Re: At least CNN is covering the oil disaster.

Gunner Asch wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:03:30 -0700 (PDT), Bill <johnsondick5@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Perhaps you didn't get the memo? Obama is the top of the government
food chain - true. But, but it in perspective: he was given the task
of somehow preventing a huge financial collapse. So the fact he did
not know what has happening in the MMS should not be a surprise given
the thousands of departments in the government.


That is absolutely no excuse.

It it didnt work for Bush..it certainly cant work for the Obamassiah.

Unless you are hypocrtical?

Ill bet you are, arntcha?

Gunner



Here is an article from the Rolling Stone, hardly a right wing outfit:

"Like the attacks by Al Qaeda, the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by ample warnings – yet the administration had ignored them. Instead of cracking down on MMS, as he had vowed to do even before taking office, Obama left in place many of the top officials who oversaw the agency's culture of corruption. He permitted it to rubber-stamp dangerous drilling operations by BP – a firm with the worst safety record of any oil company – with virtually no environmental safeguards, using industry-friendly regulations drafted during the Bush years. He calibrated his response to the Gulf spill based on flawed and misleading estimates from BP – and then deployed his top aides to lowball the flow rate at a laughable 5,000 barrels a day, long after the best science made clear this catastrophe would eclipse the Exxon Valdez."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=1

In my opinion it's a fairly balanced article. It gives both the Bush and Obama administrations a rap on the knuckles.

Best,
Steve

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