Obama Gets Lesson on Tar Balls

Wall Street Journal ^

[Sub-Driver]

Obama Gets Lesson on Tar Balls

President Barack Obama visited Fourchon Beach in Louisiana Friday to view the environmental impact of the BP PLC oil gusher in the Gulf.

Touring the beach with the parish president, Charlotte Randolf, and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, who oversees the government response, the president picked up a few nickel- to quarter-sized tarballs—among the only signs on the beach of the leaking oil.

“If you guys want to get a little bit closer and get dirty…you can see these little balls — these are the tar balls that they’re talking about…manually you can pick up these tar balls as they’re coming ashore,” Obama told reporters traveling with him.

New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes was skeptical: “Can you be sure these oil tar balls are from the oil spill? Because when I used to swim on the Gulf in Texas, I’d get tar balls in my bathing suit all the time.”

Allen and Randolf, the parish president, confirmed that tar balls do wash up at other times, though these, they said, were likely from the spill.

But the president was distracted. “At some point, Jackie, we’ll want to hear more about those tar balls and your bathing suit,” Obama said, as reporters laughed.

[Sub-Driver]

Goof ball.......

[Ozone34]

Obama does Linux?

[jessduntno]

Obama Gets Lesson on Tar Balls

Good grief...was this a real headline?

Oh..........so many jokes, so little bandwidth...

[humblegunner]

“If you guys want to get a little bit closer and get dirty… you can see these little balls ,” Obama told reporters traveling with him.

Michelle was unavailable for comment.

[Burkean]

There’s an Uncle Remus joke somewhere in there, trying to get out.

[Dr. Thorne]

I thought he got that lesson from Frank Marshall Davis.

[Doogle]

"..too bad he didn't ask me,I'd give him a lesson in feathers too"

[HighWheeler]

“...“At some point, Jackie, we’ll want to hear more about those tar balls and your bathing suit,” Obama said”

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I’ll bet that line was actually uttered by BJ Clinton.

[donhunt]

This is turning into a large TARBABY!

[neodad]

Reminds me of Clintoon and the pebbles on Omaha Beach...

[Carley]

Kind of like that tar ball Nelson of FL brought to the senate. Fortunately, it was NOT from the BP spill.

[nmh]

For a split second there I though Obama was growing a few ... never mind.

[ch.man]

What about getting a lesson on tar and feathers?

[Wilderness Conservative]

[mylife]

What a maroon.

[gdzla]

Clinton was better at theater.
Remember Clinton had a warship in the background for his photo-op.
0bama could of had a drilling platform.

[dogcaller]

This administration is full of teabagging tarballs...God help us all.

[mylife]

I am surprised he didn’t arrange them into a little cross ala Clinton for Memorial day.

[mylife]

I was thinking the same thing LoL

[Paine in the Neck]

Do you suppose anyone pointed out to Barry before he started fondling them that not every little round, brown, sand-covered chunk on the seashore is a tar ball?