“Did you plug the hole in your polls yet, Daddy?”
Posted on 05/28/2010 12:12:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
As he travels the Gulf Coast on Friday, President Obama is trying to reinforce the message he pushed during a White House news conference Thursday: that he and his administration are "fully engaged" in trying to fix, and clean up, the increasingly devastating oil spill. "I take responsibility," Obama said. "It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down."
Obama needs to reinforce the message that he's accepting responsibility for the Gulf mess — especially since recent polls show that the public is increasingly dismayed over his handling of the catastrophe.
But stepping forward with a more prominent message of responsibility is also politically tricky, because the spill is a situation that neither he nor anybody in his administration seems able to really control. As Obama acknowledged Thursday, the government does not have the technology to take over BP's attempts to plug the underwater well. And it's BP that's in charge of the coastal cleanup.
Obama has argued that the government is in control because it is policing BP's attempts to fix the mess. But as he told reporters Thursday, the government largely relies on BP's word. "It's a legitimate concern," Obama admitted.
In making his second trip to the region, Obama could also be exposing himself to even greater political fallout, especially if BP can't get the spill stopped. No doubt a presidential photo-op can be helpful in pushing the main players in an emergency to get their acts together. But if these moves are ultimately meaningless in fixing a situation, it's damaging to the White House.
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The choice was limited, and it took me the longest to decide. It was (to me) a battle between Sue Lowden, who I’m very familiar with after 30 years here, and Angle...I finally voted for Angle, though I haven’t heard much about her.
Lowden sounds good in her commercials, but...The Tea Party backs Angle. So. I hope I won’t regret it.
Still, any vote against Harry is a vote FOR freedom!!
Looks like he’s playing with those little sand crabs that harvest their food and roll the sand into balls...I bet he’s looking for leftovers!!
ROFLMAO
"And it's my responsibility to tell you it's all Bush's fault."
Shadow puppets?
Crist had to get for the photo op too.
I remember that.....
.....Bill Clinton "thoughtfully" making a somber cross on the the Normandy Beach to commemorate D-Day...
.....The press ate it up.
Interesting you brought the fly over up as we were all today discussing who was on that fly by over NY city.
They still have no released the flight manifesto yet.
ER MEDIA WHERE ARE YOU?
Nashville has too many republicans and white folks for him to go.
The sooner Crist gets out of office and we throw him out of this state the better.
Barry needs to get over himself.
Ooops, Michelle will have to wipe of my shoe.
Obama’s Vacation, playing 24 x 7 through 2012.
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