"The leaking well was not only an ecological disaster but a potential political hazard as well, depending on how the public judges the Obama administration’s response. In 2005, President George W. Bush stumbled in dealing with Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf and left the impression of a president distant from immense suffering. His presidency never recovered."
And neither will this one.
You can't have a pristine Gulf full of life turn into a puddle of oil and call it a successful presidency no matter what else happens.
Unless this guy stops all the wars and brings peace and prosperity to the entire world, it's over. And I don't see him doing that any time soon.
Oh, he can rule, and he can issue orders to the government slaves he commands; however, his presidency is a failed presidency because of this.
Related:
"What seems to have happened is ...
Deep Horizon was, as the name implied, seeking a deep oil field. The well head is 5000 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico. The well itself drilled down another 30,000 feet, for a total depth of almost 7 miles. That is the current limit of drilling and pumping technology.
The drill appears to have hit a very high pressure deposit of oil and gas. It's like the old joke of a mosquito that hits an artery and explodes. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, it appears that high pressure natural gas flowed back up the drill pipe, and being gas rather than oil, arrived back at the well head at high pressure, more than was expected, and blew out the control valves. Gas escaped above the oil rig and the first spark set it off. Attempts to close the "pinchers" have failed so far, and yesterday a classified NOAA report was leaked reporting that there are three distinct points of leakage, suggesting that the cement well cover built by Halliburton may have failed.
Already there are indications of inadequate safety precautions. Records are missing.
Estimates of how much oil is leaking vary wildly from the media reports of 5000 barrels a day up to 200,000 barrels a day. From the above animation it appears that the rate of flow is increasing.
The situation 5000 feet down at the well head is that of ruptured pipes, cracked concrete well cover, and the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon sitting on top of it all, making access to the wellhead all but impossible.
Frankly, I doubt even a nuclear bomb could close off this vent, and we may be on our way to seeing the oil underneath the Gulf of Mexico, become the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil companies are facing their own Chernobyl disaster. But they will never admit responsibility, nor will the US politicians who shirked their duty to take care of the US infrastructure, especially in an election year. The race is on to find someone to blame for it all. Hence the stories about North Korean mini-subs, and sooner or later, "Al Qaeda!" The oil companies and the US Government are off the hook if they can claim this was a terrorist attack." -- Wake the Flock UpAlso see: MSM Monitor Covered in Oil
Words from a thoughtful commenter
Ah, the law of unintended consequences, huh, guys? I'll bet you never envisioned this when you came up with this great idea to advance the agenda.
Yes, this "spill" becomes MORE SUSPICIOUS with each passing hour.
Obama is going to NEED that FALSE FLAG TERROR ATTACK to "SAVE" his presidency -- or so they think!
"Obama wary of oil spill’s environmental, economic threat; Leak may also take political toll" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | May 3, 2010
VENICE, La. — With no remedy in sight, President Obama warned yesterday of a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster’’ as a badly damaged oil well a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slick toward delicate wetlands and wildlife. He said it could take many days to stop.
He is not recovering from this.
Look at 'em! He's covered in oil!
Obama rushed to southern Louisiana to inspect forces arrayed against the oil gusher as Cabinet members described the situation as grave and insisted the administration was doing everything it could.
Then they have failed.
Then he took a helicopter ride over the water to view the 30-mile oil slick caused by as much as 210,000 gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf each day.
Yeah, a once-over eyeball is getting things done.
The spill threatens not only the environment but also the region’s abundant fishing industry, which Obama called the heartbeat of the region’s economic life.
It appeared little could be done in the short term to stem the oil flow....
This is WORSE than Katrina!
At least you could STILL FISH after the hurricane!
This KILLS the AREA COMPLETELY!
The chairman of
I've lost all hope because the lying AmeriKan MSM sells so much false hope.
The leaking well was not only an ecological disaster but a potential political hazard as well, depending on how the public judges the Obama administration’s response. In 2005, President George W. Bush stumbled in dealing with Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf and left the impression of a president distant from immense suffering. His presidency never recovered.
Obama vowed that his administration, while doing all it could to mitigate the disaster, would require well owner BP America to bear all costs. “Your government will do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to stop this crisis,’’ he said.
HOLLOW WORDS, sir, unless you PUCKER UP and GET on that LEAK (or two, or three)!!!!
“BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill,’’ Obama said after a Coast Guard briefing in Venice, a Gulf Coast community serving as a staging area for the response....
AS IF WE CARE about FINGER-POINTING and PAYMENT with OIL GUSHING UP on the SHORES and BORDERS!!!
GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY, they are BOTH THE SAME and WORK for the SAME INTERESTS!
What we do know is GOVERNMENT ONCE AGAIN FAILED to KEEP OUR BORDERS SECURE!!!!
More than 6,800 square miles of fishing areas, from the mouth of the Mississippi to Florida’s Pensacola Bay, were closed for at least 10 days yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Arriving in New Orleans, the president shunned helicopter travel because of a threat of tornadoes and drove to Venice to tour a close-to-the-water staging area where the government and BP were trying to keep the slick from causing even more damage.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that any comparison between the ruptured BP oil well and Katrina was a total mischaracterization, and that the government had taken an “all hands on deck’’ approach from the beginning.
She can't say anything else, the lying PoS!
So much for your department. Homeland not secure.
Administration officials have been at pains to explain that Obama’s late March decision to expand offshore oil exploration could be altered as a result of the spill, and that stricter safety rules would doubtless be written into leases. In reality,
That TRULY is an AMAZING STATEMENT and COMMENT on OUR GOVERNMENT, isn't it?
NOT BASED in REALITY and we see evidence of that ALL the TIME!!!!!
oil companies and the government lack the technology to prevent the damage from a well gushing masses of oil, killing wildlife, and tainting a delicate ecosystem.
So OBAMA is BLOWING SMOKE up your you-know-where, America!!!
The oil washing ashore could ruin the coastal fishing industry.
Ya think?
Although the government has mobilized masses of equipment to scoop up, burn, and block the oil from moving ashore, the tools to contain the ecological and economic damage washing toward the coast were akin to big-game hunting with a pellet gun.
You can spell that as CATASTROPHIC DISASTER and the DESTRUCTION of a PRESIDENCY!! I hope it was worth it.
Admiral Thad Allen, the Coast Guard commandant, said the volume of spewing oil could climb in the event of a total wellhead failure, a much greater breach than is believed to exist now. He spoke to the obvious urgency of stopping the flow of crude [and] the potential discharge of 100,000 barrels a day....
Actually, it's twice that.
Then again, that is what I would expect from government.
And it sure as hell is URGENT!
Obama's political future is on the line after the Dems pulled his nuggets out of the health care fire.
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And those who must pay:
"Oil in the Gulf puts many livelihoods in limbo" by Vicki Smith, Associated Press | May 3, 2010
HOPEDALE, La. —Thousands of other families just like theirs....
There was no sign of oil yet. Not even a whiff in the breeze. And the crabs had just started biting.
Yesterday, federal authorities banned commercial and recreational fishing over a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico, from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle, for at least the next 10 days. Now, the 600 traps Kenny LeFebvre dropped Friday morning will sit uncollected for weeks, he figures. Maybe months. Maybe years.
How he will support six children, ages 9 to 18, is beyond his ability to imagine.
“I’m 35. I ain’t never drove a nail in my life,’’ he said. “This is what I know, right here. We starved all winter, and we was just getting to where we was making money and getting back on our feet.’’
More than birds and fish lie in the path of the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas: A centuries-old way of life that’s endured dozens of hurricanes is now facing the possibility of environmental and economic disaster.
Water sustains the region’s economy like blood in the body. Commercial and sport fishing businesses support dock services, tackle shops, and gas stations. Restaurants are Louisiana’s largest private-sector employer, with 140,000 workers and a direct annual economic impact of $5 billion....
Then there are some of the busiest shipping ports in the world, moving oil from offshore rigs up the Mississippi and Midwestern grain out to sea to feed the rest of the world.
Not anymore.
And WHY are we SHIPPING FOOD OUT when ONE in SEVEN Americans is starving?
The Port of Gulfport in Mississippi is the nation’s second-largest import handler for green fruit, with Central American bananas from Chiquita and Dole accounting for 74 percent of its imported cargo in 2007.
They will be hauling it somewhere else.
The Port of New Orleans handled 73 million tons of cargo in 2008, including coffee from South America and steel from Japan, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico.
Ain't globalization grand?
Three cruise ships also dock there, handling more than 600,000 passengers a year.
Related: Around AmeriKa: Cruising Through South Carolina
Nah, I'll skip it.
Upriver is the Port of South Louisiana, the nation’s busiest with 224 million tons of cargo a year — mostly grain and other agricultural commodities, and chemicals from the scores of plants that line the river.
On tiny Grand Isle, which boasts Louisiana’s only white sand beaches, the manager of the Island Paradise Suites is fretting about what could happen this summer.
It's over before it began.
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