Boycott BP

Is President Obama to be blamed for the oil spill?

Not in my opinion.

Deregulating started under Clinton and continued under Bush. In fact, if you remember President Bush pushed for oil drilling in the arctic as well as off shore in the Gulf.

I know it's easy to blame the current president for this mishap, but he did not allow the massive growth of oil drilling in the gulf. Bush and Cheney did. In fact, Cheney has an economic interest in the very corporations that built this broken pipe that now is leaking everywhere.

Of course, as former President Truman said, "The buck stops here," and President Obama has to respond and deal effectively with this crisis. But to blame him for it is not even remotely understandable. Deregulation of the oil industry began after Carter's administration and it flourished under George Bush.

We went from 29 to over a 125 oil drilling rigs in the Gulf during the George Bush administration.

I say boycott BP and continue to boycott.

But don't blame this disaster on Obama. He's not the one who deregulated the oil industry and allowed all of this to happen. And he especially did not allow BP to drill for oil by cutting corners thus creating one of--if not the worse--ecological disasters in our history.