You do realize that CEO stand for Chief Executive Officer which means he is in charge. Sorry if you see no value in talking to the guy who is in charge of stopping the oil. All Obama showed us with this silly excuse is that he really doesn’t even understand the concept of leadership.




Like I assumed, you didn't understand. What I said was that if we are going to use oil there has to be wells and it is better to drill where we can control it. Something we need to do a better job and something Obama made a big deal out of his campaign then sort of forgot about when he came into office. If it was Mexico who had drilled this well do you believe we would be a better position? Would it be OK if this oil was washing up on the coast of Africa with a country that has almost no means to fight it?

I stand by my position that stopping domestic drilling without changing oil consumption does nothing to protect the environment and this situation in no way proves me wrong.




Yes they could. It can always get worse.






Obama is responsible to do what he can to minimize the damage of any disaster no matter who is at fault and simply being personally engaged would be a big step. No he cannot personally stop the leak and short of using a nuke there is nothing the Navy can do to stop the leak. That doesn't mean it isn't his problem and he shouldn't be talking to people involved and ensuring that everything that can be done is being done.

I see you ignore the point we has done nothing to engage other private contractors but has instead thrown his hands in the air and spent most of energy trying to blame Bush instead.




A disaster is a disaster no matter who caused it. I don't blame Obama for not being able to plug the hole I blame him for not showing leadership and treating this like he would any other disaster. If he had been fully engaged in this situation before it became a political issue I wouldn't have a problem. It seems that up until now he has pretty much left things to the Coast Guard and BP. He is the leader of the free world and has a lot of weight to throw around if he chooses. I simple meeting where brought in all the important people and explained to them in no uncertain terms that he was not taking any excuses but expected them to do any and everything possible to stop the leak and minimize the damage. I guess that would have interfered with his speeches and fund raising not to mention golf game.

If you look at what really went wrong with Katrina and the human suffer right after the storm it was mainly caused by failures at the state and local level. Bush is not the one who didn't evacuate the city or who shoved a bunch of people into a football stadium with almost no security or even enough food and water to last for the three days they are told it will take for federal resources to arrive. It was the state government who decided to put the priority on getting people out instead of getting supplies in. None of that makes up for the fact that the federal government failed to lead and didn’t step in when they were needed.




Gather papers and evidence by all means. When you start trying to put people in prison stopping the leak begins to take a backseat to not going to prison. Some of them may be to pretty for prison. This is about politics not about solving the problem. Again a failure of leadership.