WHAT SHOULD OBAMA DO ABOUT THE OIL SPILL?

Everyone knows that BP should be responsible for the oil spill.  Anyone with a grain of sense would know that!  But since they are not doing a good job, it seems to me that our president, Obama, should take the "action" necessary to minimize the damage to our beaches.  His "pretty words" and promises "without action" are getting us nowhere.

He makes light of the disaster by saying that he cannot dive down and fix the hole and that he can't take a straw and suck up the oil.  However, he travels to the gulf coast frequently, costing the taxpayers a load of cash for Airforce One and the Secret Service, and really accomplishes nothing that couldn't be done in his oval office.  He thinks we are fooled into believing that he is really doing something.

What should he do?  From the very beginning, he should have appointed someone in the administration to head up this disaster.  All of our disasters have been management disasters in themselves!  Katrina was a management disaster.  We need a "disaster" plan, not only for this tragedy but for all the ones we are bound to have in the future.  Someone in leadership, if not Obama himself, should have immediately met with British Petroleum and worked out a game plan as to who would be responsible for doing what in plugging the hole and cleaning up the mess.  It should have been a "team effort" from the start in order to minimize the damage done to the Gulf Coast.  Obama should have learned this in Leadership 101.

This leader should have been appointed to be ultimately responsible for everything and everyone involved in the disaster and not left in the hands of the Coast Guard.  There are so many divisions of the government at work on the coast, with no definitive leader to guide them, they are bumping into each other's policies and procedures, causing unnecessary delays in getting necessary equipment and employees in place to do the clean up work.  It is a beaurecratic mess!

Okay...so Obama did get 20 billion dollars set aside.  That's fine and dandy but is that all he is going to actually do?  He has a phone on his desk.  He has access to the best minds in the world.  From the beginning, within hours or days, he could have summoned up a multitude of people around the world that are experienced in oil disasters to come to our aid.  Why hasn't he done that?

He keeps saying that he has done a lot.  If he has, then shame on his public relations person and the media for withholding this information from the rest of us.  We have only been presented with smoke and mirrors, as usual.