Only 27% say they have a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in the administration's ability to stop and clean up the spill.
But it reflects the volatile and rapidly shifting political environment as Mr. Obama struggles to find a way to demonstrate leadership even as efforts to stop and clean up the spill falter.
He strode into the East Room to mount a robust defense of his handling of the largest oil spill in American history, reassuring the nation that he was in charge and would do "whatever is necessary" to stop and clean up the BP leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
The roots of the illegal refineries are to be found in the bloody 1967-70 Biafran civil war, the continuing injustice of the poorest people getting no benefit from oil, and the inability of the oil companies to stop or clean up their pollution,the report says.
The toxic control agency "has really done nothing to stop or clean up the mess," said Jose Antonio Gutierrez, a Huntington Park resident who grew up near the plant in Vernon and said he suffers many health problems from lifelong exposure to its lead emissions.
Not only does this help fit the creativity session into a busy schedule, but with each segment of the instructions having a designated end point, the child will know when it is time to stop and clean up so they will not get frustrated.
Kenseth appeared headed to an easy victory with six laps to go until Elliott Sadler crashed in Turn 2. The race was stopped to clean up the debris and ensure a finish under a green flag.
BP and the federal government need to stop the leak, clean up the damage, and take whatever steps necessary to prevent a similar accident in the future.
Mr. Svanberg, who has been in the job since January, is unlikely to get a warm welcome in Washington, where criticism of the oil giant's efforts to stop the spill, clean up the oil and compensate local business is mounting.
Might such a performance fail to adequately interpret the deep ambiguities of the American people's helpless crush on those handsome bad boys in the oil industry?And how would Mr Obama's chief critics feel about shutting down offshore oil rigs until the government has the capacity to stop blowouts and clean up massive spills?
