Golf or Gulf Sources

Which of the President's leisure activities or missteps during this environmental disaster have made you the most angry?

• Instead of attending a memorial service for the eleven workers killed Obama flew to California to raise funds for Barbara Boxer.

• Obama went golfing 10 times since the explosion in the Gulf.

• Obama turned down 13 countries that offered to help us clean up the Gulf.

• President Obama has refused to return BP's contributions; he is the largest recipient of their campaign donations over the past twenty years.

• Obama announced a job-killing drilling moratorium that could cost Louisiana $2.97 billion in revenue and 24,000 jobs related to the oil industry.

• Obama repeatedly denied requests for necessary cleanup items like oil-blocking booms and skimmers from Gulf Coast lawmakers.

• Obama originally denied Louisiana officials permission to build up barrier islands between the coast's marshes and the gulf.

• Obama let 10 days pass before sending any Cabinet level officials to Louisiana's coast.

• Obama's Interior Department Chief of Staff rafted with wife on "work-focused" trip in Grand Canyon during the spill.

• Obama said that the Gulf disaster ‘echoes 9/11.’”

• Obama attended private concerts by Paul McCartney and Kelly Clarkson.

• Obama took two vacations (one to his hometown Chicago and one to Asheville, North Carolina.)

• The liberal think tank Center for American Progress appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president's in-house advisers.

• Obama hosted a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan in Kansas City, Missouri.

• Obama is planning a third vacation to Maine.

• Obama made it a felony for the media to get up-close coverage of the oil spill.

• After refusing for almost 60 days to meet with the CEO of BP to discuss spill cleanup, Obama only spent 20 minutes with him.

• Obama went to Las Vegas for two days to headline fundraiser for Harry Reid at a casino.

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