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

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (76525)	5/28/2010 5:01:30 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

During the press conference yesterday, Obama politely told the press that he has more important things to do instead of keeping track of the MMS head and what transpires between her and her boss. He knows how to delegate. But the press I suppose are thick heads and they just don't get it. The press is also concerned that Thad Allen was not aware that "topkill" was temporarily suspended. Seems like some ignorant reporters expect Thad Allen to be standing around on the shore talking to the folks on the ship constantly. What a damn circus the press is creating?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (76525)	5/28/2010 5:53:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I was gonna post this sooner or later..now is good. Besides this being Katrina, Chernoybl,Watergate, Sestakgate, Waterloo,Health Care, and Pearl Harbor for Obama, it's also Apollo 13, but in slow motion. In A13, from the time Tom Hanks said he had a problem, and heard,"This is President Obama, Mr. Hanks; we will get you back" until we read "The very happy End" was 90 minutes...3 or 4 days in real life. On this one, a movie minute = a real day, cuz, even if something works short term, The End comes when the relief well totally cements things in. Details like,"Uh, Tom Hanks, you may not have enuf oxygen" aren't problems...every imaginable mind and resource in the world is available. It's just a matter of making maddening slow progress. == Amrita on May 27, 2010 - 10:16am First post, so please forgive my ignorance and delete if inappropriate to this thread. Can anyone tell me why they waited over a month to attempt this top kill? Prof. Goose on May 27, 2010 - 10:28am Mostly Amrita, it's because the engineering to do this took a very long time to get right. The pressures and other difficulties under the water made this a logistic nightmare--it was unprecedented. Worse, it was a one-shot game--they screwed it up, this thing gushed until the pressure eased. == Slatz on May 27, 2010 - 10:50am It took them time to determine that pumping in 10-12,000 PSI mud into the BOP wouldn't fail it and make a terrible situation even worse. They also had to design and fabricate specialized fittings that would latch onto the various ports on the BOP, that would hold up to 10-12000 PSI. They probably did in 4-5 weeks what any sane engineer would have quoted 6-12 months to do under normal circumstances. You really ought to check out some of the prep that went into this by the ROV's. Simply amazing what they can do. bp.concerts.com Slatz == Also, it took Chu's gamma ray imager, which had to be brought in, ?redesigned, etc. I read some comment that this is like a weekend home repair job, where you keep running to the hardware store cuz something didn't fit...in this case, it takes the ROVs a few hours to come up to the hardware store. Backstage will make a helluva movie.