“Truly great leaders, when presented with terrible situations, find a way to achieve greatness. He missed the last time out. If the mess in the gulf gets appreciably worse, he will have one last opportunity. I hope he doesn’t pass up the chance yet again.”
From The Big Picture Missed Opportunity: BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster:
Now, we have another crisis — the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster. And yet again, we see another missed opportunity. The Oval Office speech the other day was just that — a speech, filled with mere words. There was no challenge, no sense of national need, no urgency.