Certainly looks like a major environmental mess to me. I remember quite well the BP long term ad campaign which touted the safely of their deep-sea drilling technology, their redundant back-up systems that could safely deal with any imaginable emergency. The ad campaign made a significant impression on the general public and on public policy including the Obama Administration.

All the back-up systems have failed in this instance, the remote underseas cut-off valves and all the rest. And we're left with a continuing environmental and economic disaster of unprecedented dimensions.

Palin is not the issue here but it would be gracious if she expressed some concern.

Charley Noble