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Published: 06/16/10

Obama Scores $20 Billion for Oil Spill Claims and an Apology From BP

By  Alex Wagner - Politics Daily
Obama Scores $20 Billion for Oil Spill Claims and an Apology From BP

As the five BP executives filed out of the West Wing of the White House following their meeting with President Obama on Wednesday, someone in the press corps began (softly) humming Darth Vader's Imperial Death March theme from "Star Wars." If BP CEO Tony Hayward -- in his first visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.-- was Vader (BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg was perhaps more an Emperor Palpatine?), then the hero of the hour -- the Skywalker of this Deepwater Horizon saga -- was clearly Barack Obama. During a meeting that was scheduled to last only 20 minutes but ended up running nearly two ...

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