As we came home to news of the Oil Slick just keeping growing and the United States issued a butt-kissing subservient "response" to an illegal raid in international waters where 9 unarmed protesters were killed by machine gun fire from a raiding army (technically piracy since this was in international waters), my Eddie says to me, he says, "If the President was Bush - you would be furious.
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And he was, of course, right.
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I haven't been silent only because this President is Obama - but it has been a big part of it.
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So let me be clear. Giving BP a few days or weeks to clean up the spill itself - fine. Giving them a free hand for over a month - bullshit. Letting BP take cleaning crews clothing so they can't sue - letting BP stop filming - making BP as much a part of government as Hilburton - that's crap.
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And, from the President on down in the Administration and Congress our crappy "we don't want to piss of the Jewish lobby voters in November" response to an illegal raid that killed 9, injured dozens and found NOTHING illegal - bullshit. By the by, this was the 6th boat Israel had illegally boarded - they found nothing illegal on the first 5 either - the people on those boats just knew better than to piece off a crazy ass regimen that cares nothing about international law, decency to others and has the US as a passive agent in their shenanigans.