I like to think that's a common-sense observation. The astounding thing, for those of us who remember GWB, is that my President is saying the same thing ...
Obama Restates Need for More Oil Before U.S. Uses Less - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.comI don't think Obama is Saint. We know he has to have a galactic ego, and we assume he lies about his smoking addiction.
... So the overall framework, which is to say domestic oil production should be part of our overall energy mix, I think continues to be the right one. Where I was wrong was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios.
Now, that wasn’t based on just my blind acceptance of their statements. Oil drilling has been going on in the Gulf, including deep water, for quite some time. And the record of accidents like this we hadn’t seen before. But it just takes one for us to have a wake-up call and recognize that claims that fail-safe procedures were in place, or that blowout preventers would function properly, or that valves would switch on and shut things off, that — whether it’s because of human error, because of the technology was faulty, because when you’re operating at these depths you can’t anticipate exactly what happens — those assumptions proved to be incorrect...
Even so, I almost tear up when I read him saying this stuff. He makes sense. He's not insane, he's not frothing, he is a clear thinker. It's mind-boggling to have a President who's not a whack job.
We had Cheney/Bush. We could have had Palin/McCain. We got Obama.
That still puzzles me.
How the heck did we get Obama? We're not that smart ...
