I suspect that Obama's marks are more a reflection of a President who didn't pull the resources together early to protect the wetlands and beaches. The videos on CNN that showed vast expanses of beach and wetlands saturated with oil and not a sole trying to control it spoke volumes. The President focused on controlling the "leak" when he really offered little in terms of practical technical expertise while virtually no effort seemed to be directed to the part he could help with; the cleanup and control of the floating oil. He really didn't seem interested at all. Day after day, there were storys of lack of action on the berms, lack of booms, no-one cleaning beaches, and on and on. Every dead pelican reminds us that no-one was there to control the oil that did spill, until it was too late. How the White House could not see the result coming is beyond me. Then again, maybe he knew exactly what he was doing for other motives?

As someone from the effected area,I have seen the response from both POTUS's.These two events are very different in that one was a natural disaster and one was a man made disaster.From what I remember,Bush called the soon to be hit areas a disaster area in need of relief monies as soon as possible.I was there,so no one can tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.The problem was we did not know where the storm would hit so it was a wait and see attitude.And again everyone knew it was going to be big and was told to leave days in advance.So those whom chose to stay can't blame anyone but themselves.
With this disaster with the oil rig,from day one there should have been a response from the POTUS upon learning of the spill.Not days,weeks!This affects everyone in the U.S. not just a corner of the country that no one cares about.Seafood prices will triple,fuel prices will go up,hotels etc.Why must the POTUS wait until he sees the polls to do what should have been done the first day?Why must he sue BP before the spill is contained and cleaned up?We down here see this as politics as usual.It's as if he is still campaigning!You won,now do your job!Stop going on vacation,no more concerts at the White house!DO YOUR DAMN JOB!

Here's is the take away from these events in my opinion. All branches of the government are broke the local, state and federal government. All broke all useless. Let's take Katrina for instance, Mayor Nagen had plenty of warning and yet did not do enough to get more people out of harms way, neither he nor his emergency management team had a plan for disaster of this nature. Once the hurricane hit the governor lacked the smarts to even fill out the appropriate paper work. The federal response was ridiculous given the amount of tax payer money we pump into them. Now look at the oil spill, the first thing BP wanted to do was cut the oil line and Cap which after federal government intervention turned out to be the last thing they did because our federal government told them no initially, so we had 40+ days of massive oil leaks. The governor asked to build 20+ berms to protect the wet land, the fed authorized 6 and began studying the environmental impact of the others as if there would actually be great impact from the berms than there was form the actual spill. The point is the Federal government got in the way of BP and caused the problem to be much much worse than it would have been.

Now do you really want the government managing you health care?

Palin is right. The crazy tree huggers forced oil companies to drill far from shore where no man can dive to the bottom at 5000ft. If rigs are allowed to drill in more shallow waters this spill would not even be an issue. It would hsve been fixed. Its just another setup by the commie left to screw their oppositon and forward their Hitler like ideas.