Obama, awash in answers on oil
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 28, 2010
President Obama answered the questions Thursday. And answered them, and answered them, and answered them.
He probably should have stopped somewhere before announcing that Malia had asked him in the bathroom whether he had plugged the hole yet. That was the first clip used on two of the three network newscasts.
Obama, to his credit, acknowledged some shortcomings in his Message: I'm In Charge appearance. He said the government shouldn't have taken BP's word for the magnitude of the leak early on. But by going on at such exhaustive length about the administration's response to the oil spill, the professorial president began to sound defensive, as if he doth protest too much.
And while he was obviously trying to sidestep the question, he sounded, shall we say, out of the loop in claiming not to know whether his MMS director, Elizabeth Birnbaum, had resigned or been fired that morning. What is the point of forcing out the head of the agency if you can't claim political credit for it? Couldn't anyone send a message to his fabled BlackBerry?
(More here.)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 28, 2010
President Obama answered the questions Thursday. And answered them, and answered them, and answered them.
He probably should have stopped somewhere before announcing that Malia had asked him in the bathroom whether he had plugged the hole yet. That was the first clip used on two of the three network newscasts.
Obama, to his credit, acknowledged some shortcomings in his Message: I'm In Charge appearance. He said the government shouldn't have taken BP's word for the magnitude of the leak early on. But by going on at such exhaustive length about the administration's response to the oil spill, the professorial president began to sound defensive, as if he doth protest too much.
And while he was obviously trying to sidestep the question, he sounded, shall we say, out of the loop in claiming not to know whether his MMS director, Elizabeth Birnbaum, had resigned or been fired that morning. What is the point of forcing out the head of the agency if you can't claim political credit for it? Couldn't anyone send a message to his fabled BlackBerry?
(More here.)
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