I am saying people screamed that Bush was killing people by not going in as fast as was possib,e (even though the Governor said do not trespass to every outside help source)

But Obama does nothing, sits back as two HUGE disasters happen, and those that screamed at Bush are silent.

The silence is deafening.

We haven't heard about a massive flooding recently on our news.. So all in all it should mean it's of a smaller scale than Katrina. Not that it really matters, but it means we're less informed. If those people are forced to live in a stadium for several weeks like at the time of Katrina, I'd consider comparing it.

The BP disaster is terrible and Obama visited the scene (we got that on our news), but I don't think the man can do a lot there. If footage would show up where he was cleaning animals, you'd call it a cheap publicity stunt anyway..

> Bartender wrote:

> The man cant win.  Too many are banking on his failure.  Was it Rush Limbaugh that said he hoped obama failed and ran the country into the ground?  i dont remember.  It was some republican(jealous).

Do you see any similarities between this and... oh, the same country 4 years ago?

yes, we never support our leaders.  its sad.

on the one hand the US-people demand for cheap oil, on the other hand they cry when the disaster happens too close (instead of somewhere in Nigeria or Russia, where leaking oil spots are much more common).

In the 2008 election Mrs. Palin always told the people: "Drill, baby, drill!" They drilled and it spilled: "Spill, baby, spill!"

While Bush had to deal with nature alone, Obama has to deal with the oil industry and nature. To do something about the mighty oil industry would cause higher prices for gas due harder rules for drilling near the US coasts. The natural prolems are just harmless against the oil industry.

So, what shall Obama do? Socialize BP? Well, that would be fun.

Frustrated Louisianans took the oil cleanup into their own hands Sunday, heading out in boats to lay protective booms around a bird sanctuary threatened by a black tide.
"We're going out to Cat Island right now where a thousand pelicans are breeding," Billy Nungesser, president of the coastal Plaquemines Parish told AFP.

Some of the birds at the island sanctuary have already been coated in oil and have carried it back to the nests, he said.

While they're not trying to rescue the oiled birds for fear of doing more harm than good, Nungesser said local residents refused to stand idly by as more oil lapped up into the fragile wetland.

"Our crews are out there laying the absorbent boom," he said, adding that he couldn't understand why BP and the Coast Guard weren't doing more to protect his coastal parish.

In neighboring Jefferson Parish an emergency manager commandeered all 40 boom-laying boats hired by BP which were sitting idly at Grand Isle as oil sloshed onto beaches.

Bloggers and callers to a radio talk show cheered the dramatic action late Saturday night, promising the official their votes if he sought elective office.

Earlier in the day, WWL-AM radio station repeatedly replayed a taped interview in which a Coast Guard official in Terrebonne Parish took the blame for not ordering BP to do more, then flippantly said: "I guess I'm just slow and dumb."

Frustration has reached a boiling point as more delays stymie efforts to cap a pipe which has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico from the wreckage of a BP-leased rig some 52 miles off the coast of Louisiana since April 22.

Favorable winds and currents have kept the bulk of the massive slick offshore, but the heavy oil began to seep into coastal marshes on Wednesday and some 66 miles (106 km) of coastline and 30 acres (12 ha) of marshes are now affected.

The amount of oil being suctioned up to a waiting boat from a mile-long tube has slowed to 1,360 barrels a day from the previous average of about 2,100, BP said Sunday.

Meanwhile, a "top kill" attempt to plug the leak by injecting heavy drilling mud into the pipe which was originally set to begin Sunday has now been delayed to Wednesday.

The delays have fueled the outrage of locals, who are already wary of relying on government as a result of the chaos which followed after Hurricane Katrina tore through coastal Louisiana in 2005.

"Stop at any of the coffee shops here at Plaquemines Parish and people talk about the spill with disbelief," Nungesser said.

"Number one, you hear -- 'there is no plan to stop it'. Second, we keep hearing this oil could come ashore for a year or longer even if they do seal the well.

"After Katrina, we knew what we were dealing with and went to work and things got a little better each day. With the spill, every day it gets a little worse and we don't know what the worst-case scenario is going to be."

Charter boat captain Brent Roy gloomily pondered BP's failed efforts to seal the gushing well and government attempts to curb the damage.

"Until they kill that leak, I just don't think the clean up is going to be very effective," Roy said. "It just seems fruitless."

Noting that June 1 -- the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season -- is only one week away, the boat captain worried how a major storm would impede BP's contingency plan to stop the leak by drilling a relief well.

"Even after (hurricane) Katrina, we knew things would eventually get back to normal," Roy said. "With the spill, we're just unsure."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.936e144ccc4a23348cdcc0aec488b9ea.cb1&show_article=1 

ooohhhhh, they're "wary of relying on government" are they? Good thing they got frustrated enough to do something only 30 days after the leak started.

This country used to pride itself on "can-do" 

now we know how to bitch that government isn't moving fast enough.  Government is not there to help you, doofus! Government answers to government, and it is usually pleased iwth itself.

But it will hold a press conference in which it states that it helped you, and that your statements otherwise are partisan propaganda.

No bridges have fallen, no ships washed ashore, yet two disasters in one week (or two based on perspective) and where was Obama? Playing golf? Well despite his playiing more golf in one year than Clintpn and both Bush's played over 20 years he was not.

Golf is for suckers.. Someone as cool as Obama should play Tennis!

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/assets_c/2010/06/100616beelertoon_c.php

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> Einstein wrote:

> Moral of the story, when push comes to shove your government won't help you, it will help itself.

moral of the story, dont let greedy oil companies who cut corners hold your country to ransom.

which is more important? patriotism or capitalism?

I'd vote patriotism EVERY day of the week.

These companies out source key parts of their operations, they cut corners by subcontracting and by doing things on the cheap and look whats happened. one of the biggest environmental disasters the world has seen.

p.s. apparently the Russians have suggested a nuke could stop the leak, a bomb betweekn 10-20 kilotons should do the trick according to them.

lets not hope that using nukes turns out to be the only solution.