Obama knew from the beginning that oil leak would likely last months

[Mr.Fitnah]

Obama?s EPA plans fewer toxic cleanups - Environment- msnbc.com

 

[SpidermanTuba]

So much for the "Obama didn't know how bad it was" claims.
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"The White House appears resigned to living with the BP oil spill for some time to come. But that’s not surprising—since President Obama and his team were briefed from the outset that the blowout at the Deepwater Horizons rig was epic in scope—and would not be fixable for a long, long time."

"The real disgrace here is why, if he really did know right away that this was the oil equivalent of an asteroid strike, he didn’t scramble some sort of all-hands-on-deck emergency operation to protect the coastline. Remember, Jindal reportedly requested five million feet of hard boom back on May 2, long after Obama (according to Wolffe) knew about the magnitude of the disaster. By May 24, not even 800,000 feet had arrived. What happened?"

Hot Air Report: Obama knew from the beginning that oil leak would likely last months

What "happened?" Is the President supposed to magically fulfill levery single request ever made by a governor instantly? If Jindal had asked for a time machine to go back in time and make the leak never happened, and Obama gave him the time machine a week later, you'd bitch it wasn't the same day.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, told Obama at one of the earliest briefings in late April that the blowout would likely lead to an unprecedented environmental disaster, senior White House aides told The Daily Beast. Browner warned that capping a well at such depths had never been done before, and that they ought to expect an oil spill that would continue until a relief well was drilled in August, the aide said.

That early briefing on the scope of the spill—and enormous technical challenges involved in fixing it—might help explain the sense of fatalism that has infused Obama's team from the start.

Little that has happened since has changed their mind-set. Now six weeks later, the president’s top advisers expect the oil spill—and the negative stories—to continue through August.

The fact that Team Obama was warned of the extent of the disaster so early on suggests that White House officials were aware of the environmental challenge long before they decided to demonstrate concern via presidential visits to the Gulf.

Obama Briefed in April by Carol Browner On How Bad BP Spill Was - The Daily Beast

Funny how Sanjaya just completely glosses over the facts in this post....

 

[SpidermanTuba]

The fact that Team Obama was warned of the extent of the disaster so early on suggests that White House officials were aware of the environmental challenge long before they decided to demonstrate concern via presidential visits to the Gulf.

What kind of moron writes shit like this?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Isn't Jindal now demanding that the other drilling, and new drilling, continue?

I assume all of you who are slamming the president for supposedly not recognizing the seriousness of this early on fully support SHUTTING DOWN ALL DEEPWATER OPERATIONS IN THE GULF IMMEDIATELY?

eh?

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Isn't Jindal now demanding that the other drilling, and new drilling, continue?

I assume all of you who are slamming the president for supposedly not recognizing the seriousness of this early on fully support SHUTTING DOWN ALL DEEPWATER OPERATIONS IN THE GULF IMMEDIATELY?

eh?

Until proper safeguards and effective contingency procedures are developed...yes.

 

[editec]

Obama knew from the beginning that oil leak would likely last months

So much for the "Obama didn't know how bad it was" claims.

Now how the hell would he know that?

What a load of partisan nonsense.