Obama Family Spend Time In Chicago, Barack Speaks On BP Oil Spill

Posted on May 30th, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, News

President Barack Obama and Family in Chicago

Barack Obama is multitasking this Memorial Day weekend trying to spend time with his family in Chicago and dealing with this damn oil spill fiasco.

Details and photos on the flipside…

President Barack Obama said Saturday that the failure of BP’s latest effort to stop the damaging flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is “as enraging as it is heartbreaking.”

Obama commented after BP officials reached the disappointing conclusion that a dayslong effort to stop the flow of oil, known as a “top kill,” by packing the well with mud had failed.

It was the latest in a series of failed attempts by BP to cut off the flow of oil.

BP will now try anew by cutting the pipe that lies deep underwater and fitting a containment valve over the leak, an effort expected to take four to seven days.

The disappointing news came a day after Obama interrupted a long holiday weekend at his home in Chicago to visit the Louisiana coast on Friday and show its angry residents that he is in command of the situation.

“As I said yesterday, every day that this leak continues is an assault on the people of the Gulf Coast region, their livelihoods, and the natural bounty that belongs to all of us,” Obama said. “It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimized by this manmade disaster are made whole.”

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  • Somali Ninga

    Top Kill fail terribly, yet the man is in Chi-Town? WTF!?!?!

  • mrs. glenda sumo

    LOVE THE PICTURES. GOD IS IN CONTROL OF THIS FAMILY. WALKING THE STREETS OF CHICAGO… WE THE PEOPLE OF FLA LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH…

  • Somali Ninga

    Obama is the DEVIL!!!!

  • Dianarose

    Obama is an actor.

  • Virginia News

    I want an ‘ignore’ function up in here. And god bless the Obamas.

  • Mike

    did something say something bad about Obama?but then again I ignore.He is still HNIC…love it or hate it

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  • Elana

    This is certainly not Katrina, and it is not our Presidents’s fault. Many lives were lost in the Katina disaster.

  • dm

    Black man in the white house comes home to his home city and there are 21 shootings in and around his neighborhood last night:

    http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/05/2-wounded-in-separate-shootings.html

    Yeah, “change” we can believe in – my azz.

  • Elana

    * correction-Katrina disaster

  • Yes Indeed

    yeah definately not katrina but still mishandled none the less

  • tiredofthismess

    I’m tired of hearing about BP. What about the company that owned the rig Transocean????

  • dee

    what president do you know wears sandals on vacation??!!! Love this family.

  • DR.FUNK

    The damage has been done.I like the idea offered up by a few people with some memory of the Alaska spill: The president can crack the whip on all oil companies that do business in this country to get involved.Even if it’s just skimming & separating.Better than nothing.

  • Marquis de Sade

    What’s going on in the Gulf, is unacceptable on so many levels, it’s embarra$$ing. The Obama Administration from the beginning should’ve set a strict timeframe for BP to seal that leak or they (The Obama Admin.) will step in with the necessary qualified personnel to solve the problem at BP’s expense.

    Obama has allowed this disaster to become over politicized, instead of exercising strong leadership which is inherent with the title as POTUS! – TAKE CHARGE AND SOLVE THE DAMN PROBLEM!

  • Ayanna

    VERY DISAPPOINTED in how he’s handling (or strategically NOT handling) the oil spill. He’s a hypocrit, and I’m officially out of love with him and his administration.

  • White Rob

    dude aint doin jack about that oil spill. if this was bush people would be all over him.

  • BOB

    SO…..WHAT’S YOUR POINT WHITE ROB!

  • http://minusthebars.blogspot.com don

    What exactly does anyone here expect or believe that Obama can do?

    Dial up Blankman or some ish?

  • fatima

    he’s not God.

  • BOB

    HEY AYANNA ? WHAT ARE U DOING TO HELP CLEAN UP THE SPILL. IF NOTHING THEN SHUT UP. YOU PEOPLE ACT LIKE HE WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF SEA AND STARTED THIS. BY THE WAY OBAMA DON’T RUN OR OWN BP!

  • td

    UUUUUHHHH, ad nauseam on this whole blame Obama!! What can the administration do? Yes BP will pay, but they have the experts. They have demanded BP’s transparency in this matter, and are taking the steps accordingly. Period point blank this is a natural disaster and not a whole lot can be done. Oh and to those that said they are “falling out of love with OBAMA”, just analyze that statement in itself. You are a Kool-Aid drinker. He is a human being..not a Greek God. How do ya think Sarah “Drill baby drill” would have handled this disaster McCain for that matter. Hey instead of complaining about the establishment get off this damn site and run in 2012… I’ll be waiting for your brilliance….As stated earlier the narcissism and pessimism on this site is making me ill. Sad state about the tone of our country.

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  • Marquis de Sade

    bob

    It’s not a question of who owns or runs BP, but as POTUS, it’s his responsibility to make sure all avenues are considered in dealing with this ecological disaster – And as such, after a week and half of BP’s inept attempts at trying to seal their leak, The Obama Administration should’ve ordered BP to stand down and let other more qualified engineers (who doesn’t have any vested interest in BP) to step in and solve the problem…Now, over 40+ days after the fact, BP is back to SQUARE ONE in trying to clean up this mess.

    I REITERATE, THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO EXERCISE STRONGER LEADERSHIP BY DELEGATING THE PROPER STAFF AND RESOURCES TO STOP THE LEAK!

  • neen-o

    @ td… well said…

  • Marquis de Sade

    td

    Uhhh, it’s not a NATURAL DISASTER, it’s a MAN-MADE DISASTER! – And as such, it’ll take a collective effort of brainstorming and strong leadership to solve this problem. BP has proven over the past 40+ days that they were unprepared for this “MAN-MADE” disaster of their own machinations, due in part to their own lack of PROACTIVE thinking.

  • Mock Rock Star

    I’m not seeing how this debacle is the president’s fault. Katrina was an natural disaster and this one is man made…or it could be biblical to stop U Christians from feasting on creatures of the sea ;-) Anyway, their walking that dog incorrectly, he should be either on the side or behind them

  • Sticky-n-Sweet

    What exactly is Obama supposed to do? The military is down there helping, this is BP’s mess, and he’s gonna get tough on the PRIVATELY OWNED companies that cause these messes. See why he was against offshore drilling during the campaign?

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  • Ayanna

    BOB, this is NOT just BP’s problem anymore. This situation is much bigger than BP. This is turning into a huge mess threatening the health and welfare of people living on the gulf coast and the economies of gulf states. The POTUS should at least act like he gives an eff about what’s going on down here. People’s lives and the lives of wildlife are at risk. There should have been a plan in place to make sure BP solves the problem, and a backup plan for the government to help. I have signed up to help clean beaches should tar reach the coast of Florida, which is my home state. What are YOU doing to be part of the solution and not the problem?

    On another note, I am so sick of black people defending our president just because he is black. Sometimes the ones with a black face are the first ones to SELL YOU OUT.

  • riri elle

    exactly @ayanna i live n the gulf coast i survived katrina, rita, gustauv (08) and we will get past this eventually…ppl on this site kill me i dnt give a dam bc he blk im blk and i voted for him bc he was the lesser of 2 evils but this man has not done ish about the oil spill but a few press conferences…dnt he think bp been tryna plug the dam hole…wat a moron at times…ugh im so disgusted wit him bc he is not the man he claimed to b when i voted for him he has not done much…i dnt wanna hear that crap about wat bush did bc he isnt makin it no better….and i hate the double standard bush was criticized so bad for katrina (and i hate bush) but yet the same ppl wanna make excuses for obama like wth…ppl need to stop being so brainwashed and wake up bc were goin down…

  • education is key

    A White friend of mine said, White people are calling Obama
    “BUSH TO THE EXTREME”. Meaning that all his policies are 10 times worse than Bush’s.

  • paige

    white people hate obama and his intellect just because he is half black…..don’t forget you are hating his white side too!!!

    and bush unless you lived in louisiana and know what we went thru and bush wasting time on lives then you can talk about obama….

    that just kills me an oil spill that was suppose to have already been shut down was able to continue 2yrs ago bc of bush when they were warned to not go any further..get the facts straight

    fellow fisherman are not blaming obama who are all colors but yet self hating blacks and the stupid whites or whatever color that hide behind the screen have something to say bc of what he represents to america UNITY

    the funny thing is no one will dare say any of this to his face so its not like it matters….

  • platanocabbie

    um people would stop asking obama to solve problems like moses, if he werent venerated and idolized like he was moses or the second coming. He is a man. A smart man. A smart man who had the right background at the right time with the right support. Had the democratic party leaders frozen him out he would not be president but an also ran who never would have gotten past the primaries. At the end of the day, his leadership and managerial skills are green…very much so, for a man whose only prior managerial experience was as Senator for under 2 years.

  • DISTURBIA

    MAN YOU JUST HAVE TO WONDER HOW DIFFERENT THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN HAD WE LET BOTH THE CLINTONS BACK INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. THE CLINTON YEARS WERE GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY, I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, DRAMA AND ALL. WITH BILL WE WERE IN GOOD HANDS. JUST A THOUGHT, BUT I’M ONLY SAYING WHAT A LOT OF YOU ARE THINKING. TIME WILL TELL IF WE ALL HAVE MADE A VERY BIG MISTAKE. I MISS BILL CLINTON AND I’M REAL NERVOUS.

  • Bacqui

    I see da white folks are here hating on my black president,,U want someone to blame for da oil spill? blame BP u idiotz..Love and trust my prez to da fulliest :)

  • Bacqui

    @ DISTURBIA,,100% co-sign but dont be nervous everythin will get back to normal Baracks is working very hard to correct da mistakes dat idiot George W bush did

  • aa88

    What do some of you all want? Seriously?! I mean, you all criticize those that look at the prez as the messiah, yet you all turn around and want him to solve EVERYTHING as if he is the messiah. People always want to harp on the negative, especially when it comes to Obama, but you rarely seem to hear any of the positives things he’s done. Yeah, I criticize Obama on some things, because I don’t have to agree with everything the man says…but some of you all go in harder on the man than you did on Bush.
    Under his rule we had the largest monthly job increase in 4 years? Where were ya’ll. If you haven’t noticed, he’s only been president for a little over a year.
    Some of ya’ll are hating on him because you were some of the fools thinking he was going to change every aspect of your life, and when he didn’t…you called him a failure.

  • Mel

    My fellow Jamaicans spread the word DO NOT FALL FOR THE BAIT A year ago Castro announced Cuba may have oil The greedy Americans/Brits were deep drilling hoping to siphon some of the oil this time it went terribly wrong THE ZIONISTS want WAR in the Caribbean to occupy Jamaica,this ids another reason why Haiti was destroyed Jamaica just renewed this February their IMF LOANS which like the rest of the world cannot pay back which means the west can seize or control parts or whole parts of the country DONT FALL FOR THE BAIT if chaos is in Jamaica the ARMY have an excuse to INVADE/OCCUPY JAH is good their plans backfired

  • Fal

    @aa88 & paige…

    i conpletely agree. really? someone please tell me how this our POTUS’ fault? i dont understand some of the logic… I’m not a kool-aid drinker and I think those who voted for him based strictly on race are complete idiots. however, he is just a man, not god. people are upset because he didnt move mountains for you but instead proved that sorry a-s-s men (any color) dont have any. excuses.

  • Ayanna

    How the hell does expecting my president to handle a national emergency situation equate to him “changing every aspect in my life”?

  • what is that?

    white folks was not that upset when black bodies floated up on Lake Pontchartrain or people of color was without food,water or shelter for days and weeks..they did not care or george bush..but, since this tragedy with the oil spill is hittin’ white people in the pockets of the oil men and businesses that make a profit off the water,now it is a problems and guess who they are blaming for this mess..our president..these people at BP, all need to be fired..and these people are sitting back with their eyes,ears and mouths covered like monkeys..stupid azz,peckerwoods…

  • that damn sh#$ disturber

    malia is getting so big…beautiful!

  • SEATTLE SOUTH SIDE

    AYANNA STILL WHAT ARE YOU CONTRIBUTING TO HELP CLAEN UP INSTEAD OF THROWING YOUR LAME SCINARIOS AROUND ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD DO! HOW MUCH HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE CAUSE, HOW MANY FREE CONCERTS HAVE YOU PERFORMED TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE SPILL. IF YOU CAN ANSWER ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS OR HAVE ANY SOLUTIONS THEN YOU ARE THE ONE WE SHOULD BE LISTING TO OR IF NOT PLS SHUT UP! AND BY THE WAY I CAN CARELESS ABOUT BLACK OR WHITE IT’S EVERY BODY’S PROBLEM IF IN FACT IT WAS EVERYBODY’S PROBLEM. BUT IT’S NOT IT’S BP’S!.THIS IS A BILLION DOLLAR PROBLEM NOT A NICKLE AND DIME PROBLEM AYANNA! SO JUST STOP TRYING TO MAKE SENSE BECAUSE YOU CAN’T!

  • SEATTLE SOUTH SIDE

    MARQUIS DE SADE: I THINK BP’S BACK UP PLAN IS A FAIL IF YOU ASK ME. SO WHY SHOULD WE SPEND MORE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS MONEY ON A BRITSIH OWNED COMPANY! TELL THE QUEEN TO SEND SOME OF HER POUND’S(DOLLARS) TO CLEAN UP HER MESS. PLUS BP SAID THEY HAVE LIKE 15 BILLION TO SPEND SO STOP BLAIMING YOUR BLACK OVER THE BLACK GOLD! CALM DOWN!

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