# What should Obama do about the BP oil spill?

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**Created:** [June 2, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-obama-do-about-the-bp-oil-spill/541638 "2010-06-02T13:41:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-obama-do-about-the-bp-oil-spill/541638/78 "2010-06-07T03:13:28Z")

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> [@Knorf](#):
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> Which they are. Have you not been paying attention?
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> Also there’s a hard limit on what untrained people can do to directly affect the leak itself.

Of course, but it has not been played up . Most people think he is twidling his thumbs. He should be standing in a bunch of soldiers who are picking up oily birds while thay tell the TV cameras that they have been at it for weeks.

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