Obama Reassures U.K. on Oil Spill

President Obama spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron for 30 minutes on the phone Saturday as he tried to ease the tensions between the nations concerning the BP oil spill. In a TV interview this week, Obama, frustrated at criticism that he wasn’t emoting enough about the spill, said, "I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers—so I know whose ass to kick." London’s mayor had publicly fretted about the anti-Brit rhetoric coming out of the U.S. as lawmakers and pundits criticized the British oil giant. In the phone call, Cameron said he was saddened by the disaster, and Obama said anger at the company “had nothing to do with national identity.”