Did President Barack Obama Show "Unconscionable Ineptitude" in Wake of BP Gulf Oil Spill?

The words then-presidential candidate Barack Obama used to describe former President George Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina comes back to haunt him in BP Gulf oil spill.

Another scathing rebuke of President Obama appeared in The Investors' Business Daily, written by Victor Davis Hanson, entitled, "Obama Drama Is Classic Tragedy: Would-Be God Heading For A Fall." His basic argument is that karma is a bitch. Yes, I said it. Karma is a bitch. Considering that then Senator Barack Obama and presidential candidate Obama, lashed out at the Bush Administration mercilessly. He said  President George W. Bush showed  "unconscionable ineptitude." Obama further charged that Bush's response was "achingly slow," a result of "passive indifference," and that his team was rife with "corruption and cronyism," in terms of their response to Hurricane Katrina. Remember when he told us in no uncertain terms that he would close the prison at Gitmo when he took office? Er, still can't do it.

Still, there is more. Remember the hot mess over his Senate seat, with former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's trial going on right now? President Obama feigned ignorance, but we now find out that his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett are front and center in the backdoor dealings, that characterizes Chicago politics. Sorry, but Obama's hope-and-change platitudes are ringing hollow right now, as the nation continues to grapple with a massive oil spill, high unemployment and foreclosure rates, closing schools, massive budget cuts, etc.

The reality is, as Victor Davis Hanson said, the adjectives Obama used to describe President Bush, and rightly so, have come back to haunt him. He seems like a deer caught between two headlights, as people start to view the BP Gulf oil spill as his Hurricane Katrina. I wouldn't really call his reaction one of "unconscionable ineptitude," but I will say that they were slow out of the gates when the news broke. I found it bothersome that he decided to let BP run the show, knowing that BP is only looking out for its bottom-line and would cut corners and lie about the gravity of the situation. The fact that he chose to play golf, while lambasting CEO Tony Hayward for going on a yacht, shows just how naive he is in some regards.

Couldn't one of Obama's many handlers have warned him to ignore the media's tingling-leg gaga worship, or their nonsense that Obama is "a god"? Didn't Team Obama ever suspect that such an unhinged press, in the manner of a Greek chorus, could just as easily sour on their prophet once his poll ratings fell as quickly as they had soared?

Couldn't David Axelrod or Rahm Emanuel have admonished their candidate to cut out the creepy stuff about himself and his throng being "the ones we've been waiting for"? Why was there a need for all that megalomaniac hocus-pocus about slowing the "rise of the oceans" and healing the planet? Sure enough, Nemesis ensured that instead of Lord Poseidon lowering the seas, Obama is now a smoky Hephaestus fouling them up. Did the Nobel Committee members really think they were doing their post-national, post-racial heartthrob any good by giving him a peace prize without any record of foreign-policy accomplishment? Source

Being president of the United States is a tough job and I have long maintained that some of the positions Obama took were done so just to strike the right chord with voters. He was either naive or talking a good game when he said he would close Gitmo as soon as possible. As much as I hate to say it, I think Mr. Hanson has pegged him pretty good. It's stunning that President Obama has found himself in a corner so early into his term. Mr. President, just remember, karma is a bitch.