Hookbender — Jun 02, 2010[quote author=charger link=1274815922/25#47 date=1275451924]What would you have liked him to do? Obviously, there is no successful way to cap this thing until they drill the relief wells. Obama could have been standing on the deck of Horizon itself and, apparently, it wouldn't make a difference. Every attempt to cap it so far has failed.
There's a huge difference between Katrina and the oil spill. Katrina was a natural disaster. Even with a perfect plan, that storm still would have hit land and the levees still would have been breached. The resulting slowness on the part of the government aggravated matters and the response should have been better coordinated and happened faster. The government waited too long to act.
This is not a natural disaster. This is a completely preventable, human-caused disaster. The time to stop this was before it started. Now there is nothing to do but drill relief wells and watch the Gulf get obliterated.
Is your reading of events somehow different from mine? Are you seeing some course of action Obama didn't take that he should have? Do you know the solution that has eluded the BP containment crews?
Yes. My reading of the events are different. The reading of the events include the reality of the situation and not blind devotion to democrats and liberal defensive crap. Even democrats are pissed about this. Like James Carver, for example.
The governments reaction was, and is, slow as hell on both of these disasters.
James Car
ville wants Obama to get on TV and get mad, and fume, and do the whole Bill Clinton I-feel-your-pain act. I think that would be nice too. Would that make you feel better? Maybe, though who knows. You don't seem to like Obama enough that there is anything he can do to make you happy. Obama is very logical, like Spock, and for people who want an emotional leader, it's infuriating. But--would it help? What is the actual, physical thing that Obama could and should have done? All attempts to cap the oil have failed. Obviously Obama doesn't have a magic wand; likewise, I wouldn't expect him or anyone in his administration to have the scientific acumen to cap this well. After all, if you've read up on Deep Water Horizon at all you know that this is the deepest drilling rig
ever. The number of people who have experience with this sort of operation are all working on it, and they are very few.
I'm going to go out on (not much of) a limb here and say maybe this well should never have been drilled. Maybe we shouldn't be pulling oil up from 5000 feet under water and 30000 feet under the ocean floor...