Thread: I guess BP stands for "Broken Promises"

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Everyone who hates Obama is just waiting to blame him for as much as they can for political advantage.

Anyone who blames Obama for the spill is an idiot. That said President Barack Obama sure has shown the world his inability or unwillingness to be a leader on this.

Originally Posted by JMS

Anyone who blames Obama for the spill is an idiot. That said President Barack Obama sure has shown the world his inability or unwillingness to be a leader on this.

That's right the first day he should have dressed up in his John Wayne garb and gone down to the gulf area and stood on a Coast Guard Ship and shook his fist at BP and then he should have dove off the ship and swam down and fixed it himself. Then he should have brought all our troops home from all over the world to start cleaning up this mess and he should be stationed on the gulf coast dressed in coveralls cleaning the mess up himself.

At least he didn't show up for a photo op with a banner saying "mission accomplished".

Who was it that said: ""I am in control here" for about
30 seconds folk bought it and thought well of AH... But now
he is history.

Know you limits

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

That's right the first day he should have dressed up in his John Wayne garb and gone down to the gulf area and stood on a Coast Guard Ship and shook his fist at BP and then he should have dove off the ship and swam down and fixed it himself. Then he should have brought all our troops home from all over the world to start cleaning up this mess and he should be stationed on the gulf coast dressed in coveralls cleaning the mess up himself.

I think dressing up as John Wayne is a little too much but he might exchange his short pants for a more presidential suit.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

At least he didn't show up for a photo op with a banner saying "mission accomplished".

We are speaking of Obamas Katrina here

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

Who was it that said: ""I am in control here" for about
30 seconds folk bought it and thought well of AH... But now
he is history.

Know you limits

Alexander Haig Was not the president and in declaring himself in control showed he did not know his limits. Obama on the other hand is our president but he apparently doesn't understand his responsibilities:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c101:1:./temp/~c101OGJU0b:e64668:

Originally Posted by JMS

We are speaking of Obamas Katrina here

One was a natural disaster and the other was due to human error.
One had a death toll of almost 2000 people and the other had a toll of 11.

Try to keep things in perspective please.

Originally Posted by commiecat

One was a natural disaster and the other was due to human error.
One had a death toll of almost 2000 people and the other had a toll of 11.

Try to keep things in perspective please.

I believe I am keeping it in perspective.

The 2000 dead can be laid at the feet of Katrina, Mayor Nagin, and Governor Blanco. We still don't know all the facts with this oil spill. We do know that it was almost 12 days before the Federal government responded...and how did the respond? By sending SWAT teams out to all the other oil rigs and platforms in the gulf. Does that make sense? Governor Jindal is pulling his hair out over this mess. every time he has a plan to protect his state the federal government has to do an environmental audit or some such nonsense. It seems to me the government should be removing the red tape to speed up the process of taking care of this mess. instead it is allowing the red tape to ensnare the efforts to control this disaster.

Originally Posted by JMS

Anyone who blames Obama for the spill is an idiot. That said President Barack Obama sure has shown the world his inability or unwillingness to be a leader on this.

Well, what should he have done differently?
BP would give anything for Obama to yell at them to step aside and let someone else fix it. It would absolve them of all responsibility for every day the spill continues. Furthermore, BPs engineers and scientists are the most qualified to solve the problem. They warned BP management often enough.

I heard it happened like this...

Seriously though, I dont think they're letting it run on this long on purpose. Its going to be a difficult exercise to fix the leak, and whatever happens BP knows they're going to get hammered for all of this.

Their share price has already tanked a fair amount. They've rallied slightly so far today, but if you look at the one month charts, they've slumped a load. So even if they get this thing fixed asap, their shareholders arent going to be happy..!