"I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down" President Barack Obama (regarding the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill)
First he claimed the melting-down economy as his own, now he accepts responsibility for the worst ecological disaster in his own lifetime. That's quite a legacy he's owning up to, there!
Of course, the (almost-kakistocracy) Obama administration is doing as much as it can bungle, to see that the problem is worsened. Louisiana still hasn't heard anything back on their desperate requests to dredge up a row of sand berms to protect their fragile marshlands. Now I just heard today that, on May 8th they were pleading with the government not to allow oil dispersants to be released underwater. They said the oil would not rise, where it could be skimmed or burned off. It would make underwater rivers, which would get caught in currents, and possibly kill huge portions of the nation's fisheries. May 13th the EPA allowed it anyway and they started releasing dispersant chemicals at 4,000 feet. Now we have miles-wide, miles long rivers of oil NOT rising to the surface, getting caught in the undersea currents.
Great.
I share Neal Boortz's sentiment that neither the spill nor the majority of the ineffectual flailing about which followed were the fault of President Obama. I am also not too terribly heartbroken that he will catch a lot of blame for it anyhow, because he's an evil man.
At least the topkill seems to be working, for which I was praying and am very grateful.
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