’d care to admit.

    Another good opportunity to bring up the FACT that Conservatives are FAR more generous with their OWN money than Liberals. You could learn something from us, Loco.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Obama Official Salazar Lies to Congress About Gulf Oil Production (Video) …Update: Obama Repeats Lie

    Last week, at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told Congress that oil production in the Gulf of Mexico “remained at an all-time high.” Salazar claimed: “In 2009 there were 116 rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, in 2010 in February, 120, in February 2011, 126.”

    He was lying.

    Energy Tomorrow blog reported:

    Salazar’s numbers distort the true number of working rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Baker Hughes:

    •Four days before the Deepwater Horizon accident there were 55 rotary rigs actually drilling offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
    •On May 28, 2010, when the administration announced the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling, there were 46 rotary rigs operating in the Gulf.
    •Last week, 25 rotary rigs were operating in the Gulf of Mexico.
    So the fact that there is an “all-time high” number of rigs in the Gulf ignores the fact that most of those rigs are not working. Claiming an increase in idle rigs in the Gulf as a success story is like claiming the job market is great because a lot of people are unemployed and available to work.

    In the same hearing, the Secretary also claimed that “the production has remained at an all-time high” within the Gulf of Mexico and there is no way to actually make this true. The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration reports that production in the Gulf of Mexico is in decline, forecasting a decline of 250,000 barrels a day from Gulf production, due partly to the moratorium and restricted permitting. While the annual production figure for 2010 was greater than 2009, EIA’s month-by-month production figures show a peak in May of 2010, and a relatively steady decline since.

    It’s getting to the point where you can’t trust a single thing these people say.

    UPDATE: This is really sad but we all knew it was coming.
    Barack Obama held a press conference today on American energy and repeated the same lie… “Oil production at its highest level in 7 years. Oil production from federal waters in Gulf at an all time high.”

    http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/sad-obama-official-salazar-lies-to-congress-about-gulf-oil-production-to-prevent-more-drilling-video/

    Perhaps you couid follow up on this at the next presser, TC.

  • TampopoLoco

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    tampopoLoco says:

    Yea, you really got me pegged there Pablo.

    I’m guessing he’s a lot closer to the truth than you’d care to admit.

    Another good opportunity to bring up the FACT that Conservatives are FAR more generous with their OWN money than Liberals. You could learn something from us, Loco.

    I just threw up in my mouth a li’l bit reading that. Sell insane some place else will ya.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    It makes me SICK to hear the Obamessiah talking about how SAD he is about the LOSS OF LIFE when he is PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for the deaths of COUNTLESS BABIES because of his support for the ABORTION MILLS known as Planned Parenthood!!!!!!!!!!!111111 He is no better than a MURDERER, and there is BLOOD on his HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 The press corps should have BOOED him off the STAGE!!!!!!!!!1111 Oh and also he uses a TELEPROMPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Loco says:

    I just threw up in my mouth a li’l bit reading that. Sell insane some place else will ya.

    I’m sorry, are you denying that Conservatives give more of their $$ to charity than Libs?

  • TampopoLoco

    Karl Spensen said:
    It makes me SICK to hear the Obamessiah talking about how SAD he is about the LOSS OF LIFE when he is PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for the deaths of COUNTLESS BABIES because of his support for the ABORTION MILLS known as Planned Parenthood!!!!!!!!!!!111111 He is no better than a MURDERER, and there is BLOOD on his HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!11111 The press corps should have BOOED him off the STAGE!!!!!!!!!1111 Oh and also he uses a TELEPROMPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

    Get back on your meds you psycho. You are the prime example of how the rest of the world views Republicans in America.

  • TampopoLoco

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Loco says:

    I just threw up in my mouth a li’l bit reading that. Sell insane some place else will ya.

    I’m sorry, are you denying that Conservatives give more of their $$ to charity than Libs?

    No that i could actually learn something from you.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Hey Loco, you obviously CAN learn something from me because Karl is one of you. A lib poser. Happy to help!

  • timzank

    TampopoLoco said:
    Get back on your meds you psycho. You are the prime example of how the rest of the world views Republicans in America.

    Yep, must be new here, Karl is one of you, just thinks he’s funny too.

    Carry on communists!

  • notsofast

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.

    Send them some of your money, lib. It’s called a donation. Oh, that’s right, you libs only spend other peoples’ money.

  • notsofast

    TampopoLoco said:
    “Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal: National Weather Service”

    Yes, with a debt of over $14 trillion, and a February deficit of $223 billion, a RECORD MONTHLY DEFICIT, the USA is really in a position to make a major contribution in foreign aid.

    Do you libs understand ANYTHING?

    Seriously, ANYTHING?

  • Liberty_Hound

    TampopoLoco said:
    Yea sorry we can’t send money for Tsunami relief because the Republicans have cut off funding.

    What’s stopping you!

  • Liberty_Hound

    notsofast said:
    Send them some of your money, lib. It’s called a donation. Oh, that’s right, you libs only spend other peoples’ money.

    Sorry notsofast.. you beat me to it.

  • OxyCon

    Maybe Mediaite can post some links to ways in which we can send our thoughts and prayers to the Japanes people.

    Here’s a way to help them through the Red Cross:

    The American Red Cross is accepting donations to help in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

    Those who wish to donate can do so at RedCross.org or make a $10 donation by texting REDCROSS to 90999. The money will go to those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific.

    The American Red Cross says the Japanese Red Cross Society has mobilized 11 teams into the heavily-damaged communities. The U.S. organization said it is in touch with its global partners in the damaged Pacific nations and prepared to help when/if needed.

    Chapters in the U.S. are on high alert on the country’s West Coast where waves hit Friday morning.

  • OxyCon

    TampopoLoco said:
    I just threw up in my mouth a li’l bit reading that. Sell insane some place else will ya.

    March 27, 2008
    Conservatives More Liberal Givers

    By George Will
    WASHINGTON — Residents of Austin, Texas, home of the state’s government and flagship university, have very refined social consciences, if they do say so themselves, and they do say so, speaking via bumper stickers. Don R. Willett, a justice of the state Supreme Court, has commuted behind bumpers proclaiming “Better a Bleeding Heart Than None at All,” “Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty,” “The Moral High Ground Is Built on Compassion,” “Arms Are For Hugging,” “Will Work (When the Jobs Come Back From India),” “Jesus Is a Liberal,” “God Wants Spiritual Fruits, Not Religious Nuts,” “The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans,” “Republicans Are People Too — Mean, Selfish, Greedy People” and so on. But Willett thinks Austin subverts a stereotype: “The belief that liberals care more about the poor may scratch a partisan or ideological itch, but the facts are hostile witnesses.”

    Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published “Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.” The surprise is that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives.

    If many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:

    – Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).

    – Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.

    – Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.

    – Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.

    – In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.

    – People who reject the idea that “government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality” give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.

    Brooks demonstrates a correlation between charitable behavior and “the values that lie beneath” liberal and conservative labels. Two influences on charitable behavior are religion and attitudes about the proper role of government.

    The single biggest predictor of someone’s altruism, Willett says, is religion. It increasingly correlates with conservative political affiliations because, as Brooks’ book says, “the percentage of self-described Democrats who say they have ‘no religion’ has more than quadrupled since the early 1970s.” America is largely divided between religious givers and secular nongivers, and the former are disproportionately conservative. One demonstration that religion is a strong determinant of charitable behavior is that the least charitable cohort is a relatively small one — secular conservatives.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html

  • TampopoLoco
  • Grammie

    TampopoLoco said:
    I stopped reading at “by George Will”

    .
    We would have expected no less of you!

    Hear, hear for Loco!

    The most generous man in the world with other people’s money.

    His own, hell no!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Estoy Loco says:

    I stopped reading at “by George Will”

    Yeah I’m sure Spongebob is more at your comprehension level.

  • TampopoLoco

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Estoy Loco says:

    I stopped reading at “by George Will”

    Yeah I’m sure Spongebob is more at your comprehension level.

    No, he’s just another old crusty irrelevant republican dinosaur. Pretty much like most of you guys in here.

  • OxyCon

    TampopoLoco said:
    I stopped reading at “by George Will”

    Someone fan me please…I’m in shock that a leftist is willfully ignorant.

  • notsofast

    TampopoLoco said:
    I stopped reading at “by George Will”

    son, it’s obvious you can’t read,nor write.

  • notsofast

    TampopoLoco said:
    No, he’s just another old crusty irrelevant republican dinosaur. Pretty much like most of you guys in here.

    Should you not be out on a date with your beard, son?

  • Leckan

    notsofast said:
    son, it’s obvious you can’t read,nor write.

    You’re saying. Hipocrite.

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  • X-3

    I listened to Mr. 0bama’s ramblings in hopes of gleaning something definitive. No such luck. But I did hear “uhhh, let me be clear” no less than four times.

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