Did anyone else see the press conference with the President of BP on CNN just before

[applegrove]

7:00 PM? He was happy underneath. He must know something good. He did say it would be 24 hours before they new anything. But I think it is a good omen.

[Poll_Blind]

1. I love you too much to reply just on the off-chance you're being serious. n/t

PB

[HughMoran]

2. ??

[Poll_Blind]

4. With eleven people already dead and the entire Gulf coast _already_ seriosuly...

...damaged it's very hard for me to take the body language of an executive of a multi-billion dollar corporation as some genuine perspective into their real beliefs of a situation. I'll leave it at that. But I do hope this works and I hope he'll keep up his promise to clean every drop up off the Gulf. There isn't enough money to do that, but I can hope.

[applegrove]

8. Yes. I've been looking for a sign of hope for weeks so I guess I jumped on a suppressed

smile as a sign this horrific mess will not get any worse that the terribly destructive mess it is right now.

[applegrove]

3. I said it was "a good OMEN" not "he was a good man". LOL! Don't speed read.

Seriously I'm looking for any sign this thing will be fixed.

[Poll_Blind]

7. Just...for me the people who have gotten to the tops of these predatory corporations...

...strike me as liars, and I mean world-class liars, though and through. It wasn't the omen, if you want to call it that, it was just an inadvertent reminder to me how many subcommittee hearings I've watched, how many CEO's have testified (among others) and how so many of them lied through their teeth- and looked like genuinely good folks doing it. That's really what it was. I wasn't trying to be pessimistic but I'd just finished reading some of the accounts given to the government from the survivors about how a BP exec basically pulled rank and the drill team followed his orders and they died for it.

Maybe I am being cynical but damnit, I really worry about a press conference where this dude sprays Fabreeze on a partially drugged pelican, wipes the simulated oil off a wing and just-as-genuinely says "See, BP cares." I've seen so much of that in the past and the accountability for these major corporations seems to be inversely proportional to the grievousness of their infractions.

[applegrove]

10. Oh yes they do do the propaganda thing. They create myths that get GOPers elected. They manipulate

the nation. They, the wealthy elites and Oil barons, fuck things up for money. I get you. I get you.

[rsmith6621]

5. The Bastard Needs To Be Arrested...

......There aint no good news except the leak has been STOPPED!!!!!...

[Subdivisions]

6. The first thing I thought when I saw him was that he

had was suppressing a smile. He looked like he was happy about something but not saying what it was.

[Lifelong Protester]

9. I love your photo.

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