Spillage

To any objective observer, the oil spill in the Gulf is nothing short of a tragedy. Conversely, to any objective observer, one must begin to discern between tragedy, political theater, foot dragging, deliberate deception, true efforts to mitigate disaster and finally, wholesale incompetence. The Obama administration claims to be "in charge" of the efforts to stem the flow from the wrecked platform, while BP is, in-fact, the only entity with the technology and infrastructure capable of actually stopping the leak.

A gross miscalculation by the Obama administration had the President himself standing before America, attempting to make sense of the non-sense that has occurred within his administration since the inception of this disaster. The only thing one comes away from this latest, and long overdue, press conference, is the utter incompetence of this administration and, being at the top of it, the President himself.

Why is it there were not Army Corps of Engineers representatives on-site within 24 hours of the initial reports of a blowout at a major offshore oil rig? Why, in the words of Rahm Emanuel, is this administration not afraid to make the most of this disaster? Are the actions of this administration consistent with that of those who truly want to limit and mitigate this oil spill? The cynical and abhorrently incompetent response to this disaster is simply more evidence of the unquenchable thirst for power of those who currently have it. Is mine a controversial position? Perhaps but, sometimes somebody has to say what we are all thinking.

The unfortunate reality of this situation is we may never know the machinations that took place within the Obama administration immediately following their awareness of what had transpired in the Gulf. What we do know is, an oil drilling platform blew up, the response by the President and his administration has been, for all intents and purposes, slow and negligible. The most current photo ops by President Obama, showing him uncomfortably and awkwardly walking on an ostensibly polluted beach speak only to the vapid response to what is developing into an unprecedented environmental disaster. The most disturbing thing about this disaster is how little energy and attention has been paid. It has taken collective outrage on a scale heretofore not seen on American soil to get this administration to wake from its slumber, and yet, they still do nothing but posture, conduct political fundraisers and vacation.

Has there ever been a time we as Americans have been more divided, yet on a guttural level, united? The one salvation this administration may bring to this nation is an uneasy unity, the unity to realize we are in this together and no matter what your philosophy, no matter your political dogma, party affiliation or loyalty, we are, on some level united. That unity will bear out in the end in a defense of our Constitution and regardless temporary circumstance, we, as Americans united, will prevail against all comers, internal or otherwise. The strength of the American character will stand fast and we shall overcome.