Obama: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat

[GeezerMan]

The seafood is safe to eat? Maybe from around Texas.... Go ahead, you go first....The gulf will be better than before? really?


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown...o-gulf-coast-address-nation-on-oil-spill.html


Updated 4:51 p.m. ET | President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone over the ongoing oil disaster Monday afternoon, saying that "things are going to return to normal" on the stricken Gulf Coast after much pain and frustration, and that the polluted waters will eventually be in better shape than before the leak began.

"Let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, " he said, adding that his administration is intensifying monitoring efforts to make sure it stays that way..........

 

[rudder]

Sure it is safe to eat... well the shrimp, crabs, and fish not yet covered in oil
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html

Wow... everytime obama speaks I just feel so fuzzy inside. "things are going to return to normal".... kind of like dmcowen674 saying milk will be $7/gallon. Sure it will... eventually.

 

[Danube]

Since Obama looked so overly-relaxed and uninvolved in the Gulf spill he has obviously adopted the strategy of minimizing the spill even as he is trying to compare it to 9-11. He also made a point to go on an Ice Cream Tour of the Gulf to minimize the problem by saying not all places are being harmed . You can't have it both ways

 

[Fear No Evil]

What's nice about the current fish from the gulf is you no longer need to add your own oil to fry it.

 

[CycloWizard]

The British have long laughed at Americans for naively believing any of the platitudes that our politicians earnestly throw at us. I am inclined to agree with them. I'm pretty sure I figured out that nothing that passes the lips of a president is true when I was about 12. How is it that so many people here still lap this crap up like water in the desert?

 

[Danube]

How is it that so many people here still lap this crap up like water in the desert?

Because Reagan showed a sincere leader still exists

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Obama seems to think that just saying something makes it so. What a phony.

 

[CycloWizard]

Because Reagan showed a sincere leader still exists

No, Reagan made you believe that a sincere leader exists. Even if he was, he is long dead now.

 

[HappyPuppy]

So suddenly the big "O" is a certified biologist? That's a hoot.

 

[Danube]

No, Reagan made you believe that a sincere leader exists. Even if he was, he is long dead now.

America is a spirit more than a place. That we have forgotten that is a reason we are up the creek.

 

[Danube]

So suddenly the big "O" is a certified biologist? That's a hoot.

He edited Harvard Law Review so he is at least one step above an idiot savant

 

[dmcowen674]

The seafood is safe to eat?

The gulf will be better than before? really?

The Messiah said so, so therefore must be true.

 

[irishScott]

And yet the only shrimp I could find today said "product of thailand". :hmm:

 

[spacejamz]

We should ask one of those pelicans covered in oil how the food tastes...

 

[Kirby]

Had some shrimp, raw and fried oysters, and soft shelled crab on Sunday in Gulf Shores. Pretty fucking good. :thumbsup:

 

[StageLeft]

Sure it is safe to eat... well the shrimp, crabs, and fish not yet covered in oil
.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html

Wow... everytime obama speaks I just feel so fuzzy inside. "things are going to return to normal".... kind of like dmcowen674 saying milk will be $7/gallon. Sure it will... eventually.

Exactly. Without a time frame such a statement is unequivocally 100% completely fvcking meaningless.

 

[ayabe]

Yes there are fishing areas in the gulf that are not affected at this time, the fish that is caught is being monitored very closely.

Gotta love the flyover and NJ faction weighing in on something they know absolutely nothing about.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Yes there are fishing areas in the gulf that are not affected at this time, the fish that is caught is being monitored very closely.

Gotta love the flyover and NJ faction weighing in on something they know absolutely nothing about.

I, for one, would rather not take any chance at eating crude and/or toxic chemicals. I realize it's being tested, but this is one time I would rather not take the chance.

 

[Pens1566]

Yes there are fishing areas in the gulf that are not affected at this time, the fish that is caught is being monitored very closely.

Gotta love the flyover and NJ faction weighing in on something they know absolutely nothing about.

I personally enjoyed the Reagan mention. Still clinging to the senile arms dealer to the world even after he's a corpse.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I personally enjoyed the Reagan mention. Still clinging to the senile arms dealer to the world even after he's a corpse.

Clinging to the coat tails of Reagans corpse, I like it

 

[Slick5150]

Do you guys all call each other before one of you posts something so the others can immediately jump into your "OMG Obama is teh eval!" circle jerk?

 

[Babbles]

I think it is stupid and ridiculous to blame the oil spill on Obama and I think for the most part he is probably doing the best that he can about it.

However I don't think he should be saying stupid shit either, which he does quite a bit. Specifically the type of wishful platitudes that he is prone to spew out; as was noted elsewhere saying something doesn't make it true.

 

[feralkid]

Yes there are fishing areas in the gulf that are not affected at this time, the fish that is caught is being monitored very closely.

Gotta love the flyover and NJ faction weighing in on something they know absolutely nothing about.

What else are they going to do at work?

 

[PeshakJang]

I think it is stupid and ridiculous to blame the oil spill on Obama and I think for the most part he is probably doing the best that he can about it.

Which is what, exactly?

 

[Jaskalas]

Mr. President, it's time to call Bill Clinton to "plug that damn hole!".