With all due respect, Mr President...this is not a "leak"

[rainbow4321]

We passed "leak" 2 months, hundreds of dead wildlife bodies, and thousands of out of work Gulf Coast residents ago...
The worst environmental disaster in our country's history is anything but a "leak".

What were his speech writers thinking????

[spanone]

1. i believe he knows what it is

[provis99]

2. well, nice of him to avoid informing the rest of us.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Are you one of the people who don't know what it is?

And here I thought they were all Republicans.

[tranche]

25. Psst.. There's other places to get your information.

[scheming daemons]

4. You're right... he should've pounded the desk and screamed "GUSHER!"

:eyes:

[RKP5637]

5. I think he had better speech writers before he became president. n/t

[jody]

6. Please be respectful, it's a "leak" if the speech writers say it is. Take soma and relax. n/t

[rainbow4321]

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[rainbow4321]

7. Which really sucks...because his words tonight mattered

KO was right..POTUS didn't even aim.

:(

[marylanddem]

8. Pass me some of that soma, please?

[jody]

12. I'm fresh out but you might find a source in Huxley's "Brave New World". n/t

[rainbow4321]

16. No need for Soma, his lackluster speech did the trick just fine. nt

[tiptoe]

9. BP "tiny" Obama "leak" nt

[HughMoran]

10. English language has a relative void of good words to describe this

I challenged several people to use a word that wasn't a little overdone (like gusher) and it was hilarious - the English language simply lacks sufficient ways to describe this pipe flowing a lot of oil into water.

[marylanddem]

11. I don't think "gusher" is overdone...that's what it is.

[HughMoran]

13. Think of another word that's more professional sounding

Seriously, if you've got another word besides "GUSHER!", then I'd like to use it myself.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Asphalt Volcano

but this is way too technical for the audience

[unblock]

20. why reject the single best fitting word? we've always called uncontrolled flows of oil "gushers"

i don't see how being underwater means the word no longer describes it.

but if you insist, how about:

"UNDERWATER gusher"?

[HughMoran]

21. Hah!

Still waiting...

[Coyote_Bandit]

28. The Random House Dictionary defines

gusher as a flowing oil well, usually of large capacity.

Seems pretty damn accurate to me.

[XemaSab]

32. Torrent. Deluge. Outpouring.

There, that's three.

[Bitwit1234]

14. So since this is what most are calling it, what would you?

[joe black]

29. X dia. oil line forcemain break.

[murray hill farm]

15. Sorry....

I have been an Obama huge fan from the beginning...but tonight I am disappointed beyond words. It was time to stand up and be counted! He did not.

[RKP5637]

18. +1, n/t

[HughMoran]

19. GUSHER!!11!!one!

lol

[The Midway Rebel]

22. Indeed...you are! lol

oil geyser
gusher of gook
geyser of goo
jet flow of oil
fountain of fucked
massive huge mother-effin flow
oil-cano
fountainhead of effluent
sprawling spout
voracious volumes of viscosity
ocean of ooze
well spring of death
the Big Spew
The Cradle of Crude

Not enough words in the English language to describe this situation? Are you serious?

I'll be back...I have to take a leak.

[HughMoran]

23. Some cute ones there

Not much a President can use, but I like 'em :D

[XemaSab]

33. I shouldn't laugh at this crisis

but you made me do it. :D

[AnArmyVeteran]

24. People take 'leaks', this is a goddamned gushing disaster!

I am sick of people mincing words and being terrified to tell the truth forcibly and with passion. A person doesn't have to be a raving lunatic to be forceful and honest.

[IOKIYAL]

26. With all due respect, he practically declared war on the oil spill

he referred to it as an "assault" and acknowledged it was our greatest disaster. You are being very nit picky on this. very unnecessary and confirms what other people say about him not being able to please anyone.

[rainbow4321]

35. Heaven forbid there be nitpicking

Thank goodness there was none of this nitpicking back when BP handed in it's clean up plan to the feds pre-disaster..think of how annoying a phone call would have been to that expert oil person they listed as the person to turn to in a disaster.."You expect the guy to be alive? Quit nitpicking!"
Reading over that plan? "Ok, so there are NO walruses in the Gulf and they obviously copy/pasted...they are busy executives and didn't have time, quit nitpicking"!

[flyarm]

27. 2.52 million gallons a day is no fucking leak! It is a gushing disaster!

[Lucian]

30. Actually, he said "spill" many times.

Last I checked, nothing spilled...

It really bugs me when people call it a spill.

[orleans]

31. it bugs me too. spill as in a little milk on the kitchen floor

we'll just wipe it right up

spill, leak, how much more can we possibly underestimate this disaster? maybe if someone said "oopsie daisy"

[rainbow4321]

34. The Titanic brushed up

against an iceberg..nothing a little sanding and paint job won't fix when at the next dock.