Honestly how difficult would it have been to tell the crews to bring their life vests and fire extinguishers if they were in that big a hurry to get the boats out on the water?
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:56 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: obama losing the war on the oil spill On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The President can't win this war of words with Jindal because he will > be painted as the villain no matter what he does. Jindal is more > concerned about making political points than he is about getting the > job done right. That's just not true. Jindal is Governor of one of the states most affected by the spill, his concern is protecting the coastline and the people of LA. We would never have heard a thing about this had the boats still been opeating. > The Coast Guard shut down the barges to make sure they were in > compliance. If they had allowed the barges to operate without being > in compliance and someone had gotten hurt or killed, Jindal would be > bitching about that. Jindal would have been blamed and rightly so, obviously that was a risk, but look at the alternative. Other people/animals/environment are definitely being hurt by the oil. So you risk potential damage to mitigate definite damage- that's the sort of executive decision bold leaders make in times of crisis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321486 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
