BP Oil Spill Live Feed: Company To Cut Video During Top Kill Procedure

A president does not leave duty to go on vacation when the very existence of an entire region of his country (not to mention the effect on other nations) is in an ongoing crisis. To say it's about appearances, public relations, doesn't drive home how dire this situation is, but much of what a president does happens through people's perceptions.



Being disengaged didn't work for Bush ("cell phone", "video conferencing") and it certainly doesn't work for Obama. For 35 days he's been saying, "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's".



As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider and fierce supporter of Obama said to Howard Fineman about the AWOL Obama to her state's crisis with this blow-out, "What happened to the fierce urgency of now?"
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