Madd Community Organizer Skillz
"I have this skill… where I can gat a bunch of people in a room all with differing opinions and reach a common ground where we can all work together.”
--Big ∅ on why he oughta be Precedent; ‘08
When President Obama was asked by NBC’s Matt Lauer why he had not yet called the CEO of BP about the Gulf oil spill, he said he assumed CEO’s just told presidents things they wanted to hear.
So you’re telling US that you, as the Most Powerful Leader on Teh Planet, cannot get some CEO to cut the crap?
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs ... said Obama hasn’t called CEO Tony Hayward because—according to what Gibbs called the “executive structure of corporate governance” ...
“I’m telling you, based on the corporate governance structure, in order to implement what—whatever you get from BP the CEO has to get clearance from the board to do. That’s—that’s the corporate governance structure is—is laid out.”
So did that mean that Obama had picked up the phone to talk to some of these powerful board members?
No.
Here, fellas: this is the linky to the BP Board of Directors—each with bio linky of his/her own. There’s even a “Safety, Ethics and Environment Assurance Committee!”
Why not give ‘em a jungle?
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