Eighteen to 40 million gallons of oil are presently churning around in the Gulf of Mexico.  Crude oil is polluting water and wetland.  Like an artery spewing forth lifeblood, "sticky, rusty" sludge has turned the Louisiana coastline into a disaster area. Although dreadful, the oil slick situation points to an even larger national predicament. The moral, political and social ablation besetting America has picked up speed and solutions being administered by a neophyte president reveal an unprecedented level of incompetence, lack of experience and spectacular ineptitude. Recently, Obama stretched his staff over the water articulating support for driving golf balls into America's injured rig-- the effort proved unproductive. Similarly, halfway into a presidential top kill endeavor many are coming to realize Obama falls short of the nation's misappropriated expectations. However, unlike the oil spill, it will be more than twenty-four months before America can...(Read Full Post)