"What is he WAITING for?"

I can understand RWers asking this question, but Keith Olbermann? Ed Schultz? James Carville? Donna Brazile? Why do they refuse to listen to the press briefings or conference calls?

Every single time the questions are asked and answered, it's as if it goes in one ear and out the other of those people! Do they REALLY believe that just because Obama didn't put on his Aquaman suit and shoot down to the broken pipes and tie them together that he's not doing anything??? :eyes:

...is still in charge instead of the U.S. gov't.

govt. isn't working with BP and telling them what to do with THEIR experts and experts from all over the WORLD.

and they answered it: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/press-briefing-20100524

Obama and his admin. are NOT doing anything but sitting back and watching BP???

a lot of these people on DU are trolls hyping it up.

"hyping it up..."

and as usual, many of us take the bait...:hide:

It's far easier to report on a problem and criticize than to find a solution.

...everybody except Obama apologists - the same people who blamed Bush for not doing enough during Katrina.

This disaster makes Katrina look like a summer breeze.

or manageable in the same way then I don't believe that you are seeing the whole picture.


It takes a realist to be able to see that.


But I'm sure the Obama Administration has done nothing at all. Just keep telling yourself that.

On edit. Flag me, ignore me, or yell at your monitor.

I'm not going to waste time on a reply to you.

Just sit back in your easy chair and scream that it is Obama's fault and that he has done nothing at all.

You're clearly in the know about what has been and what has not been done so you need not waste any more of your precious time talking to me.


Now excuse me as I laugh silently at all the DU screamers.

Unfortunately, if they are on my ignore list, I have found them to be unreachable, but good try.

effort to protect some sensitive estuaries on the florida coast before the oil arrives and haven't seen anything yet. I am waiting for some proactive efforts not reactive. I don't expect him to plug the leak. I do expect him to coordinate protecting what can be protected at this point. That is the leadership I am waiting for.

Louisiana is my home...I know a few if you need some help:eyes:

then I can watch folks who earned whatever it is that we end up with,
to see what their passion will do for them then.

asking the same question over and over and over!

Your stuff is getting creepier by the day.

That statement, particularly.

Try to keep it your pants, will you?

You know, keith has an incurable disease and demands to know why the doctor doesn't cure it TODAY.

And starts telling him how to do it, but in his ignorance suggests things that the doc knows would kill him.

Someone is responsible for something, doesn't mean they get to be in charge.

The fact that Obama let BP stay in charge of this event, and let the Coast Guard protect BP's need for no public air time on our news, stinks to high heaven.

BP needs to be responsible only for the COSTS of the cleanup. Obama should be using his pen to sign an Executive Order to take any equipment that BP has and divert it to the task at hand.

With BP standing down.

divert it to the task at hand." Should Obama operate the equipment himself??? The admin. has the best scientists around the WORLD offering their advice to BP. BP is NOT "in charge" of figuring out what to do. They're working with the govt. and ITS experts. Is Nobel Prize-winning scientist Steven Chu a member of BP? No-he's a member of the Obama admin.

British Petroleum is in charge.

Let me repeat that, BP is in charge.

And BP has the local police hampering citizens arriving at the coast to work. BP is hampering people already at the coast trying to work.

And BP is hampering the media/.

Check out this video and the one that is posted in one of the comments blelow it:

So who died and made Tony Hayward the king? Yes, that's the BP CEO yelling "get 'em out of there, get 'em out of there" to the media who is filming him as he "works" on the oil slick cleanup. The last time I checked, we don't live in the United States of BP. Again, would someone in the White House like to step up and take control of this situation? This pompous ass thinks he owns the place and quite frankly, he does at the moment.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/05/bp-ceo-walks-on-oil-...
action is my duty, reward is not my concern

Why is the WH allowing BP's rather pathetically inaccurate attempt at the oil barrel numbers to stand as the real count?

Scientists are saying that some 4 Million gals a day have been escaping, and yet the WH allows BP to say that the amount is 5,000 barrels (47 gals to a barrel - so you have a factoring difference of twenty in the count of amount of crude hitting the water.

And of course it is to BP's benefit to have the smaller count - as they will be liable, should the Obama Administration pursue it, to pay on the order of $ 1,000 a unit (forget what the unit is, but twenty times less in fines will be significant.)

"Obama should be using his pen to sign an Executive Order to take any equipment that BP has and divert it to the task at hand."

:rofl:

omg...

"Obama's Katrina" makes such good copy. The Idiotic Media Narrative (IMN) is that Obama hasn't been doing anything; so the search is on for any facts that might support that IMN. And if the facts aren't there, they can be invented.

Ed Schultz said this could be Obama's "Waterloo." Thomas Friedman said it's Obama's "9/11" and he's reacting as poorly as Bush did. :eyes:

Oh, and also supported Bewsh's occupations of choice.

So I think whatever he says can probably be taken with a grain of salt. Just a hunch . . .

...they just want to see him in his Superman outfit. :eyes:

tie the tubes together? He and his admin. are, and HAVE been, doing their best to figure out how to fix the leak. :eyes:

Obama is at fault because they say he is. It is that simple.

He must have a plan that he is sitting on, and for some reason he isn't doing anything.


Here we go again. Yet another thing that Obama has screwed up. With fly-off-the-handle DUers who needs the GOP spin machine?

marine-biology, physics, chemical engineering and got his degree and now is a bona-fide rocket-scientist? This is what's pissing them off. They know he's not using his "degrees" or "skills" from years of training under the ocean.:eyes:


....give me a fucking break...what a bunch of idiots...

Oh the pain!

Oh, I forgot.....here they only read headlines....which is more than enough, ITO.

Got it yet?

tomorrow. You think it's to read the paper?

He only knows what he reads in the papers, apparently.

Pathetic and scary.

For a moment I thought....wow, and this guy is the smartest we've got and didn't realize how bad that would sound.

:scared:

For a bunch of people who seem to have the answers to EVERYTHING I can't help but wonder why none of them have ever run for president? Carville and Schultz are full of themselves, Olbermann is as well but to a lesser extent...Donna Brazile usually is more level headed, but either way, they all take themselves way too seriously need to remember to keep their egos in check!

in the french quarter,he and his witch just moved back to new orleans and Donna brazilles family lives there..

Circle the wagons around the anointed one.

If you could only see yourselves as others see you.

Lasted a long time here.

Which is getting harder as the denial and hysteria mounts in the wake of the gusher.

.... if the President can "kill" so easily by sending troops off to war, why can't he "heal" just as easily by sending troops to the Gulf?

If only it were that easy.

Do some research that doesn't involve checking the Big Three of the cable news media--just because we haven't gotten a bullhorn moment atop the rubble doesn't mean the President isn't doing anything.

:shrug:

Feel me to call me to task when the president begins to lead.

see.

anyways, you'll throw a fit no matter what happens. it's all you're capable of doing, apparently. have fun repeating yourself.

:shrug:

Like this?

http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/05/greens_call_for_salazars_resignation.html

Human nature is to say we can do something, in this situation you are fucked for 90 days.

My Dad got Pancreatic Cancer and died a few years ago. There were a few relatives that were absolutely nuts because surely something could be done. Nope, my Dad was going to die. There was no cure for that cancer in those late stages. Only thing that could be done was to make him comfortable. Even if they caught it earlier, that cancer would eventually kill him. He might have gotten an extra year, probably a miserable one with radiation and chemo hoping for a .5% chance of survival and a miracle.

However, a few relatives were angry at everyone from my mother (who encouraged my dad to embrace hospice) to the doctors because they didn't like the reality.

I'm a big KO and RM fan, but at the end of the day they ALL peddle drama.

They just have different spins on it and make different selection about what to dramatize.

:donut:

What we are all feeling is powerless in the face of BP's and the government's impotence.

:rofl:

That's what Michael Savage said...

:hi:

Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Donna Brasile have expressed their frustration with the WH on this matter as well.

Not exactly Michael Savage.

I was on the Bay Bridge when hearing this, usually I can't stand his voice but I was listening today for a little bit.

Hmmm, who said that......

at this depth. And the enormity of the spill simply means some things will not work out perfectly. Putting BP under federal control simply means they will try the same things as before to stop the spill but the federal govt. will be in charge. Same with the cleanup, aside from maybe the questions on the dispersant used, I fail to see the big difference. Also, BP can turn around and say the govt. is now responsible monetarily for cleaning up the spill.

Hyperbole about Katrina and 9/11 fails to mention no human lives were are at stake accept human livelihoods. The only good to come out of it is that Rwers who make their living off the coast may rethink drilling as being good.

the ocean either. There are wells much deeper then that however.

I would imagine it has something to do with our lack of reknewables and our extreme dependence on oil. It is bigger then any one President.

But it contributes to the general appearance of a WH that has n coherent policy or leadership on the issue in general.

these are contracts that are already in progress.

thank-you:bounce: