Press Secretary Robert Gibbs finally gets it
An ashen-faced Robert Gibbs led a White House press briefing on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill this afternoon, sounding more somber than this time last week:
[The Gulf oil spill] is an incident of national importance.
Compare and contrast today’s remark to Gibb’s flippant assessment last Friday. What a difference oil headed to the beaches of an electoral powerhouse such as Florida makes.
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