"What is he WAITING for?"

[jenmito]

I can understand RWers asking this question, but Keith Olbermann? Ed Schultz? James Carville? Donna Brazile? Why do they refuse to listen to the press briefings or conference calls?

Every single time the questions are asked and answered, it's as if it goes in one ear and out the other of those people! Do they REALLY believe that just because Obama didn't put on his Aquaman suit and shoot down to the broken pipes and tie them together that he's not doing anything??? :eyes:

[polichick]

1. They're THINKING instead of listening to all the excuses about why BP...

...is still in charge instead of the U.S. gov't.

[jenmito]

3. Then YOU'RE not listening, either. Nor are you thinking if you think the

govt. isn't working with BP and telling them what to do with THEIR experts and experts from all over the WORLD.

[polichick]

5. Wake up - BP won't even stop using the disperants the EPA has ordered them to stop. nt

[jenmito]

10. And you obviously didn't watch the press briefing today where the admin. was asked about that

and they answered it: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/press-briefing-20100524

[polichick]

12. I heard it and I'm with those mentioned in your op. nt

[jenmito]

14. So you refuse to hear what they said? Do you refuse to believe them? Do you think

Obama and his admin. are NOT doing anything but sitting back and watching BP???

[butterfly77]

43. You hit the nail on the head..

a lot of these people on DU are trolls hyping it up.

[Blue_Roses]

62. ...bingo

"hyping it up..."

and as usual, many of us take the bait...:hide:

[MUAD_DIB]

8. What is the media's plan besides assigning blame and whining?

It's far easier to report on a problem and criticize than to find a solution.

[polichick]

11. Seems everybody understands that BP shouldn't be calling the shots...

...everybody except Obama apologists - the same people who blamed Bush for not doing enough during Katrina.

This disaster makes Katrina look like a summer breeze.

[MUAD_DIB]

19. If you are foolish enough to believe that this disaster is the same as Katrina

or manageable in the same way then I don't believe that you are seeing the whole picture.


It takes a realist to be able to see that.


But I'm sure the Obama Administration has done nothing at all. Just keep telling yourself that.

[polichick]

20. It's the same in that the response requires LEADERSHIP. nt

[MUAD_DIB]

22. You're really not that bright, are you?

On edit. Flag me, ignore me, or yell at your monitor.

I'm not going to waste time on a reply to you.

Just sit back in your easy chair and scream that it is Obama's fault and that he has done nothing at all.

You're clearly in the know about what has been and what has not been done so you need not waste any more of your precious time talking to me.


Now excuse me as I laugh silently at all the DU screamers.

[polichick]

25. LOL - guess I hit a nerve with that leadership thing. nt

[stevenleser]

46. Muad_dib, you are valiantly arguing with someone on my ignore list.

Unfortunately, if they are on my ignore list, I have found them to be unreachable, but good try.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

56. And they're going to be on mine now too. (nt)

[ROFF]

59. And on mine too. nt

[Mojorabbit]

78. I am waiting for a coordinated

effort to protect some sensitive estuaries on the florida coast before the oil arrives and haven't seen anything yet. I am waiting for some proactive efforts not reactive. I don't expect him to plug the leak. I do expect him to coordinate protecting what can be protected at this point. That is the leadership I am waiting for.

[Blue_Roses]

65. tell that to the people who lived through Katrina...

Louisiana is my home...I know a few if you need some help:eyes:

[FrenchieCat]

2. I'm starting to hope that the whole fucking house burns down......

then I can watch folks who earned whatever it is that we end up with,
to see what their passion will do for them then.

[jenmito]

9. It's making me sick watching all the supposedly intelligent liberals

asking the same question over and over and over!

[freddie mertz]

36. Burn your own house, then, and leave us out of it.

Your stuff is getting creepier by the day.

[donco6]

69. Yes.

That statement, particularly.

[Forkboy]

74. Your disdain for the average American is well known.

Try to keep it your pants, will you?

[treestar]

4. They'd be terrible patients or clients

You know, keith has an incurable disease and demands to know why the doctor doesn't cure it TODAY.

And starts telling him how to do it, but in his ignorance suggests things that the doc knows would kill him.

[truedelphi]

6. Like another DU'er posted earlier, just because a law says that

Someone is responsible for something, doesn't mean they get to be in charge.

The fact that Obama let BP stay in charge of this event, and let the Coast Guard protect BP's need for no public air time on our news, stinks to high heaven.

BP needs to be responsible only for the COSTS of the cleanup. Obama should be using his pen to sign an Executive Order to take any equipment that BP has and divert it to the task at hand.

With BP standing down.

[jenmito]

13. "Obama should be using his pen to sign an Executive Order to take any equipment that BP has and

divert it to the task at hand." Should Obama operate the equipment himself??? The admin. has the best scientists around the WORLD offering their advice to BP. BP is NOT "in charge" of figuring out what to do. They're working with the govt. and ITS experts. Is Nobel Prize-winning scientist Steven Chu a member of BP? No-he's a member of the Obama admin.

[truedelphi]

42. Unfortunately, even though there are some scientists being allowed to work on this

British Petroleum is in charge.

Let me repeat that, BP is in charge.

And BP has the local police hampering citizens arriving at the coast to work. BP is hampering people already at the coast trying to work.

And BP is hampering the media/.

Check out this video and the one that is posted in one of the comments blelow it:

So who died and made Tony Hayward the king? Yes, that's the BP CEO yelling "get 'em out of there, get 'em out of there" to the media who is filming him as he "works" on the oil slick cleanup. The last time I checked, we don't live in the United States of BP. Again, would someone in the White House like to step up and take control of this situation? This pompous ass thinks he owns the place and quite frankly, he does at the moment.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/05/bp-ceo-walks-on-oil-...
action is my duty, reward is not my concern

Why is the WH allowing BP's rather pathetically inaccurate attempt at the oil barrel numbers to stand as the real count?

Scientists are saying that some 4 Million gals a day have been escaping, and yet the WH allows BP to say that the amount is 5,000 barrels (47 gals to a barrel - so you have a factoring difference of twenty in the count of amount of crude hitting the water.

And of course it is to BP's benefit to have the smaller count - as they will be liable, should the Obama Administration pursue it, to pay on the order of $ 1,000 a unit (forget what the unit is, but twenty times less in fines will be significant.)

[Blue_Roses]

64. lol...this shit is getting just down right funny...

"Obama should be using his pen to sign an Executive Order to take any equipment that BP has and divert it to the task at hand."

:rofl:

omg...

[Vattel]

7. come on

"Obama's Katrina" makes such good copy. The Idiotic Media Narrative (IMN) is that Obama hasn't been doing anything; so the search is on for any facts that might support that IMN. And if the facts aren't there, they can be invented.

[jenmito]

15. It's been called worse...

Ed Schultz said this could be Obama's "Waterloo." Thomas Friedman said it's Obama's "9/11" and he's reacting as poorly as Bush did. :eyes:

[HughBeaumont]

54. Thomas Friedman also thinks offshoring all of our jobs to India is a fantastic idea.

Oh, and also supported Bewsh's occupations of choice.

So I think whatever he says can probably be taken with a grain of salt. Just a hunch . . .

[HughMoran]

16. He doesn't have to do anything

...they just want to see him in his Superman outfit. :eyes:

[Political Tiger]

29. Or in this case, his Aquaman suit....

[Cattledog]

17. Obama gave a really cool Basketball interview yesterday to TNT!

[jenmito]

18. So you're one of those who thinks he should be swimming down to the leak and

tie the tubes together? He and his admin. are, and HAVE been, doing their best to figure out how to fix the leak. :eyes:

[MUAD_DIB]

21. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO....

Obama is at fault because they say he is. It is that simple.

He must have a plan that he is sitting on, and for some reason he isn't doing anything.


Here we go again. Yet another thing that Obama has screwed up. With fly-off-the-handle DUers who needs the GOP spin machine?

[Blue_Roses]

68. no, didn't you know Obama majored in micro-biology,,,

marine-biology, physics, chemical engineering and got his degree and now is a bona-fide rocket-scientist? This is what's pissing them off. They know he's not using his "degrees" or "skills" from years of training under the ocean.:eyes:


....give me a fucking break...what a bunch of idiots...

[Political Tiger]

26. Have they started impeachment proceedings yet?

Oh the pain!

[jenmito]

23. Rachel is interviewing Steven Chu right now. Maybe some of you should be listening. n/t

[polichick]

27. Turns out he "only knows what he reads in the paper." nt

[FrenchieCat]

28. Sounds like that's what all of the Oil leak 5,000 ft under the sea experts here at DU have done too!

Oh, I forgot.....here they only read headlines....which is more than enough, ITO.

[freddie mertz]

51. Big difference: He is the Sect'y of ENERGY, we are not.

Got it yet?

[jenmito]

30. You must've missed the part where Rachel said she knows he has to go to the Gulf

tomorrow. You think it's to read the paper?

[freddie mertz]

35. And that interview did not go well for Dr. Chu.

He only knows what he reads in the papers, apparently.

Pathetic and scary.

[onpatrol98]

47. I cringed when he said that....

For a moment I thought....wow, and this guy is the smartest we've got and didn't realize how bad that would sound.

[donco6]

67. Very.

:scared:

[Political Tiger]

24. They are nothing but a bunch of reactionary bobbleheads!

For a bunch of people who seem to have the answers to EVERYTHING I can't help but wonder why none of them have ever run for president? Carville and Schultz are full of themselves, Olbermann is as well but to a lesser extent...Donna Brazile usually is more level headed, but either way, they all take themselves way too seriously need to remember to keep their egos in check!

[butterfly77]

44. Maybe Carville is talking to his buddies..

in the french quarter,he and his witch just moved back to new orleans and Donna brazilles family lives there..

[freddie mertz]

52. Everyone who asks tough questions is the enemy.

Circle the wagons around the anointed one.

If you could only see yourselves as others see you.

[Ikonoklast]

57. And as we see you.

Lasted a long time here.

[freddie mertz]

60. Well for one thing, I am careful to follow the board rules.

Which is getting harder as the denial and hysteria mounts in the wake of the gusher.

[Forkboy]

76. By 2012 you're going to be out of friends.

[Clio the Leo]

31. You have to look at it from their perspective....

.... if the President can "kill" so easily by sending troops off to war, why can't he "heal" just as easily by sending troops to the Gulf?

If only it were that easy.

[johnaries]

32. Truth. Unfortunately. nt

[Arkana]

33. He's not WAITING for anything.

Do some research that doesn't involve checking the Big Three of the cable news media--just because we haven't gotten a bullhorn moment atop the rubble doesn't mean the President isn't doing anything.

[freddie mertz]

34. Good Question. We need to keep asking it. nt.

[dionysus]

38. it's been answered ad nauseum. you just ignore the answer because it doesn't fit your agenda.

:shrug:

[freddie mertz]

39. I ask it because the gusher still spews and no solution has been achieved.

Feel me to call me to task when the president begins to lead.

[dionysus]

41. i guess you haven't been paying attention, or you're too busy repeating the same complaint 24/7 to

see.

anyways, you'll throw a fit no matter what happens. it's all you're capable of doing, apparently. have fun repeating yourself.

:shrug:

[freddie mertz]

48. Oh, did I miss something important?

Like this?

http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/05/greens_call_for_salazars_resignation.html

[AllentownJake]

37. Nothing can be done

Human nature is to say we can do something, in this situation you are fucked for 90 days.

My Dad got Pancreatic Cancer and died a few years ago. There were a few relatives that were absolutely nuts because surely something could be done. Nope, my Dad was going to die. There was no cure for that cancer in those late stages. Only thing that could be done was to make him comfortable. Even if they caught it earlier, that cancer would eventually kill him. He might have gotten an extra year, probably a miserable one with radiation and chemo hoping for a .5% chance of survival and a miracle.

However, a few relatives were angry at everyone from my mother (who encouraged my dad to embrace hospice) to the doctors because they didn't like the reality.

[NYC_SKP]

40. All talking heads profit in controversy, even our favorites are not above this.

I'm a big KO and RM fan, but at the end of the day they ALL peddle drama.

They just have different spins on it and make different selection about what to dramatize.

:donut:

[freddie mertz]

49. No one is "peddling drama." The crisis here is REAL.

What we are all feeling is powerless in the face of BP's and the government's impotence.

[NYC_SKP]

58. (yes, they are peddling drama) Obama Needs to PLUG THE HOLE WITH LEADERSHIP!!!11!!

:rofl:

That's what Michael Savage said...

:hi:

[freddie mertz]

61. I never listen to Savage. Is he still on the air?

Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Donna Brasile have expressed their frustration with the WH on this matter as well.

Not exactly Michael Savage.

[NYC_SKP]

72. I take it back, it was Hannity. And, yes, Savage is still on the air in SF market.

I was on the Bay Bridge when hearing this, usually I can't stand his voice but I was listening today for a little bit.

[onpatrol98]

73. I didn't think he was still on the air...

[Forkboy]

77. "Just plug the damn hole!"

Hmmm, who said that......

[Jennicut]

45. We live in an instant society and media. No spill has ever been attempted to be plugged

at this depth. And the enormity of the spill simply means some things will not work out perfectly. Putting BP under federal control simply means they will try the same things as before to stop the spill but the federal govt. will be in charge. Same with the cleanup, aside from maybe the questions on the dispersant used, I fail to see the big difference. Also, BP can turn around and say the govt. is now responsible monetarily for cleaning up the spill.

Hyperbole about Katrina and 9/11 fails to mention no human lives were are at stake accept human livelihoods. The only good to come out of it is that Rwers who make their living off the coast may rethink drilling as being good.

[freddie mertz]

50. Then maybe we shouldn't be DRILLING at this depth without RELIEF WELLS.

[Jennicut]

53. No, we shouldn't. I would say we should not be drilling in depths of 5000 feet below

the ocean either. There are wells much deeper then that however.

[freddie mertz]

55. Then why is the WH granting permits for it, even now? nt.

[Jennicut]

63. I am not the WH, ask them. I am against deep sea drilling.

I would imagine it has something to do with our lack of reknewables and our extreme dependence on oil. It is bigger then any one President.

[freddie mertz]

66. In the face of what is happening, it is not only insane....

But it contributes to the general appearance of a WH that has n coherent policy or leadership on the issue in general.

[Blue_Roses]

71. they are not granting NEW permits...

these are contracts that are already in progress.

[Forkboy]

75. Whew! Thank God for that!

[Blue_Roses]

70. best post on the site!

thank-you:bounce: