Dumb statement of the day

'President Out-of-Touch Opines: Gulf Spill "Echoes 9/11"'

He means Bush did it. (Hah, couldn't resist.) No, he means he's planning to take the fight for oil "over there." (Hah, did it again. Sorry.) No, seriously, he must mean that it was an intentional attack that killed thousands of people and terrified a nation.

Oh, well then he must just be comparing a piddling oil spill in the Gulf to the largest, deadliest, most disruptive terrorist attack in United States history because he's an asshole.

Don't get me wrong. The spill is a BFD, as the Vice President would say, but it isn't even in the same hemisphere as 9/11. Not even the same planet. The spill, an accident, will have substantial consequences for Gulf state economies, and if the Democrats have their way will further cripple the domestic petroleum industry. That's a big deal, but it doesn't "echo 9/11."

Obama is comparing the two for the simple and repulsive purpose of inflating the spill's significance. Y'see, if it's on the scale of 9/11, well then he can be forgiven a bit for handling it so poorly. After all, it's so unprecedented and world-shattering. And if he eventually manages to sort it out (or at least take the credit when BP does) then, why, he'd just be the Awesomest One Evar.

It is becoming harder and harder to take him seriously.