Thank you for asking that. Cause I've been wondering over and over where the hell are the pictures?
Nothing moves Americans like pictures of little ducks covered with ugly oil. I remember the Exxon Valdez...dag you couldn't turn on any news show without seeing pictures of volunteers busily scrubbing pelicans, ducks...fish...that type of thing. I was a pretty young liberal lass at the time and serious, I refused to buy Exxon gas for almost ten years after that.
I've concluded two possibilities as to why sad pictures aren't inundating our airways...not to mention YouTube folks.....THERE ARE NONE!
Or, as you said, the Obama admin wants to keep them hidden. Which I don't believe cause if the admin wants to hide something you can believe some Blogger will be out there getting the pics/audio/damaging photos.
I suspect, for now at least, that this oil is pretty much flowing away from the wellhead out into the Atlantic ocean.
Which does not mean I think this gusher is of no import....cause while gooey black oil will eventually clear up as it coats the coastline ugly, it can really make a mess and dishearten nature lovers in the meanwhile. Not to mention tourists and swimmers and the like.
Still, the Exxon oil spill did not destroy the coast and yesterday Rush was talking about some other out of control oil well that wreaked havoc on the surrounding. No matter how mankind might try, we cannot destroy the planet with its own components. Mother earth was on the job long before humans stood upright.
But we can sure make it ugly for a while, make no mistake.
As for Palin's article quoted on this post....I sit and ponder WHERE THE HELL ARE THE REPUBLICANS?
Part of the reason we are in this position is because we have no opposition party! Cause everything that Palin speaks of in this article should be being uttered by Boehner, McConnel, Hatch and the like. And McCain, heh.
They should get the hell out of the tanning booths, risk mussing head hairs and for God's sake quit reaching across the aisle, and criticize this president clearly and firmly for the gazillion mistakes he's making and handing to them on a golden platter.
Americans understand such as fences and walls yet you hear little from the elite elected pubs about how the admin sanctioning boycotts of state against state is patently against our constitution. Americans understand this.
For sure the Dems, masters at getting out and lambasting your political enemies that they may teach the pubs a thing or two, got out and beat on Bush on Hurricane Katrina, right from the start, although most of the problem was on the locals.
The most sucessful gubmints have wild and passionate opposition parties against the party in power. Our pub elected elite are too busy reaching across the aisle.