Advice to Obama from an experienced hand

By Ethel C. Fenig

As the BP oil spill crisis continues, an experienced government executive who dealt with oil companies has some advice for the inexperienced community organizer lacking such background. Posting on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin has step by step instructions for President Barack Obama (D) for dealing with oil companies, based on her considerable experience.

50 days in, and we've just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration's response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he hasn't met with or spoken directly to BP's CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning: "Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions."

First, to the "informed and enlightened" mainstream media: in all the discussions you've had with the White House about the spill, did it not occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)

Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren't proof enough). The current administration may be unaware that it's the President's duty, meeting on a CEO-to-CEO level with Hayward, to verify what BP reports.

As you read the whole delicious post, think of what might have been in Louisiana had this experienced individual been elected second in command and an experienced senator been elected president instead of the community organizer. And sigh.