Accountability

I watched the news conference today and I looked at the President's face as he proclaimed himself responsible for the cleanup and recovery of the oil explosion and contamination in the Gulf. I have to wonder why these things happen, after years and years of discussing clean fuel alternatives, why we still find ourselves drilling and drilling and drilling for oil. Now that this drilling is coming with a grave cost, now we see the word responsibility. How can one word correct the horrible damage sustained toward the natural landscape? Why do we continue this insane need for fossil fuel? According to the Daily Green, BP Officials said, "5000-60,000 barrels of oil..." leak into the natural landscape every day. If you made an accurate measurement, that would be up to 210,000 gallons per day. There are 400 different wildlife species that are threatened by this disaster according to the New Orleans Times. The amount of money to clean it up ranks into the billions. I think that ranges in the realm of more than responsibility, but at least there is a note of accountability.

I know that there are many left wing conservatives, namely the "tea party" people, who feel it is their destiny in life to call President Obama a socialist. If you listen to his speech, and you listen to his words, he uses the word bi-partisan. As a Democratic politician, he works with both sides of the coin. Although this may seem different to those who are glued to Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh's every word, because I'm sure that every speech must have subliminal messages that say Nazi or Socialist. I know that Sarah Palin hears those words but, quite frankly, I think she hears voices in the first place. I'm sure she hears terms and phrases like, "death panel," and, "I can see Russians from my kitchen window." These personalities breed fear and keep people from learning how our government can solve matters such as the environmental crisis in the Gulf. This keeps people from uniting to help the common good. We turn on each other and, rather than help each other, use petty names such as "libutard" or "socialist." FOX News, owned by CEO Rupert Murdoch, is considered an entertainment network unlike networks such as CNN, BBC News, or MSNBC and CNBC. I would rather read the newspaper, than listen to cartoonish personalities give false representations about governmental terms and functions. I'm much too educated for that. Actually, I'm much too educated for network news as a whole with the exception of NPR and BBC News.

He may not be the best leader in American history, but Barack Obama is at least admitting where his shortcomings are and that is more than I can say for some politicians in his position. Hopefully he can find a way to remedy the irrevocable harm that both Halliburton (Dick Cheney) and BP have done to our natural landscape and bring some sort of order back to the Gulf. It's not an easy situation, and I think this is a sign that we really have to break down the gate toward clean energy. We can't keep taking such dangerous and life threatening risks for sake of polluting fossil fuels. It is backward technology, and it keeps us from moving forward toward a greener, safer tomorrow. Bio-Diesel, wind energy, solar technology, and electric technology are very important steps toward cleaner, more efficient energy resources. We have to stop drilling into our natural landscape, we have to stop the fight over oil, we need to move on for the betterment of our world. We need to break free from the judgmental and prejudicial politics bred by the American media and realize that we all need one common goal of improvement.

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