Reply #513: One thing he could have done was to refrain from lifting the ban [View All]

on offshore drilling. He could have refrained from comparing the 'tired arguments' as he called them, of Environmentalists whose motivations have always been genuine concern that something like this could happen, to those of the 'Drill Baby Drill' rightwing mob.

As it turns out, the difference in those two groups which apparently Obama failed to see, could not be more tragically apparent than it is now. He certainly owes an explanation to those who supported him because of his opposition to offshore drilling, and an explanation and apology for that odious comparison.

It would also be illuminating to know whose advice he was taking when he claimed that technology had advanced so much since the ban went into place that oil rigs were safer than they had ever been.

In essence his implication was that those who opposed offshore drilling were old and in the way. Too bad he was so easily influenced by whoever helped change his mind. He would have had such an advantage right now against the Sarah Palins of the world had he stuck to principles.