The Gulf Oil spill is Obama's Katrina and Waterloo rolled into one: Obama has shown a gross lack of leadership in managing the crisis in the Gulf.

BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
Cutoff, Louisiana
May 26, 2010


Cutoff Louisiana.... Its very unfortunate that our yes we can President Barack Obama, doesn't even have any semblance of a clue as to what to do in handling and managing the nations worst economic, ecological/environmental disaster of the modern day era with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
At a time when all Americans are looking for sound effective leadership from Washington in dealing with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama appears dumbfounded, perplexed, and narrow minded.
Leadership is predicated on three principles, which are the ability to lead, guide and direct. So far President Obama hasn't shown anything that remotely resembles leadership in dealing with the crisis in the Gulf.
The Republican Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana has shown more intelligent steady leadership than Barack Obama in responding to the crisis in his state.
Obama ran a more effective campaign for the Presidency, but his inability to grasp the complexities of effectively managing the Government of the U.S is telling, and causing irreparable harm to the United States.
Obama doesn't know what the hell is going on inside of any of those regulatory agencies under his umbrella. The office of the Presidency is far above Obama's pay grade, but he would never admit it.
A May 14, story in the New York Times described a pattern of suppressing critical reports, ignoring permit requirements regarding wildlife habitat, and threatening staff scientists who impede the permit process-- which continues a year and five months into Obama administration.
The Times reported that the MMS U.S. Government's Mineral's Management Service ignored laws that require companies to obtain permits from Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration if endangered species or marine mammals are put at risk by exploration or drilling. Since January 2009, the MMS has approved "at least three huge lease sales, 103 seismic blasting projects, and 346 drilling plans, " in the Gulf of Mexico without the required permits. Barack Obama as President of the United States is ultimately responsible for the management of the MMS.
Although Interior Secretary Salazar said the permit process would be delayed after the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, five permits to drill in the Gulf were granted between May 3 and May 7. Note the following week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by environmental and Native American groups to stop oil drilling in the Chuckchi Sea, scheduled to begin this summer unless the Obama administration intervenes. Don't look for the weak, and timid Booker T. Obama to fire his good friend Mr. Salazar.
The relaxed standards, and procedures at the MMS caused this horrible disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Obama administration should not be allowed to escape culpability along with the criminals at BP.
The BP crowd should be prosecuted for the various crimes against the people of the Gulf Coast, the ecological system, wildlife, marine life, and fowl life. And its very unfortunate that we cannot impeach a sitting President for malfeasance, and a dereliction of duty.
How would Obama have responded to one hundred thousands gallons of oil spilling into waters of Cape Cod Bay, or the water surrounding Martha's Vineyard.
Let it be said that Obama doesn't care of about the people in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida.