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President Obama warned BP : BP hopes to divert its Gulf oil gusher
President Barack Obama warned BP : BP hopes to divert its Gulf oil gusher - President Barack Obama has been trying mightily to show that he — not BP — is in charge of the Gulf oil spill. He may be succeeding. Whether that's good politics for the president is another question.
Obama made his third visit to the Gulf disaster on Friday, criticizing BP for spending money on advertising to repair its tarnished image and paying dividends to shareholders in the midst of a crisis.
The more responsibility the president assumes, the more he opens himself up to criticism when things go wrong. And very little about the spill can go right. Even once the leak is plugged, which won't be until August at the earliest, the oil will remain for months or years to come. For Obama, the danger is that the horrible mess will mire him down as surely as it is the Gulf's ecosystem.
U.S. officials sounded a guarded note on Friday about BP's (BP.L) (BP.N) latest bid to gain control over the 46-day-old spill. President Barack Obama, under fire from critics who question his leadership in the crisis, paid his third visit to the Gulf Coast since the April 20 offshore oil rig blowout.
The spill is causing an ecological and economic disaster for the U.S. Gulf Coast. Meeting with state and local politicians and residents in Louisiana, the hardest hit state so far, Obama said of the new oil containment system.
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