While the people of the Gulf coast along with the rest of the nation watch the federal government's painfully fractured response to the BP oil spill, President Barack Obama continues to act as if he is being criticized for not personally diving into the slick waters and plugging the hole. In fact, the criticism is that he personally has demonstrated zero leadership, horrendous communication abilities and allowed the crisis to be mismanaged by committee.

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As the oil spill disaster in the Gulf goes on causing both an environmental and economic crisis, President Obama is sticking with his tried and true play-the-victim-then-blame-others approach. In an interview on Friday, he claimed that criticism of his handling of the situation is unfair because if he had tried to prevent the spill from happening, his political opponents would not have let him. Of course the criticism he's getting is not about preventing the spill, it's about how he's dealing with it now (a majority of Americans believe he is doing a poor or very poor job handling the crisis). But when did reality ever get in the way of a baseless Obama diversionary tactic?

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