An exercise in pronoun selection.
Is Obama Claiming Credit for Gulf Spill Solution?
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the situation in the Gulf. As we all know, a new cap was fitted over the BP oil well earlier this week. This larger more sophisticated cap was designed to give us greater control over the oil flow as we complete the relief wells that are necessary to stop the leak.
Now, our scientists and outside experts have met through the night and continue this morning to analyze the data from the well integrity test. What they’re working to determine is whether we can safely shut in the well using the new cap without creating new problems, including possibly countless new oil leaks in the sea floor.
Now BP’s scientists are the “Scientists formerly known as They”
Either we will be able to stop the flow, or we will be able to use it to capture almost all of the oil until the relief well is done.
It’s truly amazing what Obama can do from a golf course.
But here’s the good news that I think everybody needs to understand. Even if it turns out that we can’t maintain this cap and completely shut off the flow of oil, what the new cap allows us to do is to essentially attach many more containment mechanisms so that we’re able to take more oil up to the surface, put it on ships — it won’t be spilling into the Gulf.
The final solution to this whole problem is going to be the relief wells and getting that completed, but there’s no doubt that we have made progress as a consequence of this new cap fitting on, and that even if it turns out that we can’t keep the containment cap on to completely stop the oil, it’s going to allow us to capture much more oil and we’ll see less oil flowing into the Gulf.
What’s with the “we”, Kemosabe? I don’t think I’ve seen Obama creating or saving the solution or even piloting a submersible.
Let me be clear- the policies of the past administration created the environment that allowed BP to cause this oil spill. I alone deserve the credit for the solution.
OK, I made up that last quote but to paraphrase George Carlin, it’s a nearfetched notion.
It is entirely characteristic for Obama to claim credit for success in this operation after blaming everyone for its origin. BP had become a pariah courtesy of the The One but in the end BP created the solution. In fact, BP was the irreplaceable part of this episode. Obama we could have done without.
Obama ought to head back to the links where he does the least amount of damage to the country. His constant badmouthing of BP more than likely hindered progress toward capping this leak than speeding it up.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Looking at the picture it appears he is backing the robot into the well head. Or did BP tell him to sit back there and play with the fake wheel?
No, Buffalobob, he actually caught a frosty freeze shop off to his left, he is heading there to get a swirl cone.
He can multitask. He’s good. Smart.
The sad fact of the matter is that there are stupid people out there among us that believe HE stopped the leak.
Yes but will he take credit for the things the law says he is responsible for? Containment and cleanup?
Well at least Obamaspill is contained within the Gulf of Mexico, for now.
was he blamed for not capping it ?
Yje sad fact of the matter is that there are some people who thought that BIG GOVERNMENT should have capped it earlier. Damn socialism if you ask me, and the same with the clean up
If the casing is intact, I would be tempted to fill a few tankers with the crude. A choked supply hose and a separator could be used to flare off the natural gas. A lemon into lemonade scenario.It could help pay for all the damage done because of the federal spill response. Also it could buy time for both relief wells to plug the production zone simultaneously.
Smart people invest in gold. Smarter people invest in lead.
oil guy from ALBERTA: hi, DID you say LEAD? well, GOOD to know I will keep my lead I was using for stainglass work. thank you bye.
It’s what he does.
He has always taken credit for the successes of others, while being quick to assign blame to others for his failures.
@ilovebeeswarzone:
Lol Bees!!!!!
I think Oil Guy was referring to THIS kind of lead
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RIDE A PALE HORSE: yes now I get IT, WOW are you ready ot not: WITH that we can accompany APACHE to the BORDER, and realy close things up. bye IT realy shine,
@ilovebeeswarzone: I hope you are not handling the lead. It can be absorbed into the skin. Be careful.
SMORGASBORD: thank’s for the advice, but I dont used soldering anymore, I glue my
design stainglass unto a clear plexiglass, exactly because some time ago, I heard that from somwhere. BUT I had done at least 20 lamps with it. bye
@Rides A Pale Horse: You use your choice of rounds and I’ll use mine. I’m a lousy shot.
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DrJohn
I know sometimes you have to shorten up a headline to make it fit, but the full headline was, “Obama finally takes credit for how long capping the oil spill took.
Don’t anyone burst my bubble. Let it float around before it pops on its own. Please!!!
Obama would make a good Tonto. He and the Loan Ranger were surrounded by Indians that were getting ready to attack them. The Loan Ranger told Tonto, “Looks like we’ve got a fight on our hands Tonto.” Tonto answered, “What you mean WE white man?”
If the new cap doesn’t work, will he say, “WE failed?”
Yes, John Ryan, but I think it is worse than that. obama actually prevented the Dutch skimmers from going there on day 2 (real reason: protect the unions). So not only do we have BIG gov’t, we have a gov’t that blocks genuine good, in order to advance its own agenda.
😆 How is the BP oil spill Obama’s fault?
don’t get it. Obama didn’t start the spill, Obama can’t magically fix something that is at a depth NOBODY has the technology to efficiently operate in, and Obama has no control over how many barrels of oil spill out every day.
@Blame Obama For Oil Spill?: Obama approved the Deep Water oil rig for drilling before inspections were done. Why would he do that? Was there a political payoff? This is after he has been campaigning for stopping off shore oil drilling. Would inspections have found a problem that could have lead to the explosion? We will never know. Why isn’t the propaganda media mentioning the pre-approved licensing before the inspections? Since King Obama is in control of the Federal agencies who would investigate anything illegal, it will never be investigated. We will only have a lot of questions with no answers.
I believe Obama approved the Deep Water oil rig for drilling because people were kinda trying to put pressure on him for it happening. The issue I think is with BP. They should have things in place to tell what happens when the oil rig does not function properly. This is not something that the president is responsible for. I think he did a great job of accepting the blame and doing something about it without pointing fingers. BP is a big company and doesn’t really speak alot about them when they let something this devastating happen!!!!!
@@Smorgasbord: The Federal agency that regulates the oil rigs is responsible for them. They license them and are supposed to be making sure they follow proper procedures and they are responsible for testing them. Obama bypassed the agency and approved of the license without the test.
Why is it liberals can’t admit when their leaders are wrong even whey they know their leader was wrong? Most conservatives admit when their leaders are wrong.
@@Smorgasbord: “I believe Obama approved the Deep Water oil rig for drilling because people were kinda trying to put pressure on him for it happening.”
I forgot to mention that your first comment didn’t make any sense. The approval for the Deep Water oil rig came BEFORE the accident. You remind me of John Carey’s, “I voted for it before I voted against it.” It amazes me how you liberals can get in your time machines and go back and make things they way you want them to be. The propaganda media might go along with it, but conservative blogs like FA won’t.
Its like everybody tries to Blame Obama for everything!!!!! The approval of the Deep Water Oil Rig drilling has nothing to do with why the explosion happened. This is my point!!!!!!!!! My first comment doesn’t make any sense because it has nothing to do with the issue at hand and my main question – Blame Obama for oil spill? Answer is no. Just like Katrina was not Bush’s fault.
Who is responsible?
It is a “known fact” that BP’s actions and handling of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
It is an actual fact that the oil spill did not start until after the oil platform sunk.
There is a growing body of evidence that the Coast Guard and fire team handling the blaze on the platform made a series of mistakes that contributed to the oil spill. In fact, in one of the first lawsuits filed, the plaintiffs aren’t even going after British Petroleum, but are instead going after the fire crew alleging the crews should have ignored orders from the Coast Guard.
“It was the flooding of the Deepwater Horizon and the resulting sinking of the rig that directly caused the piping to break and begin spewing millions of gallons of oil into the ocean,” Lloyd Frischhertz and Gerald Maples, lawyers for the spill victims, said in a complaint filed in federal court in New Orleans.
The lawsuit doesn’t seek damages from BP, rig-owner Transocean Ltd. or the U.S. Coast Guard, which helped direct the firefighting effort. The plaintiffs claim the fireboats violated industry standard procedures that warn against using water cannons to attack pressurized oil fires aboard marine vessels.
The Center for Public Integrity has an investigative report out that backs this up, but implicates the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard has gathered evidence it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investigating whether the chaotic spraying of tons of salt water by private boats contributed to sinking the ill-fated oil rig, according to interviews and documents.
Coast Guard officials told the Center for Public Integrity that the service does not have the expertise to fight an oil rig fire and that its response to the April 20 explosion may have broken the service’s own rules by failing to ensure a firefighting expert supervised the half-dozen private boats that answered the Deepwater Horizon’s distress call to fight the blaze.
More troubling, it appears that the chaos and lack of Coast Guard supervision may have directly contributed to measures that altered the ballast of the oil rig causing it to list then sink.
There is a lot more to be determined here, but it seems more and more the Coast Guard did not follow its own procedures. This might also explain why the Obama Administration has not been as hard on BP as many on the left would like.
What did the President know about the Coast Guard’s handling of fire? More importantly, why has the White House withheld the fact that the Coast Guard did not follow its own rules and take charge of the firefighting efforts?
Then, of course, we have to ask another question: if the Coast Guard’s actions caused the rig to sink and we already know the oil leaking didn’t start significantly until after the rig sank, is the federal government complicit in the damage?
We cannot and should not avoid blaming British Petroleum. We know from what happened prior to the fire, BP has a lot to answer for. But it seems the federal government’s initial response potentially magnified the problem.
Remember when they stated drilling off shore? Every Republican was SOOO for it “drill drill drill” they all said and Obama and nancy pelosi warned of the environmental implications but the Republicans kept saying “drill drill drill”.
This is the Republican party’s fault just as much as BPs fault and not Obamas fault at all
You remind me of John Carey’s, “I voted for it before I voted against it.” I don’t get it. That doesn’t make any sense. lol Has nothing to do with this situation or me. You don’t know if I voted or not. You don’t know who I am so don’t assume you do. I just asked a simple question. Blame Obama for Oil Spill? From what I can gather the answer is no.
@@Smorgasbord: Why are you using my ID? Don’t you have one of your own? Obviously, FA needs to have a screener on the sign up site that only lets one person have each ID.
I understand that the Coast Guard spraying water on the rig probably make it sink, but they didn’t know if the ones left on the rig were alive or dead. There were emergency shelters they could have gone to. I am guessing the Coast Guard opted with the possibility that they were still alive and threw as much water on them as they could.
When you said, But it seems the federal government’s initial response potentially magnified the problem,” I had to laugh. It was the LACK OF A RESPONSE that magnified the problem. How much oil would have been sucked up if Obama allowed it right away?
How many vacations and golfing trips has he been on during the spill. How many parties did he throw while the spill was going on. He has averaged one party ever three days sing he became president. Why isn’t the propaganda media complaining about this like they did all the things Bush did?
The last thing you said was that it wasn’t Obama’s fault. Did you forget that he OKd the permit before the final inspections were done?
Smorgasbord…..it was the lefty Blame Obama For Oil Spill? who used your ID…might of been a mistake since he used the @ symbol before the name. I’ve changed it to the original name he used.
To Blame Obama For Oil Spill? or whatever ridiculous other name you want to be called, either stick with that name or don’t comment. The one thing I do not abide here is sockpuppets.
SMORGASBORD: hi, they where blame for not reacting to the disaster and blame for keeping the public in the dark, and blocking anyone who where willing to start the process of helping in any way they could because there was no reaction positive from a leader who fail his duty to have anyone concern on the post because this is a gigantic TRAGEDY that no one can still appraise the future consequences, A failiure of showing leadership, when an EMERGENCY arise.
You know I have my own Id! So it was that Lack Of A Response – Please!!!! Along with the Oil Spill there are still alot of things going on in the world and in his life. If you have bill issues in a house hold would you not watch your favorite TV show. Of course you would because life goes on. Just because Obama was a little late on the Response doesn’t mean he caused the Spill. lol You are really making me laugh. I understand what you are saying but How can anyone blame Obama. At least Obama responded faster to this crisis than Bush did to Katrina and Katrina was worst. My thing is none of these guys are perfect. I just think people are trying to find this man doing stuff wrong too much. If they see a little light where they can put some negativity on him they go for it. I see a honest man trying to help this country the best way him and his administration know how to. He’s not the blame and I don’t think the response was too delayed.
President Obama has a score of 100 in responding to natural disasters and other emergencies. When North GA had a flood last September, Governor Perdue called the WH on a Tuesday, the president had FEMA on the job on Tuesday, and President Biden came on Thursday. Even Senators Chambliss and Isakson praised the president for his rapid response. This administration has been very good about responding to emergencies. The folks in North GA had been in DC protesting against the president that Saturday, the 12th, and the storm hit that Sunday. You cannot imagine who all of the tea partiers were expecting to help them after showing him their azzez, talking about socialism, and their disdain for “big government.” Yep, President Obama. Governor Perdue went to Panama. He wasn’t even in the state when VP Biden got here. The behavior of these North Georgians is despicable. They were blaming the president for their problems while the governor left the state. On the ajc.com blog about the flood, I couldn’t restrain myself from asking them why they couldn’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps and help themselves instead of depending on the government to do it since they hate it so much. It’s different for them if they need the government’s help, and they only oppose the govvernment when they think it is helping someone besides themselves. Hypocrites.
GOOD FOr YOU: if it’s enough for you, why is the majority thinking other wise on this major tragedy. I GUESS HE is picky, choosing which disaster to cope with to preserve the image
in front of his public.
SMORGASBORD, this is confusing,WICH one are you? why @@Smorgasbord?
IS SOMEONE REALY USING YOUR IDENTITY?
CURT: the one whos name “BLAME OBAMA FOR OIL SPILL IS ALSO USING THE NAME OF @@Smorgasbord DR.JOHN,please check it up.
SMORGASBORD IT”S THE “BLAME OBAMA FOR OIL SPILL that IS USING YOUR NAME WITH @@ in front.
BLAME OBAMA FOR OIL SPILL YOU ARE ALSO USING @@ SMORGASBORD’S NAME,
YOU ARE AN IMPOSTER AND A CHEAT, AND YOU REPRESENT OBAMA OIL SPILL?
SHAME ON YOU
DR>JOHN: you have an imposter here,check it please.
@Blame Obama For Oil Spill?: Bush couldn’t do anything without the governor’s permission. The governor has to ask the president to help. He can’t just respond without permission. The governor has to activate the National Guard. The president can’t.
The liberal governor and mayor didn’t want Bush to get the credit for helping until it was too late. Remember Mayor Nagon crying while asking Bush to help? That was the only time Bush could do anything. The last I knew there were still billions of dollars approved for Louisiana that they never used because it was Bush money.
You say that Obama is 100 for disasters. Remember, Obama can only respond if asked. Bush wasn’t asked untill it was too late.
A long time ago I learned that arguing with a liberal is like wrestling a pig in the mud. after a while you figure out that the pig likes it. I am done with this conversation because you enjoy arguing too much, even when you ran out of ammo a long time ago.
@ilovebeeswarzone: He is using his real ID now.
@Curt: I’ve never had anyone want to be me before. I take it as a compliment. I hope I am a good example for Blame Obama For Oil Spill. You try to copy those who you admire.
@Blame Obama For Oil Spill?: I just read this and thought of you. You should put your politics in neutral mode before reading it or you will be wasting your time.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/30/did-the-government-cause-the-gulf-spill/
lol im not arguing im simply telling my opinion. I didn’t start getting smart with comments until Smorgasbord got slick with his comment. Anyway yall saying im wasting my time but I see the truth hurts. I didn’t know you people were so sensitive about this situation. It cracks me up. Im not even into politics. I just had the question Blame Obama For Oil Spill? I see you guys’s answer is yes i still think NO!!!!! lol
And im sorry for using your id. You know that was a mistake Smorgasbord!!! lol Yall have a great life. Thanks for letting me getcha all rowled up. lol
SMORGASBORD< HE used your ID because he knew you where a better man than him. bye
@Blame Obama For Oil Spill?: I finally figured out it was a mistake, and I know how it happened.
@ilovebeeswarzone: He probably wasn’t used to how the comment window works. It took me a while to figure it out. All of the other blogs I comment on give you a blank window to comment from. FA’s has stuff that I figured I was supposed to delete first, so I did.
SMORGASBORD< IT does'nt excuse him to use your name and confuse the comment,
that is a sneaky way, how can the DEMOCRATS can be trusted,not anymore.
@ilovebeeswarzone: I try to give a person the benefit of the doubt the first time.
SMORGASBORD< YES, you posess the tolerance of the conservatives,I notice that.
ONE thing about him that he was not disrespect in his words, he was just pushing his agenda,
DONT YOU THINK SO?. AND he Apologyse for taking your name, but he mention that one of your comment made him do it, that's the part I did not like,and the word was revenge for being frustrated, I hope for his sake that he does'nt apply that tecnick on his family.
bye
Interesting how the Forbes source link referenced above is now 404’d…
“where’d it go?”, it seems that Forbes has changed the way their blog, Business in the Beltway, is linking. I went back to the Beltway archives, and it is found on pg 49 of the “older posts” link there. My bet is they changed formats, as blogs do, and the “continue/more” tag isn’t working correctly. You’ll note the story just above this one – “Rich Americans voting with their feet…” – does just fine. But the first story – “Down on the Jobs Outlook?” – also has the same “continue/more” tag problem. Just a broken link.
On the error page, you’ll see they provide an email address where you can alert them to the broken link. You might try that. Otherwise, if it’s a reprint elsewhere you are looking for, you can see what Brian Wingfield wrote in full at this link. Wingfield only did a paragraph intro, and then posted the text of Obama’s remarks regarding the capping of the Deepwater Horizon’s well.