re: #21 JohninLondon

From this side of the pond the appearance is of a petulant President strong-arming an American-British company while ignoring the other US companies involved - and deliberately tagging BP as “British”, a nice xenophobic touch to cap off the general belligerance.
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I think it was wrong but deliberate for Obama to keep using the word “British”.

And I’ll keep asking when did the British become such a bunch of namby pamby pantywaists that shiver if the word British is used with the word petroleum following it?