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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (571447)	6/13/2010 9:52:19 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578998

Why was Obama responsible for cleaning up on day one? The President of the country that sold the lease and the spill now threatens not just one state but several - it's a federal issue now and why hasn't Dumbo called up FEMA and declared this a National disaster over a month ago? The problem is to fix the blow out.....where are we on that problem and who is working on it? Yes and if he was any kind of experienced leader he would have setup a mini whitehouse command station in the area and taken charge of coordination and communication of the plans and progress from day one - but he's been busy golfing, vacationing and going to parties and fund raisers to concern himself with problem solving - I mean he did give a couple speeches and that generally puts all the idiots err I mean americans and the medias minds to rest. And of course if none of that matters to you - Dumbo said it himself: "In case you were wondering who's responsible," Obama told the nation, "I take responsibility." Sounding chastened, he acknowledged that his administration had failed to adequately reform the Minerals Management Service, the scandal-ridden federal agency that for years had essentially allowed the oil industry to self-regulate. "There wasn't sufficient urgency," the president said. "Absolutely I take responsibility for that." He also admitted that he had been too credulous of the oil giants: "I was wrong in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios." He unveiled a presidential commission to investigate the disaster, discussed the resignation of the head of MMS, and extended a moratorium on new deepwater drilling. "The buck," he reiterated the next day on the sullied Louisiana coastline, "stops with me."