NPR(National Public Radio) once again treats us lower class citizens as though, we are lower class NPR commentator Marc Acito graciously demonstrated this overall National Public Radio's ostentatiousness, on Thursday's All Things Considered. Poking fun of the syntactic style of FDR and Sarah Palin the intended target of his criticism, on what this self described musical geek calls 'Eliza Doolittle Day.' Referring to Sarah Palin as an 'Eliza Doolittle'(The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so she can pass as a lady.) And 'All Things Considered host Michele Norris makes it clear "This is the kind of unofficial holiday that only musical fans would know about," granted that may be true, but I get the feeling Norris and Acito believe us lower class citizens could never be musical fans. Ah to say Dr. Quack is lower class. Moreover, a big musical fan since early duckhood. And 'My Fair Lady'(from which the Eliza Doolittle character comes from) is one of the best.
Let me retreat to 'When Does the Federal Government Act,' Sarah Palin made her point on Sunday past with Chris Wallace May 23, 2010, with some true grit the former Alaskan Governor made it clear the Obama Administration should have acted with all due diligence with regard to the BP Gulf oil spill cleanup. Sarah Palin is far from the first to offer this opinion, but is surely the most profiled person to date to do so. And I might add, kudos for Palin taking the stand, eloquent or not.
I've heard cable news commentators of stature water down the administration’s response to the oil spill asking, should we have expected President Obama on the shoreline immediately with a mop and bucket... No, but I did expect because the Spill occurred in water under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, for the Federal Government to have reacted with more intention. They did not, President Obama reacted in the same manner, he has handled every issue, with self-serving political mumbo jumbo instead of listening and serving the people giving us not everything we ask for, but rather as the leader of this the greatest nation on earth, protection and assistance with the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.
Instead President Obama gave the good citizens of the gulf, political jargonistic rhetoric, with a finger pointing, smooth talk and problems with apparent short term memory when it comes to promises, like action, change and security for all the people of America. When does or when should the Federal Government act in the case of an oil spill as in the BP Gulf oil spill, IMMEDIATELY, that's when.
It's hard to believe that with one call the President of the United States could not enlist the help of every major corporation, organization, scientific group and every international ally in stopping the oil leak, then the relative clean up. We explore the depths of the little known seas of earth and probe for water on the moon, but we can't stop an oil leak on the ocean floor created by man. President Obama seems to not have the mojo he so boastfully said he had winning the Presidential election in 2008. From NASA to every major university and allies around the world, the President should have asked for help day one, hour one to solve a problem that is of interest to the entire globe. This is what the President could have done immediately and is certainly, relatively good at. Don't dare to give me the answer back, how do you know he didn't make put the personal call out? He did not. The proof is in the pudding.
So what does the President do? He plays the blame game enforcing by way of political, populist and international pressure on BP to shoulder full responsibility for stopping and cleaning up the oil spill disaster. Yes BP is responsible, but in cases of impending cost and disaster to the people of America, the federal Government with all its resources should be putting those resources to use and availability to BP. Send the bill later. Save our coast, stop the campaign style politics and for heaven’s sake stop the blame game, in disasters, there is no immediate blame, but should be immediate cooperation with due diligence in resolving the disaster NOW!
Additional note: I completed this blog early Sunday morning and well before the airing of Meet the Press and other Sunday News programs, but held up publishing until I had the chance to review each of Sunday’s special news programs. On Meet the Press with David Gregory, Carol Browner the Administration’s top environmental advisor commenting on the oil spill, said that the government is responding with the largest environmental mobilization effort ever. There are 150 scientists on the case, 1400 vessels working on the oil sick coming ashore and much more. This is all news President Obama should be proud of announcing.
However, five weeks down the road from when the spill occurred, it’s about time we heard what the government is doing and or that the government is now doing something at all. One of the biggest issues I have with President Obama is his seemingly off of center definition of what government transparency means. And that was why so many voted for him, the promise of change and transparency in Washington, well the change has been a switch to Chicago style politics, where transparency is a merge of misdirection and illusion of what realty may be or is.
We can all pray; that what Browner and President Obama are doing will resolve the BP oil spill and clean-up, by expeditiously mobilizing all America’s and her allies’ resources to the gulf’s aid.
I'm Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason...5 30 10...Updated 5 31 10
