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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (77413)	6/5/2010 10:56:27 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

I think you took my post very seriously. My point is that the Weisberg in your post is paranoid. I got that impression after reading his post at the URL. We have had accidents in the past and have recovered very well. When we lost our first space folks to an ccident during the Reagan administration, we did not shirk away. Instead we put a temporary halt, assessed what we needed to do better and then moved on. And it is the same wth automobile accidents. It is only the tree huggers and those who advocate going out into the fields instead of the toilets who are blowing this BP disaster out of proportion. OTOH, Obama's reaction and his c ourse of action has been very commendable. Off course there will be political detractors who will try to exploit the situation so as to gain maximum personal political advantage. This is an excerpt which shows Obama's brilliance in handling the spill. Notice that only after BP is near to containing the lea has he started to lash out at BP andhas done so in a "rare display of anger." .......excerpt Meeting on Friday with state and local politicians and residents in Louisiana, the hardest hit state so far, Obama said of the new oil containment system, "it is way too early to be optimistic." [ID:nN04142921] Showing an uncharacteristic flash of anger, Obama warned BP against skimping on compensation it owes to fishermen, business owners and others whose way of life has been upended by the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Obama chided BP for spending lavishly on TV advertising to improve its image and a plan to pay a $10.5 billion quarterly dividend to shareholders while the Gulf region faced economic and environmental havoc of epic proportions. "What I don't want to hear is, when they're spending that kind of money on their shareholders and spending that kind of money on TV advertising, that they're nickel and diming fishermen or small businesses here in the Gulf," Obama said. ...read the entire at reuters.com