Obama's Crude Comparison

As BP faces up to the reality that its share price has to sustain at least another two months of oil leaking and hurricane season spreading the spill far and wide, the political strategy for dealing with the mess seems more and more muddled by the day. Fresh off the phone from David Cameron, President Obama has walked straight into his next blunder. There has been a huge backlash against his comments comparing the BP oil spill to the 9-11:

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come"

You can see why he is so often glued to his auto-cue, almost every time he goes free-style he inserts his foot into his mouth. No end of New York police and fireman are cuing up to tear chunks out of the President for his insensitive remarks. It seems he has replaced his strategy of bashing the British by angering his own country.