Obama Formally Requests to Meet with BP Executives Next Week

[Pepper]

ABC:

60 days and counting on this tar baby: Obama Formally Requests to Meet with BP Executives Next Week

The request was made by Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander, in a letter sent directly to Carl-Henric Svanberg today.

Allen says that “time is of the essence” in resolving the issues in the Gulf, as they ensure that all individuals and communities impacted by the spill are made whole.

“I request that you and any appropriate officials from BP meet with senior Administration officials on Wednesday, June 16, 23010 to discuss these timely issues,” Allen writes, “President Obama will participate in a portion of the meeting.”

Obama Formally Requests to Meet with BP Executives Next Week


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UPDATE IT MAY NOT BE TONY HAYWARD

Is President Obama Avoiding BP's Tony Hayward?


{Acting President} Gibbs said it's a matter of "corporate governance" -- suggesting that the President would only want to meet with the alpha dog. But the President met with Wall Street CEOs when he wanted to give the big banks a piece of his mind. Reporters pressed: Why not the CEO of BP?

Gibbs fell back on the "corporate governance" rationale without explaining it.

[Pepper]

Will there be photo ops?

 

Will Mr. Obama tell Tony or Tony Stand In to clean up the mess while he joins Mee-chelle for dinner?

[Pepper]

Meanwhile, am turning off Fox news until Drama Queen Shep Smith retires for the evening.

 

His histrionics are too much.

 

 

[Valin]

Will there be photo ops?

 

This is a trick question right?

[Casino67]

[Pepper]

Will there be photo ops?

 

This is a trick question right?

 

Valin!

 

It wasn't even close to rhetorical.

 

 

[Pepper]

MISLEADING HEADLINE ALERT

 

It was not just BP. It was the US COAST GUARD AKA US GOVERNMENT AKA OBAMA.

BP continues to be vilified by Obama's presstitutes.

 

 

17 Countries Offer Gulf Assistance, BP Accepts Only 2 Offers

 

 

ABC News' Luis Martinez reports:

 

As desperate efforts continue to stop the oil spewing from beneath the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, 17 countries have offered to help in some way or another, but for now BP and officials coordinating the clean-up effort have accepted assistance from only two of those countries, Mexico and Norway.

 

 

He said the U.S. has received offers to assist from 17 countries and four international organizations. The countries are : Canada, Mexico, Korea, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Vietnam. The organizations are : the European Union, including the European Maritime Safety Agency, the environmental unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the United Nations Environment Program and the International Maritime Organization.

 

Though the State Department receives the offers, it is BP and the Unified Area Command, led by the Coast Guard, that are the entities that decide which offers to accept. So far, the UAC has accepted skimmers and booms offered by Mexico and Norway. He deferred questions as to why only those offers had been accepted so far to the UAC in Louisiana.