Obama says stopping oil spill could take many days

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/2/10 | Robert Burns and Steven R. Hurst - ap

[NormsRevenge]

VENICE, La. – No remedy in sight, President Barack Obama on Sunday warned of a "massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster" as a badly damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slick toward delicate wetlands and wildlife. He said it could take many days to stop.

Obama flew to southern Louisiana to inspect forces arrayed against the oil gusher as Cabinet members described the situation as grave and insisted the administration was doing everything it could. Then he took a helicopter ride over the water to view the 30-mile oil slick caused by as much as 210,000 gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf each day.

The spill threatened not only the environment but also the region's abundant fishing industry, which Obama called "the heartbeat of the region's economic life." As of now, it appeared little could be done in the short term to stem the oil flow, which was also drifting toward the beaches of neighboring Mississippi and farther east along the Florida Panhandle. Obama said the slick was 9 miles off the coast of southeastern Louisiana.

Those who live and work in the region braced for the economic impact on fishing and tourism. In front of a cabin and RV park in Boothville, along Louisiana Highway 23, was a plywood sign pleading: "Obama Send Help!!!!"

[library user]

Shit, it took him 10 days just to respond to it.

[NormsRevenge]

Chandra Chifici at Deanie's Seafood weighs shrimp for customers in Metairie, Louisiana May 2, 2010. U.S. officials closed commercial and recreational fishing in a large swathe of federal waters affected by the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Sunday. The Gulf of Mexico is home to fish, crabs, oyster and shrimp and accounts for about 20 percent of total U.S. commercial seafood production.« Read less REUTERS/Sean Gardner (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)

[library user]

Bush’s fault.

[NormsRevenge]

U.S. President Barack Obama talks after touring the Coast Guard Venice Center in the Gulf of Mexico region to view environmental damage caused by the sinking of BP's oil and gas Deepwater Horizontal drilling rig while in Venice, Louisiana, May 2, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)

[The Wizard]

7 days wasted....7 days Moogly the man cub waited to respond weakly.....hoping for bad pictures failing to realize it was HIS PROBLEM.....

[Doogle]

probably longer than it took for the fake to come out of his self loving stupor

[Bahbah]

That seagull could have done us all a favor by flying in a little closer and dropping a present on Ozero’s head.

[ErnBatavia]

12

[Paladin2]

I think Zer0 is like Truman Burbank in the Truman Show.

[SoCalConstitutionalist]

What a moron.

[edcoil]

It is not his problem. It is PB’s. His failure is in his governments response since the king controls all the resources now and killed most private business.

He is a failure. What did you expect.

[NormsRevenge]

US President Barack Obama talks with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) after arriving on Air Force One at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana. Obama fiercely defended Sunday his response to the oil slick disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, while stressing that BP was fully responsible and must pay for the cleanup. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

[FrankR]

Hey, jerkwad...why did it take you so many days to tell us it would be "many days"?

And where the hell if FEMA? You've had Homeland Security on the case, and even a SWAT team (what the hell was that, just for looks?).

What a buffoon we have in the White House...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

He can’t count past ten without taking his shoes and socks off.....

[muir_redwoods]

"Obama says stopping oil spill could take many days"

Ya think?

Hey, Obambi. it has already taken you a week and a half to do anything.

Nitwit.

[X-FID]

Those who live and work in the region braced for the economic impact on fishing and tourism. In front of a cabin and RV park in Boothville, along Louisiana Highway 23, was a plywood sign pleading: "Obama Send Help!!!!,

Pathetic, commies know no bounds.

[NormsRevenge]

.. took him 10 days just to respond to it.

It’s his laser focus on Job #1 .. Jobs. ;-]

He’s blinded by it sometimes.

that and his golf game.

[tiger63]

I just feel all warm and fuzzy every time this POS thinks he is in charge.

Being an affirmative action president requires no knowledge, lacking knowledge would have put him at the head of his class.... had he ever attended any class.

Some one said that in order to improve you have to hit bottom. Bozo is the bottom!

[bwc2221]

Ease off, Obama had a lot of important stuff to do: criticizing the Arizona illegals law, town hall meetings, the U-M commencement speech, the Correspondents Dinner, etc.

He knew the oil would still be there in 11 days.