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 Obama Goes Back to the GulfPosted on Jun 15, 2010
Once more, with feeling: President Barack Obama paid yet another visit to the disaster-stricken Gulf Coast on Tuesday to survey the scene and to do a little damage control of his own. —KA
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By rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 4:15 pm Link to this comment
cyrena:
Iran. They are one of the biggest oil producers in the world. They have to IMPORT gasoline. What’s THAT about? Do you think that if there was a free market there, that some company would have figured out how to provide gasoline?
Sweden. Can’t say. Don’t know.
Report thisBy rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 4:11 pm Link to this comment
rangdrol:
“corporatism itself, the ability to hurt others at potential profit but no potential hurt to oneself”
Well, let’s see. If a corporation pisses me off for whatever reason, I’ll stop buying their product. Don’t you think that will hurt the corporation? Isn’t it in the best interest of the corporation to keep everybody they deal with happy? As for government-run industries- what incentive do they have? They have a monopoly.
Report thisBy rangdrol, June 15, 2010 at 3:19 pm Link to this comment
How about China, Iran (before BP and the CIA deposed Moussadeq), Venezuela…The more pressing point is that corporatism itself, the ability to hurt others at potential profit but no potential hurt to oneself, is itself put into stark display by this episode.
Report thisBy cyrena, June 15, 2010 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment
By rico, suave, June 15 at 6:12 pm #
rangdrol:
Why do you think a nationalized oil industry would
treat its workers, the consumer and the environment
any better than a private one?
Is there any example in the world to support your
claim?
*****
Iran maybe? Sweden as well.
Report thisBy rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 1:12 pm Link to this comment
rangdrol:
Why do you think a nationalized oil industry would treat its workers, the consumer and the environment any better than a private one?
Is there any example in the world to support your claim?
Report thisBy rangdrol, June 15, 2010 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
The amazing thing is that the joke liberal “left” is so busy defending Obama that they miss making the greatest argument against corporate control of fundamental resources that ever slapped the average citizen in the face…If you did to your next door neighbor what BP did to theirs, you would be in jail.
Nationalize oil!
The irony is that if Obama wanted to seize the the oil companies, the only power he would have is the US military, which is an arm of the oil companies. Oh well…
Report thisBy Jimnp72, June 15, 2010 at 11:08 am Link to this comment
what a wonderful opportunity for the repugs. now they can have it both ways-
they can viciously attack him for doing too much, and in the same breath viciously
attack him for doing too little.
his job sucks and Id rather be dead
Report thisBy skulz fontaine, June 15, 2010 at 10:30 am Link to this comment
‘Back To The Gulf’. Sounds like a Spielberg movie.
Report thisBy rico, suave, June 15, 2010 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
Attention all you conspiracy buffs:
Katrina conspiracies I’ve heard from the left:
1. Bush used secret military technology to steer the storm to New Orleans.
2. Bush blew up the levees.
3. Bush delayed responding to the storm because he wanted all the blacks in the city to die or leave so he could turn it into a white city.
BP spill stories I’ve heard from the right:
1. Obama blew up the platform as a pretext for calling a halt to off-shore drilling.
2. Obama would not waive the Jones act and allow foreign ships to help in the cleanup, knowing it would increase the risk of oil fouling the coast.
Which set of conspiracies are the more plausible.
Report thisBy Old Man Turtle, June 15, 2010 at 10:04 am Link to this comment
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Obama is but one among legions of talking heads on TV insisting the Gulf oil spill is “the worst environmental catastrophe in American history,” and similarly hyperbolic words to that effect. The ugly truth, of course, is that America itself is the worst environmental catastrophe not only in its own blood-soaked history but in most of the rest of the dying green-house world’s, as well. America is nothing but an environmental catastrophe, and it is one that will be getting (quite quickly) very much worse before America’s self-destruction lets things here begin to get better.
Obama also promises to “leave the Gulf better than it was.” So just leave! The minute that happens, things will be better already. American out of Turtle Island!
Report thisBy Samson, June 15, 2010 at 8:24 am Link to this comment
He’d be more useful if someone would give him a sponge and a bucket to start cleaning up his mess.
And it is his mess. His administration had been here long enough to review what BP was doing, and if they didn’t like it to shut them down. Instead, Obama revealed his true goals by only worrying about how to EXPAND offshore drilling.
Its Obama’s mess, along with BP. Someone get him a bucket and a sponge to start cleaning it up.
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