By Barry Secrest

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When Answers Become Tarballs

The injurious  results of Obamacare, much like the dreaded oil plumes of the Gulf, have already stymied American business and caused doctors to begin to eventually opt out of traditional practice or actually turn patients away--this in addition to a known future deficit of physicians available to administer the requirements of the plan among many, many other issues too numerous to count.  The damaging effects of the healthcare law seem to keep washing up into our collective consciousness much like the dreaded tarballs which continually drift onto the shores of Gulf beaches.  So yes, we Americans understand perfectly how Obama feels about Hayward's disingenuous remarks and the harmful side-effects of "his" work.

Americans were then even more stunned to learn that the President has yet to even talk to the Chief of BP.  We are, in fact,  in the midst of an ecological disaster the likes of which  America has never seen and the President is too indifferent to even talk to the man ostensibly in charge of the repair and clean-up?  Based upon our dubious experience thus far, one must then wonder that if Tony Hayward had been a Muslim eco-terrorist intent upon inflicting severe damage to the Gulf, would the President have then "extended his hand in friendship and understanding" rather than brandishing a "clinched fist in defiance"?  The President actually explained his reasons for not speaking to Hayward as follows:  "Because when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO he's gonna say all the right things to me.  I'm not interested in words, I'm interested in actions."

But alas, once again, the American people can totally empathize with  Obama's feelings due simply to the fact that what the President stated all through his campaign, as opposed to his later actions as President, bear no true resemblance to one another.  Perhaps the President sees far too much of himself in Tony Hayward thereby setting off an automatic response of reactive repugnance to the man--who knows?  The President then, seemingly playing to a crowd of journalists and detractors who criticized the President for a lack of passion, showed us all the "true" extent of his fiery demeanor by stating that his reasons for "standing in the rain" and "talking to those folks" in the Gulf was so that he would know "whose ass to kick."

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A Tale Of Two Gulfs: Contrasting Twin American Disasters