Reply #24: I can't say I blame him for the spill either.

[JoeyT]

Sure he could have cleaned out the Bush appointees and evaluated all the stuff that went on under Bush for the possibility of causing a disaster, but only to the exclusion of absolutely everything else. Given how much of a screw up Bush and his people were in public, I imagine the amount of stuff they fucked up in private was staggering. It would've been 4 years of doing nothing but rooting out the dimwits and the shady deals. Economy, health care, and everything else be damned.

It isn't even his mess to clean up yet, it's BP's. My opinion of his handling of the disaster is going to be based on how far he sticks our collective foot in BP's ass when the whole thing is over.