Mr. President. I can’t even comprehend how hard your job is and I know you are trying hard to do the right thing. That being said, you are swimming with piranhas. They are circling you, taking your every move and using it to their advantage. Taking ownership of this crisis was the wrong move. BP owns this disaster. You need to own the outrage. Your intentions were good, though the public is fickle and quite frankly, stupid.
I know you love history, so read the tales of Czar Nicholas II. His predicament is not far from your own. Isn’t that ironic. While your opponents label your efforts to save capitalism, “socialist”, the enemies that face you are taking a page from the playbook of Lenin.
Please Mr. President, plug that damn hole! You now own this crisis and I will be hoping that you can make BP suffer. Take the advantage and have a public “change of heart”, oppose coastal oil drilling and change with the public mind. Have PR photos of your outrage and you holding a dead oil covered bird change the mindset of this country to support offshore windfarms. You know that there is not a state in the Union with coastal oil that will ever allow it now, so you might as well jump on the bandwagon Mr. President!
Also, please surround yourself with better advisers. I can’t help but feel that you are over-compensating for your Washington outsider-ness.
Remind the public that the Republicans don’t want to hold BP accountable. Play MORE HARDBALL, Mr. President. It’s what we all want to see. Make those corporate hacks pay!
It was Bush and his cronies that created this mess! The buck may stop with you but the debt was created by your predecessor!
Please stop being a nice guy and come out with two machine guns in your hand, guns blazing saying “say hello to my litt’l friend!”
That is what the American people want!