huffingtonpost.com — If you've spent any time at all watching the heroes of cable news grapple with the ongoing oil spill crisis, it should be pretty clear that what they need to get them through the day is for President Obama to stand in front of their cameras and wage a frenzied campaign of emotional warfare against BP, oily water, tar balls, etc.
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treggehJun 9, 2010
I hate the part where they say he was in, to sum it up, 'nice clothes'.
gusterbearJun 9, 2010
I get what you're saying, but I think there is a disconnect between the types of events, the responses, and what we have seen.Hurricane Katrina we knew of in advance, we had several days notice. The equivalent here would have been the blowout preventer having a Twitter feed and tweeting three days before "Uh, I feel like failing, and I just talked to the Rig, and he's had enough of this BS too." There was no warning with this, with Katrina, there was plenty of time to prepare.Within hours of the rig catching on fire, the Coast Guard was enroute dealing with what they thought was a rig fire. When it collapsed, they called in reinforcements thinking it was just a rig collapse. When the truth came to light that the failsafes had failed, the wheels began turning immediately. Equipment was being brought in, etc. Obama from the moment this thing caught fire to now has been aware of the situation, briefed, and in connection with those on the ground that have the expertise to deal with this.Compare this with Katrina, where although I am sure Bush was in communication with people nothing was getting done, at all. It took FEMA and the National Guard days to coordinate a response. Here, the Coast Guard was there from what I understand from the onset and has been adjusting their reaction as new information came to light.During Katrina, those who had the skills and supplies to help (Red Cross, Southern Baptist Convention, CERT, Fire and EMS) were turned away by local LEOs carrying weapons. Supply trucks were stopped and threatened to be fired upon. I know members of the Red Cross that were doing everything they could to get into the region and they were being stopped.Here, the experts are on the scene and are working on it. The problem is they never thought of having to deal with this sort of situation, and are having to write the manual as they go along. It's like the Apollo 13 mission, they had some idea of how to deal with emergencies in space but not the scenario that occurred.So, while I understand what you're saying in regards to whomever is in power views themselves as saints and the others as the lowest form on the planet, the Katrina/Deepwater Horizon comparison is comparing rotten oranges to apples.
asus3000Jun 9, 2010
The president's job is to explain it to you and keep you calm.
j_carcinogenJun 9, 2010
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flyblackboxJun 9, 2010
That is true, but unlike television, the internet allows third parties to have their point heard without spending millions.Ron Paul is a good example of this, he is only a republican because the title is necessary for him to exist in the current system.But he is at heart a libertarian, and as more politicians use the internet to gain a following, less politicians will wear the Democrat/Republican badge.What do you think?
styromaniacJun 10, 2010
Dochirin, you couldn't be more right, and I see the problem being more deep-seeded than just that. The media wants us focused on the stupidest disputes between the Republican and Democratic parties so then we forget about the independents. In essence, we don't have a two-party system. The U.S. has one party with two faces and two names that so many people don't see as one-in-the-same.Nobody should ever vote bipartisan. They are forging the illusion of choice when they make themselves look like they have different ideals than one-another, when in reality they are setting us up. Huge-budget campaigns are run on the money that the politicians are taking from us.