CNN poll: How would you rate President Obama's handling of the gulf oil spill disaster>

[panader0]

Poor- 50%
Good- 31%
Fair- 19%

I know it's CNN. Do these results reflect the feelings on DU?

[muffin1]

1. You could always start (another) poll.

:shrug:

[Crystal Clarity]

2. Not mine-

I don't see what else he can do beyond all that he's done so far. But it appears that I may be in the minority on DU... Not so sure why :shrug: I keep looking for specifics as to what he should do differently among those who are critical of his handling of the spill disaster, but have yet to find any.

[WCGreen]

5. Are you kidding me...

He should hae gone down there and stood astride the burning rig to get the real feel for the problem then he should have called in the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Gaurd to take all their boats and run them around in a circle to create a vortex that would suck up all the oil abd shoot it into space...

[panader0]

7. Don't forget the bullhorn.

[WCGreen]

9. My country for a Bull Horn...

[HughMoran]

10. lol

Love that space vortex - it's looks so cool at night, like the aurora borealis.

[Crystal Clarity]

3. Dupe

Sorry

[Coyote_Bandit]

4. There should have been

multiple responses to this catastrophe:
(1) obviously, stopping the gusher;
(2) mitigating the environmental and economic damage;
(3) informing the public; and
(4) exercising control over the circumstances by coordinating resources and accepting volunteer resources.

I'll give Obama a pass on stopping the gusher. The government doesn't have the personnel, expertise or equipment to do so. Obama personally seems to be lacking in the scientific and environmental knowledge and appreciation necessary to understand the long-term ramifications of the spill.

But he could have been far more proactive in mitigating the environmental and resulting economic damage.

I'm convinced we are not being told the extent of the damage. Maybe it's an intentional cover-up. Maybe not. Maybe it's a matter of scientific ignorance and a clear lack of environmental priority. Either way the response is inadequate.

And it is BP that is in control. Not the government. As far as BP is concerned the government is a whiny, demanding, largely ignorant little backseat driver. A real pain in the ass to be sure but largely impotent and incapable of steering the response.

Poor response? I'd have to agree with that - for reasons that have little to do with actually stopping the gusher.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Fair. As with Afghanistan...

... he missed a good opportunity to effect a sea-change ( a domestic oil-independence revolution , now; peace and self-determination for Afghanistan, then.) and bring about a happier outcome.

So, we're pretty much stuck playing out the failed domestic and foreign policy of Reagan and his subsequent imitators.

So far , it's ( it : the Obama story) a story of missed opportunities.

[WCGreen]

8. and those sea changes are so damn easy to do...

realistically, it's only been less than 60 days and he did talk about using this tragedy as a stepping stone to reevaluate the country's energy policy. But since he didn't get all cod piece I guess a lot of people missed that part of his speech.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Hey... the cod-piecey part is pretty important.

It would suggest that he's taking it seriously as actual governmental policy ... and not just a forgettable, perfunctory dependent clause that president's have been appending to all their energy policy speeches since 1973.

[WCGreen]

12. Rumor has it he was wearing a cod piece under the desk...

[spanone]

13. the media has slagged the President from the beginning...no surprise

[tiptoe]

14. CNN: one of the six media consortium-members of the

"Nat'l Election Pool" withholding Exit Poll data from the 2008 Election.

The NEP released only the Final National Exit Poll that (as always) was 'forced' to match the national recorded vote count (assumed correct, i.e., fraud-free).

The official national recorded vote count had Obama at 52.87%, a 7.3% margin, by 9.5million votes.

The other National Election Pool members are Fox News, AP, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News.

A "True Vote" analysis (pp97,208 Proving Election Fraud) had 57.5%, a 16.7% margin, by 20+ million votes for Obama.

The professional exit-pollster is hired by the corporate-comprised "National Election Pool" and does not have editorial control over the release of his own post-election Evaluation Report (p82, Proving Election Fraud). In the same-pollster 2004 exit poll report appeared data for Preliminary NEPs as well as data for 51 unforced, unadjusted state exit polls. The 12:22am Preliminary National Exit Poll was based on 13,047 randomly-selected respondents (1% MoE) and showed Kerry continuing his 51-48% lead in the two earlier prelim exit polls.

The equivalent Prelim exit polls for 2008 are unreleased...by the news outlets of CNN,Fox,AP,ABC,etc: Did Obama actually win by 20 million votes (as the True Vote analysis shows)? ...or might the lesser 2008 Final National Exit Poll (and vote count 9.5 million) margin of Obama victory eventually be confirmed by the 2008 Preliminary exit poll and a national-aggregation of unadjusted state exit polls??

Obama looks unpopluar in that CNN poll. What are the chances that Fox, AP, ABC, CBS, and/or NBC polls would agree with CNN's results....presuming they're released?

 

[LWolf]

15. Start a poll and find out. nt

[City Lights]

16. If that's one of their Internet polls, I wouldn't much stock in the results.

They're easily manipulated.