Country music singer or President Obama, who is better informed on oil rig drilling?

Let me take this as you've given it, piece by piece. The answer is a reasonable argument for a look at facts. It might make me the most unpopular person in the US.

You make a factual error: Trace Adkins is not a Presidential advise, and has not been through any process to advise obama on anything that I could find. He's one of hundreds who have given their opinion on TV with Anderson Cooper over the last two months. Mr. Adkins worked in the oil industry for ten years, six of them on oil rigs in the Gulf.

That is experience that dozens if not hundreds have but which The President does not. So in that regard, he may know more about it. He'll also know more about singing, too, and The President will know more about passing legislation, and it's likely Trace Adkins has never had to be the first country singer to walk onto the stage of someone that sings a completely different type of music, in the middle of a too-long concert that's not going well, then been able to fight a couple of wars, pass health care reform (like it or not, it was still a process that didn't come without a lot of bickering),save the country from what could have been its worst financial crisis since The Great Depression, turn the jobless rate around and still be a husband and dad in 18 months.

THAT would be a concert not to be missed. I will allow that it's possible--no, we now know that's definite that The President had inaccurate information about the size of the spill right from the start, with those barrels-per-day estimates climbing every day. But Trace Adkins may have made a factual error, slightly: it's very easy to say a British company made the mistake, but BP America, the wholly owned subsidiary that was likely overseeing the well, is headquartered at One Westlake Park in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas.

All of the men killed were from Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas. Trace Adkins is from Louisiana. Unless there was a direct order from GB, all involved from top to bottom except Tony Hayward--who we hardly saw at the beginning--were Americans from a Gulf state.. "What's with CNN continuing to cut to pictures of oil covered wildlife while Trace is speaking, some not so subtle way of disagreeing?" ++CNN and every news channel has been showing pictures of those poor birds--they're highlighting the severity of the incident.

They do it to James Carville. And while I'm on Carville, I take a little more stock in his response. He's been interviewed by Anderson Cooper almost every day in New Orleans.

Carville was an attorney in 1973, then a Marine, then a high-school teacher, then a political consultant. He was Bill Clinton's campaign manager in 1992 He has taught a college class, , was a sports radio show co-host, and was an adviser to llary Clinton's Presidential campaign. He has advised many international political campaigns and he's down there speaking his mind.

Mary Matalin, is a Republican strategist who has been right there with him--both blaming BP and various areas of the Federal Government. Trace Adkins released his first single in 1996. All but one of his studio albums have received gold or platinum certification in the United States; his highest-selling to date is 2005's Songs About Me, which has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum for shipping two million copies.

He has also made several appearances on television, including as a panelist on the game shows Hollywood Squares and Pyramid, as a finalist on The Celebrity Apprentice, and in television commercial voice-overs for the KFC restaurant chain. In addition, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled "A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck," which was released in late 2007. He's been nominated for four grammys but hasn't won one (although he did win both the ACM Top New Male Vocalist and CMT Male Video of the Year for "I Got My Game On" in 1996) Adkins made his acting debut in the 2008 film "An American Carol.

". In November 2008, Trace Adkins made an appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Trace rode with his family on the "Jimmy Dean" float and performed his popular song "You're Gonna Miss This.

" In 2009, Adkins appeared in local Kansas City commercials to advertise season tickets and the 50th season of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs. Also says here that Adkis was shot in the heart and lungs by his second wife. He denies abusing her but comments that the relationship was marked by excessive alcohol use It is no surprise that Adkins is quick to blame The Administration.

The Houston Chronicle opened an article about hm as such: "Republican country star Trace Adkins, a self-described "Dennis Miller conservative," a 6-foot-6 member of the NRA..." It's very easy to get a celebrity in front of a camera on something like this. Kevin Costner and a couple of investors (I think hid brother was one) invented & built a machine that can centrifuge oil & water apart. I believe the Coast Guard or BP bought a few dozen of them.

Apparently, "Costner worked 15 years and spent $20 million dollars to spearhead the development of a machine that can separate the spilled oil from the water. BP, struggling to contain the oil spill, immediately procured machine from Costner and is testing it." Costner I'll listen to.

Carville's a politician--he knows the ins and outs of the system--exactly what agencies exist, who runs them, what they do, etc. , and he's a Washington insider.(I had dozens of lobbyists and politicians as clients in DC, and I now do some lobbying myself."The System" is not so easy as pointing fingers when it comes to politics. ) I appreciate the experience Trace Adkins has on the rigs, and his passion for Louisiana (I visited New Orleans the year before Katrina and I can't imagine the city in shambles, and I've vacationed on the West Coast of Florida many times and can't comprehend oil washing up in Sarasota). But Adkns is 20 years younger than Carville, is not as involved as Costner (from what I can tell) and Adkins is an entertainer with no experience in politics that I could find.

He makes a very good case but there are countless people saying almost the same thing, each faster to play the blame game than the next. Carville knows what it takes to get people moving...Costner's actually first-hand involved. I have no doubt that Carville chooses his words carefully when that camera is on.

Don't think they're not watching AC360 on Pennsylvania Avenue. I'm willing to guess that at the big white house around the corner from my old office in DC, they are.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.