Another Obama Myth Exploded

Froma Harrop urges us all to be less judgmental of Obama and his failures thus far.  He's not a god, for crying out loud.

Gulf Coast residents are supposedly mad at President Obama for not keeping the oil from threatening their beaches and marshes. We hear this in stereo -- from political opposition on the right and liberal pundits bored by the president's cerebral approach to problem-solving.

Stopping the waves is a job for Neptune, not a president. Obama cannot raise his trident and force the oil back into the hole.

Trouble is, the one she needs to tell is Obama.  Here he is two years ago, on the day he finally secured his nomination as Democratic presidential candidate:

...generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.

The fact is, he could have done something to keep the oil from reaching Louisiana beaches.  All he had to do was loosen regulations and allow construction of a sand berm to keep the oil away. 

Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal has been asking the federal government for almost over a month for federal support to build sand berms or barrier islands along the Louisiana coast to stop the oil from coming ashore or from reaching wetlands and harming Louisiana wildlife. But the Obama administration is not convinced this plan will work and has only approved six berm sites with either BP or the Federal Government's Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund paying for the project.

And as regards Obama's pronouncements from two years ago, how about those good jobs?  Sorry, Froma.  If anyone is to blame for unwarranted faith in the divine Obama, it is Obama himself.  So it turns out he can't deliver, but that doesn't mean he deserves any slack.

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[Ol' BC]

Froma Harrop is still a nut.