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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (369831)	6/22/2010 11:23:22 AM
From: skinowski	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

Agree. I don't know - and don't care - how high Obama would score on an IQ test, but fighting aggressively to change a system that works into one that will not isn't brilliant. They are fiddling around with the tired old "grand" redistributionist ideas, while our (and Europe's) main economic competitors are working to leave us all in the dust. And they probably will.

To: Geoff Altman who wrote (369831)	6/22/2010 2:05:31 PM
From: Neeka	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

He's intelligent, but he isn't. A riddle wrapped up in an enigma. VBG Behar Panel Sees 'Bush-Like' and 'Corporatist' Obama, Garofalo Slams 'Anti-Intellectual' Prayer Snip: JANEANE GAROFALO: No, I didn`t feel that it was a strong speech, and I felt that the prayer thing he did was pandering and anti-intellectual and just sort of a waste of time. BEHAR: Anti-intellectual? He's considered, like, overly intellectual? GAROFALO: He himself is. BEHAR: Yeah. GAROFALO: When politicians use that prayer stuff, it is anti-intellectual. It has nothing do with what has happened, it has nothing to do with any real way to solve a problem. You know, I felt this speech was not very effective. You know, fighting, fighting it with all that they`ve got, what would have been good is to undo the Bush policies that brought this. You know, Ken Salazar should not have been the Interior Secretary. That people from Mineral Management Services should not still have been able to work. BP has a terrible track record. It`s amazing that the Bush policies were allowed to still flourish, that the "drill, baby, drill" policy was still going. That any of these disasters could had been avoided because it wasn`t, it wasn`t unknown what could have gone wrong. BEHAR: Okay, well, he did blame a lot on the agency that was still in place. He did say that it was ineffective. GAROFALO: Right, so why did he not take care of that when he got into office? BEHAR: A good question. Ron, what do you think? RON REAGAN: Well, too little too late. I agree with Janeane, he did bring up the Mineral Management Services, of course, and that really is the crux of this, to me. You know, BP was doing what BP could be expected to do – cut corners, act recklessly, all in the name of profits. But Mineral Management Service, which was supposed to be regulating them and overseeing this, had fallen asleep on the job. Actually, that`s not even the right way to put it. Fallen asleep on the job suggests they actually wanted to do the job somehow in the first place, but they didn`t, of course because they`re all former or, you know, prospective oil company employees there. That`s the criminality here, it`s not just BP, it`s the MMS. Read more: newsbusters.org