Why Obama is incompetent!

Obama is proving his incompetence as a President of the United States in one word, containment!

His leadership on the actions necessary to contain the BP oil spill are so inadequate they are laughable.

BP caused the accident. It didn't just "happen." And the criminal and civil investigations will undoubtedly lay this out with great clarity in the months and years ahead.

But ...

Once the accident "happened," it was up to Obama to act decisively and immediately to contain the oil as quickly and as thoroughly as possible BECAUSE the best independent experts were telling us how bad it could get ... decisively and immediately.

One example of leadership in a large scale operation of this type is to treat it as the front line of a battle. The line is divided into sectors and each sector is put under the command of its own sector leader. And each sector is divided in sub-sectors down to the level of the company and the company commander ... and even further under the company commander to the platoon leader ... and squad and squad leader. The responsibility is clearly defined ... and it isn't rocket science. We've been doing it for millenia ... or at least since 300 Spartans defied the tyranny of Xerxes at Thermopylae over 2500 years ago.

For Obama to allow BP to take charge of the containment and—then—clean-up, hiring a skeleton workforce that left large sectors of vulnerable wetlands unmanned ... well ... that's the evidence of Obama's incompetence on containment.