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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (76249)	5/27/2010 8:32:31 AM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

From what I know, the operations to plug the leak are being run by lawyers. From what I know it's been being run by engineers, from all over. Not by lawyers, and certainly not by pundits.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (76249)	5/27/2010 1:55:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It has been? How so? Let us wait for the press conference today. In the absence of what a President has to say, we are free to form our own opinions and conclusions on the Fed's response. Obama has spoken repeatedly on the subject in the last month. There is only so much a president can say. Besides it is not politically correct for Obama to be going to fund raisers when there is a oil leak that has not been plugged yet. From what I know, the operations to plug the leak are being run by lawyers. I don't know of any fund raiser but from what I understand, the operation to plug the leak has involved engineers from all the oil companies as well as scientists from the Obama administration. What I am finding is that there is a lot of hearsay that rarely is based on facts. It is stupid for Carville to say that the President should visit LA so that he gets a first hand knowledge and that people around him are keeping info from him. This is a President who rode into office with his Blackberry which signifies that he is always in touch with the outside world, the common person. Is Carville now saying that the President has stopped doing that and instead only relies on folks around him? He was there two weeks ago.....and will be there on Friday. In the meantime, the EU is experiencing a meltdown and NK is threatening to go to war with SK. He has multiple priorities. He is a smart, intelligent man with gifted skills in oratory. Maybe with the press conference, this is the right time for him to finally come out. But I think he should have held his press conference before he went for a fund raising campaign to California. It seems if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, then it didn't fall. Obama has spoken repeatedly through Gibbs, Axlerod et al and in his Saturday addressses to the nation about the oil spill. I guess if one doesn't hear them, then one can conclude he's not said a word......but is that fair? OTOH, his trip to California was successful in that he raised 100,000 dollars per hour. So people are still very supportive of him and his detractors need to take note of that. His detractors will make his going for fund raising an issue while at the same time pushing aside the main purpose of his visit which was to cut the ribbon for a solar cell manufacturing plant which is expected to create a significant amount of energy besides creating a source of energy which is alternative to oil. And while at the plant, he also mentioned about the reopening of a auto plant just 1/2 mile down the road. This auto plant is recalling about 1000 workers back. All very positive news in the backdrop of the spill. I didn't know he was going to CA for a fund raiser.....I thought he was going to CA to attend a plant opening....Solyndra. I am sorry if I sound a little tense but I am a little tired of all the accusations. This oil spill is like something we have never experienced before. No one had any pat answers. The last thing we need IMO is a president freaking out. I like his cool, deliberative approach.......it keeps the hysteria down to a dull roar.