Obama paniced over the Gulf oil spill, what will he do in a real crisis?

Uh, yes, he's aware. I guess you haven't been following any news since this started, or you'd have been hearing about all the things he's said and done about it, such as sending people with the expertice to study and help the situation. It's been completely stupid that oil companies, that make tens of billions in profit every quarter, having been paying taxes on that money.

It's also been completely stupid that we haven't made serious investment in clean, renewable energy. These are things Obama has been saying all along, from when he first announced his candidacy. No one's house is burning down.

There are no little kids sitting in a burning house. Your analogy is completely bat-sh*t crazy. Obama himself doesn't have some magic way to plug the leak and make the oil vanish.

(I guess the wing-nut delusion that he has super-natural powers blinds you to the fact that he's a HUMAN BEING.) He has deployed assistance to help figure out how to plug the leak (which government doesn't have relevant equipment for), figure out where the oil is and is going, and prevent as much of the damage as possible. Suggesting that the government should completely grind to a halt until this problem is fixed is completely bat-sh*t crazy. Life continues.

People not directly involved in the situation have other things to do. Sitting around waiting until this is fixed doesn't help anyone or anything. The things Obama is pushing for have been LONG overdue (decades over-due).

It's a lie "it took him a month to get down there" -- you seem to have missed his earlier trip. But his being there isn't productive. He can't swim down to the leak with a giant plug.

He's been informed as to the situation as it's become known (which it wasn't, at first). Jindal has been begging to scoop up sand and build sand-bars. However, just doing that willy-nilly, without figuring out where they will actually HELP, and where they'll make things WORSE would be dumb.

The fact is, Obama has dispatched ships and experts and clean-up folk and materials. "what is he doing besides giving speeches"? Well, he's been overseeing the two wars he inherited, running the federal government, making Supreme Court appointments to fill empty seats, getting laws passed and signed that he promised us during his campaign, preventing the economy from completely crashing -- trivial stuff like that.

He's dealt with more crises than any president at this point in his term. No other president had two wars, an economic collapse bigger than any for over 70 years, quite a list of natural disasters and other events. If you've been completely unaware of all he's done and is doing, that's not HIS fault, it's your refusal to pay ANY attention to what's been going on since 1/09.

No, this is nothing like Katrina, where Bush flew around partying for days while thousands went without food and water. There's no comparrison any SANE person would make.

First of all, he has addressed the issue and been to the area a couple of times, he addressed the nation and as you ought to know the justice department has launched an investigation. Obama is not an engineer and he is not the one who is able to figure a way to stop the flow of oil into the gulf. That's why they have a panel of scientists and engineers working on it....I wouldn't expect him to start performing operations either if there was suddenly a catastrophic event resulting in injuries.

Know what I mean? No, I don't see any similarity between an environmental disaster and the biggest human natural disaster resulting in loss of life. Oil drifting around the ocean is a bad thing but I don't think it compares to people being left to fend for themselves during a major flood and the incompetency that came after.

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.