Obama in the Gulf: The wrong focus
Lately, Obama is at least doing a decent job at getting some money for the cleanup. But his behavior from the start of the disaster has been a disaster in itself. The Democrats as well.
The whole strategy from the start has been this blame-game to pin it all on BP. This is not only inaccurate, but it has been extremely counter-productive. It is striking that top executives and experienced real-world problem-solvers are almost 100% in agreement on this.
What Obama should have done immediately was to convene a meeting of the top scientists, engineers and oil executives from all over the world. He should have paid them well to sit in an auditorium in New Orleans 24/7 and bang their heads against this problem.
It is TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me that there is not a way to plug up a damn hole!!! Especially a mile under water. At a mile under water, you have tremendous downward pressures of about 2 tons per square inch. That pressure can not be used to smother the damn hole? I can not accept that!
And Obama should not have accepted that! Anybody who thinks that GETTING MAD is not a part of problem-solving is simply not a problem solver!!! I have found many times that when people get really FURIOUS, problems get solved.
But Obama? He's been sitting there smiling and yakking for 60 days.
I truly believe that Obama simply does not give a damn about the Gulf states, and maybe he even wants to teach them a lesson! Let's face it, none of the Gulf states, other than Florida, voted for Obama. And even Florida had the temerity to vote for Hillary Clinton over him in the primary, by a very substantial majority. Of course, he SNUFFED that one!
So why should Obama care about the Gulf states? Sadly, Obama is a politician, not a President.
And think about this: If 50,000 barrels of oil a day were gushing into Lake Michigan, covering the Chicago Lake Front, do you really think that Obama would be sitting around with his thumb up his yaya?
No way! Obama would be FURIOUS!!! Obama would be SCREAMING!!! Obama would be inciting crowds of 100,000 followers to ACT! To pressure the Government! To pressure BP! Indeed, he would really NOT rest until the damn hole was plugged up.
Contrast that with the Gulf Oil "spill" (gusher). The MSM makes excuses for him that he is just "dispassionate" by nature. Obama? Dispassionate?!?! Is this the meek, "dispassionate" fella who barnstormed from city to city in the 2008 election, firing up crowds of 100,000 people??? Dispassionate??? I don't THINK so!!!
The Democratic Congress has been just as bad. Rather than fixing the problem, they spent the first few weeks having IDIOTIC hearings to crucify BP executives. Guess what? Everybody KNEW from the start that it was BP's fault. Even BP admitted it. What was the sense of this painful elaboration of the obvious, while the Gulf of Mexico was being DESTROYED?
The Gulf is STILL being DESTROYED!!! Talking about money even now is rather irrelevant. It's like a patient who is brought to the Emergency Room bleeding to death, and the doctors all just sit around debating about who is responsible for causing the patient to bleed to death!!! YOU!!! IDIOTS!!!
And why haven't they sent the freeking NAVY there? Send some submarines and freeking aircraft carriers. They could be NAPALMING the slicks. And what about the "bunker blasters" that they developed for Iraq? And is serious consideration being given to a tactical nuke?
It should have been OBVIOUS after the first week that BP didn't have clue. So why did Obama just sit there and do NOTHING? The Coast Guard? They're good people, but we need the Navy. We need the Marines. This is more important then stupid Iraq. Its more important then Afraganistan. And what the F---K are we doing in Afraganistan anyway? Making money off the heroin trade?
Draft 1: 6/17/10.
The whole strategy from the start has been this blame-game to pin it all on BP. This is not only inaccurate, but it has been extremely counter-productive. It is striking that top executives and experienced real-world problem-solvers are almost 100% in agreement on this.
What Obama should have done immediately was to convene a meeting of the top scientists, engineers and oil executives from all over the world. He should have paid them well to sit in an auditorium in New Orleans 24/7 and bang their heads against this problem.
It is TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me that there is not a way to plug up a damn hole!!! Especially a mile under water. At a mile under water, you have tremendous downward pressures of about 2 tons per square inch. That pressure can not be used to smother the damn hole? I can not accept that!
And Obama should not have accepted that! Anybody who thinks that GETTING MAD is not a part of problem-solving is simply not a problem solver!!! I have found many times that when people get really FURIOUS, problems get solved.
But Obama? He's been sitting there smiling and yakking for 60 days.
I truly believe that Obama simply does not give a damn about the Gulf states, and maybe he even wants to teach them a lesson! Let's face it, none of the Gulf states, other than Florida, voted for Obama. And even Florida had the temerity to vote for Hillary Clinton over him in the primary, by a very substantial majority. Of course, he SNUFFED that one!
So why should Obama care about the Gulf states? Sadly, Obama is a politician, not a President.
And think about this: If 50,000 barrels of oil a day were gushing into Lake Michigan, covering the Chicago Lake Front, do you really think that Obama would be sitting around with his thumb up his yaya?
No way! Obama would be FURIOUS!!! Obama would be SCREAMING!!! Obama would be inciting crowds of 100,000 followers to ACT! To pressure the Government! To pressure BP! Indeed, he would really NOT rest until the damn hole was plugged up.
Contrast that with the Gulf Oil "spill" (gusher). The MSM makes excuses for him that he is just "dispassionate" by nature. Obama? Dispassionate?!?! Is this the meek, "dispassionate" fella who barnstormed from city to city in the 2008 election, firing up crowds of 100,000 people??? Dispassionate??? I don't THINK so!!!
The Democratic Congress has been just as bad. Rather than fixing the problem, they spent the first few weeks having IDIOTIC hearings to crucify BP executives. Guess what? Everybody KNEW from the start that it was BP's fault. Even BP admitted it. What was the sense of this painful elaboration of the obvious, while the Gulf of Mexico was being DESTROYED?
The Gulf is STILL being DESTROYED!!! Talking about money even now is rather irrelevant. It's like a patient who is brought to the Emergency Room bleeding to death, and the doctors all just sit around debating about who is responsible for causing the patient to bleed to death!!! YOU!!! IDIOTS!!!
And why haven't they sent the freeking NAVY there? Send some submarines and freeking aircraft carriers. They could be NAPALMING the slicks. And what about the "bunker blasters" that they developed for Iraq? And is serious consideration being given to a tactical nuke?
It should have been OBVIOUS after the first week that BP didn't have clue. So why did Obama just sit there and do NOTHING? The Coast Guard? They're good people, but we need the Navy. We need the Marines. This is more important then stupid Iraq. Its more important then Afraganistan. And what the F---K are we doing in Afraganistan anyway? Making money off the heroin trade?
Draft 1: 6/17/10.
posted by Jack W. Orf | 1:43 PM
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