Obama Primetime BP Address: HuffPost Exclusive Preview

Obama said what today??:



==THE PRESIDENT: It turns out that if the oil hits the beaches, that's actually probably the easiest to clean up. So it's a concern obviously for tourism, it's a concern for an entire Gulf region that economically depends on the tourist season and this period of time when people are out of school. But those beaches will recover because those big globs of oil, when they hit the beaches, we can send a bunch of people out there and scoop them up, dispose of it properly, and those beaches will look pretty pristine a year or two years from now.==



Obama really said that.



Really.



In 1969, a blow-out on a Union Oil platform six miles off of Santa Barbara "spilled" an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil onto the beaches. fouling the coastline from Goleta to the Rincon and all four of the northern Channel Islands.



Forty years later, hotels around Santa Barbara include Tar-Off Towelettes ("Pleasantly Scented Tar Remover: Removes Tar, Grease & Oil") in their baskets of complementary bath products ("Once the gooey stuff gets on your shoes or feet, it’s almost impossible to get off. We recommend that you do not go barefoot, and you may want to take an old pair of shoes or buy some inexpensive ones that you won’t mind throwing away").



http://trueslant.com/suefrause/2009/10/27/santa-barbara-beaches-dont-go-barefootin/



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