The OIL disaster in the Gulf is Obama's FAULT......

[GeoFisher]

I bet the GREENIES are really Honked off over this.

BUT Hey.......if the Obama Administration had not given that drilling rig a waiver, maybe they would have FOUND the faulty problems.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36956650...shington_post/

Now.......who the HELL is in the pocket of big OIL, BIG BANKS, BIG AUTO, etc, etc, etc.

Yes my FRIENDS, the Obamunists are coming.

Later,

Geo

[DJD]

I heard it was bush's fault Obama says everything is GW's fault. His administration will get a free pass on this. Wonder how much money he got from BP during his election run?

[RoadToad]

Are you seriously saying that if the Obama administration had denied that rig that exemption, and shut it down, you and everybody else on the right wouldn't have castigated him for that? I don't believe that for a second. If the Obama administration had built the rig, then it might be fair to blame him. But the inconvenient reality is that it was an oil company, or their subcontractor, who built and ran it, so the blame for its failure lies squarely at their feet. Oh, and I'm sorry to inject more reality into the thread, but there's also the fact that the three environmental impact studies, upon which the decision to exempt that rig was based, were conducted in 2007. Hmmm.. who was the President then? Why is this less HIS fault than Obama's? And if you want to blame a President, why not just blame FDR, who was President when they started drilling in the area? Better yet, why not just acknowledge the FACT that this disaster is no more Obama's fault than the Exxon Valdez disaster was the fault of George H. W. Bush, and then concentrate on how we can mitigate this one, and try to avoid them in the future?

Oh I forgot.. The Bush administration got raked over the coals for their response to Hurricane Katrina, so they have to find some way to exact revenge. God forbid either side should drop the partisanship!

[DJD]

You got it! Blame these bozos for everything like they did to GW! It blows don't it? Felt good to sling mud but when it comes at your guy it's time to stop. Hmmmm how convenient.

[Chubminnow]

Some of you guys can really throw out some political information. I respect you all for that too....as for me though, simply put I just don't care for Nobama, never have, never will...I knew I wasn't going to vote for him before I even heard him talk. Go ahead and call me racists, or a hater of whatever floats your boat...I wouldn't have these same feelings towards Colin Powell if he had run and gotten elected POTUS...But I despise Nobama, I have never felt this way towards a President in my life until now.

Anyway...as far as the oil spill is concerned...joke or no joke as George intended with this thread...all I know is I can't sling plotical mud in any direction on this one...I just hate this darn thing down there in the gulf with a passion!! I think the last I heard the slick now covers 2000 square miles and the well is still spewing....what...10,000, 20,000 gallons per day or more? That's HUGE!! And it's going to be HOW LONG before they get it stopped? My gosh this is bad BAD news and I hate it! Between this Gulf disaster and the flooding down in Nashville, these are some bad times fellas.

Just my .02 worth...

[HURRICANEBOB]

<Have you noticed that as more "drills" go up in the gulf, the price of gas down?
<Now a drill went "down" and the gas, well she went up.
<Is that supply and demand? Did Obama invent that?
<Maybe we use so much, we take unsafe risks to get it?


[B]Was he also responsible for these minor mishaps?[/B]
1967 March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: Torrey Canyon ran aground, spilling 38 million gallons of crude oil off the Scilly Islands.
1976 Dec. 15, Buzzards Bay, Mass.: Argo Merchant ran aground and broke apart southeast of Nantucket Island, spilling its entire cargo of 7.7 million gallons of fuel oil.
1977 April, North Sea: blowout of well in Ekofisk oil field leaked 81 million gallons.
1978 March 16, off Portsall, France: wrecked supertanker Amoco Cadiz spilled 68 million gallons, causing widespread environmental damage over 100 mi of Brittany coast.
1979 June 3, Gulf of Mexico: exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1 blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea. Although it is one of the largest known oil spills, it had a low environmental impact.
July 19, Tobago: the Atlantic Empress and the Aegean Captain collided, spilling 46 million gallons of crude. While being towed, the Atlantic Empress spilled an additional 41 million gallons off Barbados on Aug. 2.
1980
March 30, Stavanger, Norway: floating hotel in North Sea collapsed, killing 123 oil workers.
1983
Feb. 4, Persian Gulf, Iran: Nowruz Field platform spilled 80 million gallons of oil.
Aug. 6, Cape Town, South Africa: the Spanish tanker Castillo de Bellver caught fire, spilling 78 million gallons of oil off the coast.
1988 July 6, North Sea off Scotland: 166 workers killed in explosion and fire on Occidental Petroleum's Piper Alpha rig in North Sea; 64 survivors. It is the world's worst offshore oil disaster.
Nov. 10, Saint John's, Newfoundland: Odyssey spilled 43 million gallons of oil.

1989 March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska: tanker Exxon Valdez hit an undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water, causing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Dec. 19, off Las Palmas, the Canary Islands: explosion in Iranian supertanker, the Kharg-5, caused 19 million gallons of crude oil to spill into Atlantic Ocean about 400 mi north of Las Palmas, forming a 100-square-mile oil slick.
1990
June 8, off Galveston, Tex.: Mega Borg released 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston as a result of an explosion and subsequent fire in the pump room.
1991
Jan. 23–27, southern Kuwait: during the Persian Gulf War, Iraq deliberately released 240–460 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf from tankers 10 mi off Kuwait. Spill had little military significance. On Jan. 27, U.S. warplanes bombed pipe systems to stop the flow of oil.
April 11, Genoa, Italy: Haven spilled 42 million gallons of oil in Genoa port.
May 28, Angola: ABT Summer exploded and leaked 15–78 million gallons of oil off the coast of Angola. It's not clear how much sank or burned.
1992 March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan: 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well.
1993 Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.: three ships collided, the barge Bouchard B155, the freighter Balsa 37, and the barge Ocean 255. The Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into Tampa Bay.
1994
Sept. 8, Russia: dam built to contain oil burst and spilled oil into Kolva River tributary. U.S. Energy Department estimated spill at 2 million barrels. Russian state-owned oil company claimed spill was only 102,000 barrels.
1996
Feb. 15, off Welsh coast: supertanker Sea Empress ran aground at port of Milford Haven, Wales, spewed out 70,000 tons of crude oil, and created a 25-mile slick.
1999 Dec. 12, French Atlantic coast: Maltese-registered tanker Erika broke apart and sank off Britanny, spilling 3 million gallons of heavy oil into the sea.
2000 Jan. 18, off Rio de Janeiro: ruptured pipeline owned by government oil company, Petrobras, spewed 343,200 gallons of heavy oil into Guanabara Bay.
Nov. 28, Mississippi River south of New Orleans: oil tanker Westchester lost power and ran aground near Port Sulphur, La., dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi. Spill was largest in U.S. waters since Exxon Valdez disaster in March 1989.
2002
Nov. 13, Spain: Prestige suffered a damaged hull and was towed to sea and sank. Much of the 20 million gallons of oil remains underwater.
2003 July 28, Pakistan: The Tasman Spirit, a tanker, ran aground near the Karachi port, and eventually cracked into two pieces. One of its four oil tanks burst open, leaking 28,000 tons of crude oil into the sea.
2004
Dec. 7, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: A major storm pushed the M/V Selendang Ayu up onto a rocky shore, breaking it in two. 337,000 gallons of oil were released, most of which was driven onto the shoreline of Makushin and Skan Bays.
2005 Aug.-Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana: The Coast Guard estimated that more than 7 million gallons of oil were spilled during Hurricane Katrina from various sources, including pipelines, storage tanks and industrial plants.
2006 June 19, Calcasieu River, Louisiana: An estimated 71,000 barrels of waste oil were released from a tank at the CITGO Refinery on the Calcasieu River during a violent rain storm.
July 15, Beirut, Lebanon: The Israeli navy bombs the Jieh coast power station, and between three million and ten million gallons of oil leaks into the sea, affecting nearly 100 miles of coastline. A coastal blockade, a result of the war, greatly hampers outside clean-up efforts.
August 11th, Guimaras island, The Philippines: A tanker carrying 530,000 gallons of oil sinks off the coast of the Philippines, putting the country's fishing and tourism industries at great risk. The ship sinks in deep water, making it virtually unrecoverable, and it continues to emit oil into the ocean as other nations are called in to assist in the massive clean-up effort.
2007 December 7, South Korea: Oil spill causes environmental disaster, destroying beaches, coating birds and oysters with oil, and driving away tourists with its stench. The Hebei Spirit collides with a steel wire connecting a tug boat and barge five miles off South Korea's west coast, spilling 2.8 million gallons of crude oil. Seven thousand people are trying to clean up 12 miles of oil-coated coast.
2008
July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: A 61-foot barge, carrying 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel, collides with a 600-foot tanker ship in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge, causing a halt to all river traffic while cleanup efforts commence to limit the environmental fallout on local wildlife.
2009
March 11, Queensland, Australia: During Cyclone Hamish, unsecured cargo aboard the container ship MV Pacific Adventurer came loose on deck and caused the release of 52,000 gallons of heavy fuel and 620 tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, into the Coral Sea. About 60 km of the Sunshine Coast was covered in oil, prompting the closure of half the area's beaches.
2010 Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: The oil tanker Eagle Otome and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of crude oil. Environmental damage was minimal as about 46,000 gallons were recovered and 175,000 gallons were dispersed or evaporated, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
April 24, Gulf of Mexico: The Deepwater Horizon, a semi-submersible drilling rig, sank on April 22, after an April 20th explosion on the vessel. Eleven people died in the blast. When the rig sank, the riser—the 5,000-foot-long pipe that connects the wellhead to the rig—became detached and began leaking oil. In addition, U.S. Coast Guard investigators discovered a leak in the wellhead itself. As much as 5,000 barrels (200,000 gallons) of oil per day were leaking into the water, threatening wildlife along the Louisiana Coast. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared it a "spill of national significance." As many as 1,000 people and dozens of ships and aircraft were enlisted to help in the cleanup. BP (British Petroleum), which leased the Deepwater Horizon, is responsible for the cleanup, but the U.S. Navy supplied the company with resources to help contain the slick. If the slick reaches the coastline, it could dwarf the Exxon Valdez in terms of environmental damage.

[RoadToad]

You got it! Blame these bozos for everything like they did to GW! It blows don't it? Felt good to sling mud but when it comes at your guy it's time to stop. Hmmmm how convenient.

When did I ever sling mud at Bush?

[DJD]

When did I ever sling mud at Bush?

I can honestly say I was just having fun. I don't know if you did or not...plenty did and if you were not one of them then sorry about that. I don't keep a score card.

My point was more of a general jab of how the Liberal Media and many of the Liberal Dems continue to blame Bush and some wack jobs even say he planned the tragedy of 911. The minute anything gets tossed obamas way (right or wrong) he gets a free pass. He is the ultimate "Teflon Don" since nothing sticks to him.

For the record I do think he gets a pass on things he does that Bush would be crucified on. It could be speech blunders, policy blunders and most of all his associations with racist radicals. Can you imagine if Bush went to a Church that had a preacher that said the things that were said?

[eddie_m]

First of all, let me say that a guy at Bass Pro swore that garlic dip can convince sluggish bass to bite. Next, I concocted a theory that overfished bass might be more prone to bite lures that they haven't seen before. So, I dripped some red food coloring in the garlic dip, but that looked similar to another color I could have bought at the bait shop. I fixed that by adding some drops of blue food color. My luck finally changed when wishing my brush hog luck with a gentle kiss and pulling in a big ole toad, but I've been cursed with purple lips ever since. So, I don't think this line of discussion is amusing. Maybe I should run for Prez?!?

[mhall]

I love this site but it's way too ridgid sometimes.........................

[DJD]

If u can captivate millions with promise filled speeches I say you got a shot. Don't worry about actually doing anything just give good speeches.

[apb]

"You got it! Blame these bozos for everything like they did to GW! It blows don't it? Felt good to sling mud but when it comes at your guy it's time to stop. Hmmmm how convenient."

Brilliant idea! Just like the right did to Clinton... and then the left to Bush...and then the right to Obama. Each time taking it up another notch or two. Seriously, where does this BS stop? We going to go so far as to point guns at each other and fight over some piece of crap politician who the vast majority of us can't stand anyway. The partisianship that is dividing the country seems to deepen with each election. Yep, those pols have you trained so well. The people argue back and forth about meaningless drivel some self-serving politician spews forth, mean while those politicians keep screwing as and the country by putting party before country. Yep, keep the people divided and the politicians will keep on their merry way sending us all into the sewer. Country first, party a very distant second.

btw, not directed at any one poster in particular. The quote was just a good starting point for discussion.

Andrew