Oil Spill Government Response

BP Oil Spill: Calls For Obama to Muscle BP Aside Are Futile and Wrongheaded

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The BP spill is not solely about what Obama should do. The catastrophe is a political grenade that the pack of right-side talk jocks have tossed at Obama to tar him as a weak, ineffectual leader.

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Gulf Oil Spill: Obama Gives Oil Spill Commission Orders, Demands Thorough Probe

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gave the leaders of an independent commission investigating the Gulf oil spill marching orders Tuesday to th...

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Oil Spill Taking Toll On BP's, Government's Credibility

McClatchy | Erika Bolstad | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A litany of half-truths, withholding crucial video, blocking media access to the site and a failure to share timely and complete infor...

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Obama Oil Spill Press Conference: Government In Charge Of Oil Disaster Response

AP/Huffington Post | JENNIFER LOVEN and TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama defensively and sometimes testily insisted on Thursday that his administration, not oil giant BP, was callin...

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