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

To: koan who wrote (76729)	5/30/2010 4:45:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Many progressives are getting very frustrated...Here's just one of the many comments out on DailyKos today... dailykos.com Don't hold your breath waiting for justice... Obama's entire response has been one of minimizing awareness of this disaster: allowing the use of toxic dispersants to hide the spill for weeks, allowing BP to dumb down estimates of the spill for weeks, avoiding earlier visits to the coast that would have created far more media attention on the devastation, visiting a relatively clean beach instead of a destroyed wetland on his one visit, limiting press access to the beaches. He could have used this crime to challenge the reckless greed of corporate America, but in his Administration's lax regulatory management and in his bowing to the logic of "drill, baby, drill" we can see that he is primarily interested in helping his party profit from such greed. He could have used this tragedy to mobilize support for a radical shift towards green energy, but he has no interest in deep reform. He is invested in the status quo, his own reputation is threatened by any admission that there is something deeply wrong with our energy policy. by quagmiremonkey on Sun May 30, 2010 at 12:27:31 PM PDT

To: koan who wrote (76729)	5/30/2010 6:48:52 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

....it was in BP's best interest to not tell people how much oil is actully coming out. Legally speaking, nobody knows how much oil is coming out since we have no measuring device. And in a nation of laws, the judges will want to know that. You cannot fine someone on "estimates". Judges administer fairness. In order to administer fairness, they will have to go by facts such as cleanup costs. loss of wages etc. The consequential damages. And mind you, the Govt. cannot just do whatever it likes to do. If that was the case, then Bush was very very justified in violating our privacy rights by listening in on our phone conversations. So the need of the hour is for everybody, the press included, to calm down and bring the root cause of the situation under control first. And it includes the easily excitable folks such as Carville, MSNBC etc. I am not going to cite FOX because they think that the Sestak issue is more important to them.