Someone I know I can trust.

Editor,

When the president travels to a disaster zone to declare that he is in command of the situation, obviously he is not.

A president who is in command of a situation has no need to tell anyone that he is because everyone knows that he is. The irony, of course, is that the blame for this catastrophe is oiling Mr. Obabma's suit more heavily every day, mostly because he is trying to convince everyone that he is in command of the situation, but who really caused this to happen are the no-government, no-regulation Republicans who preceded him.

Finally, who is to blame probably will matter if the Gulf of Mexico is not completely destroyed, but at this particular moment in time that the Gulf of Mexico will not be destroyed is not certain, and stopping that leak, not saving one's public image, should be every decision-maker's highest priority.

Stopping the destruction always takes a back seat to money, power, and prestige in pointless wars and unnecessary environmental catastrophes, so I am writing off the Gulf of Mexico until someone I know I can trust tells me it has been saved.

Re: "Visiting Gulf, Obama Vows to Press BP on Spill Claims" (6/15/2010)