Who's to Blame? Us!

President Obama says "BP will pay" for the oil spill. And they should. They ran the Deep Horizon oil rig, neglected using adequate safety measures, and watched it explode hours after an inspection team left. Yesterday BP announced it will pay $20 billion to make the Gulf better than ever.

Terrific. Good. Yay.

That ain't enough.

BP is directly responsible, sure, but at the end of the line is, well, us.

The world's growing thirst for oil will be sated by someone, somewhere, as long as there's profit to be had. BP's relief wells will generate money for them, which will probably go straight to the relief fund, because it's poetic that way. But until we get full of oil, this will happen again, somewhere, to somebody.

I hope Obama uses this disaster for political capital. Normally a queasy tactic (Bush+9/11=Iraq War), the president can use the spill for kicking the oil habit. It was one of his campaign planks, and now's the time to get it done.

Missed Opportunities

My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Emilio!

Driving

I'm just going to say it - Obama supporters are terrible drivers. It's painful to reveal, but honestly someone's gotta set these people straight. "My morning commute" consists of 10 mins on I-40 East. If I get behind a mini-van I can pretty much guarantee a terrible start to the morning. If a woman is in the driver's seat then it's confirmed. It's true what they say - women are horrible drivers. Myself not included. But Obama drivers take the cake. Too cautious and always going about 10+ miles below the speed limit. I've thought of a few reasons why it's specific to Obama: 1) It's a wider net of drivers since he carried NC 2) I'm coming from Chapel Hill. Also, this can be applied to people with any sort of "green" or "recycle" stickers.

Say what you want, but

the Obamas look like a really close, loving family. My coworker sent me these pictures after the discovery of the Flickr election night album (which you can and should see here). And then I found some more.

Above is Sasha and her dad at the Iowa State Fair.

Below is Malia and her dad in Hawaii.


Here he's stepping off the plane on Monday 11/1:


And this baby is just not sure!


Check out a tonnnn more of these at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/obama-slideshow