GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul scorches Obama for criticizing BP, says it sounds ‘un-American’
By APFriday, May 21, 2010
Rand Paul: WH criticism of BP sounds ‘un-American’
WASHINGTON — Kentucky’s Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is criticizing President Barack Obama’s handling of the gulf oil debacle as putting “his boot heel on the throat of BP.”
Paul says Obama’s criticism of the oil company sounds like an attack on business and “really un-American.”
In an interview Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Paul says the president’s response is part of the “blame game” that’s played in the U.S. Paul said that leads to the thinking that tragic incidents are “always someone’s fault” and added, sometimes accidents just happen.
Paul began the interview on the defensive when GMA host George Stephanopoulos tried to clarify Paul’s position on whether civil rights laws should apply to private businesses. Paul, who won the Kentucky GOP primary Tuesday, asked when his honeymoon with the media started.
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