Obama is the most incompetent ever. What goes around comes around.

Wash. Post poll………
A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two weeks after the August 2005 hurricane.

Obama never really had it, executive experience that is. What has he really ever been in charge of? Senators have no real responsibility, I mean let’s be honest here. They debate and pontificate, even so he voted present a large portion of the time. He couldn’t even vote Yea or Na. They guy, while a nice person I assume, is just out of his league. He can read the hell out of a tele-prombter, and is an elegant speaker – better than the last guy, but being President of the United States is not the same as running a campaign, or organizing some community or the herding cats over at Harvard Law.

Obama has been playing too much golf and greeting to many sports teams to care about the spill.

Now, Barry has to resort to profanity to try to show he is in control. How immature.

I agree that Obama does take some of the blame for this because he supported BP for the first few weeks after the explosion and his efforts continue to lack leadership. Also, his administration saw fit to give BP a “categorical exclusion” from the NEPA in April 2009 even with its disastrous safety record. Because the spill was “man-made” and could have been avoided, it is worse than Katrina.

I am not quite sure why Anderson feels the need to seek out celebrities’ opinions on every subject that comes up. I doubt the average American living on the Gulf gives a damn about what Olmos or any other celebrity has to say about it, all they know is that they are suffering and can’t pay the mortgage. Anderson should stick with interviewing the people who live on the Gulf and who are directly affected by this disaster and not waste time on spoiled celebrities feigning outrage.

Anderson’s interview with the survivors of the explosion last night was very good. These are the people we want to hear from.

This is a result of Obama trying to appease those on the right by trusting a mega-corporation with a record like BP. He didn’t regulate enough. Imagine if we had a conservative President right now.

Would, say, a Romney administration or a Huckabee administration, or God forbid, a Palin administration have pushed for tough regulations on BP and not give BP a “categorical exclusion” from NEPA as libra blue points out the Obama admin did last year?

I wonder how Hillary Clinton might have handled this. Probably better than Obama.

I’d rather have Obama resort to profanity than have him make a “You’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie” comment. The rest of the country has resorted to profanity anyway by now.

If Obama has been trying to appease the right, he’s been doing a good job of hiding it. You can ‘what if’ all you want, but Obama is in charge and has been for eighteen months. If regulations were lax on the oil companies, he had more than enough time to change them. When does the statute of limitations run out on blaming everything on Bush?

Lord this is as ridiculous as electing Obama in the first place. Of course he had NO relevant experience – executive or otherwise – to be President. The DC pol media responded irresponsibly (wha?!) when Obama claims to have “executive experience’. involved his “running” of his presidential campaign itself. the only thing dumber than that statement was anybody who actually believed it.

And Stoogesdude – if you only “probably” think that Hillary would have handled this mess and this White House better than Obama – Id say your not quite thinking logically or realistically – but at least your on the right road to rationality.

Of course she woulda – she’d have had her husband and james lee witt there on day one and she NEVER would have announced rolling back the offshore drilling moratorium to begin with as obama did – which is why this spill is Obama’s spill and not Bush/Cheney’s. he deserves every bit of criticism and censure that comes to him over this.

Does Mediaite have a copy editor?

“Depending on your frame of reference, Jaime Escalante or Admiral William Adama, (apparently Obama voters), think Obama has “lost it” due to his response to the BP oil spill.”

That just…doesn’t make any sense.

LOL…can you imagine the stress President Obama is going through. It’s a good thing he has prior executive leadership experience to fall back on. I mean when he….uh….oh crap I’ve got nothing. You’re on your own dude.

Everyone knows and expects us on the right to chastise Barry for being a world class fumbler, especially on this. What’s truly newsworthy are the hopey changey dreamers like Olmos and the rest of the loons on the left who have just been given a big old cup of reality.

They invested their heart and souls in a Messiah that turned out to be just another smooth talking politician talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Reality sucks, doesn’t it?

GOOD ONE, GORDONBLOYERSHOW!!!!!!!

Clip of Anderson Cooper pleading with BP to come on the show is hilarious! I have been watching as he has asked them every night for THREE weeks. They are king of not wanting to be held accountable, not even to a journalist, let alone the rest of us.

I have a FaceBook group to compel BP to accept Anderson Cooper’s invitation. “Make BP Appear on AC360″ http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Make-BP-appear-on-AC360/122998907734005 Join up and add your voice to the throng! Uh, crowd. Well, how about the hardy few!

I’m not one to blame this spill on Bush, so I won’t go there.

Yes, Obama should be blamed for not regulating more. But I bet if he had started regulating before the oil spill occurred, there would have been hell as usual from the right who keep going on about how Obama’s putting the government in everything. Blame should be split here with his administration and BP as it is, just as blame was rightly split between Bush and state officials during Katrina.

“stoogedudes says:
June 8, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I’m not one to blame this spill on Bush, so I won’t go there.

Yes, Obama should be blamed for not regulating more.”

That’s the point everyone keeps overlooking. He never had to “regulate” anything. His administration simply had to follow the rules (regulations) already in place. That’s all they had to do. You had agencies of THIS ADMINISTRATION that failed to perform their jobs, plain and simple.

@mklitt, I have been tweeting BP about accepting Anderson’s “invitiation” and I invite others to join me. Keep tweeting them! Sooner or later they will have to come on the show anyways, they may as well get it over with. The longer they wait, the worse it will get.

Funny.
Obummer “lost it”. So, just what did Obummer HAVE to have lost? He surely didn’t have and then lose competence.
I guess he “lost” the ability to have people see the Emperor’s “clothes”.

Do NOT invoke Battlestar without, at least, linking to all four seasons somewhere on this site!!!

I respect what Mr. Olmos has to say, he is a respected actor and activist, a very intelligent human being who has down many many things to further great causes. Just google LA riots and broom and you people who throw actors all in the same dumb as a rock category might be eating your words.

However, in regard to the President’s handling of this catastrophic crisis,

Please tell me what he could have done differently!

If posters here want to criticize and point the finger at someone why not criticize Tony Hayward at BP or even criticize Bush for allowing this to happen in the first place with his sweetheart deals and maintaining a mineral management department that did nothing to oversee regulate the oil industry.

But humor me here and please tell me what each and everyone of you would have done differently or what any other President would have done differently, perhaps you’d rather see McCain in there running the show down there, My god!

I will not get on this cable news talking idiot head bad wagon to be critical of a man I feel is doing the very best for this country.

Its easy to be critical and join that crowd but I have seen scant evidence that this administration has in any way been complacent in their response.

While I am aware of the devastation taking place every single second of every single day, I believe strongly in the commitment of the President in responding to this problem while dealing with 49 other states many of which are near collapse financially, 2 wars on foreign soil , not to mention hundreds of other countries around the world demanding his attention. In other words a very full plate.

Im not sure what purpose would be served to move to the gulf and set up shop, as Mr. Olmos states. What he should do is go down there once a week for the next several months and make sure things are moving forward.

Both Mr. Olmos and Anderson Cooper noted the lack of utilization of volunteers down there but I did not see Cooper following up on that.

Sometimes i think it’s easier for people like him to show pictures of dead birds than to get down and dirty with the nitty gritty details.

So if they are not using volunteers why not?

Get those people on the air to answer those questions..what can they practically do cleaning up, can they be trained, can they use their own vessels? If so, will this pose a problem, how much damage can a recreational or fishing boat sustain floating around in that gunk?

Cooper should be following up on this instead of continually reporting on what i already know. I for one don’t give a dam about hearing what lies come out of a BP employees mouth, I want to see people at work cleaning this up and being compensated for their losses.

That’s the real story this so called journalist should be focusing on instead of showing me dead pelicans. I know their dying and I want to see some efforts to stop that!