Obama Blasts BP for Ad Campaign

LMAO!! Obama blasting someone for trying to "manage their image"? That's all he does. What a hypocrite!

you know whats funny?
i just watched bp's new commercial on their youtube channel, and they disabled adding comments to the video.
sure they take full responsibility, but are they open to criticism?
nope.

Yet everything Obama does is related to public relations. Every word he says is scripted. Every photo op is scripted, every move controlled by public relations. It's the same with all politicians. They tell you what you want to hear, not what is going on.

Instead of jumping on BPs shit, why not offer all the help they need? Of course, they have all the money in the world, and probably don't need ours, but instead of tying shit up with investigations right now, finger pointing, why not fix the shit, use our resources, their resources, the worlds resources, fix the leak, and worry about the investigation bullshit when things are fixed? There is plenty of time for that shit later.

See, why are they using the money to make commercials when they should be using the money on cleaning up this mess! Every bit counts!

And there's this thing called the INTERNET! And it's FREE! Make some viral videos to spread the word!

Duh!

And BP will soon be complaining about how much they are required to pay for this disaster!

50 mill is a drop in the bucket to BP. Everyone knows that. And paying their shareholders is part of the business. Everyone should know that. What Obama is saying is that BP obviously has the financial ability do pay these prices so it better not continue to nickle and dime the people who's lives are most affected by this mess. And I find it funny as hell that the same people that always bitch about "big government" on this site are the ones blaming the government and saying that the Obama administration is not doing enough. Make up your minds already. To me it seems like everyone is jumping the gun on criticizing anyone for this whole mess. Lets see if BP does what's needed to clean up their mess and lets see if Obama holds them to the task. There will be plenty of time for the blame game later let them focus on what needs to be done.

G U I L L O T I N E ------------------sometimes its the only way.

Gee I wonder how much of the taxpayers money we spent to get people to comply with the census. this is private company money. As far as bribing politicians, according to Reuters the largest chunk of $ went to Obama. Obama also let BP be exempt from an environmental impact analysis of drilling in the gulf. This took place April 6, 2009. Why aren't we drilling in ANWAR or other dry land places where accidents are more easily dealt with than at 5,000 ft below the surface in 3,000 lbs/sq. in of pressure. Perhaps the Sierra Club should take some of the blame for this.
Obama is a fool and a liar. He has been a fool and a liar about a great many things but the government needs to take a lions share of the blame for this like every other disaster we have seen. What a disaster of a president.

They need to save that $50m to buy more politicians and bribe away regulators!

how long ago was he it was talking about allowing more drilling? is john kerry's speech writer working for obama now? say one thing and do one thing. hate politicians so much. shut up obama. and voted down, as this is another of the thousand oil threads posted here which are fucking dumb. yes, there was an accident, no, no one knows wtf to do, they're trying their best, get over it. stop posting every fucking story posted on the internet, it's getting old and completely fucking everything up here

i can almost guarantee you that you can build a massive screw and plug the hole down there for 50 million :D but BP is fucking retarded...

Why does everything turn into a PR issue? Maybe your company has had shitty practices all along...Try managing your business instead of your image for once...

there image would improve if they worked on reality not image all co's in the related fields of automobiles should be pitching in as a good will effort

bullshit

Thank you Josh for the post. I've downed it as much as i could. You'd think the 50 would be used for clean up not for publicity spots. No other comments. guess people are doing more important things than commenting on this.