The very first thing Obama did in the Gulf was to send in the lawyers.
Pinera didn’t need to be President. He wanted to be President. He didn’t need to prove anything to anybody but he knew he could help Chile. Much has been writted about how tough Pres. Pinera was in business. Much more will be written about him as being a good and sucessful President of a very good and well managed country.
Bambi would still be awaiting an environmental impact study.
Aside from the president’s performance, I hope the miners don’t mess up their finances and/or lives like so many lottery winners do.
Any chance we can get a Hawaiin birth certificate for Sebastián Piñera?
man, you know things are bad when you’re coveting a south american politician.
I don’t know much about Chile’s Presidents leanings but one thing I’m certain about was his sincerity during the rescue operations.
His demeanor never changed throughout the entire rescue. Him and Chilean first lady greeted each and everyone of those miners with the same enthusiasm from beginning to end.
I dare say that had that been oblunder in his place, assuming he even showed up would have been for a photo-op for the first one then left for a round of golf. He hates the mining business anyway.
The first thing he did was tell the trapped miners to stop digging.
Chile has come out of this looking like a very advanced country with direct, strong leadership. This incident would not have turned out this way in most countries. Can you imagine how Iran or China or Russia would have handled this? They would have sealed the hole right after the cave in.
I was struck with how obvious it is Pinera values human life. Contrast that with Obama who has yet to acknowledge or express any concern at all for the murder of an American citizen on Falcon Lake.
It is not in O's nature to even think this way.
I was moved to tears when he led that crowd in their national anthem. There is a true leader, one we so desparately need in these times.
Not since President Bush threw the first pitch in Yankee stadium after 9/11 have I been so impressed.
We should have outsourced leadership to Chile for the BP Gulf Oil Crisis. It sounds like this guy’s on his game, didn’t summon attorneys, and didn’t blame (and thus shut down) the copper mining industry.
He would have banned mining below 100 feet.
The Chilean President did not blame anyone?