The president speaks of 'we' today, when he has done jack squat. He takes credit for things he did not do and ignores the responsibility for things he created. Until yesterday, he had no idea about the back fill plan. If he had, he would have announced it beforehand. He has stonewalled Governor Jindal's efforts to take charge and waited for BP to do stuff. Now we hear that BP has done nothing without Obama's express written prior consent. He has not been on the case. All he has done is baste BP while they did what they could to stop an oil leak a mile underwater.
Now, he has an ace up his sleeve. Months ago, Obama announced that he would open land for oil exploration. Now that this spill has exceeded the Exxon Valdez crash in severity (due to his inaction I add), he will capitalize on it to ban all oil exploration everywhere, including in Alaska. How convenient. Then he scapegoats BP and holds them responsible. I'm surprised he didn't blame some corporation for the volcano in Iceland. That volcano hurt the environment more than BP's leak has.
BP would have had an easier time if not for the government. First, government regulation mandates that we go so far offshore, away from help and resources and equipment. Secondly, the equipment mandated by the CLinton administration for this kind of eventuality was not immediately available when it was small, and Obama, like when the Somalis took an American sea captain hostage, sat on his hands. He takes credit for what BP does just like he did when the Navy Commander ordered the SEALs to shoot. that Commander was court marshalled for disobeying the commander in chief.
This man will destroy oil if he can. If BP operates at Obama's direction, then Obama owns it if this new technique fails. He will however conveniently escape any blame and scapegoat someone.
If he had been serious, he would have spent some time at sidewalk level. We have a picture of Obama on the phone with governors in the gulf but not one of him cleaning up ducks or sea lions or kelp covered with oil. We have corporate entities on the way but no actual federal help aside from the military which has no expertise in resource extraction or control. Obama just shot America in the foot again with his incompetance. Even if you don't have a good idea, you get out there and ask your boots on the ground what they need and then bend over backwards to give it to them as soon as you can.
Obama doesn't care about your hardships. He says he's praying for the families of the workers who died in the explosion and for those affected by the spill. Yet, until today, he made no mention personally of any lives lost and offers no real mediation of our sufferings. Any idiot can pray. That's the least he can do. Mr. President, I don't want or need your prayers. Your god offers me nothing that I desire.
Now, he has an ace up his sleeve. Months ago, Obama announced that he would open land for oil exploration. Now that this spill has exceeded the Exxon Valdez crash in severity (due to his inaction I add), he will capitalize on it to ban all oil exploration everywhere, including in Alaska. How convenient. Then he scapegoats BP and holds them responsible. I'm surprised he didn't blame some corporation for the volcano in Iceland. That volcano hurt the environment more than BP's leak has.
BP would have had an easier time if not for the government. First, government regulation mandates that we go so far offshore, away from help and resources and equipment. Secondly, the equipment mandated by the CLinton administration for this kind of eventuality was not immediately available when it was small, and Obama, like when the Somalis took an American sea captain hostage, sat on his hands. He takes credit for what BP does just like he did when the Navy Commander ordered the SEALs to shoot. that Commander was court marshalled for disobeying the commander in chief.
This man will destroy oil if he can. If BP operates at Obama's direction, then Obama owns it if this new technique fails. He will however conveniently escape any blame and scapegoat someone.
If he had been serious, he would have spent some time at sidewalk level. We have a picture of Obama on the phone with governors in the gulf but not one of him cleaning up ducks or sea lions or kelp covered with oil. We have corporate entities on the way but no actual federal help aside from the military which has no expertise in resource extraction or control. Obama just shot America in the foot again with his incompetance. Even if you don't have a good idea, you get out there and ask your boots on the ground what they need and then bend over backwards to give it to them as soon as you can.
Obama doesn't care about your hardships. He says he's praying for the families of the workers who died in the explosion and for those affected by the spill. Yet, until today, he made no mention personally of any lives lost and offers no real mediation of our sufferings. Any idiot can pray. That's the least he can do. Mr. President, I don't want or need your prayers. Your god offers me nothing that I desire.
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