Posted on 05/28/2010 12:12:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
As he travels the Gulf Coast on Friday, President Obama is trying to reinforce the message he pushed during a White House news conference Thursday: that he and his administration are "fully engaged" in trying to fix, and clean up, the increasingly devastating oil spill. "I take responsibility," Obama said. "It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down."
Obama needs to reinforce the message that he's accepting responsibility for the Gulf mess especially since recent polls show that the public is increasingly dismayed over his handling of the catastrophe.
But stepping forward with a more prominent message of responsibility is also politically tricky, because the spill is a situation that neither he nor anybody in his administration seems able to really control. As Obama acknowledged Thursday, the government does not have the technology to take over BP's attempts to plug the underwater well. And it's BP that's in charge of the coastal cleanup.
Obama has argued that the government is in control because it is policing BP's attempts to fix the mess. But as he told reporters Thursday, the government largely relies on BP's word. "It's a legitimate concern," Obama admitted.
In making his second trip to the region, Obama could also be exposing himself to even greater political fallout, especially if BP can't get the spill stopped. No doubt a presidential photo-op can be helpful in pushing the main players in an emergency to get their acts together. But if these moves are ultimately meaningless in fixing a situation, it's damaging to the White House.
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Thanks for the link to the article. I’ll check it out. I couldn’t sleep last night and found myself watching the MMS/Coast Guard investigating BP and Transocean last night on CSPAN. The whole room was full of lawyers and bureaucrats putting the oil workers ‘on trial’. It was quite a sad sight. How is it that the bureaucrats are never ‘on trial’ or held to account? Also with the MMS implicated in malfeseance..why are they allowed to ‘investigate’ anyone? You should have seen the room! If just half of those lawyers had each picked up a shovel and started cleaning the beaches(instead of chasing class action law suits)..the beaches in La. would be clean by now!
Here is an an example of an OBot gone rouge. Skip the intro an jump in about 1:45. Warning obscene language! She makes a very good point, one I was unaware of.
What this lady in the video(most likely a leftwing environut) doesn’t mention is that the federal gov.(by law) was suppose to be on site from day one assisting in the mitigation(booming and sucking the stuff up into tankers).There was a plan already laid out that the feds didn’t follow. Obama has dropped the ball on this whole thing. Mark my word...BP will soon belong to the US Government and that is how the leftist/marxist will begin to nationalize the oil industry.
Opps, lol
Notice the ‘I’m in charge’ move Obama puts on the Commander by putting his arm on the Commander’s back. The Commander should have wrapped it around Obama’s neck and snapped it off.
The flapdoodle couldn't even speak from his heart. He had the words in from of him, nearly blowing away in the breeze.
Zer0 reminds me of the Sigorney Weaver character in Galaxy Quest. Her sole job was to repeat what the computer said and to show off her cleavage.
Leadership? Hardly.
He's an incompetent, spoiled imbecile frat boy.
Oh America, what have we done.
Last night, the media narrative was: “He cares...He really really cares”. Can you imagine? It’s so ridiculous to even be discussing whether or not a POTUS ‘cares’ about what is going on in the gulf. It should go without saying in a normal world, but we don’t live in a normal world anymore and the truth is that Obama really doesn’t care about this country and the people are beginning to realize it.
Indeed....’oh America, what have we done’?!!
“Her sole job was to repeat what the computer said and to show off her cleavage.”
Pictures! PICTURES!!! How many times do you have to be reminded that a picture is worth more than 15 words?
So, I've come to the horrifying conclusion that it was a very intentional ball-dropping. What do you think ... disinterested or willful negligence?
“What do you think ... disinterested or willful negligence?”
Incompetence. If this had been the plan all along, Obama would have been prepared to be the hero in the play...not the incompetent moron......lol!
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