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View Poll Results: Who deserves more blame for the BP oil spill?
BP CEO Tony Hayward 50 76.92%
President Barack Obama 10 15.38%
Not sure 5 7.69%
Voters: 65. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-20-2010, 08:16 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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The oil spill was an accident , don't you think ?
People are getting strangely bloodthirsty .
When companies take short cuts to save money and time how can you call it an accident when things go wrong? As for who to blame, Tony Hayward allowed and/or pushed his company to break safety rules, so he is 100% to blame for this oil-in-the-Gulf disaster. People and companies should do the right thing whether the the law/regulators are breathing down their necks or not. Tony gamble with the ego system in the Gulf and lost big time, but will he suffer personally? No way.
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:25 AM
 
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Look,

Liberals have forced drillers to do business in the riskiest areas.

If Progressives would allow more drilling to be done ONSHORE, like in Anwar Alaska, this mess never would have happened.

Blame tree huggers for this crap.


By the way, these tree huggers talk the talk but none of them give up their cars. Hypocrites.
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:30 AM
 
Location: nj
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When companies take short cuts to save money and time how can you call it an accident when things go wrong? As for who to blame, Tony Hayward allowed and/or pushed his company to break safety rules, so he is 100% to blame for this oil-in-the-Gulf disaster. People and companies should do the right thing whether the the law/regulators are breathing down their necks or not. Tony gamble with the ego system in the Gulf and lost big time, but will he suffer personally? No way.
I'm glad you posted ! You have firsthand knowledge that all you say is true .
Or are you are telling us what you think happened ?
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law ... should we just scrap this ?
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:31 AM
 
Location: South Fla
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BP is responsible for the spill. The president is responsible for the United States and coordinating the cleanup. How long did it take for him to speak to the BP CEO? GWB would've had the guy on the phone in less than 24 hours ripping him a new one.

I know you libs like this guy, but he has no managerial experience, he surrounds himself with people with no managerial experience, and he is terrible in a crises. Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes had White House Chief's of Staff who had real world, practical experience and knew how to run things. Obama has Rahm Emanuel.

Look at the healthcare bill. After Scott Brown was elected, Obama was ready to throw his hands up and walk away. It was Pelosi's fierce persistence that pushed the healthcare bill through, not Obama.

This president is way out of his depth. Obama belongs firmly on the list of those responsible for this mess, and only his most ardent apologists could possibly think otherwise.
That is the perfect answer

Obama has shown during this spill that he really does lack leadership. As barges was sitting in the gulf waiting for clearance to be used to help clean up. Jindal couldnt get it Obama was playing golf and the night before he was attending a baseball game

A leader would have made sure those barges got clearance before he attended a ball game or played a single game of golf. A leader leads by example no matter how hard it is at the time.
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:35 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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I'm glad you posted ! You have firsthand knowledge that all you say is true .
Or are you are telling us what you think happened ?
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law ... should we just scrap this ?
I watched the senate hearings. Did you?
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:42 AM
 
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Saying I don't care for Obama is a fact, but also a fact is that in no way is Obama responsible for the oil spill.
Now how he handles this catastrophe will be telling over time, and so far he has not been impressive. What is that old saying which I am about to butcher; true leaders act while politicians give speeches.
Obama has certainly proven he is a politician not a leader by his reaction to the oil spill.
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Old 06-20-2010, 08:45 AM
 
Location: nj
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I watched the senate hearings. Did you?
He did not say that you bold faced liar .
Mr. Hayward insisted that he had never heard of any problems in drilling and completing the well that is now spouting 60,000 barrels of oil a day. He further confessed that he did not even know his company was drilling the doomed well until the day it hit oil.
“I had no prior knowledge of the drilling of this well, none whatsoever” . “With respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year around the world.
It sounds the same on TV I guess.
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Old 06-20-2010, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Keonsha, Wisconsin
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The oil spill was an accident , don't you think ?
People are getting strangely bloodthirsty .
Sorry fellow cd user, this oil spill is not a spill, it is a gusher (look it up)
and, the gusher was NO accident, they really messed up. Not saying this gusher was purposefully done, but by cutting corners and not going along according to procedure, trying to save a buck, they screwed up big time, BP that is.
You can't tell us that the CEO doesn't know what's going on when it comes to life and death decisions. Bloodthirsty? That's a powerful word. But maybe when all is said and done, maybe Hayward (wayward) might be charged with negligent homicide for causing the death of 11 oil company employees?
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Old 06-20-2010, 09:18 AM
 
Location: nj
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Sorry fellow cd user, this oil spill is not a spill, it is a gusher (look it up)
and, the gusher was NO accident, they really messed up. Not saying this gusher was purposefully done, but by cutting corners and not going along according to procedure, trying to save a buck, they screwed up big time, BP that is.
You can't tell us that the CEO doesn't know what's going on when it comes to life and death decisions. Bloodthirsty? That's a powerful word. But maybe when all is said and done, maybe Hayward (wayward) might be charged with negligent homicide for causing the death of 11 oil company employees?
Do you want the death penalty ?
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Old 06-20-2010, 09:34 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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He did not say that you bold faced liar .
Mr. Hayward insisted that he had never heard of any problems in drilling and completing the well that is now spouting 60,000 barrels of oil a day. He further confessed that he did not even know his company was drilling the doomed well until the day it hit oil.
“I had no prior knowledge of the drilling of this well, none whatsoever” . “With respect, sir, we drill hundreds of wells a year around the world.
It sounds the same on TV I guess.
HE didn't say BP took shortcuts to save time and money but others at the senate hearing did say it. Hayward was stonewalling his answers to avoid taking blame for anything and everything. Enough facts have come out already to prove BP didn't work safely including the biggest irrefutable evidence: the worst man-made disaster in U.S. history!

And by the way, calling someone a "bold faced liar" is against the TOS. I never claimed Hayward took personal responsibility for the oil split.

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