Palin blasts Obama’s spill response

Sarah Palin used a speech in east Texas Saturday to attack President Barack Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill.

She spoke in Tyler, Texas. Here’s part of the Associated Press account:

“The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate told thousands of people at a convention center in Tyler that the president should have been more aggressive in going after BP executives after the spill. The British company was leasing a rig that exploded April 20, causing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.”

“’You asked for the job, Mr. President, so buck up,’ Palin said to voracious applause inside the nearly packed Oil Palace. Organizers said the event drew about 5,000 people.”

“Palin said Obama and the federal government have been too slow in helping victims of the oil spill. She also said there have been too many regulations in allowing residents to begin cleaning up oil along the shoreline and from the water.”

“’After two months of incompetence from the federal government, they are taking it in their own hands,’ Palin said.”