Will the BP "Deluge" Bring Down Obama?

CNN's Anderson Cooper, in a clip posted on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsmLMV1CrM), is severely critical of the unprecedented media censorship of the BP disaster. The current guidelines are that no journalists, civilians, and/or relief efforts can come within 65 feet of the disaster area, ostensibly for security/protection! Meanwhile reports continue to anonymously come out, despite counterclaims, that BP is firing any employee who talks about the spill. There seems to be a complete media blackout during the epic saga of the undisputed, greatest (i.e. excluding global warming), man-made environmental disaster in history.

Ok so the media is being blocked by the most transparent government in America's history. Will that in itself bring down Obama? Probably not. Indeed the media blackout is more likely a woefully transparent attempt to affect the results of the upcoming mid-term elections. Elections that will likely put the Republicans back in power in the house and senate.

Yet does the media blackout really help suppress political criticism of the party in power? Or is it that the alternative, close scrutiny of gross incompetence coupled with pictures of horrifying environmental destruction, trumps blatant first amendment criticism from the GOP?

Either way this event will have catastrophic ramifications for the environment and Obama’s short political career.

Is it Obama’s fault? No. But neither was Katrina Bush's fault. The comparisons stop there.

Katrina was a natural disaster compounded by initial ineptitude while the BP “deluge” was a man made catastrophe exacerbated by sustained incompetence, and a company that was praised by Obama. Furthermore, while Katrina affected a population that has not voted for Bush's party since Roosevelt, the BP disaster actually pits Obama against a major component of his constituency, environmentalist and big oil/cooperation opponents. The media blackout and CNN’s subsequent criticisms make it clear to all whose side Obama is on.

Will the BP deluge bring down Obama? Probably.