Ok folks, he is now LITERALLY picking up tar balls on the beach! Ya happy now!

[Clio the Leo]

:sarcasm:

Pool report of the President's visit to the Gulf. He will give a statement at 1:30pm EDT

Air Force One wheels down NoLa 11:09 EST; Obama will be in Grand Isle for a three hour tour...a three hour tour (channeling Gilligan)

On the (mostly) white sands of Fourchon Beach, Obama is picking up tar balls, about the size of a quarter. Oil rigs in background.

Obama says he saw some dolphins 50-100 yds. offshore. Nearby signs: "Beach Closed" and "I'd rather be fishing."

http://twitter.com/WestWingReport

[Jennicut]

1. But he is not IN THE OCEAN! I demand he put on the wetsuit!

[treestar]

25. LOL

He's not going to get to the leak by squatting on the beach!

[RamboLiberal]

26. No No No - he has to get in a mini sub and personally go

plug the leak!

[tridim]

2. Even without the tarballs, what an ugly beach..

Those rigs in the distance are just about as ugly as it gets. It reminds me of Galveston.

[livetohike]

6. Nothing but silence from the "Drill Baby Drill" crowd either

They love seeing those rigs in the ocean, just as long as it isn't in their back yard obstructing their view. I lived in Houston from 1980-1982. I guess the tar on the beach at Galveston was from that huge Mexican oil spill the year before. It was awful - had to use Gojo to get the tar off the bottom of our feet :-(.

[Clio the Leo]

13. Palin's solution to prevent another disaster like this one is...

.... to open up ANWAR for drilling.

Idiot.

[livetohike]

17. Palin just gushes stuff up worse than the blow out on the oil rig

I'm so sick of her and her stupidity. Idiot is right.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. It's just a photo-op! He doesn't care! I hate him because he hates La!

I hope I don't need the sarcasm thingie.

[Azathoth]

4. He's too calm. Where's the rage? n/t

[BeyondGeography]

5. Bill Clinton would have brought his tar ball gun

[phleshdef]

8. lol!

[volvoblue]

7. but, he's not crying while picking the tarballs up.

He's not raging and screaming 'I'm not going to take this anymore from that oil!"
He's not beating his chest and wailing 'mother of god!"
He simply is not in a flightsuit and emoting enough!

[fascisthunter]

9. nice photo-op... now what was the question?

answer: no... nobody should be happy.

[Teaser]

12. Why shouldn't I be happy?

I'm usually pretty happy. I'm happy right now.

[fascisthunter]

16. in regards to the oil leak

this photo-op shouldn't change that. It all depends on how much ya care I suppose. Just keeping real.

[louis-t]

10. Megaphone, megaphone.

Where's the megaphone?

[opihimoimoi]

11. But we noes Bushie would be eating birthday cake n playing guitars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fLJSDJ-How&feature=related

Tar ball picking Music by Carlos Montoya: One of the very Best classical artists ever lived...

[ProSense]

14. What I'd like to know:

Where's Bobby Jindal?

Consider Haley Barbour's response to Wolf Blitzer:

BLITZER: So Bobby Jindal, your colleague from Louisiana, we just heard him. He's passionate. He's deeply concerned, for obvious reasons, about what's going on. If this "top kill" procedure, Governor, doesn't work, how worried are you that this will expand and Mississippi could find itself in the same place as Louisiana?

BARBOUR: Well, there's no question that we're at risk. And the tides and the winds and -- have blessed us. And Louisiana, of course, is much closer to the well site than we are. And we feel terrible that we are trying to help them any way we can and any resources that we can make available to them.

But if this "top kill" does not work and the well continues to spew out oil, it actually, as you said earlier, it could come out at a faster rate, because in the process, they may blow it more wide open, so to speak.

We are prepared in Mississippi. We have a multi-layered defense to defend our shores. We've got hundreds of vessels that are ready to go.

And -- but, yes, the best thing that could happen to everybody is if today we stop the amount of oil that is streaming out and then focus on cleaning up what's already out there.

BLITZER: When you say you're prepared for that worst case scenario, what are you doing?

BARBOUR: Well, we have about 750 vessels that are -- that we're in the process of training. Most of them have been trained now, with their crews, to fight the oil off our barrier islands, then to try to prevent it from getting between the passes, between the barrier islands, keep from getting into the Mississippi Sound.

link

I don't for a minute believe Barbour wouldn't be calling for federal help, but at the same time why isn't Jindal marshalling his state's resources?

[Phx_Dem]

15. He should have borrowed Beck's fake tears to make the media happy.

If he's not crying or screaming, he obviously doesn't care.

:sarcasm:

[Davis_X_Machina]

19. Let's not kid ourselves..

that selfsame point of view is by no means uncommon here.

[NJmaverick]

18. K & R!

[Divine Discontent]

20. great photo of a caring president. no need for the sarcastic title though. being at the site of

catastrophe means a lot, a helluva lot.

Thank you, President Obama.

[spoony]

21. I thought the boffins said those tar balls weren't from the gusher? nt

[Number23]

22. You crack me up, Clio

:)

[Number23]

23. arrggh! I hate being the 22nd post. Must post again to be 23rd!!one

Okay, I feel better.

[Dont TS Me Brah]

24. great picture... looking like the leader he is. I'm putting this up as my desktop background.

He's THERE. He CARES. He's in COMMAND.

And thank God he didn't put booties or a Sperm outfit on and look like a dork.

[JoePhilly]

27. How come he's not sponging it up, or releasing some boom, or vacuuming ....

And he's in a button down shirt!!!

[GeorgeGist]

28. The cover up is not working.

You should be mad.

[jeanpalmer]

29. We've been told there's a vast federal effort

to clean up. You know, nerve centers, hubs of activity, thousands of goverment people working on this. And yet he's the only one on the beach. And there are no footprints other than his. :shrug:

[old mark]

30. He should bring some back to DC with him to stick them on republicans....

and throw them in the briar patch.

mark

[impik]

31. But why he is not eating them???????????????

How cold and detached.