I was in my car listening to Rush Limbaugh when Obama began his press conference. Rush "gipped" the opening remarks Obama made. These remarks were so self-serving, so pathetically dishonest, so self aggrandizing that they could be played as a parody. In these remarks he blamed everyone else for whatever went wrong, took credit to himself for whatever was going right. It was a remarkable, and telling performance.
Obama's principal revisionism lay in his account of how his administration responded to the Deepwater Horizon explosion. To hear him tell it, the administration anticipated the worst from the beginning and reacted accordingly:...
This is pure revisionist history. A month ago, the administration's spokesmen explained that their response was graduated as understanding of the magnitude of the spill increased over time. We told the story here and here. To sum up, we can't do better than to quote the New York Times:
The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so while it waited for a resolution to the spreading spill from BP....
The Department of Homeland Security waited until Thursday to declare that the incident was "a spill of national significance," and then set up a second command center in Mobile. The actions came only after the estimate of the size of the spill was increased fivefold to 5,000 barrels a day.
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