Even The Left Slagging Obama's Oil Address

When MSNBC anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews take President's Obama to task for last night's speech on the BP oil disaster, you know Obama's got some major problems. 58 days after the explosive oil gusher began dumping hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Obama gave his first-ever Oval Office address to promise he's putting a plan in place to stop the leak, and made vague calls to arms for America to create more green energy.

Critics saw Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's motto "never waste a good crisis" in a third of Obama's speech, which talked not about the leak, but towards an energy utopia that will come about from the passage of a massive, economy crippling energy tax plan formerly known as "Cap and Trade" (now changed to the ironic "American Power Act").

“I thought it was a great speech — if you’ve been on another planet for the last 57 days,” said Olbermann, who also said, "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling." Chris Matthews -- who has the dual shame of not only writing speeches for then President Jimmy Carter but also for throwing his journalistic credibility out the window over his leg-tingling man-love for Obama -- said he "doesn't sense executive command". Seeing as he worked for Carter, it's safe to say the Hardball host knows such shortcoming when he sees it. (Why and how Matthews was blinded by Obama and didn't sense that before the election is a question for his tingly leg and his therapist to suss out.)

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Public reaction to Obama's response to the disaster is bad and getting worse with every gallon of goop poisoning the Gulf, too. Rasmussen puts his job approval at a new low, 42%,

Public Policy Polling says 50% of Louisiana voters -- including 31% of Democrats polled -- say President Bush did a better job after Hurricane Katrina than Obama is doing in the wake of the worst ecological disaster in American History.