Battered by criticism of his calm nature, the president showed he can counterpunch when BP created a $20 billion escrow fund to deal with the impact of the Gulf oil spill.
Those who do not know boxing are always doubtful of a counter-puncher's skill--until they see him serve a resounding, high-classed, painful whipping. Negative comments about the counter-puncher are often generated if he does not huff and puff like someone's cartoon of a bad guy in professional wrestling. But after all of the criticism of President Barack Obama's first Oval Office speech, the president has shown he is perhaps the coolest political counter-puncher in many years.
We are all accustomed to seeing Obama accused of being too calm or refusing to act or talk as he should. They would be right if Obama had not brought all the executives from BP to the White House and given their hides a serious tanning. As all of his critics were harping on how the president's Oval Office speech had ground away public confidence in his ability to act, it was announced that BP had promised the cool one $20 billion in escrow for environmental damage and $100 million for the jobs lost or made impractical. More...
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