Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Or maybe BP should have had the equipment in place and tested these fixes at 5000 feet below sea level --- BEFORE this happened?

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Actually, it's the US government's job to make sure that the nation and its people are protected.



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. It took 35 days of him (& people like you, his most ardent supporters echoing), "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's", before his handlers realized that wasn't playing well. So they switched the script, had him say, "I'm responsible, the buck stops here ... Now watch me go on vacation".



Last week, as proof of his assertion that the government has been in charge since day one, Obama told of his insisting that BP drill not one but two relief wells.



Today we learned that BP has stopped drilling that second relief well.



As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider & 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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