What more could the Admin do? How about mobilizing the Ships to clean and contain the spill and to accept the offered help from 17 countries!! What about creating a perimeter around the spill so the oil could not reach the wetlands or the beaches!! Obama had a chance to be a world hero and open a new era in international cooperation for “manmade disasters”, but did nothing!! Perhaps it was not in the Admins best interest to let the world see that even a large spill can be contained and cleaned rather well!! They twiddled their thumbs while the oil gushed for 50 days!! Obama postured like a concerned citizen instead of the most powerful person in the world. The untold psychological and economic damage to the Gulf Coast was almost totally preventable!! The Administrations’ purposfull inaction allows BP to become the focus of hatred, and obscure the Govt.s’ destructive role. This is worse than anything that happened with Bush’s handling of Katrina by several orders of magnitude. Obama: a. can’t manage a hot dog stand. or; b. did it on purpose. In my opinion, the decision to have BP as solely responsible for the clean up is absolutely criminal.
