Live From the Gulf: Obama Sends Top Doc to Study Damage He Inflicted on Gulf

Mike Brownfield / July 16, 2010

President Barack Obama’s decision to ban oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the federal government’s bureaucratic delays are exacerbating the nightmares already tormenting the torn region.

Now, in a bitter twist of irony, Obama’s surgeon general, Regina Benjamin, this week visited the Gulf to warn residents about the mental health problems caused by oil spill-related stress (that her boss is likely making worse).

See if you can connect the dots on this one: (more…)