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Only it wasn't Obama who was stationed at the post - it was BP.
For too long Congress has allowed the oil companies to regulate themselves. Because they only look at the bottom line and try to cut costs whenever they can, something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Also, Katrina was a natural disaster. There was nothing that could be done to stop or prevent the hurricane doing from what it was doing. This oil spill could have been totally preventable by installing a remote cut-off switch that BP uses in it's oil platforms off the coast of England. However, U.S. law does not require oil companies to use these, so BP didn't to save on costs.
For a third, the government response has been pretty fast for this oil spill, all things considered, or as fast as can be expected. It takes times to fix problems like these. But whenever Congress tries to pass laws that prevent these kinds of things, conservatives decry it as "more federal regulation on private businesses that will cause corporations that provide jobs to Americans to leave this country, and we can't have that!" So because conservatives block American legislation, I don't see why they're lambasting Obama for apparently not doing anything when the conservative position is that the government shouldn't get involved in such things.
I'll give you full marks for a valiant effort, but the Gong Show act got Gonged looong ago.
9 days after the spill he sent a gaggle of bureaucrats, lawyers, envirohacks. Oh, and a SWAT team from the Enviromaniac Dept! That's our man of the moment. The man with great judgment and swift action.
These folks he sent know nothing about engineering or the oil business. It would be like sending a group of lawyers after the world watched the towers fall on 911 to confirm the buildings collapsed and to open the market as wide as possible for claims.
That's after 9-days, and a chorus of questions from talk radio. The evil ones Obi says we shouldn't listen to.
It would be great to run a parallel disaster with Bush as president, and listen to and watch the furor. Watch and hear the difference in treatment.
They (meaning the opposition; the US Pres corps) would have used Bush's oil background and Cheney's having run Halliburton (and did a fine job btw). It would have been a blood bath of enormous proportions. Obi though he loves oil money and Wall Street money... well, "he's the one we have been waiting for." Can'touch'at.
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