Comments on: Angry Obama on oil spill: ‘Plug the damn hole’

By: Bogofree

Bogofree — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:20:25 +0000

Amazing that a comparison with a previous failed administration is used to justify the current actions of the latest failed administration. This is a stand alone issue.

President WOW (Walk On Water) distanced himself from the issue since it was a BP problem until the PR crap hit the fan along with oil seeping into wetlands and wildlife being inundated with oil. What could the government do about the first problem – the well. Nothing. What could they do about the second problem? Plenty. Are they starting to react? IMHO they are but it was quite slow on the switch. Should have been far more pro active. Should have had the same response regarding resources and response that they had towards Haiti.

I just loved the latest photo op of WOW on The Gulf with no tie, shirt sleeves rolled up and sifting through sand with a pensive look on his face. Certainly restores all my confidence.

By: ML

ML — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:34:31 +0000

Dragging his feet? Seriously? I can’t believe the conservatives are saying that after the Katrina/GW disaster. Bobby Jindal should be out there in his overalls cleaning this damn mess… he has always supported the drilling, just like is other Republican cronies.

President Obama is doing what he can do… albeit a little late. Imagine what W would do in this situation… he’s put his boots on the table, sip his drink and think, “the American people will forget about this just like they did with these unjust wars.”

By: Chartreuse

Chartreuse — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:58:53 +0000

Give me a break! Plugging the damn hole is absolutely the first step to even beginning to assess the damage. It should be a no-brainer that he’s not suggesting that’s the whole solution but a start. Still peddling the community organizer bs?? You’d think you and your equally uninspired compatriots would be able to come up with something a little more original since that pap didn’t exactly work for the election did it? “Plug the dam hole” beats “drill baby drill” or “heckuva job Brownie”. Obama is exactly right. That needs to happen asap so that the feds can move onto the next stage.

By: Almandine

Almandine — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:13:19 +0000

Except for the rescue effort and boom deployment, for which I’d like to see documentation, the activities you list may actually have nothing to do with staunching the disaster. And the govt has, in fact, relied on BP for doing everything to stop the oil flow. Sending ships and people is only meaningful oif they’re actively involved. Cabinet meetings, ships cruising around, staging areas, and activation of troops sound good…

By: Bogofree

Bogofree — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:41:53 +0000

How many teleprompters would it take to fill the hole?

By: Terry Ott

Terry Ott — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:33:41 +0000

Obama had never actually been in charge of any organization of any significance, or for that matter of any activity requiring discipline and focus other than his own activity and perhaps a handful of willing volunteers. That why I could not bring myself to support him for POTUS. One never knows what situations will arise that will require organizational leadership, the kind a real world executive must demonstrate when the doo-doo hits a fan, but one knows that those situations WILL occur, and with regularity.

People get enamored of words and style as a result of campaigns, and forget that an entirely new and different scenario virtually leaps up on the day after a candidate becomes a CEO of the largest and most complex organization ever.

I’m all for learning on the job, but the learning has to be absorbed on top of the skills acquired earlier in life, The man is not ready for prime time. How could he have been?

By: Almandine

Almandine — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:06:45 +0000

snark, snark, yuk, yuk…

By: Jim C

Jim C — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:22:18 +0000

He’s so mad he almost actually did something .

By: Danny Adams

Danny Adams — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:58:56 +0000

>>…Republicans in Congress demand more action and response from Obama.<<

Maybe Obama was under the assumption that Republicans were in favor of as little government intervention as possible, especially when it comes to the government leaving businesses alone to do their work unhindered.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:03:58 +0000

Let’s see while BP has consistently lied its ass off for weeks about the nature and size of the spill finally showing feeds of ONE leak, the government:
immediately convened a cabinet level meeting within hours of the blowup
immediately sent the Coast Guard onsite to try to rescue any survivors
has deployed over 20,000 people to the Gulf
put more than 1,200 vessels onsite
laid almost 2 million feet of containment boom
created and coordinated almost 20 separate staging areas
17,500 National Guard troops activated

so yeah they haven’t done a thing.