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Sense OBAMA knew about the Gulf Spill 3 weeks before it happened should He be IMPEACHED and criminally charged?
April 13th BP informed The OBAMA Admin of the leak of gasses and oil on the floor of the Oil rig and Asked for help. They received none. Incompetence or Criminal Neglect or Both? Is he sacrificing the Gulf Coast the wild life, people and jobs to further his job killing agenda? How come his Admin turned down help?
yea its all made up.. like rev. write and william ayers weren't his friends and buying off senators or failing to secure the borders but threatening to sue. for the attempted moratorium on drilling which would hurt the economy and the region even further. Much like Holder and OBAMA i guess you can avoid the truth or facts if you don't read the bill or refuse to see the truth. you little wannabe Marxist sitting in your mommies basement seem to have time on your hands try Google for the info. How come he surrounds himself with communist and American hating radicals? pull your heads out of the##sand.
you are correct about the date.
June 21, 2010
Should Obama Resign Over February 13?
It now appears that the White House knew about problems in the Gulf two months before the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20. What did the administration know? Why didn't they shut down the well?
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While defending his own policies President Obama has routinely been rude and sarcastic to his predecessor, George W. Bush. Yet Obama appears to be making the resident of the previous White House look like a genius compared to his own serious missteps in office.
Case in point – Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's performance and the communication of priorities on the issue of oil rig safety in the Gulf of Mexico.
It seems incomprehensible that the president and other members of the administration still have jobs when it is now being reported that the federal government was apprised by BP on February 13 that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was leaking oil and natural gas into the ocean floor.
In fact, according to documents in the administration's possession, BP was fighting large cracks at the base of the well for roughly ten days in early February.
Further it seems the administration was also informed about this development, six weeks before to the rig's fatal explosion when an engineer from the University of California, Berkeley, announced to the world a near miss of an explosion on the rig by stating, "They damn near blew up the rig."
It's also now being reported that BP was asking for the administration's help on this matter long before the deadly accident and the now gushing well of tar.
Which leads me to some questions for the president. If I were in front row of reporters in the White House briefing room, here’s what I’d like to know:
1. It appears, Mr. President, that you were informed by BP about problems on Deepwater Horizon on February 13 and the company wanted your help. What did you say?
2. Given this new revelation, Mr. President, how can you can sleep
3. Did you inform the victims' families about these facts when you invited them to the White House for last month's photo op?
4. You've said, Mr. President, time and again, that the buck stops with you. Doesn’t that statement seem like something bordering on propaganda when you follow it up with what appears to be a false sense of outrage by telling Matt Lauer that you're looking for rear ends to kick?
5. Does the buck stop with you… or not?
6. Are you going to insist that Mr. Salazar step down from his post in disgrace and shame?
7. Will you hold another prime time television press conference and tell the entire truth to the American people? -- These would be the actions of a man who says that the buck "stops" with him.
8. I know when this news was breaking midday on Saturday about the latest BP developments that you and the Vice President were out on the golf course. Was it 39th or 40th time you've played a round in 18 months? (Just for a point of reference President Bush played golf 24 times in eight years.) Never mind, your priorities are for you to decide. At least until election night...
And now here's where I would not be able to stop myself from saying more...
It is one thing, Mr. President, to be forced to deal with unexpected circumstances and to have to deal with genuinely new problems. President Bush sure had to. He had to respond to an attack on our homeland that took the lives of 3,000 of our fellow citizens. But on his watch no other terrorist actions took lives of Americans on our soil, largely due to his steadfast leadership and willingness to accept no excuses on the matter.
But Mr. President, you seem to have very little leadership experience and it appears you have even less skill. Being a good dad and nice guy who sees the world as he wishes it to be is not exactly a resume of exacting leadership.
Your advisers have failed you and you have failed the American people on nearly everything we've asked of you.
Where you go from here is really your call, but you should consider two options if you genuinely love the country you work for and those of us you report to.
First, change your tactics. Second, appear to care. Attempt to engage and empower Americans who can and will go solve this mess.
Otherwise resign.
For the good of the nation, for your own children's future, change your patterns or change your path... but change!
You do remember that word don't you, Mr. President
memom : I'm smoking reality what are you smoking? dry kool-aid? What did they think Bush was going to do about Katrina? he couldn't control the hurricane.
Obama has never been in the military or ran a company before either. So then you agree he's unqualified for the job of fixing the economy or micro managing the war. The only thing he seems to be really good at is blame. Its always someone Else's fault. huh?
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- King MidasLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Then that would have made republicans feel that President Obama was trying to take over the petroleum industry.
- doug4jetsLv 71 decade ago
I don't understand it. I don't know why we would refuse foreign help from 14 countries who offered. I don't know why we have 2000 skimmers scattered throughout the country, not in the Gulf of Mexico. I also think Goldman Sachs should be investigated for selling 44% of their shares of BP stock about 3 weeks before the April 20th event. However, I don't think there's a punishment severe enough for killing an entire Gulf, and the damage yet to come to the entire region. What could we possibly do to them which would be fitting?!
- maxmomLv 71 decade ago
This has to be a joke.
I want some of whatever you are smoking.
Do you really think BP would go to the President about a crack in a well??? Why on earth would they do that? Is he an engineer? Is he an oilman? NO and NO.
- tonalc2Lv 71 decade ago
No.
I've been waiting for this silly Republican talking point to reach YA; I'm surprised it took so long. If you're going to use it, please use the "approved" information: it was February 13.
What supposedly happened was the MMS was informed that there was a crack in the Macondo well--and ten days later was informed that the cracks had been sealed.
Calm down.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think there definitely needs to be an investigation into that. Don't worry, come Nov. There are going to be a whole lot of investigations going on and people going to prison.
- I Broke BadLv 41 decade ago
1. You provide no source so it must be true.
2. Did you actually go to school? It's "since" not sense.
3. Why would that be held against him. It is BP's rig (British Government)...so why should he be held responsible.
4. How is that a crime?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You can't be impeached based on made up "facts."