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water_watcher
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Was Obama right?
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6/10/2010 7:09:30 AM
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Curious what people think about Obama's response to the gulf oil situation?
1. For over 2 months he has not contacted BP oil CEO or anyone there to work together or even discuss how the government can work together.
2. He goes on a morning prime time show (when children can be watching with their parents) and says he is too busy trying to find out whose a** to kick. Nice! That accomplishes a lot.
3. Busy trying to make political hay by making speaches that he will make BP pay no matter what ... when BP has NEVER said they would not and have taken responsibility for all costs.
4. Trying to tell BP they should not pay a dividend (British company) ... they and their board is responsible for evaluating liabilities, reserves, cash flow, etc as to if a dividend can be declared.
5. By not talking and working with BP, allowing them to make all decisions on how to close or contain the well ... so he has someone to blame?
6. Two weeks before the disaster pledges to expand off shore drilling, not wants a to close all 37,000 wells and put many people out of work.
7. Wants to greatly increase amount of money a company has to pledge up front for any oil drilling which is beyond what small businesses can come up with, so makes all drilling with the big oil guys.
8. Not stepping in and protecting our coast lines no matter what it takes and telling BP we will send you the bill. Instead he has also put that on BP. He may not be able to stop the oil, but it is our coats lines and it should be our governments responsibility to protect no matter what ... who pays should be after the fact decision.
While Obama may not be able to stop the oil ... it sure seems he should have from day one been taking to the CEO and working hand in hand to get all available talent, including other oil company experts in to assist. Beyond that, he should have taken control of protecting the coast lines and not going on TV talking about kicking a**, then complaining BP is not doing enough.
Show some leadership Mr President with action and not speaches.
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Jim Dandy
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6/10/2010 8:44:52 AM
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Give the guy a break WW - he had to go out and sell the health care plan to a group of seniors this week. Funny, thought that was already law.....
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water_watcher
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Was Obama right?
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6/10/2010 9:09:00 AM
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You are right ... after he forced Obamacare down everyones thoat, now he is out trying to be sure everyones swallows so they don't choke.
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MartiniMan
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No, Obama is left.....
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6/10/2010 9:10:12 AM
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Being involved in this to some degree I can tell you that the federal government has been nothing but an impediment. The best thing they could do is clear away the bureaucracy so the states and private entities can act. It took us two weeks to get approval from the USCG to go out and collect samples. It took the USACOE 6 weeks to approve the temporary berm idea which was too late as the oil reached the marshes while they dithered. Now BP will likely and legitimately mount a defense that if the Corps had approved the dikes sooner the damage would not have occurred. I am sympathetic to their argument.
The fact is Obama is helpless, clueless and thoroughly incompetent. He doesn't know what to do and is taking his advice from the likes of Spike Lee who urged him to kick some a--. Within a week he is talking just like the film director urged him to talk. How comforting to know our CIC takes his leadership advice from a guy that makes movies. And even less comforting is his man-child belief that talking trash is leadership.
He was not qualified for the job and the government media was AWOL in exposing his incompetence. His only successes in his entire life is the ability to convince people to for him because he is an unusually good liar. Beyond that he has no legislative or executive experience or successes. He is exactly what I and many other conservatives said he would be but voters took a hope on change and all we get is hopeless and change for the worse.
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water_watcher
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6/10/2010 4:23:29 PM
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forgot about raising the tax on all domestic oil from .08 cents a barrel to .41 cents a barrel .... gee guess who really pays that? Not the oil companies, but every american in the price they pay at the pump, home heating, electric costs, factories, etc.
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