THE BROWN PELICAN

What explains the inexplicable behavior of this president in the face of multiple crisis? They’re trumped by Obama’s insatiable need to be popular, and his party’s obsession with politics. No party campaigns like the Democratic Party, and no machinery can hold the level of money and organization for political activism as the DNC. This has been evident since the days of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who by the nineties had established a far reaching network of support unlike any before it. Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the one which Barack Obama and his well monied elite benefactors dwarfed even what the Clintons were able to muster. Even some long time Clinton supporters like Governor Bill Richardson defected to Obama’s side at the end of the Democratic Primaries.

Thus the compelling motivation for Obama to campaign in the face of crisis. Rather than being the statesman that he promised he would be, he has made it quite evident that he is nothing but another Chicago Democrat Machinery Politician with no executive, business, foreign policy, or diplomatic experience to handle the responsibilities his office of Chief Executive demands of him. He barely had just begun his service as a US Senator when he launched his campaign for president, and because campaigning took all of the time he had left to serve in the Senate, he went into the White House with little or no experience for the office he was about to hold. We are seeing the evidence of that, regardless of the public relations campaign his administration and party allies feverishly make on his behalf every day. There is no question, Barack Hussein Obama is one of the finest public speakers to hold elected office, perhaps bested by the great and beloved President Ronald Reagan, but his ability to read speeches written for him on a teleprompter is not evidence of leadership, nor does it translate into effective government. Being able to speak well does not mean the same person is able to lead and manage. That comes with experience, and an ability to bring around oneself knowledgeable and experienced professionals whose counsel and leadership abilities can be put into action in implementing the president’s policies properly.

But when such people do not possess these abilities, but who like the president, are placed in such key and sensitive positions via the same kind of political machinery we see at play in various cities and states throughout the nation - are appointed to these positions by the president on the basis of their political allegiance and ideological proclivities, people whom have never owned a business, have never worked a day in their lives, with no affinity with the common man, and whose claim to fame to is run political campaigns, then what we have is the current fiasco in Washington, where we get more of the same as we did in the Clinton White House – where everything is a focus group, every day is a spin on the days events, every visit by the president is a photo opportunity, and every activity is a political campaign and public relations event tailored by the White House for use by a pliable media committed to present the president and his entourage in the most favorable light even in the face of more and more iconic incompetence.

The only word that can be used to describe the manner in which President Barack Obama has behaved during what is has turned out to be the most disastrous man-made disaster on the environment in history is astonishing, simply astonishing!

There are clear, safe, and natural solutions to resolve the current crisis, but they’re not being implemented by this White House, or by British Petroleum. The reason? Environmentalists. They hold the power over this administration and they call the shots over decisions made by them with regards to industry and the environment. They do not want these solutions to be put in place because it would resolve this disaster within days, and put an end to its destruction of the fragile eco-system of four states bordering the spill.

They are so trapped in their ideological political game of putting an end to the fossil fuels industry in this country that they are willing to destroy the environment to do it. How this administration has handled this crisis and the course it has chosen is part of a well planned tactic in using this crisis to bring a policy they’ve been wanting to implement for some time into place – the end of American off-shore drilling, or drilling period, just as they’re trying to bankrupt the coal industry through Cap and Trade, a high tax on the coal powered companies that supply the nation’s heating and electrical services – in short the very companies responsible for providing US with electricity and gas that power our electrical appliances and heat our homes and businesses. Obama made this clear in an interview he gave several years ago

Some blame ineptness, others say it is by design in order to regulate and nationalize the oil industry the way Auto Industry was nationalized, and Healthcare was nationalized; but whether it is a lack of leadership, dirty politics, incompetence, or by design; our natural resources, tourist and fishing industries and towns along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico should never be made the political pawns of any politician.

Now if only the politicians and technocrats would get out of the way and allow free enterprise to handle the situation, there would be a boon on the local economy, a boon on the businesses involved in the cleanup, and our fragile eco-system and beaches would be spared the disaster that doing nothing but blame, investigate, and prosecute for forty days has done in accomplishing absolutely nothing in resolving this disaster.