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I completely agree with your last statement and that I what I have argued throughout this blog. What I am trying to reiterate is that the conservative media is not too far from Steele's outlandish remark that the War in Afghanistan is a war of "Obama's Choosing." They continually pin 100% of the blame on President Obama while failing to acknowledge a role for the Bush Administration. Of the three issues I outlined, the one where Obama deserves the most blame is the Gulf Oil spill. But to call this Obama's Katrina is absurd when Bush did nothing to address the corruption in the MMS that occured under his watch. Furthermore, a government response to Katrina could do much more to evacuate the people trapped in the city. In the Gulf oil spill, the best human intervention can hope for is to capture or contain about 20% of the oil, according to Dec Doran, an oil spill consultant who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill. Bush's inaction during Katrina was much more damaging than Obama's during this oil spill.