Sharon Feinstein

Come out from under your halo, Obama, and admit that the public should be looking at you and not just BP to blame for the horrendous oil spill wiping out marine life, coastal areas, and ruining the livelihoods of whole communities. There were glaring warning signs, readings that gas was bubbling into the wells, suggesting an impending blowout, and indications of a faulty seal. Why wasn’t this idealistic full-of-promise President and his administration in the know about this? Why were they taking such a back seat that this catastrophic disaster could unfold ? Now Obama must absolutely deny Shell their final permits, issued under George Bush, to drill in the Arctic Ocean. We must preserve what is left of our dying planet and put nature and other creatures before human greed and profit. There are enormous environmental dangers in drilling in the Arctic. Shell insists it is equipped to respond to any emergency, how can anyone hear that without spluttering into their coffee. No more lies, and no more hiding in the shadows for the President who says No one is more upset than he is about the oil tragedy. But the rest of us weren’t responsible for reversing the 20-year ban on offshore drilling off Florida’s Gulf coast. Citing the need to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, it was President Obama who opened the door for oil companies who have been clamouring for access to the submerged liquid gold for decades. He is the one who has allowed this to happen and it’s no good heaping all the blame on BP. The buck stops with him. Nobel Peace prize, what a laugh.

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