Obama: Protecting the Gulf for Our Grandchildren

[nmbluesky]

Today, President Obama travelled to the Gulf Coast region for the fourth time since the BP oil spill began in April. The President began his trip in Gulfport, Mississippi, where he met with National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen and local officials to discuss efforts to fight the BP oil spill. Later, the President had lunch with business owners in Gulfport, Mississippi, to discuss the impact the oil spill is having on tourism, fishing and other industries in the region.

Now, what I've heard from a number of local officials during my trip today is what I’ve heard from folks on each of the four visits that I’ve made to this region since the Deepwater Horizon explosion happened in April. There’s a sense that this disaster is not only threatening our fishermen and our shrimpers and our oystermen, not only affecting potentially precious marshes and wetlands and estuaries and waters that are part of what makes the Gulf Coast so special -- there’s also a fear that it can have a long-term impact on a way of life that has been passed on for generations.

And we are absolutely committed to working with him and all the local officials who are behind us to do everything in our power to protect the Gulf way of life so that it’s there for our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.

Full Story here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/14/protecting-gulf-our-grand-children

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This really makes me mad.

He talks about protecting the Gulf and its way of life. Protecting is what you do before the disaster happens, to keep that disaster from happening.

This did not happen.

[ananda]

Meaning it's too late already.

nt

[dgibby]

4. Bingo!

I share your anger, Peggy. My great nephew and his wife live in NOLA and are expecting their first child in Oct. I want them out of there yesterday!

[damntexdem]

2. Good, because it has been lost to ourselves and our children.

But I am doubtful that it can be restored for our grandchildren, nor for their children, nor for their children's children, and so on.

[Cha]

3. Yeah President Obama doesn't throw up his

and give up..he'll keep fighting to make it as right as possible.

He knew on May 2nd what this OIL gusher had wrought.

We're dealing with a massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster. The oil that is still leaking from the well could seriously damage the economy and the environment of our
Gulf states and it could extend for a
long time. It could jeopardize the livelihoods of thousands of Americans
who call this place home.”

Remarks..President Barack Obama May 2, 2010 Venice, La

http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2010/0510_gulfspill/index.html