Barack Obama Doesn’t Care About the Environment | Eastern North Carolina Now

    I know he cares about staying in office, and when possible, does as his constituents wish, but does he truly have a passion for saving the fragile wetlands and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico from the onslaught of oil currently spewing from British Petroleum’s destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig? I don’t believe so.

    Just as Kanye West announced to the world, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” when making an analysis as to the effectiveness of the Bush Administration in their response to the Hurricane Katrina natural disaster, one can similarly draw the same conclusion about the current president in his response to the Deepwater Horizon manmade disaster. If the effective nature of President Obama’s crisis management is to be fairly judged upon the stage of this manmade disaster, in the context of Kanye’s harsh judgment of Bush, ‘43,’ one could surely surmise that the current president has no zeal for protecting the environment.

    What President Obama, and his team of voracious litigators, does have a zeal for: “Figuring out whose ass to kick.” That truly sent the corrective message to BP in this truly litigious society. Rather than proceeding in all haste to deter the spread of the gushing oil by whatever means necessary, British Petroleum was more concerned with staying on the right side of the Obama’s zealous regulators. When diametrically opposed Louisiana political forces: Democrat Ideologue James Carvell and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal are screaming, in near unison, to dredge up sand to build berms 10 miles off shore to protect the oil’s rush to the wetlands, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar brags that President Obama is “keeping his foot on the throat of BP,” and extra-managed Attorney General Eric Holder promises criminal prosecution against BP executives.

    Just as George W. Bush appeared as if he was a “cowboy,” to ardent Liberals, when he took the U.S.A. to war, after radical Muslim Terrorist’s murderous attack on the Twin Towers in New York City’s Financial District, President Obama appears like a street thug to most everyone else. It is as if the Barack Obama Administration can’t get out of its own way, as it does all the wrong things when constructive crisis management is very necessary. Where it is better to fix the problem, just like when they misapply Keynesian economic principles to further exacerbate a bad economy, Barack Obama is more concerned in preserving his “Street Cred.” with his "peeps," or in the case of the Stimulus Package: Provide a publicly funded slush fund for Democrats. But that's another editorial.

    While “Street Cred” may be necessary to preserve the President’s position with the Seafarers International Union by keeping the Jones Act enforce, which keeps foreign ships from working in the U.S. Territorial Waters, it does nothing for the fragile wetlands of the Gulf of Mexico, which would have benefited from the Belgian, Dutch, and Norwegian oil skimming ships, some of the world’s most advanced. Joseph Carafano of the Heritage Foundation is quoted as saying, “The unions see it (not waiving the act) as protecting jobs. They hate when the Jones Act gets waived, and they pound on politicians when they do that.” So President Obama keeps the Unions and the Gulf’s fragile ecosystem hangs in the balance.

    Alternately, George W. Bush suspended the Jones Act during the Hurricane Katrina natural disaster so that foreign ships could aid in the relief effort. It is hard to defend the former President in his handling of the Katrina relief effort, but he still stands head and shoulders above President Oama in his reaction, and management of his respective crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.

    Consequently, if George Bush, by Kanye West’s estimation, “doesn’t care about black people;” by comparison, Barack Obama, and his highly political moss-eating / tree-hugging constituents and regulators absolutely despise the environment. You can bet the Gulf of Mexico’s fragile ecosystem on it.