Something you're apparently missing.
So you think capping an oil well 5000 yards under the surface of the ocean is a government responsibility? Why?
Again, I don't care what party he is. You obviously are falling prey to your own rhetoric.
Really? Then answer the question above. Why do you think the President should be stepping in to stop an oil leak? What specifically should the President be doing, why is it the Federal responsibility, and where is this responsibility delineated in law.
Please answer, I am genuinely curious.
Then how can you call him responsible?
That hasn't been my point. My point has been why it was okay to blame Bush at Katrina, but it's not really okay to blame Obama for this. Even some of the liberal pundits are puzzled by his responses.
Katrina was a disaster. The Federal government, in conjunction with state and local officials, has a long history of engaging in support missions for disasters, both within and without the United States (like Haiti).
Your position is just silly. President Bush did a HORRIBLE job handling Katrina. This was an area where he could have taken effort, where past efforts set expectations, and where he could have shone. He did a really bad job at a lot of things. Ignoring this will not make it go away.
Republicans need to get over the Bush derangement syndrome. He was a really bad President. There is no reason to defend the indefensible simply because he was a Republican. Let me let you in on a secret...
REPUBLICANS CAN MAKE MISTAKES!!!
You have no idea how liberating it is to NOT have to defend Bush just because he is Republican. He screwed up, a LOT. This does not mean you have to go out to find something Obama has screwed up. It means I can deal with Bush as Bush, Obama as Obama, next President as next President.
As it is, Obama's situation is completely different from Bush's.
Then you apparently need to turn your volume up, because you don't anything about what I feel about the POTUS, other than one soundbyte you've read where I've said I don't like him. I don't. Pssst...I also didn't care too much for Bush, either.
When you make a convoluted comparison of two incomparable events in the vain hope of trying to make a Democratic President look bad because a Republican President screwed up a natural disaster, you want me to ignore it?
A "massive dam failure with stranded people"??! Good Lord. I lost friends in Katrina and you want to chalk it up to massive dam failure with stranded people? Sheesh.
Really? You're going to ignore the obvious differences by pretending faux outrage?
These are both national crises. The people in charge of the states involved have asked for federal help and they were slow getting it.
Above you just admitted to not knowing what Obama could have done. What help do you think he could have provided that he has been slow in providing?
In one case, it was Bush's fault the fed help was slow. In this case, however, people are trying to give Obama the pass, that this is all BPs fault (which BP hasn't denied, actually) but that doesn't excuse Obama from trying to assist these people. Why Bush is at fault in one scenario because he was the POTUS and why Obama isn't is a mystery.
Assist how?
Yes it is. Even the political pundits are picking up on that.
Then provide a detailed explanation comparing the two events, possible actions, the the way in which each President failed. This should be useful to everyone.
