Comments for Salazar’s own experts opposed drilling moratorium at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.theind.com Sat, 25 May 2013 04:15:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6381-salazars-own-experts-opposed-drilling-moratorium#comment-8216 planejane, my assertion is that only hard-core partisans (a small portion of the populace) will tie the oil spill's duration to Obama's political well-being. In other words, the same old people who always say that every single thing Obama does is wrong and is destroying the country. (yawn) I'm no Obama fan and I have plenty of criticisms, but I think that a little bit of rationality shows the "bungling" and "impotent" charge to be hyperbole. I'm interested in hearing exactly what you think he did wrong. As far as the "penchant for being an apologist for all things American and a cowtower before despots", that's your interpretation and a familiar cliche from the partisan noise machine (I suppose Reagan was a cowtower before despots for talking to the Soviets?). A lot of people were relieved to have a president attempt to reconcile with the Arab world instead of perpetrate the notion that we are enemies, although the fact that Obama is continuing to bomb their women and children at the same pace is testament to his doublespeak. Neither has he done anything to fix the evisceration of civil liberties we experienced under the last president; in fact he has supported that. - Resident Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:58:28 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6381-salazars-own-experts-opposed-drilling-moratorium#comment-8202 Resident- I was not making an analogy between the spill and Katrina or the hostage situation in terms of their similarity as events per se. The spill is analagous, I believe, in its potential political damage to Mr.Obama. At the risk of repeating my earlier comment, The hostage standoff and the spill are very similar in that there is little in the way of Executive action that can or could address the repective problems.In many repects, this is far worse than the hostage crisis in that they were merely detained. The oil spill will continue to be a political liability until it is contained, and as of now there is no end in sight.And the longer this goes on , the more the public will cast The President in the same light as they did Jimmy Carter-as a bumbling, impotent bungler.In fact it is a sad irony that the two presidents could not swap their respective delimmas. Carter was a nuclear enginner by training and could have at least grasped the fundemantal physics related problems at play-he could at least competently evaluate the the advise of the "experts" whom Mr.Obama so fetishizes. Obama, with his rhetorical facility and penchant for being an apologist for all things American and a cowtower before despots of any stripe might have well made points with the radical Iranian clergy (his middle name would not have hurt either).So with all repect I believe that my assertion that these three events are indeed analogous in the potential damage they could umleash on a Chief Executive Officers political well being.This was my origional assertion.As conflicts each was/is unique. - planejane Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:52 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6381-salazars-own-experts-opposed-drilling-moratorium#comment-8199 I have a feeling Obama and Salazar will reverse the moratorium on current drilling operations. This does seem more political than logical, especially after the panel advisers said they did not recommend stopping current operations. Meanwhile, the Fox/Drudge/Rush echo chamber is attempting to paint this to be as bad as Bush's Katrina or Carter's hostage crisis. A cursory examination shows these to be false analogies. In Katrina and the hostage event, you had massive instantaneous events with people stranded and dying from the start. An oil spill doesn't become big news until it gets to a size sufficient enough to rival Tiger Woods' penis and the Stanley Cup. - Resident Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:05:38 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6381-salazars-own-experts-opposed-drilling-moratorium#comment-8193 You go Buckley! Once again you nailed it. - planejane Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:47:55 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6381-salazars-own-experts-opposed-drilling-moratorium#comment-8191 Thank you Senator. As an inveterate conservative I rarely agree with you, but I applaud your intestinal fortitude in standing up to President Obama's political grandstanding at the expense of Louisiana.Rahm Emmanuel I am sure is advising the President that this is by for more politically damaging than Katrina and is fact much more akin to President Carter's career killing Iranian hostage crisis.It puts on broad and public display the inadequatcy of the President's glib theatrically rehearsed demeanor in the face of an actual real time crisis.As he probably would say, he don't walk it like he talks it.Because he can't.He lacks the leadership wherewithall,not to mention the experience.Sure, he would have fired Tony Hayward, not because he has been ineffectual, but because he made the President look bad.And looking good is all that Mr.Obama has ever really had going for him anyway.And because he would never carry Louisiana anyway, the fallout is, in his political view, acceptable. - Buckley Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:18 +0100