Obama Administration's Top Priorities - Change We Can Believe In
As I was killing a little time over the weekend, I ran across a piece by Mark Knoller, a White House correspondent who happens to work for the major media outlet we all know and (cough) love as CBS News, that discussed President Obama’s top priority.
If you read the piece, however, there is a wee bit of a catch, as it goes into a multitudinous list of the administration’s “top priorities” including, but certainly not limited to, consumer protection (Feb. 11, 2009), vaccinations against the H1N1 virus (May 1, 2009), student loan reform (Feb. 1, 2010), and free trade agreements (April 27, 2010). In a nutshell, Obama’s list of priorities seems to have more multiple personalities than if Robin Williams were to drop acid. I’m not saying, but I’m just saying.
Now in all fairness to the president, results have been delivered, even if not all Americans necessarily agree on their benefits, on some of his so-called priorities. We all know about the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress last year, the federal health care legislation passed earlier back in March, and the financial reform bill passed just last month. I won’t go into these previous top priorities since it’s way past my bedtime as I write this, and I certainly realize that I probably won’t sway anyone in a particular direction if I expand on these topics; plus I’m just feeling lazy at the moment.
There are three items, however, I noticed were not on Mr. Knoller’s list. The first is a coordinated response to the oil spill that was the result of the disaster at the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The president very directly said, “The day that the rig collapsed and fell to the bottom of the ocean, I had my team in the Oval Office that first day. This has been our highest priority since this crisis occurred.” He also implied that those who doubted the administration’s response didn’t know the facts. That's funny, because I seem to remember offers of assistance coming from foreign governments, including from the Dutch on day three of the disaster.
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