Who told Obama deep-sea drilling was “absolutely safe”?

Byron York gives us a great whodunit today, and actually a second Obamateurism of the Day.  In his speech on Tuesday, Obama defended his earlier decision to expand off-shore drilling because he had been told that such activity was “absolutely safe.”  If Obama actually believed that, then a few people would like to sell him a bridge or two:

There was one particularly striking moment in President Obama’s widely panned Oval Office speech on the Gulf oil disaster. About midway through his talk, Obama acknowledged that he had approved new offshore drilling a few weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20. But Obama said he had done so only “under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe.”

Absolutely safe? Even before the Gulf spill, few defenders of offshore drilling would go that far. And when the president announced his drilling plan, on March 31, he said it was “not a decision that I’ve made lightly” and that he and his advisers had “looked at [it] closely for more than a year.” Surely he was told of the possible risks.

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June 18, 2010 | Categories: Elections Politics, Government, New Media News, Science & Technology, The Environment | Tags: Byron York, deep-sea drilling, Ed Morrissey, environment, Gulf oil disater, Obama, obama defended off-shore, Obamateurism, oil spill, who told obama? | 2 Comments »