Photo-op of Obama in St. Andrew’s Bay

Obama Gulf Swim – Real or Faked?
By Andrew Zarowny

Obama’s beach weekend provided us with a photo-op of him swimming in St. Andrew’s Bay in northwestern Florida. This was meant to demonstrate how safe the Gulf of Mexico now is after ‘he’ cleaned up the mess and capped the BP oil leak. But the private beach off Alligator Point in St. Andrew’s Bay technically is not part of the Gulf of Mexico!

St. Andrews Bay, next door to Panama City, Florida, is primarily a freshwater bay, fed mostly by adjoining creeks and springs. The entrance of the bay itself is surrounded by the St. Andrews State Park Aquatic Preserve. A series of seagrass beds and salt marshes protects the bay itself. Along with several sand spits and small islands, the area is more of a lagoon.
Obviously this whole trip was in response to criticism over an earlier vacation weekend spent in Maine. Not until the uproar of that trip was the Florida excursion planned. Obama has been highly criticized for his lack of empathy and action during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He, himself, made no comment on the event until the 9th day. None in his administration said anything until the 7th day.
Even at the height of the disaster, the area around Panama City was one of the last, and least affected. Even those beach waters which real are part of the Gulf of Mexico were only closed for a very short time. Nothing compared to impact along the Louisiana coast.
The Obama’s beach weekend lasted a mere 27 hours. Along with the ’swim’, they also took in a boat ride, ice cream and a round of golf. They were greeted by a billboard rented by local Republicans demanding that Obama show the world his birth certificate. If not that, then maybe at least the Indonesia passport of one, Barry Soetoro.