Leadership
If you listen, you hear an awful lot about how Obama is failing to show leadership on the Gulf oil spill. Over the weekend a friend told me that every time he sees and Obama bumper sticker or hat he says "Oh you got a little oil on your he thought it was funny.
What I'd like to know is, precisely, what is Barack Obama not doing that these folks think he should be doing. Should he be down there in a deep sea submersible plugging the oil leak himself? Should he literally be holding a gun to BP's collective head?
Just what is the President of the United States, no matter who it is, supposed to be doing in a situation that is the definition of unprecedented?
"Leadership" sure sounds bad. It sure sounds like something the President should be providing. But what, in this context, does "leadership" mean? What would be showing leadership?
All the predigested Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck responses need not apply. The other oil companies don't know what to do either. All the oil skimmers in the world aren't going to change the core problem that the actual leak is a mile under water at depths we have only begun to be able to operate. And BP, like it or not, is an international company and there's only so much the US President can legally do to them.
So tell me... what concrete, meaningful actions should Obama be taking to show "leadership"?
Peace. Out.
What I'd like to know is, precisely, what is Barack Obama not doing that these folks think he should be doing. Should he be down there in a deep sea submersible plugging the oil leak himself? Should he literally be holding a gun to BP's collective head?
Just what is the President of the United States, no matter who it is, supposed to be doing in a situation that is the definition of unprecedented?
"Leadership" sure sounds bad. It sure sounds like something the President should be providing. But what, in this context, does "leadership" mean? What would be showing leadership?
All the predigested Hannity/Limbaugh/Beck responses need not apply. The other oil companies don't know what to do either. All the oil skimmers in the world aren't going to change the core problem that the actual leak is a mile under water at depths we have only begun to be able to operate. And BP, like it or not, is an international company and there's only so much the US President can legally do to them.
So tell me... what concrete, meaningful actions should Obama be taking to show "leadership"?
Peace. Out.