Administration's response to oil spill pathetic

This administration's response to the oil spill in the Gulf is pathetic! Let me start by saying that I do not believe it is the President's responsibility to oversee every department in the federal government. I do not expect the president to know what is happening in every corner of the government. I do, however feel it is his responsibility to respond in an executive manner. I would like to think that if I were president I would have gathered experts in the field of oil drilling, representatives from every major oil company available, and anyone else who could offer aid in this crisis on day one. Then done everything possible to make sure that what needs to be done is done. I would have accepted help from those who offered help. And I would have initiated an investigation into what happened before attacking the company behind the spill. There is no question that Pres Obama has failed this country greatly.

The difference between Katrina and this spill is that Katrina was in a large part Louisiana's responsibility. FEMA was slow to respond, but in a large part due to the lack of organization and mobilization of the Louisiana state government. This oil spill occurred in federal waters by a foreign company, therefore it is a federal responsibility. Also, as I stated earlier I do not hold the pres responsible for every single corner of the government. I did not at the time believe that Bush should be held accountable for the poor response by FEMA and I believe that he did act as quickly as possible after the fact as well as taking responsibility for the poor response. Obama has had almost two months to react to this spill and still complaints are coming out that it is taking at least 5 days for the white house to respond to requests for more aid.

Furthermore, regardless of what assumptions we may all be making, one of the cornerstones or our justice system is innocent until proven guilty. If BP was negligent and broke the law resulting in this spill then the federal government should do everything to hold them accountable, but we have yet to know the whole story. They are promising to pay for the spill, they are doing everything they can to stop it - and for anyone who believes they are not what possible benefit would that serve them? The president attacking BP and threatening legal action without any completed investigation is blatantly irresponsible and very detrimental to foreign relations across the world. What foreign company will want to do business with this country if they are not treated fairly. This attack only fuels the anger around this situation and does in now way help to stop the spill and clean up the mess, if anything it takes resources away from resolving the problem. Let's save the witch hunt until we have contained the problem.