If this BP spill is chess, Obama is pinned. He can stand with BP, or bite the hand that feeds him

This is why you'll never see a "bullhorn moment" from Obama.

Can you see Obama declaring "war" on the corporations that did this to the good people in the Gulf? Why not? Pretty obvious, right?

Sid

He can't, right?

"Why won't he just release his birth certificate."

He's on their team.

Post "fail" and sidestep the debate all you want.

They have the money and 'need' to clean it up. Once the job is done BP can go back to making a buck.

Why does anyone think we need one, other then a logical approach?

BP killed 11 Americans and will drive countless others to ruin.

Call it primitive, but I'd like to see someone sticking up for us, even if it starts symbolically.

Why are some obsessed with what Bush did, as if it was some great thing? It made his poll #'s rise but he did not give a crap about anyone involved in what happened on 9/11. Politicians manipulate easily. I prefer when they don't get on tv and tell me things will be just fine when they won't be.

Because we can't handle the truth about who's side he's going to be on when those fishermen and resort owners start fighting for Justice.

He's supposed to be a Democrat, but this is going to blow his cover.

Prove me wrong!

Obama blew the real cover yesterday by nearly mentioning peak oil. Why the hell else do we go looking for oil 5000 feet below the surface? The best thing we can do is push politicians to talk honestly about needing a framework for getting alternative energy in place. The time is now. We won't stop drilling anytime soon, we can't. We are screwed, our economy and the industrial world is dependent on the stuff.
As far as getting BP to pay up, the up and down vote in Congress for lifting the liability cap didn't happen because a Rethug held it up. We shall see but they are absolutely liable for at least $75 million in damages regarding the Gulf. If they don't pay up, they will have to be taken to court. I think they would pay it, they want to move on and be out drilling again and making more millions.

Waste of talent and education.

have had their livelihoods and communities destroyed by their negligence, due in large part to laissez-faire policies of Bush/Cheney that his agencies are carrying out today.

Maybe those girls will save the day and get Obama to stand up to BP, but I doubt it because BP supplies most of the oil for the wars.

BP Supplies 80% Of Fuel To US Forces-Another Reason WHY They Will NEVER Be Prosecuted!
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Mere mortals wouldn't understand.

He's got BP right where he wants them.


In all fairness to Obama, he has no power and it was made plain as day these last 28 days. Yesterday's incident with him not even knowing BP hadn't pumped anything in 16 hours while he reassured the nation that BP didn't make a single move without the administration's ok, was the plainest. In this globalized world, Obama wouldn't last 5 minutes if he declared war on such a depraved, global crime syndicate.

Big business and big money aren't playing around. Look at the deplorable behavior of a certain element in the Democratic Party when they think there might be a nickel in something for them. By the time you're talking about trillions of dollars, the depravity knows no depths. They'd shoot him, shoot his kids, and burn the entire USA down if that's what it took for them to keep stealing.

It's time to ask hard questions about how we got this way and how we can peacefully get out of this sick global jam.

This incident shows it. Just like the bailouts. The President is subservient to the Fed, and to corporations as big as BP. Makes you wonder who the real "president" is.

The Board of Directors approves 10, 15, 20, 50 year plans. When one President's term is up, others applicants come present their qualifications and promise to eagerly follow those plans. The Board narrows it down to a couple and make them the front runners before we get the vote to rubberstamp whatever they'll allow us to rubberstamp.

Great racket.

There's our real "president", that neverchanging international Board of Directors of shriveled sickly greedy bastards who congregate at Bilderberg and G-number conferences behind heavy security.

Obama's either a willing lackey or in way over his head. I think he's in way over his head and didn't realize how much of his soul he had to sell to those bastards. It's one thing to believe in liberal economics and want to try to regain your country's imperial standing but it's another to watch those bastards trash our Gulf and make callous comments like "Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp" (BP CEO, Randy Prescott)

We had some French friends over for dinner last night and the conversation was about this catastrophe. They explained how unbelievable they found it that our entire government is so subservient that criminals hauled in front of Congress can just sit there and keep repeating "I don't remember" and get away with it.

I'm sorry Rudy. I ranted a little.

I just cannot believe we're seeing it so plainly, a corporation shitting on Americans and telling us to STFU about it, with no resistance from our President.

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in this new globalized world, you can't bite the hand of your masters and get away with it.

The charade is up. What we're seeing here is who's really in charge of this country.

See my sigline.

We will see. BP lied to Obama just like they lied in public. Will he call them out?

Not yet, he hasn't. He DID send Chu and team to the BP BOP discussions. Only when was that? Just last week? Anybody know when?

But now BP is working with their BOP which was the plan all along to stop the flow. That's what the BOP is designed to do: stop the flow. Ok, it broke, so now they are fixing it... 5. Weeks. Later.

This will be, if it gets further out of control, Obama's Katrina.

Sad. Sad beyond belief.

Pandering is not change.
K&R