Barack Obama's credibility at stake over BP oil spill debt
Aides hope Oval Office address is turning point, allowing president to make case for new energy agenda
Barack Obama is expected to use his first Oval Office address tonight to try to wrest control over the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf, and lay out the case for moving America to a new energy agenda.
The speech, delivered as the gusher in the Gulf approaches its two-month anniversary, is seen as critical to the credibility of Obama's presidency after claims that the White House has been slow to grasp the enormity of America's worst environmental disaster.
White House aides described it as an "inflection point". Hours earlier, Obama was wrapping up a two-day swing through Gulf states – his fourth visit to date – while on Capitol Hill executives from BP and other oil giants were subjected to a grilling on offshore oil drilling by a congressional committee. More..
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