Have you ever seen such blatant hypocrisy?

Question

Sarah Palin criticizing Obama for being too close to oil drillers after her campaign was based on "Drill Baby Drill"

Right wingers complaining that Obama is too close to the oil industry after regulators were found to be sharing cocaine and sex with oil industry lobbyists in the Bush Administration and after Republicans were complaining loudly and often that Obama wasn't allowing enough offshore drilling up until the moment of the BP disaster

How can anyone be so hypocritical? Honestly, I just don't understand it, your side screws up so you blame the other side for the mess your side made and then stick with them? Why?

Answer 1

It's like they forgot that most of the people in the department that was supposed to regulate drilling were appointed during the last administration.

Answer 2

First, your argument is superficial ignorance. Yes, Sarah Palin is a drill baby drill screamer and many believe its stupid not to create jobs and wealth here in America instead of giving wealth away to foreign governments many of whom don't mind giving some of that money to people who like planting bombs in NYC.



That isn't the same as being close to the oil industry. There have been republicans too close to the Oil industry especially in Alaska, please go look up the issues when Sarah Palin first won in Alaska, she beat an incumbent republican governor and as a result of her election and tenacity on the issue a butt load of republican politicians and oil executives went to jail. So don't go making republicans out to be hypocrites nor Sarah Palin. Wanting our oil resources developed is a lot different than wanting corrupt politicians and oil executives. The hypocrisy is on the left who argue against drilling and accuse the right of wanting drilling simply because they are close to the oil industry when the facts show that more lobby and more campaign contributions flow from the oil industry into democratic political action committees and campaigns. BP's greatest single political contribution in their history went to Obama and it was his administration that granted them exceptions to safety regulations which contributed to this catastrophe. That is hypocrisy and no I've never seen it so blatant.

Answer 3

Ask the same question of yourself. Palin was an oil regulator in Alaska and really cracked down on the oil companies. She didn't make any friends when she broke up their sweetheart deals with the previous corrupt governor. She knows the ins and outs of the oil industry and how to responsibly develop natural resources. Obama just takes their money and gives them whatever they want while badmouthing them in public and giving them a handy under the table. Obama is a crook. Palin has always been open and honest about challenging them when they are wrong and supporting them when they do whats right. Look in the mirror when looking for hypocrites. That is where you will find them.

Answer 4

Yes, every time any liberals speaks it is more blatant hypocrisy than that.



Obama approved offshore oil drilling just weeks before the spill. So deal with it.



Gasoline is approaching $3 per gallon. Looks like Obama's oil buddies will get rich this summer. Just like every summer.



Obama is making Bush look good.

Answer 5

Uuuh, do you actually read what you write? You just played the blame game, again. My observation is that the left has a monopoly on pointing fingers.



hy·poc·ri·sy   [hi-pok-ruh-see] Show IPA

–noun,plural-sies.

1.

a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

2.

a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.

3.

an act or instance of hypocrisy.

Answer 6

Typical.



And Ms Palin is tied to the oil industry financially and politically. All of Alaska is.

Answer 7

Josh, once you worry less about fixing blame and worry more about fixing problems you will have moved light years ahead.



Of course party idealogues are going to point fingers. Obama is not exactly Mr. "the buck stops here" now, is he? That is their job, not ours.

Answer 8

Thanks for pointing out that hypocrisy. Oil companies aren't even in the top 20 list of Obama's contributors, but they've given a lot of money to Sarah.



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Answer 9

LOL kinda like Nancy Pelosi's recent participation in the separation of church and state huh?

Answer 10

Because monkeys don't understand hypocrisy. They'll throw their own dung at you just as readily as throwing your dung back.



"There are 2 things infinite- the universe, and human stuipidity. I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein



Think about it also; what should you expect from (the dumbest of i.e.Palin) a party that affiliates itself with imaginery religious friends?

Answer 11

Yes. I have been watching it all of my life. Especially the last 12 years. They love to point the finger

(index) at everyone but themselves. The left should return the favor and use the middle one.

Answer 12

being tied to them financially and politically is different than saying "drill baby drill" on a campaign platform



she said it because she was trying to convince people the only way to sustain our energy needs is by increasing the access to resources



NOT by cutting those resources off from the public like Obama is trying to do.

Answer 13

Yup, that's the GOPer way, I just ignore the morons.

Answer 14

Yes. I have seen such blatant hypocisy before. This one is mild compared oh say transparency.

Answer 15

yes 0bama and his BP campaign funds are real hypocrisy!!!!

Answer 16

it shouldn't surprise anyone..she's a complete joke. As soon as republicans figure this out they will be better off.

Answer 17

Standard Repub tool. They learned it from the Nazis.

Answer 18

Palin and right-wingers have never said those things.

Answer 19

She's not complaining she's just saying that Obama isn't really the candidate of change that he proclaimed himself to be.

Answer 20

Palin just wants her camera time

Answer 21

because they're republicans. They believe that whatever they do is right, and that you are a moron if you don't think the exact same thing.

Answer 22

No.

Answer 23

I have seen such acts : Obama's 42 Acts of Hypocrisy

42 Mega-hypocrite Obama raises megabucks selling access to his policy advisors; access to Warren Buffet goes for $28500

41 BHO claims in response to McCain's negative ads he's going to START being "No More Mr Nice Guy"; he's been trying to trash McCain for months

40 Obama challenges McCain's patriotism after promising he would never challenge another mans patriotism.

39 Obama wrongly accuses Palin of belonging to an Alaska Independence Group; he supported a bill which could lead to Hawaiian Independence

38 Oink! Oink! Obama pays his women staff 83% of what he pays his male staff: Act of Hypocrisy

37 Obama's plan to "share the pie" doesn't apply to him; Italian mag finds half-brother George living in squalor

36 Obama hires Big Oil lobbyist: #36 example of "Do as I say not as I do"

35 Obama cries like a baby about folks lying about his record: campaign concedes BHO was the one lying

34 BHO criticizes McCain for the company he keeps

33 Obama failed to condemn corruption in Mayor Daley's Chicago; sold out for votes

32 Michelle tells women to turn back on corporate America and accept lower salaries for helping the community; her last job paid in excess of $300,000 and she also accepted fees for serving as a corporate director

31 Obama slammed HRC's tax holiday from gas taxes as "pandering";Obama proposes giving consumers an energy rebate check

30 Pays off 20 years worth of parking tickets dating backing to his Harvard Days, 2 weeks before he announces he's running for President

29 Two-faced Michelle didn't know if she could vote for Hillary; suddenly she cant stop gushing about HRC's greatness

28 Post-racial candidate Obama wants to grant preferential treatment based on race

27 Hypocritcal Obama opposes "school choice" for public schools; sends his own kids to expensive private school

26 Michelle claims Obama's "message is one of inclusion"; charges $500 for photo with her

25 Post-racial candidate deliberately uses "us v them" language to pamper to Latinos

24 Obama does not practice what he legislated on disclosure of campaign bundlers

23 Condemns religious intolerence; fails to condemn his Church in June 2007 when it publishes,"Jews invented a bomb that killed only blacks and Arabs"...that month he introduces his pastor at a conference as a "great leader"

22 Condemns Republicans in state senate for putting their careers ahead of their constituents by not backing a bill he proposed and voting "present": Obama votes "present" 140 times

21 Condemns mainstream Americans who "cling to their religion"; touts the devoutness of his own Christianity

20 Claims he wants an "open and vigorous debate"; Obama is silent while his surrogates try to delete opposition from the internet

19 Supports MLK's Dream of a color-blind society; removes two Muslim women wearing jihabs to avoid them being seen on TV at an Obama rally

18 Condemns Republicans for ignoring the plight of inner-city residents; Obama ignores desperate plight of residents in his congressional area living in slums built and managed by his friends Slumlords Rezko and Davis

17 Announces we should love our country; openly condemns "John Wayne" in favor of "collectivism" (socialism)

16 Says "words matter" then secretly sends memo to Canada assuring them his words about NAFTA are only "political manouvering'

15 Accuses mainstream Americans of being "bitter" about the country; continually put down the greatness of America; bitterly condemns its inequality; and spouts economic misery

14 Calls on Democrats to "show unity" by embracing Clintonites; Obama continues to demean "Mrs" Clinton

13 Tells Russert in Jan 06, there should be an "Enforcer of lobbying and ethical rules"; Obama bought land in January 06 from his corrupt major donor, Rezko

12 Condemns his opponents alleged temper by failing to stop a whispering campaign; Obama's temper tantrums led to least two fights, one in Senate

11 Condemns Imus for promoting a racial "stereotype that hurt his daughters;" Obama speaks at rally where the band Nappy Roots raps about "hos"

10 Condemns Clinton for not making all her records public; refuses to disclose ANY of his records from 8 years in State Senate

9 Condemns people who run for office when "they're not ready"; admits wont be ready to run for President in 2008 and yet runs

8 Condemns exclusionary "closed door" meetings; meets privately with the top Imam in the USA

7 Condemns sexists who put down women; chronically refers to female professionals as "sweetie"

6 Condemns his opponents for refusing to let every vote count; refuses to allow Democrats in Florida and Michigan to have a voice in the Primary

5 Condemns politicians who accept money from lobbyists; Obama accepts far more money than other candidates from corporations and lobbyists

4 Condemns American SUV drivers for causing Global Warming; drives a gas-guzzling Hemi V8 Sedan

3 Condemns $10,000 a plate fundraisers; holds a $33100 a plate fundraiser

2 Condemns Clintons in leaked memo to media for relationship with ethically-challenged donor; accepts his $10,000,000 pledge after beating Clinton

1 Condemns racists while pursuing a blatantly racist campaign strategy built around his "waking up Black America" and securing its 93% block vote

The more you get to know Senator Obama the more you realize that underneath his good looks and high powered rhetoric there is a side to his personality that his biographer David Mendell, a Chicago Tribune journalist who followed Obama for the past four years, described in his 2007 biography as "his imperious, mercurial, self-righteous and sometimes prickly nature, each quality exacerbated by the enormous career pressures that he has inflicted upon himself." (Source "Obama" D Mendell) For those of you without immediate access to a dictionary and who, like me, need a refresher on one or two words used by David Mendell: Imperious: Arrogantly domineering or overbearing Mercurial: Quick and changeable in temperament; volatile: Self-righteous: Exhibiting pious self-assurance. Prickly: cocky ****** prone to irritate!