Plugging that damn hole

'No doubt that image of oil gushing out -- doing it's damage is one powerful money shot for the 24 / 7 news world.

'Geez, it's got it's own daily counter -- oh, please wont somebody plug that hole already?

oh,

and those poor little birds, covered in all that evil toxic blackness -- 'just makes me want to grab my mop and start scrubbing at something oily.

If I was a news man on the scene I'd be creaming in my boxers -- we got the shot --

'now what? -- how about a perfect set up for real change

Starting with that talk now on the TV for Obama to become a truly transformative President -- hey no better catalyst than oil, experts have said.

The villain is set: BP's ugly disregard, cutting corners and their lack of safeguards -- 'got my fist waving 'let's strap them up'

"The Arab oil embargo of the early 1970s and the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989 sped the conservation movement and search for alternative fuels," says the NY Times. "The Enron scandal prompted accounting reforms and (short-lived) scrutiny of corporate Ponzi schemes."

'Outrage aside,

and sure -- there's plenty of finger pointing left to do -- my real happy ending here is how we can turn a negative to our advantage.

In no specific order here's what Obama can really get done to change our world -- 'nobodies actually expecting him to plug anybodies hole,

or get dirty cleaning up the mess...but, I agree with the talking heads that he should use this awful tragedy to bend a few arms:

1. finally ending our addiction to oil
2. spurring a revolution in clean energy alternatives
3. leading the world in green innovation

Now that should have us all popping a green tent.

Source: NY Times