In 2010, on this day Sarah Louise Palin was sworn in as the
first woman President of the United States after John McCain
suffered a heart attack at the Barksdale Air Force Base in
Louisiana where he had been overseeing the crisis management of
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. Woman solves man-made
disaster Characteristically, McCain had been honouring a
campaign pledge that had he been president during the Hurricane
Katrina Disaster, he would have flown to the nearest Air Force
base to oversee the response. The Deepwater catastrophe had
begun with the initial rig explosion on April 20. "And, unlike
an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does
its damage in a matter of minutes or days" ~ former President
Candidate Barack ObamaThe subsequent fire on a semi-submersible
Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit created a massive ongoing offshore
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in U.S. history and
an environmental disaster. Doubtless, what was required over the
coming months was the d