Posted on 06/12/2010 5:11:47 AM PDT by Askwhy5times
Three days after the spill, the Dutch government offered oil skimming ships and booms to assist with the clean up. The Obama administration turned down the request. President Obama's stumbling response to this ecological disaster has been shameful and proves he lacks the executive experience to be President. In late May, President Obama said,
"Those who think we were either slow on the response or lacked urgency, don't know the facts..."The excerpt posted below proves that statement wasn't true.
The Houston Chronicle reported:
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, Thanks, but no thanks, said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.
(Excerpt) Read more at bluegrasspundit.com ...
The only reason I can find for rejection of the Dutch offer is because he’s crazy. (And he hates White people.)
I am equally certain that, given the magnitude of this ecological disaster, Dutch expertise could have been enormously helpful. Notwithstanding Obama's refusal to accept this assistance, rest assured that most Amnericans are very grateful for your offer.
Sadly for us, Obama is pursuing an agenda that is contrary to American interests and our national well-being. And that's putting it mildly.
Obama may be an incompetent executive, but his handlers know exactly what they want to do to destroy America.
Even a complete idiot, especially one who is worshiped by the Gaia lovers, would have welcomed the assistance of oil skimming ships. The only reason these were rejected is because Obama WANTS an ecological disaster.
He has also rejected oil retaining booms from Maine, bio-remediation supplies from North Carolina, Florida 'Good-ole-boys" hay absorption suggestions, often hiding behind EPA or OSHA regulations ("these methods are unproven or not certified").
He will blame BP, but Obama has repeatedly said "I am in charge here and have been working on this since Day One".
“I keep thinking that at some point people will realize that obama isnt incompetent, but that he has a very different plan for our country than most Americans have.”
Obama is an odd mixture of deviousness and incompetence. This contradiction is hard to reconcile for most of us. Agree that he has a (destructively) hidden agenda for our country and is, to a certain extent, successfully executing that plan. However, he’s sorely lacking experience and has bitten off far more than he can chew and it’s getting him into deep trouble. A smarter person would have played a better, more subtle game, up to this point so that the frog would not realize its getting boiled.
“This is pure dereliction of duty...”
People have yet to come to grips with the fact that their illusion of “their” president, is in reality a MidEast puppet...and that cessation of Western Hemisphere drilling maintains the existing power structure in the MidEast.
It is always “cui bono” ...who benefits.
Obama, the complete failure.
[Thanks, but no thanks], we might get back to you after we have completely decimated the economy of the South.
...If he were an American and loved this land he would not let her face be so dirty, But, he is so immorally disdainful of America that it will not let any opportunity pass. He is the deceitful destructive scum at the center of it all, nothing more than that, who will do anything to destroy and deface America. Every crisis is an opportunity!
Thanks to everyone for your nice and complimentary answers. It surely is weird - refusing expert help from another country in a situation as dreadful as this one does not exactly speak of love for one’s own nation.
So the masterplan is then:
- let BP struggle and eventually go down completely;
- let the whole region die away from oil pest;
- and finally emerge from the charade as: Obama Barack, the harsh, stoic, strong leader in control?
Something tells me that this will go awfully pear-shaped. Or it did already for you Americans yourselves.
And Obama is a tool of Islam. Anybody notice what Islam did to a 7-year-old boy in Pakistan? Islam hanged the 7-year-old boy to punish his grandfather. You don’t get more evil than that!!!! The Democrats put a tool of evil Islam in our White House. Nothing but evil has come from this adminstration so far. Nothing but evil will come from this adminstration in the future. Anytime we start to think there is a good muslim, we need to remember the 7-year-old boy and his grandfather.
We should not be surprised that Obama is doing as much damage to our country as fast as he can. He is just trying to finish what his muslim brothers started on 9/11.
Had the oil spill been contained and the mess cleaned up the public would've seen off-shore drilling as a safe and necessary part of meeting America's energy needs.
Obama could not allow that to happen. In Obama's way of thinking, the destruction had to become so large, so beyond our ability to remedy, and thus, so disheartening that the effected industry, in this case off-shore drilling, would be finished. Done. Not only will government end off-shore drilling but the people will not tolerate it.
That in the end was the problem. The public was willing to live with it and with states such as Virginia and New Jersey contemplating laws to permit its expansion, Obama had to act or America would be energy independent . . . on domestic oil.
Good-bye deep water rigs; hello windmills.
Obama wants to nationalize Big Oil, and needs a crisis to do it. That is why. And yes, Obama is just a snakeoil salesman. A front man.
27% of likely voters STRONGLY APPROVE (Rasmussen) of this disaster in the Gulf...Obama voters; this disaster is YOUR fault.
seems to me if it is in international waters, the president has no say whatsoever what ships the Dutch have in those waters, nor what they are doing.
SALAZAR LIED TO MAKE A CASE FOR THE MORITORIUM.
THE RESPONSE BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WARRANTS A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION!!!!!
Thanks for the heads up. It’s truly amazing. In a bad way. No, make that: terribly disheartening.
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