That’s what happens when you have a media that’s little more than a cheerleader for a candidate and refuses to actually vet the person. There were a lot of people warning that Obama would be exactly what he is - a good orator and a lousy, inexperienced executive. His history in Chicago is terrible. He championed housing programs that wound up being disasters - then bailed on them in favor of the next great crusade. He’s really good at striving for things, and really bad at managing them. He had no history of decisive action. He was a political chameleon. He’s never run a business, or even worked in a business not affiliated with government and the law. His supporters claimed that his executive experience was fine, because he ran a good campaign. But David Axelrod ran the campaign. Obama was a good political candidate, but wasn’t and isn’t a manager.
With the BP crisis, you’re seeing how an academic handles executive action - fund a study, appoint a commission. Declare that the problem is complicated and there are no easy answers. In the engineering biz, we call it “analysis paralysis”, and it’s incredibly common - especially among people with lots of academic training and no real-world experience.
These were traits that, had they belonged to someone the media wasn’t completely smitten with, would have had enough investigative airing that the American people would have been a little more aware of the man’s weaknesses. He might still have been elected, since the competition was so weak, but at least you’d have had a more realistic assessment of the guy.
Yeah, it can be. The OP is drunk, you’re incoherent, and I don’t get a lick of substance out of either one of your posts.
ETA: well, in fairness, I don’t know for certain that your post is incoherent, as I saw that it was you and that it was about Obama, so I knew right away that it was tl;dr stuff.
And do you think he’s sat on a beach blowing his clarinet, inbetween slurping on a pina colada now? Or do you think the greedy fuck will still have his thumbs in every pie that comes out of the oven?
Well, the whole world is waiting for an engineer to tell us the solution to this crisis, so step up to the microphone and tell us how you’d stop the leak.
waits
crickets
Also it would be nice if the conservative snotbags would choose a message. It’s either; “there ain’t no environmental damage from that lil ol’ oil leak” or “the sorry incompetent Democratic President isn’t doing enough to stop this horrible crisis”. It can’t be both.
Huh, I’m an Engineer, and a conservative, and I think Obama is doing the right thing - manage the overall process and respond to the idiocy of the 300+ million technological dumbasses of America who bleat “can’t someone DO sometin’?” while they drive their 3.2 screaming kids and 1.7 Labrador Retrievers to soccer practice in their 10 mpg Ford Behemoth. The real Engineers in the energy field who I know all believe at the ground level, BP is probably doing most everything they can to stop the leak. This in no way excuses BP for the leak in the first place, but NO President is going to put on their superhero cape and stop the leak any faster.
