Day 42: What has he done?

[Nik]

president bush did not loosen the regulations, but the regulations were loosened by the Republicans....

april 09 was 2 months in to obama's presidency...I highly doubt he had replaced all of the "bush" people in MMS yet, with his own people....but go ahead and foolishly act like Obama did this.... that's nuts in my opinion.

Maybe you guys should have elected Hillary then. Apparently SHE was "ready from Day One" ... unlike the schlep who got in.

He only had, what?... two years to plan? He was only a U.S. Senator with plenty of access to the inside mechanisms of Washington since 2004. Maybe five years isn't enough, regardless of his myriad complaints as to what he wanted to "change".

Umm, he was running a campaign in those 2 years. What do you think you do in a campaign, sit in a room and plan your presidency?

 

[Sky Dancer]

Obama is not responsible for the oil leak.

Obama is in great part responsible for the delay in creating a real call to action on the federal level to protect the U.S. shorelines from that oil. Such protections are a vital responsibility of the federal government.

Instead, Obama took days to even acknowledge the leak - then that lip service was followed by vacations, golf outings, dinner parties, more golf outings, etc. It was only after public sentiment, and rising voices of anger - many from the left, of Obama's seeming indifference, that the president started to at least give the appearance of doing something, but by then, it was too late. Shorelines were unprotected, materials and manpower was lagging as the disaster formed over the course of days and weeks.

Obama had a defining moment to show real executive leadership.

Obama failed.


YouTube - Obama's Gulf Oil Spill

Just because you see horns everywhere you look doesn't make President Obama the devil.

 

[needtawrite]

Obowma is claiming responsibility but he's technically powerless to plug the whole. The people in the oil business have the best equipment and know how to do it.

The Gub'ment will be left with what they're good at; assigning blame, and trying to control the oil industry.

 

[Murf76]

president bush did not loosen the regulations, but the regulations were loosened by the Republicans....

april 09 was 2 months in to obama's presidency...I highly doubt he had replaced all of the "bush" people in MMS yet, with his own people....but go ahead and foolishly act like Obama did this.... that's nuts in my opinion.

Maybe you guys should have elected Hillary then. Apparently SHE was "ready from Day One" ... unlike the schlep who got in.

He only had, what?... two years to plan? He was only a U.S. Senator with plenty of access to the inside mechanisms of Washington since 2004. Maybe five years isn't enough, regardless of his myriad complaints as to what he wanted to "change".

Umm, he was running a campaign in those 2 years. What do you think you do in a campaign, sit in a room and plan your presidency?

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

 

[beowolfe]

Day 42 of the oil leak - what has the Obama White House done to help protect the shoreline and the Americans who call those lands home?

Unfortunately, there is nothing that anyone can do to stop the oil from reaching the shoreline. All we can do is clean it up once it gets there. Unless that hay thing will work on a large scale.

 

[sangha]

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

 

[Murf76]

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

Bush spent 8 years in office and no deep well disasters spoiling hundreds of miles of gulf coastline either... even when Katrina and other hurricanes damaged and destroyed oil rigs. Weird, huh?

 

[sangha]

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

Bush spent 8 years in office and no deep well disasters spoiling hundreds of miles of gulf coastline either... even when Katrina and other hurricanes damaged and destroyed oil rigs. Weird, huh?

Wow, even your idiot colleagues on the right aren't stupid enough to blame Obama for the spill, but you know what they say...."Fools tread...."

 

[Sinatra]

Maybe you guys should have elected Hillary then. Apparently SHE was "ready from Day One" ... unlike the schlep who got in.

He only had, what?... two years to plan? He was only a U.S. Senator with plenty of access to the inside mechanisms of Washington since 2004. Maybe five years isn't enough, regardless of his myriad complaints as to what he wanted to "change".

Umm, he was running a campaign in those 2 years. What do you think you do in a campaign, sit in a room and plan your presidency?

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

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That is the sentiment that is now growing rapildy among Americans, and the White House is now scrambling to play catch up regarding this crisis.

It should have been treated as a national crisis within hours, and certainly days - instead it took weeks.

 

[Sinatra]

Just to remind people of the unofficial count:

Two days of media events (White House Correspondents Dinner and a tête a tête with Bono)

Three days of fundraising

Four commemorations (graduations, Cinco de Mayo, etc)
Six days of vacation

Six days of campaigning

Six sports events

Seven days of golf

In comparison, how many days did Obama spend at the Gulf? Three, during this span of time, and he’s back again today.


Hot Air Video: How Obama showed his “singular” focus on the Gulf spill

 

[Care4all]

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

Bush spent 8 years in office and no deep well disasters spoiling hundreds of miles of gulf coastline either... even when Katrina and other hurricanes damaged and destroyed oil rigs. Weird, huh?

get the help you need, before your final breakdown murf!

 

[Sinatra]

Just to remind people of the unofficial count:

Two days of media events (White House Correspondents Dinner and a tête a tête with Bono)

Three days of fundraising

Four commemorations (graduations, Cinco de Mayo, etc)
Six days of vacation

Six days of campaigning

Six sports events

Seven days of golf

In comparison, how many days did Obama spend at the Gulf? Three, during this span of time, and he’s back again today.

 

[Zona]

We really should have been drilling in Alaska. But alas, it is too late to turn back now. Very disturbing to know this has been going on for over a month and it is still not fixed.

A good article by Charles Kruathammer
Charles Krauthammer: Many to blame for oil spill | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/31/2010

And of course, in the safest of all places - on land - we've had a 30-year ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
So we go deep and ultra-deep - to such a technological frontier that no precedent exists for the April 20 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The oil we get is not even ours. We end up having to bid on it. We produce 2% of the overall oil supply. WHATS THE POINT OF DRILLING ERE THEN?

They drilled that far out because that is where the oil is, not because we made them drill there.

STOP DRILLING, ITS NOT HELPING US IN ANY WAY!

 

[Zona]

Just to remind people of the unofficial count:

Two days of media events (White House Correspondents Dinner and a tête a tête with Bono)

Three days of fundraising

Four commemorations (graduations, Cinco de Mayo, etc)
Six days of vacation

Six days of campaigning

Six sports events

Seven days of golf

In comparison, how many days did Obama spend at the Gulf? Three, during this span of time, and he’s back again today.


Hot Air Video: How Obama showed his “singular” focus on the Gulf spill

He should have done nothing but stayed in a tent right there on the shore. He should be the only one thinking of ways to stop this because I am sure no one else is trying to figure out ways to stop this.

DAMMIT, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE EVERYDAY!

 

[Vel]

One would hope he'd have spent at least a little time planning to do the JOB he insisted that he was qualified for. Hell, if he'd put half as much effort into actually running the country as he does his fucking social life and his partisan plotting, we might not be looking at an ecological, economic DISASTER in the Gulf States.

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

Pssst. It doesn't matter what Bush's plan was because the Obama administration APPROVED BP's oil spill response plan last June. No matter how you spin it, you just don't get to blame this on George Bush.

 

[Murf76]

bush spent 8 years in office and no plan, but that's also Obama's fault.

Bush spent 8 years in office and no deep well disasters spoiling hundreds of miles of gulf coastline either... even when Katrina and other hurricanes damaged and destroyed oil rigs. Weird, huh?

get the help you need, before your final breakdown murf!

How pathetic is it that the best you all can come up with in dogged defense of your fearful leader is to claim that other people are crazy?
Isn't it a bit... well, loony... that you just can't accept that Barack Obama, a guy you don't even know in person, is a total fuck-up as a president and has proved it over, and over, and over again.

Who's really the nut when it's YOU who willfully chooses, in creepily blind allegiance, not to see that the emperor has no clothes.

 

[sangha]

Bush spent 8 years in office and no deep well disasters spoiling hundreds of miles of gulf coastline either... even when Katrina and other hurricanes damaged and destroyed oil rigs. Weird, huh?

get the help you need, before your final breakdown murf!

How pathetic is it that the best you all can come up with in dogged defense of your fearful leader is to claim that other people are crazy?

Who's really the nut when it's YOU who willfully chooses, in creepily blind allegiance, not to see that the emperor has no clothes.

The pathetic blind allegiance is from you. You think it's OK that bush went 8 years without plan and horrible that Obama went for a year.

It's just like the way the right cheered while bush and the republicans increased the national debt by 7 trillion dollars, but when Obama increased it by
one trillion, the wingnuts went crazy throwing teabagging parties.

 

[Murf76]

The pathetic blind allegiance is from you. You think it's OK that bush went 8 years without plan and horrible that Obama went for a year.

Up yours, Obot. You don't know me and you don't know what I think is okay.
And yeah... your master is an empty suit who didn't bother to pay attention to his own rhetoric.

 

[Vel]

get the help you need, before your final breakdown murf!

How pathetic is it that the best you all can come up with in dogged defense of your fearful leader is to claim that other people are crazy?

Who's really the nut when it's YOU who willfully chooses, in creepily blind allegiance, not to see that the emperor has no clothes.

The pathetic blind allegiance is from you. You think it's OK that bush went 8 years without plan and horrible that Obama went for a year.

It's just like the way the right cheered while bush and the republicans increased the national debt by 7 trillion dollars, but when Obama increased it by
one trillion, the wingnuts went crazy throwing teabagging parties.

What does it matter if Bush had a plan or not since he didn't have millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf on his watch. It's OBAMA's administration that approved an emergency response plan that has failed horribly and is now allowing mass devastation to the Gulf coast. Get a clue.. Bush is NOT the president anymore.

 

[sangha]

How pathetic is it that the best you all can come up with in dogged defense of your fearful leader is to claim that other people are crazy?

Who's really the nut when it's YOU who willfully chooses, in creepily blind allegiance, not to see that the emperor has no clothes.

The pathetic blind allegiance is from you. You think it's OK that bush went 8 years without plan and horrible that Obama went for a year.

It's just like the way the right cheered while bush and the republicans increased the national debt by 7 trillion dollars, but when Obama increased it by
one trillion, the wingnuts went crazy throwing teabagging parties.

What does it matter if Bush had a plan or not since he didn't have millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf on his watch

Boy are you dumb. If bush had written a plan, then when the leak began, there would have been a plan to deal with it.

I can't believe you need to have this explained to you