Did Pres. Obama make a mistake

cajunkiwi

unsung wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i think he should have come out and said something much sooner than 34 days after the event. i think he should tell the drill baby drill people to piss off and that we are looking for alternative sources NOW... and that after stopping the leak and cleaning up, we are getting off the oil tit and focusing on renewables. and if any politician stands in the way of that he should call them out on it. this is an opportunity for him to either do something great and progressive or do nothing and keep the status quo....

It makes the Bush timeframe for Katrina look rather speedy. That's scary.

It still amazes me that people seem to forget he came down here on May 2... half the country is acting like his most recent visit was the first time he'd set foot in Louisiana since the explosion. As it is, nobody knew the magnitude of the disaster until a week after the explosion - unlike Katrina, where people knew right away, but Bush went to clear scrub in Crawford anyway.

I'm not absolving Obama of blame - I'd like it if he gave BP a royal ass kicking, then got someone else to clean up the Gulf and send BP the bill - but it's not like Bush was better in his handling of Katrina.

On a side note - and I don't think I've ever seen Unsung say this, so in case anyone thinks I'm attributing this to him, I'm not, I'm just going off on a tangent - if one more conservative redneck down here says "DO YOU MISS BUSH YET?" I'm going to renounce pacifism for five minutes and beat them to a pulp. One guy doing a C+/C- job does NOT make me miss a guy who got an F...

cajunkiwi

unsung wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i think he should have come out and said something much sooner than 34 days after the event. i think he should tell the drill baby drill people to piss off and that we are looking for alternative sources NOW... and that after stopping the leak and cleaning up, we are getting off the oil tit and focusing on renewables. and if any politician stands in the way of that he should call them out on it. this is an opportunity for him to either do something great and progressive or do nothing and keep the status quo....

It makes the Bush timeframe for Katrina look rather speedy. That's scary.

While I think of it (minor threadjack), I hope your family is well. I noticed you hadn't posted on your previous thread about your stepfather - hope the family is doing okay.

Jeanwah

Cosmo wrote:

And hold the 'Drill, Baby, Drill' crowd responsible, too. Get their fat lazy asses down to the Gulf and clean that shit up, too. Start with their cheerleader bitch, Sarah.

Sarah would rather blame environmentalists. :roll:
I agree though, the oil cheerleaders should be the ones cleaning up.

primussucks

Not only did he make a mistake but he continues making one as every day goes by. Do people realize this same problem has occured in Russia 4 times??? Guess how long it took them to stop the oil leak each time? 2 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right 2 days!!!! How? They blew it up! They sent their navy ships out and dropped depth charges blowing up and collapsing the leak! Now ask yourself WHY ISN'T AMERICA DOING THE SAME EXACT THING???????? Here is why: because if you blow it up you won't be able to collect oil from that well again! So another words it's all about the almighty dollar! BP and all the people in Washington that have made their millions in the oil business care more about getting more oil out of that well then they do about our oceans, the living creatures in the ocean, the birds that feed off of those creatures, the money it will and already is costing businesses along the Gulf thus costing people jobs, the money it will cost the Gulf states to clean up the oil that comes onto their beaches amongst many other expenses. I hope the states and all the businesses sue BP!!!