4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?

4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?

What are you doing over here reading about the oil spill's impact on the faltering Obama presidency when he spent the night on the Gulf coast to help distract your attention away from all the things that haven't happened during his watch over the nation's worst environmental disaster ever?

That's not what the Illinois White House team wants you to do. Wherever the president goes the media follows -- except no photos allowed of his Sunday golf outings. His activities are supposed to be the all-powerful public agenda-setter. Except, oops, they aren't. Even with Barack Obama's first Oval Office address to the nation set for tonight. Chances are he won't be sitting like this at his historic desk.

Here's the deal: For whatever reason -- wishful, political or ignorance because oil spills are a relative rarity in Obama's old South side Chicago state Senate district -- the nation's Top Talker was late to be seen reacting seriously to the gooey catastrophe.

Nine days elapsed before he could fit a look-see in between mini-vacations and DNC fundraisers and this summer's White House music presentations and a White House picnic for Congress and graduation warnings about making excuses in life and re-campaigning for his healthcare legislation, which so many of us thought he had already signed.

By the time Obama made his first Louisiana trip and didn't see one drop of oil, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal was nine days into his now eight-week full-time devotion to directing and listening and talking and consoling.

4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?">4th time: See Obama see the oil spill. Hear Obama talk the oil spill. So, what'll he say tonight?

What are you doing over here reading about the oil spill's impact on the faltering Obama presidency when he spent the night on the Gulf coast to help distract your attention away from all the things that haven't happened during his watch over the nation's worst environmental disaster ever?

That's not what the Illinois White House team wants you to do. Wherever the president goes the media follows -- except no photos allowed of his Sunday golf outings. His activities are supposed to be the all-powerful public agenda-setter. Except, oops, they aren't. Even with Barack Obama's first Oval Office address to the nation set for tonight. Chances are he won't be sitting like this at his historic desk.

Here's the deal: For whatever reason -- wishful, political or ignorance because oil spills are a relative rarity in Obama's old South side Chicago state Senate district -- the nation's Top Talker was late to be seen reacting seriously to the gooey catastrophe.

Nine days elapsed before he could fit a look-see in between mini-vacations and DNC fundraisers and this summer's White House music presentations and which so many of us thought he had already signed.

By the time Obama made his first Louisiana trip and didn't see one drop of oil, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal was nine days into his now eight-week full-time devotion to directing and listening and talking and consoling.

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