Obama's Failure of Leadership in Responding to the BP Oil Spill Crisis.

While bad decisions and greed on the part of BP, to save money and time, caused the oil spill and the inability to contain it, Obama tries to straddle the fence on responsibility.

One one hand, Obama continues to lash out at BP as being responsible for stopping the leak and for leading the clean-up; neither of which BP is capable of doing.
Obama is satisfied with photo-ops on the gulf and having his temper tantrums with threats and name-calling directed toward BP.
Of course, the oil spill occurred 100% in United States territorial waters, a federal responsibility from the start, not in any state land as was Hurricane Katrina where jurisdictional issues arose between federal and state leaders.
Obama doesn't want this crisis to go wasted, as Rahm Emanuel has advised in dealing with crises. Obama merely sees this as an opportunity to pass energy taxes and reward his cronies with cap and trade legislation while basically saying the people suffering in the gulf don't matter in his big scheme of things of more regulation and taxes.
What kind of a fool or inept leader would appoint a commission of eight academic environmentalists to decide oil drilling policy? Obama is that kind of fool! This would be a joke if it weren't so serious for the people suffering in the gulf and the environmental disaster.

One the other hand, Obama wants America to believe he was " on top of this disaster from day one".
Of course, he has done nothing to help with the capping of the leak or with the clean-up after 65 days, where a true leader would have done many things in the first week.
Obama's "first responders" were a team of lawyers from the Justice Department, to determine who they could blame, sue or prosecute.

In week one, a leader would have convened world wide experts with actual drilling experience to advise BP on the methods of containing the leak. Obama has not done this yet.
In week one, a leader would have convened a panel of world wide experts on oil spill clean-up. Obama has not done this yet.
In week one, a leader would have suspended the Jones Act, in order to allow the 13 countries who have offered equipment and experience in cleaning up oil spills to operate their ships in American waters. Obama has not done this yet.
In week one, a leader would have suspended the David-Bacon prevailing wages law to allow rapid deployment of new workers to help with the clean-up. Obama has not done this yet.
In week one, a leader would have made sure that the EPA would suspend it's rules that were impediments to the clean-up. Obama has not done this yet.
In week one, a leader would have suspended the tedious FEMA contracting procedures, so that contracts for clean-up cold be issued rapidly. Obama has not done this yet.

Instead, Obama has the EPA, Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard doing almost everything possible to slow down and inhibit state and local plans for building barriers to protect the beaches and wetlands.
Obama is worse that just inept, he is dangerous and is causing the effects of the oil spill to be much worse than need be.
Obama's great contributions are to threaten to "kick ass" and then put an illogical moratorium on all other drilling to further the economic pain along the gulf.

THE ONLY DISASTER BIGGER THAN THE BP OIL SPILL IS OBAMA BEING PRESIDENT BECAUSE HIS PRESIDENCY SPILLS OVER INTO DISASTERS IN PROTECTING THE BORDERS, UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE PHONY STIMULUS (PORK) BILL, OBAMACARE, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MORE.