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Obama and the BP spill

By Tung Yin

Like many others, I think it's kind of ridiculous to blame President Obama for not having cleaned up the BP oil spill, especially as if he could personally do something about it.

At the same time, I was reminded of this quote: ?John McCain likes to say that he?ll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell,? Obama said, ?but he won?t even go to the cave where he lives.?

Except at least McCain wasn't even President -- was a United States Senator really supposed to suit up and join Special Forces in hunting down bin Laden?  Anyway, the point being that it's a little hard to have too much sympathy when Obama is criticized in the same unfair way that he himself criticized McCain.

Full post as published by The Yin Blog on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).