Why do tragedies and catastrophes become the fault of presidents and leaders ?

...because they talk big before the elections & whatever the problem people face in that particular country , the president or the prime minister is solely responsible...

I agree with a couple of other myLotters. When a person severely dislikes the leader, then there's nothing the leader can do that is right. The hater doesn't think rationally. For example, many on the right try to depict President Obama as being communist. When he wants to do something for the people against big business, they holler "socialist" and "communist" and talk about state's rights. In a situation like this where he leaves the big business to take care of its problem (showing he is not a communist), then they criticize him for not doing anything. They want to eat their cake and are mad at the cook because the same cake is not on their plate. If I don't like you but you're great for the job, I'm going to back you. In the movie "The Alamo" Sam Houston told Colonel Travis, "I don't like you, I never liked you, but I trust you with the life of Texas because you are the best." These days, a lot of talent doesn't get hired for jobs because the employer doesn't like the job seeker because of race, ugliness, or whatever. Many people are so hateful that they don't care if the solution can be solved or not.

Most of the people criticism is leveled at BP , not the president, he is just one man that can't do much to save the environment but he can use his position and power to protect the environment and stop abuses from big corporation, but in this case, it is a joint responsibility of oil company and federal agency to see that our environment is protected, they fail to play the corporate and government role positively. Only the president and congress can take on these big mouth executives and federal officials if they want the problem solve.

hi, in any government or organization where chain of commands are being followed, the highest authority always gets the blame and the praise. so it is her responsibility to make sure that everybody at his downlines are working properly. that's why these politicians are loyal to their parties as they cannot work if there's even one person from below who will sabotage their goal. these applies not only to world leaders but also in military and any organizations.

yeah you are right. people have become used to blaming the leaders for disasters in the country. how can they hold the president responsible for something he cant control?? surely presidents and leaders aren't gods. They are not omnipotent or omnipresent.

I would guess it is just a natural human response, and people want to point blame at somebody, why not him. Now on the other hand, there are a lot of people out there that want to see Obama fail, so this would be another thing to put in the history books on why he was a bad president. An example of pointing blame on government of tradgedies and catastrophes...Hurricane Katrina. Not to mention, our society trying to blame military as well. What most people didn't know was the navy had a ship in the gulf of mexico riding the storm, and when the winds were in the right envelope for the helicopters to take off, we were there. But they say we didn't do enough, or bush didn't do enough. They new the hurricane was coming, they were told to evacuate, and thousands of them didn't. The first place i flew over when coming into the city limits of new orleans for relief efforts was a bus farm with hundreds of busses still in formation parked and under water. Now we can't help natuaral disasters, and with the oil spill, you would think that if plan a fails, there would be a plan b, c, d and so forth. Sometimes lessons are learned the hard way, and that's why the safety books are written in blood. well anyways, it's not fair to blame Obama in this situation. It clearly isn't is deal, and the military shouldn't get brushed into. They are here to protect the country and aid in efforts when needed. This is clearly BP's deal to fix, they have the experts and professionals needed for this field. Life is full of thorns and speed bumps, and things like this happen. We will keep on trucking and do what we do, it's america, we are humans, and nobody is perfect.

It is very easy for the people to blame the president for the problems that happened in the country. They will always do that without giving even at least one solution. Maybe they are just like that---nothing to do except giving criticisms.

hi there. nice topic. i totally get your point. this is one of the careless attitude of most humans. we assume that our leaders would fix everything that goes wrong in our country. we forget to think rationally. and yes, you are right, we expect things to be resolved overnight even if things are out of our leaders' control. sad thing is, we want results but we are not contributing any actions. also, due to lack of knowledge towards issues and problems, we demand for results that take a long time to acquire. i just hope, globally, that we stop beating our politicians. let's give them the benefit of the doubt. now, if we don't see results, then we can start demanding. this is one thing that our leaders have to prepare for...to be ready for a lot of impossible demands. they are not gods, let's cut them some slack.

hi there. nice topic. i totally get your point. this is one of the careless attitude of most humans. we assume that our leaders would fix everything that goes wrong in our country. we forget to think rationally. and yes, you are right, we expect things to be resolved overnight even if things are out of the leaders' control. sad thing is, we want results but we are not contributing any actions. also, due to lack of knowledge towards issues and problems, we demand for results that take a long time to acquire. i just hope, globally, we stop beating our politicians. let's give them the benefit of the doubt. now, if we don't see results, then we can start demanding. this is one thing that our leaders have to prepared for...to be ready for a lot of impossible demands. they are not gods, we have to understand that.

Hi little franciscan: I don't understan why people think that way. Maybe it's mediocrity. I understand that people dislike the president but I think it's stupid to think that everything that is going wrong is the president's fault. How could anyone knew this catastrophe with BP was going to happend or to prevent something that is our of his hand. Thanks for asking this question. Have a nice day. ALVARO.