President Obama heading to Gulf for oil spill update

Source: Associated Press

President Barack Obama is planning to head to the Gulf Coast sometime in the next 48 hours to get an update on efforts to contain the massive spill from an offshore drilling rig.

A senior administration official says details of the trip are still being worked out, and Obama will likely travel with a ''small footprint'' -- meaning a very small entourage. The official spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because the trip has not been officially announced.

Obama has vowed his administration will do all that it can to battle the spill, which came from a BP exploratory rig. It began washing ashore Thursday and is already the worst in U.S. waters in decades.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/01/us/politics/AP-US-Gulf-Oil-Spill-Obama.html

to tell us how safe offshore drilling is in this day and age?

He should take a look and see the destruction on the Gulf, and apologize for his errors. He said spills don't happen anymore, in general. He said it in the most patronizing and dismissive way possible, and yet, look at the Gulf.

His luck with pandering to the corporate right and alienating key constituencies for perceived political expediency just ran out.

Had he stood his ground with progressives and the alternative energy programs he campaigned on- he'd be looking prescient. Instead, the administration- along with many Democrats will get lumped in with the drill, baby drill crowd.

about sums it up

I hope he stays there long enough to see what the coast will look like for a decades to come -- coated in black goo, littered with the bodies of the dead and dying. :(

As has been repeatedly noted, our enforced safety measures for drilling don't even measure up to the Brazilian standard. BP relied upon the "trust us, we'll do a good job" story, and then half-assed the actual effort.

I don't support more drilling, but neither will I lay all of the blame at the President's feet. The companies need to feel the fire, because this could have happened at any time prior to Obama's statements.

The Gulf Coast needs your leadership. We look forward to your visit.

where he has all the high-tech equipment to directly monitor the spill and issue what orders he feels are necessary.

For him to waste his time appearing on the site is just plain political junketing.

use it against him to say he doesn't care about the people there. So I agree with you that he could stay in D.C. and monitor the situation just fine; politically he has to put in a personal appearance.

I'm glad he's coming to the Gulf Coast to meet with affected citizens.

support of drill baby drill.

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Maybe he was distracted by re-reading GeeDubs "My Pet Goat"??

I am REALLY not impressed by US leaders

and that term "leaders" may not be appropriate

OH

have they found Osama yet??

USA's War-Machne has killed a coupla (tens of) thousand peeps since 911

but where is this infamous Osama?

Great War-Machine though

The whole World knows how "tough" the USA is . . .

right . . .