Obama plans speech, victims fund for Gulf

Associated Press ^ | June 13, 2010 | ERICA WERNER

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama demanded that BP set up a compensation fund for the oil-tainted Gulf Coast and prepared for his first Oval Office address to the nation as he tried to wrest control of the environmental disaster threatening to overwhelm his administration.

White House officials announced the steps Sunday as Obama prepared for his fourth visit to the tortured Gulf.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[Luke21]

More Asspress lapdoggery.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Hey, he’s already got our money, let him fund it out of the “left over” stimulus money that he’s going to use to bribe people with anyway.

[ldish]

WGAS...FOBO...FUBO!

[OCC]

Will he announce who his advisers have determined ass should be kicked?

[FlingWingFlyer]

There's that word, "torture". Somebody needs to go to jail after the "messiah" finishes "kicking their ass" and Obergruppenfuhrer Salazar removes his jackboot from their throat.

sarc/

[Oldpuppymax]

That’s swell, Hussein. Stand in the way of actually letting anyone get the thing FIXED. But be SURE to figure out some way to try to buy some VOTES!!!

[Freddd]

You are right.

Everyone is screaming for BP to pay...But few
know there is a Trust Fund that the drillers pay into for this type of disaster....and I have yet to hear the Media talk about this Trust Fund.

[Tarpon]

Can the oiled pelicans attend the speech?

And how is the speech supposed to fix the oil spill.

This is about as incompetent as it gets. Beats anything Carter could come up with.

[YankeeReb]

This asshat won't be happy until BP goes chapter 13 and he has an excuse to nationalize "big oil" just like GM and Chrysler.

Skippy, we get it. It's BP's fault. Now STFU and do something useful. We need engineers, equipment, ships and expertise, not Air Force One and a platoon of slip and fall lawyers.

[NordP]

Yep...he’s going to demand a “slush fund” for BP to contribute to, and then bHo gets to dole it all out and play big man on campus. ......sick......

[JohnD9207]

There is an existing fund since the Exxon spill...

Well the money has been collected, I think it’s in with the Social Security Trust fund...

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Rookie continues to milk this disaster for all it’s worth while continuing to whip away at BP. He’s “solving” this crisis bass ackwards.

[Sacajaweau]

How many died in the coal mine accident? How many died in Tenessee? How many died at Ft Hood? How many died in Arkansas?

A victims fund?? That's nuts...They'll be taken care of. These deaths are all sad...but to use them is unforgiveable.

[LdSentinal]

Just in time before Florida, a swing state, gets oil on its beaches.

[PROCON]

Obama plans speech..

[NordP]

I just hear it now...a guy shouts as he makes his way up to bHo and kneels before him, "OHHHH Baraaaack THANK YOU...Jesus, God (bHo answers, 'yes') thank you!" And another woman speaks up and says, "seeeee....Barack gave us some money out of his stash...I toOold you he wud!"

/hurling

[cripplecreek]

Everyone is screaming for BP to pay...But few know there is a Trust Fund that the drillers pay into for this type of disaster....and I have yet to hear the Media talk about this Trust Fund.

It was just another slush fund to be raided at will. They calculated the odds of a damaging spill and decided they could safely spend the money elsewhere.

[stevie_d_64]

What happened to the other empty suits that always seem to come along and “inspire” charity for troubled people...

Remember Haiti??? Bill Clinton and his sidekick G.H.W. Bush???

Why isn’t there any official “Gulf-Aid” telethons???

No celebrity filled abomination of song like, “We are da Gulf, we are da people...”???

Which of course all of this lays right on the shores of New Orleans Parish, and absolutely no where else...

Everyone else is on their own...All the greedy non-black owned businesses and people living on the beach do not get any help at all...

But of course, that makes me a racist...

/big time sarcasm

[Sporaticus]

>know there is a Trust Fund that the drillers pay into for this type of >disaster....and I have yet to hear the Media talk about this Trust Fund.

Its in a lockbox, you know the one Al Gore talked about?