When you don’t know what to do, find a scapegoat. Regardless what one may think about the BP “spill” problem or the Obama response, two things seem clear to me.

1. A pipe break one mile below the surface of the Gulf has never been encountered before, and therefore there is (was) no experience or knowledge upon which to draw in fixing it.

2. No matter how hard Obama tries to duck his responsibility, it remains that he is neither a leader, nor a manager at any level. It was obvious to even me after five days had passed with no progress by BP, that Obama should have stepped in and convened a panel of drilling experts from every oil company. While BP has the immediate problem, this particular circumstance is an entire industry problem, not just BP’s. Someone in the administration should have recognized this. The Obama administration cannot skate by with pointing their fingers in every direction but at themselves. It’s time to stand up and act like grownups.

But look at how they respond: Panic! Halt offshore drilling, without an offsetting dry-land drilling plan! No thought, apparently, to the effect on jobs and gasoline prices! How incompetent! How stupid!

Maybe we could send Obama down there with a teleprompter, and he could talk it into stopping. That’s all he knows.

D.D. Todd

Kempner

P.S. Mr. President, when this problem is under control, how about an immediate investigation into how and why the rig failure occurred?