Obama Wants To Make Clear: Gulf Oil Spill Is Not His Katrina

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 10:17 am, May 3rd, 2010

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Just how badly does the Obama administration want you to not compare the current catastrophe in the Gulf to Hurricane Katrina? Pretty badly it would seem. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did a Full Ginsberg (and then some) on the morning shows Sunday and relentlessly employed the term “day one” (16 times relentless, according to Politco).

This was followed by President Obama on site press conference, which was basically a lesson on how to fit as many action words as possible into a six minute speech. And it may have worked. Especially now that the news is just getting worse and the blame seems to have rather firmly settled on BP. So now the question may be what comparison will the cablers grasp on to next? 3 Mile Island?

Alas, it was less the obvious determination of every Obama administration official to make absolutely sure those Katrina comparisons did not take hold than the worst case scenario answers that were so striking.

On Fox News Sunday (video below) Chris Wallace asked whether “If this goes on for 60, 90 days, we’re talking about a situation worse than Exxon Valdez?” Said Salazar: “That’s absolutely the case.” Oh great. Also, they would like you to know this is not Katrina.

The news gets worse this morning. This from David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors:

This spew stoppage takes longer to reach a full closure; the subsequent cleanup may take a decade. The Gulf becomes a damaged sea for a generation. The oil slick leaks beyond the western Florida coast, enters the Gulfstream and reaches the eastern coast of the United States and beyond. Use your imagination for the rest of the damage. Monetary cost is now measured in the many hundreds of billions of dollars.

Fox News video below.

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Wasn’t BP using Sarah Palin’s fail safe measures?
Bias-Media

somehow, someway, the Obama administration will find a way to tie this to Bush…

…just wait and see…
TEXICAN

Bias-Media says:
somehow, someway, the Obama administration will find a way to tie this to Bush…

…just wait and see…

And, if the Obama Administration doesn’t tie this to Bush…will you spend any time correcting yourself on that comment? Or, is this just your way somehow, someway, tying a negativity to the Obama Administration?
Bias-Media

…and if they do, what would you do?

the fact that they have already invoke Katrina and the Bush Administration handling of the Katrina aftermath means that they have already set the stage with the public for Bush Bashing…by deflecting any criticism using comparisons of how they are handling this, compare to how Bush handled Katrina

so, what say you?
MichelleF

He doesn’t have to worry about that happening Glynnis, he’s got you and the rest of the media there to help him, as always.
Tater Salad

This one is real easy to assess. Obama’s watch and it is his Katrina II – Case closed! – Unless the liberals blame this one on Bush also!
Integr8d

It just is what it is. And it needs to be fixed.

It’s too bad that the media needs to make this political and that the partisan benchwarmers (that would be all of us) feel compelled to support it.

No doubt, both sides in Washington are figuring out how to use this issue to further their own respective agendas. Or maybe they already have. I’m not keeping track.