tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post1315768031148735306..comments2024-03-18T06:10:07.480-05:00Comments on Public Policy Polling: Fallout from the SpillTom Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06545052616714485196noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-39935308562319679392010-08-15T10:27:05.437-05:002010-08-15T10:27:05.437-05:00"AG said...
I have to wonder how much the Afr..."AG said...<br />I have to wonder how much the African-American disaspora from Katrina has affected those numbers."<br /><br />Louisiana is approx. 33% African American, so that could possibly give a reason for the numbers. Thats not to say that all blacks like Obama and all whites don't like him, but it could be a starting point.<br /><br />On a related side note, Louisiana has the second highest African American population in the country (Miss. is #1).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-61885523811266255772010-06-27T16:11:40.628-05:002010-06-27T16:11:40.628-05:00SINCE THE BP OIL SPILL, JOHN M. KOCOL IS THE FIRST...SINCE THE BP OIL SPILL, JOHN M. KOCOL IS THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD CALLING FOR REPLACING PETROLEUM WITH METHANOL<br /><br />Now is the time for President Obama and his BP oil spill commission: Frances G. Beinecke, Donald Boesch, Terry D. Garcia, Cherry A. Murray and Frances Ulmer to begin the process of replacing our petroleum based economy with a methanol based economy. <br /><br />John M. Kocol is Founder & CEO of USMEXenergy.com (coal2oil.com, CO2toMethanol.com are USMEXenergy.com companies) which is a veteran owned Federal Government energy contracting firm based in Washington, DC. John M. Kocol's Harvard Master's Thesis: "Federal Reserve Expansion in Mexico," with Dr. John Womack Jr. as Thesis Director, resulted in the founding of USMEXenergy.com. Since the BP oil spill, John M. Kocol is the first person in the world calling for replacing our petroleum based economy with a methanol based economy; he can be reached at kocol@post.harvard.edu.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-64927921452285043662010-06-24T10:10:33.442-05:002010-06-24T10:10:33.442-05:00Is LA a blue state or a red state? Has it ever bee...Is LA a blue state or a red state? Has it ever been blue? Your family can walk all over you, rob you, beat you, but in the end you still stick up for them. The difference between Katrina and the Gulf of Oil is that one is natural and the other is man-made. There are for-profit companies responsible for this problem and the only thing Obama needs to do is to make sure they fix this environmental disaster, and that there are tighter safety controls on off-shore drilling. The only fault of Obama is trusting BP too much. It seems LA wants to reap the benefits of off-shore drilling and have government bailouts when things go wrong. Drill baby drill, but blame the government for the spill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-85011643767539467872010-06-17T15:06:33.074-05:002010-06-17T15:06:33.074-05:00Bush could have opened the door to Air Force One a...Bush could have opened the door to Air Force One and pissed in the water and most of Louisiana would have admired the color of the water after he finished. What a bunch of racist idiots.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384815346147162793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-15671324870810960692010-06-16T20:46:09.739-05:002010-06-16T20:46:09.739-05:00Izagranus said: "Such is the life of America&...Izagranus said: "Such is the life of America's cultural laggard also known as the South."<br /><br />Mary Landreau is a DEMOCRAT you leftist dimwit! Your arrogance is only eclipsed by your bigoted ignorance! <br /><br />G'damned fools!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06915727563679183324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-83439451639067540242010-06-16T19:28:22.435-05:002010-06-16T19:28:22.435-05:00Obama was too busy Golfing to survey the damage do...Obama was too busy Golfing to survey the damage done to Nashville in a horrible flood that took 28 lives in the region the storm hit.<br /><br />It took him 50 days to say much more than "I can't go out there and sip it up with a straw."<br /><br />Katrina, was a very serious event but it also left a trail of damage from Mobile to Texas. HAd people left New Orleans like they were told, the death toll would have been far smaller. It is hard to plan for an event of that scale before it happened and there was miles of people that needed help before the trucks could even get to New ORleans.<br /><br />Folks, the Democrats elected the worst President in US history last election. Poor leader, arrogant, and frankily less then caring for those effected. To use the oil spill as a campaign speach, is a new low.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-45720933199005697772010-06-16T18:42:29.899-05:002010-06-16T18:42:29.899-05:00Bush's government waited 5 days to help.
Obama...Bush's government waited 5 days to help.<br />Obama's waited almost 2MONTHS.<br />Obama refused help 3 days after the spill.<br />The spill could have been stopped from getting to the beaches, but Obama had his AGENDA to think about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-34366762004553826292010-06-16T18:09:37.150-05:002010-06-16T18:09:37.150-05:00G.,
Ridiculous. There is no comparison between th...G.,<br /><br />Ridiculous. There is no comparison between the handling of a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina and a massive man-made oil spill due to severe gross negligence.<br /><br />There are limited options for dealing with the spill and the President can only do so much.<br /><br />This "poll" isn't based upon intelligent consideration but rather highly partisan politics. If you rated Obama's selection in pies you could have gotten the same result. Partisanship has now become more important than the nation and we are in trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-12481923482729989062010-06-16T17:39:31.798-05:002010-06-16T17:39:31.798-05:00Jindal is a leader. Obama is a community organize...Jindal is a leader. Obama is a community organizer. Obamas lack of experience is showing.Salvatorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08145337818518120816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-17352025080987398312010-06-16T16:58:44.639-05:002010-06-16T16:58:44.639-05:00kanye west says "Obama don't care about w...kanye west says "Obama don't care about white people."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-33286859503115371332010-06-16T15:48:19.375-05:002010-06-16T15:48:19.375-05:00Obama is the weakest president since Carter. His w...Obama is the weakest president since Carter. His weakness will invite some of the most horrific deeds against the US imaginable.<br />HOPE and CHANGE is all we'll have left. and to you teet sucking fools who live on hand outs....GET a JOB. You're liberal friends have stolen your souls. Bring on November!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-50877357005562642472010-06-16T15:44:20.899-05:002010-06-16T15:44:20.899-05:00for the first 28 days of the oil spill, president ...for the first 28 days of the oil spill, president obama, rahm and holder were out in the backyard of the whitehouse shooting baskets. obama's title shoudl be changed from "commander in chief" to "idiot in chief" for the lack of leadership he has shown in this matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-39889966875954496752010-06-16T15:27:22.927-05:002010-06-16T15:27:22.927-05:00As a Canadian looking in from here , I find it tot...As a Canadian looking in from here , I find it totally nauseating that the Republicans and the Democrats are trying to put each other down. You have an ongoing bloody catastrophy on your hands and you cannot work with one another to get it resolved. Instead you are looking to put blame on each other. Where are you geniuses ? Why are you leaving it up to BP ? They are in a quagmire. Take care of it yourselves and charge BP back.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06124934435259035303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-47066592850445866412010-06-16T12:06:54.016-05:002010-06-16T12:06:54.016-05:00One thing the rest of the nation didn't get fr...One thing the rest of the nation didn't get from the national media about Katrina -- we in Louisiana know the incompetence shown by then-Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan. Blanco and Nagan told President Bush there were only about 25,000 people still in New Orleans -- nearly 300,000 were evacuated post-Katrina. President Bush wanted to Federalize the New Orleans rescue and Blanco needed 24 hours to think about it... We know the Feds were slow with Katrina, we also know they can only act when requested by the state -- with the oil spill the state (Gov Jindal asked) and the feds needed 4+weeks to evaluated the request.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-5957776144509634852010-06-16T12:01:10.533-05:002010-06-16T12:01:10.533-05:00The Katrina comparisons really need to STOP. This ...The Katrina comparisons really need to STOP. This poll is ridiculous. I live in New Orleans. I survived Katrina. And the comparisons piss me off to no end. <br /><br />We evacuated for Katrina. The Gov & Mayor called for a mandatory evacuation. They did not keep the FEDS out. It was a declared "disaster" the FEDS could have come in on day ONE! The proper order of blame is (FEDS) FEMA first, then BLANCO (Gov) then NAGIN (Mayor). The buck stopped with BUSH and the FEDS PERIOD. The FEDS built the levees that FAILED.<br />PERIOD.<br /><br />You do not have 100,000+ HUMANS sitting in the sweltering heat for 5 days starving, dying being raped and murdered. FOR 5 DAYS! Yes 11 men died with the oil spill. Thousands of animals are dying. But the HUMAN suffering that BUSH, BLANCO & NAGIN allowed is not even comparable to the current situation. <br /><br />Why aren't we allowing foreign ship to come in? Because there is a maritime LAW that prevents non-US ships to transport US goods. Because it is US oil only US ships can transport it. I guess the suckers from the Netherlands and elsewhere would be "carrying" US goods if they sucked up the oil. THIS IS A LAW that someone made up 100 years ago in the 1920's. Jones Maritime Act.<br /><br />Why aren't we stepping in declaring disaster and taking over? Because of yet another STUPID LAW that would make the US financially liable if they did so. Stafford Disaster Act. <br /><br />These two laws are what is keeping Obama from doing what the people want him to do. But instead of being responsible and telling us these things Media & Talking Heads sensationalize it all and make it much much worse. They leave it up to the smart people like me to find out the TRUTH.<br /><br />Polls like this just perpetuate the problem. No wonder people in other countries laugh at us. Our media is just as bad as our government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-90501210266353138392010-06-16T11:15:03.381-05:002010-06-16T11:15:03.381-05:00The problem is that this poll is not reflective of...The problem is that this poll is not reflective of the Louisiana voting population. <br /><br />According to PPP, respondents to this poll were - <br /><br />* White - 75%<br />* Black - 20%<br />* Other - 4%<br /><br />But according to the Louisiana Sec of State, voting demographics break down as - <br /><br />* White - 65% (1,890,654)<br />* Black - 31% (893,431)<br />* Other - 4% (129,421)<br /><br />This is a highly deceptive poll and has no newsworthy value.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-85750627423726413992010-06-16T10:36:24.294-05:002010-06-16T10:36:24.294-05:00In Katrina, you had incompetents in New Orleans Ma...In Katrina, you had incompetents in New Orleans Mayor and Louisana Governor, (both DEMOCRATS). Next door, Haley Barbor (GOP) rolled up his pants and went to work. BOTH states got hit, but one was led by INCOMPETENT DEMOCRATS.<br /><br />Now in the oil spill, you have governors, (GOP) asking to be able to get permission to do things. If the governor of Louisana was still a Democrat, they would be sitting on their arses...<br /><br />DEMOCRATS=USELESS SPEWTUMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-9999066236698132952010-06-16T10:12:55.098-05:002010-06-16T10:12:55.098-05:00"Say what you want about Bush and the latenes..."Say what you want about Bush and the lateness of the aid after Katrina, but at least the aid got there!"<br /><br />If those that voted in the poll are this stupid I can understand the results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-75074618709533535462010-06-16T09:58:17.795-05:002010-06-16T09:58:17.795-05:00This complaining about Obama - what do you really ...This complaining about Obama - what do you really think he can or could have done? Claims like by Palin he rejected help from other nations are false. The issue is, there really isn't a simple easy way to stop the leak or stop it from fouling shorelines, and no one knows exactly what to do.<br /><br />If we'd had better regulation in the past from MMS etc. like inspections BP may have been warded away from letting it happen. They cut corners to save money and the lax-regulation crowd (mostly Republicans) looked the other way. The bear the brunt of the blame.Neil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-90879712766596039962010-06-16T09:25:50.019-05:002010-06-16T09:25:50.019-05:00Its interesting too because Obama has some of thes...Its interesting too because Obama has some of these blame/disapproval deflected on to BP, but with Bush there was no one else to blame (can you actually blame the weather), so he got stuck with all of the blame (and some rightly so).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-43196474945871991712010-06-16T09:23:50.305-05:002010-06-16T09:23:50.305-05:00Well...
Seeing as the Governor and the City Mayor...Well...<br /><br />Seeing as the Governor and the City Mayor of NO would not let Bush in until the disaster was in full swing, that put OBIE in a bad spot since he had access from "Day One".<br /><br />Yeah, right.<br /><br />This guy is a fraud...he couldn't run a McDonald's or a lemonade stand and all you FOOLS think he can manage the greatest economy the world has ever known?<br /><br />Yeah, right.<br /><br />Rowdy BootsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-59863804790290217072010-06-16T09:23:04.663-05:002010-06-16T09:23:04.663-05:00I would have to agree. The response to the oil sp...I would have to agree. The response to the oil spill has been unacceptable. Obama will not get re-elected in 2012. http://www.theobamacountdown.com The dem's must be dreading the fall election because they know they will not get re-electedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-25163360268917601802010-06-16T09:12:39.149-05:002010-06-16T09:12:39.149-05:00PEOPLE, We are in the middle of a disaster.
I...PEOPLE, We are in the middle of a disaster. <br /><br />I'm from LA and it really hurts to see people call my home such horrible things.<br /><br />Bobby Jindal and local leaders are doing a great job. LA really wants a leader. We don't care about comparisons, political parties.<br />We just need someone to help us before everything is suffocated in oil. <br /><br />Shame on you. You are kicking a bleeding dog.LWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-56382690392035342612010-06-16T09:12:39.150-05:002010-06-16T09:12:39.150-05:00This is the beginning of the end of what we called...This is the beginning of the end of what we called the United States of AmericaInvasion of Earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536051369240440298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-31313614696538902002010-06-16T09:11:08.821-05:002010-06-16T09:11:08.821-05:00worst president for the worst time.
and the USA is...worst president for the worst time.<br />and the USA is REALLY in trouble now.<br /><br />This man is a total incompetent.....Invasion of Earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536051369240440298noreply@blogger.com