current cnn poll: Do you approve of the way President Obama has handled the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

[Liberal_in_LA]

www.cnn.com

about 50/50 right now

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. I don't approve but it isn't a major disapproval

A little more skepticism of BP early on might have been helpful but there is no glaring misfeasance

[lame54]

2. He had better step it up and make this priority #1

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. agreed

[Hawkeye-X]

7. He is - he's in New Orleans right now.

I'm sure he's heading out to the Gulf around now to check out the damage and sign the FEMA declaration.

[MadMaddie]

6. Why don't you approve?

The government cannot just pour resources into a state until the governer of that state declares an "Emergency Declaration"!! This is the law. Jindell waited 9 days to make the declaration.

The Coast Guard was there from the inital explosion.

BP OWNS this disaster and I fail to understand why people are blaming the Administration for failing to respond quicker.

One more thing, "FREE Market and Self Regulation" Reagan era policies have led to this disaster. PUT the blame where it needs to be on the Republicans!!

Coal Mine disasters
Oil disasters

All a result of self regulation and no true government regulation.

BP delayed telling anyone how bad this event was.

[Abq_Sarah]

12. In this case

That's not quite correct. Federal law was changed in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It's no longer left up to the individual states to respond to spills.

Major spills and are managed on the national level. The states coordinate with the federal government and their actions and responsibilities are directed by the national response teams and the response is dictated by the magnitude of the spill.

http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=5c520868602917ce7125e06d3da5b91a&rgn=div5&view=text&node=40%3A27.0.1.1.1&idno=40

Part of the delay was due to the classification of the oil leak. Until last Wednesday, the true extent of the leak wasn't known. Once NOAA revised their estimates, the federal government and the state governments revised their action plans to reflect current information which dictated a different level of response.

[UTUSN]

4. 51-49 Y n/t

[MadMaddie]

5. Shouldn't the poll read

"Are you satisfied with the way BP has responded to the disaster"?

or

"Are you satisfied with the 9 day delay Governer Bobby Jindell did before making the "Emergency Declaration" to the government?

Stupid ass poll!

[AnArmyVeteran]

8. What's Obama going to do? Go to the gulf and use a shovel?

I believe President Obama would score a lot of points if he virtually declared war on corporate irresponsibility. If the cause of the rupture and explosion at the BP oil rig turns out to be due to a faulty cement job by Halliburton, then both Halliburton and BP should be banned from any future government contracts. And Obama should get congress to enact a law that prevents companies from doing business with the government if they are habitual abusers of workers, show zero regard for the safety of human beings, or in one case, defended rapists against a female victim.

We need sweeping corporate responsibility laws to stop the constant assaults against people and our environment. With proper regulation and TOUGH penalties, including life sentences of corporate executives, we would not have had the financial collapse we had. We would have been spared the corrupt acts by Enron, Worldcom and all the other corporations which destroyed the financial lives of millions of people. And we would probably have been spared this latest oil rig explosion and resulting environmental disaster.

President Obama could be a hero if he took the steps above. Even a lot of conservatives would agree that corporations have gotten too powerful and that they are almost immune to any liability, especially the leaders of those corporations. Even though BP and Halliburton are probably equally guilty of the Gulf of Mexico disaster not one of its leaders will lose a dime. They will be able to keep all of their wealth, salaries and probably even get bonuses this year. Corporate leaders should be held personally responsible for anything their corporation does, or does not do. Corporate law MUST be changed to make their leaders accountable, for a change...

[rucky]

9. Any poll on the way BP's been handling it?

[mfcorey1]

10. What do they want him to do....

jump in the water and lick it up. Let's turn the blame where it belongs.....to BP and Haliburton. Misplaced anger allows them to get away scott free.:wtf:

[BlooInBloo]

11. In case there are any people here who want to answer sans ignorance, see the timeline...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201004300053

[MadMaddie]

14. Thank you!

This date and time is significant

<snip>
April 28: Federal officials realize spill was far more severe than BP led them to believe
<snip>

[Contrary1]

13. Why don't they just come out and ask it.

Do you like President Obama? Same thing.

Doesn't matter what he does or doesn't do in these idiotic polls.