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To: i-node who wrote (569181)	5/31/2010 8:01:34 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578244

If he was milking the crisis, he would have suspended his campaign and gone back to DC.....oh wait, that was McCain. If Obama was milking it, he would have scheduled his Memorial Day speech in some military cemetary in LA.....preferably right on the coast. No, what you're talking about is a lack of political acumen. He has been criticized, from the left and right alike, for his inattention. And it is justifiable. As liberal commentator David Gergen pointed out on CNN, if this had been GWB he would have been run out of office for this inaction. But he media does what it does, and Obama HAS received a pass for his inaction. Having shown up late at the party, he is now wanting to become the center of attention. So, he has claimed HE is in control when, in fact, BP is totally running the show (as they SHOULD -- it is THEIR mess). The government is incompetent as always. And Obama has made a fool of himself by taking ownership of this mess. Of course, once BP gets control of the well, Obama will claim HE fixed it. This is liberalism. There are two strategies: (a) Blame someone else for every problem, and (b) claim credit for solving it once other people have done so. You have made all of this up in your head. You can't possibly know how Obama thinks....mainly because you are so damn far right and partisan. Long before your partisans started complaining Obama was on top of it.....sending people he thought would benefit the operation and provide BP with scientific assistance. The Coast Guard was deployed. Listening to you all calling this Obama's Katrina is nothing short of comical. Rs still don't get what Katrina was all about. Katrina wasn't just a moment in time where Bush fukked up and the nation turned against him. Instead, it was the culmination of years of fukkups. It took NOLA to happen before Americans finally said enough is enough. Bush shamed this country in a way a president rarely does. You can't possibly see this or understand it because you are too far gone but Obama is doing a good job of running the country......he is competent, intelligent, thoughtful, empathetic and visionary. He is all that Bush was not. So please save your claptrap for Harris.......he will eat it up like a piglet gobbles down swill.