Well, that seems like a pile of... evidence.
But "Chicago-style politics" would imply that it is a generally acknowledged practice in Chicago to be like that. If he didn't, someone else would have. That's politics, not just Obama.
His "leftist agenda" is a good thing, as far as I am concerned. BP is entirely responsible for what happened, and it isn't the government's responsibility to clean up the mess, or foot the bill. Anyway, this wouldn't have happened if we didn't drill oil, and like Chernobyl, this wouldn't have happened if someone hadn't been egregiously asleep at the switch. Somnus would have had them in a heartbeat (Nuclear power rocks).
"Screwing over" the "entire region" was going to have happened no matter when that was taken care of, oil spill or not. This was just convenient.
Honestly, I don't give a rat's furry backside about a man who baptised some kids, married some people; it's religious.