Obama Revises History

President Obama has decided to rewrite history, insisting that he and his administration were "on top of" the BP oil leak from day one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38906337/ns/nightly_news

President Barack Obama rejected criticism of his response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Sunday, saying in an interview airing on “NBC Nightly News” that his administration jumped on the crisis immediately and was determined to hold BP accountable.

As BP struggled for weeks to cap the well that began gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico in April, Obama came under similar pressure from environmental activists who said the federal government should have stepped in earlier and taken greater control — leading, as Williams noted, to critics’ characterization of the oil spill as “Obama’s Katrina.”

“That is just not accurate,” Obama said, pointing to the $20 billion fund BP set up under federal supervision to compensate victims of the oil spill.

What PresBo neglects to point out is that he didn't extort that $20 billion slush fund from BP until mid-June... hardly "immediately," considering that the explosion occurred and the leak began on April 20.


Here's a video showing the timeline and Obama's response...





If the video doesn't work, try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vVvrHPQZgs

Whether you think the government should have "taken control" or not, the fact remains that Presbo's response was hardly "immediate," and attempts on his part to characterize it that way are revisionist. And trying to revise history on a subject where virtually NOBODY thinks PresBo reacted quickly isn't going to help his approval ratings at all.

On a slightly different subject... In his appearance on Nightly News, he did make the following statement:

“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That's been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

Good! When will he advocate repealing ObamaCare? That law is decidedly BAD for the next generation, and repealing it would help a great deal. Also, when will he start reining in his out-of-control spending and return us at least to budget deficit levels we last saw when George Bush was President?

Those steps will be good for the next generation, so can we expect him to do that?

Not hardly.