re: #457 Gus 802

This is litigious society. More than half the time whenever an accident occurs American’s spend the majority of their time trying to lay blame on someone else or at least lay blame on whatever group they hate the most. In this case it’s seen as a political tool by both Democrats and Republicans that each want to blame each other.

Then we have the Greens who want to nationalize BP which would be interesting since they are a British company. Whatever you can think of it will happen. I’m sure there are people that are offended in one form or another.

I don’t know. Getting really tired of the Chinese fire drill and the sky is falling mentality about this oil spill from all sides. I was just talking to the cashier at my local store about how America stopped when Paris Hilton was taken to prison for that drunk driving offense. It also stopped for three days after the death of Anna Nicole Smith and practically a week for Michael Jackson.

Good comment.

And note how this is being taken in Britain. BP was their largest company, something like 80 billion has been wiped out, one in seven dollars earned by a pension fund was BP dividends. They feel like there is anti-British sentiment and a desire to destroy the company.

Barack Obama’s BP Brit-bashing could harm US-UK relations
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Cantor says Obama should stop ‘demonising’ BP

“What we are seeing out of the administration has been utter outrage, blame, vilification, cursing on TV instead of focusing on stopping the gushing of the oil,” he told the FT in its View from DC video series. “How does that help? There is going to be plenty of time for demonising, punishing, what have you, OK?”
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THE demonisation of BP in America over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now attained extravagant and potentially very damaging proportions.
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Cameron under attack for ‘failing to stand up for Britain’ over BP