James Carville Attacking Obama for his handling of Oil Spill

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BigPapaVol said:
I wouldn't go there, but I would say his "intervention" has been negative to neutral at best, thus far.
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Him being there hasn't made things any better or any worse.

Really, maybe it was nobody's fault. Think about it. Things sometimes happen for no apparent reason. Does anybody believe in just bad luck or chance, anymore?
 
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droski said:
clinton was far more of a pragmatist than obama IMO.
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After 1994, it was out of necessity for him to be pragmatic. And really, I'm not sure if you can give him credit for being "pragmatic" as much as you can call him somebody that waffled on different issues depending on what the polling data was showing from week to week. If you are gaging public opinion from week to week, it is really easy to come off as pragmatic and a person that reaches across the aisle...
 
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Weezy said:
As a dem, I believe the moratorium on drilling was a bit rash, but I'm also still in the "wait and see" mode as far as what actually happens. I also believe the federal gov't should have relinquished BP of cleanup duties probably from the start and made BP foot the bill.

The most ridiculous claim I've seen though is blaming Obama for the inadequacies of the MMS that probably contributed somewhat to the accident.
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It was also rather silly, esp. when you consider there were about a dozen or so countries at one time still drilling in the gulf.
 
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KB5252 said:
I agree, in fact it almost appeared (at least to me anyway) that he made the "buck stops with me" statement when the top kill attempt was just about ready and those involved thought it had a good chance of succeeding. If that is the case he took a political gamble by doing so but then again he was already starting to feel some pressure from the public at that point.
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That is what the dems need to realize. If they are going to posture themselves as the party that thinks gov't can solve all problems, they really put themselves behind an 8 ball when something like this comes up... where gov't intervention would at best make the problem not go away... or possibly make things worse.
 
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KB5252 said:
It looks like miles and miles of marshland and habitat will be complete losses for decades perhaps, if not longer.
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Well, we will see about that... Mother Nature isn't as fragile as many would have us believe. 5 years after Hurricanne Hugo paved a path of fallen trees from Charleston to Orangeburg, you had life comming back to normal. Same is true after Mt. St. Helens in Washington... and look at how Alaska has rebounded after the Valdez.

It will be a mess, but let us not get too carried away with the doom and gloom scenarios just yet.
 
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