Does Obama share some of the blame?

Yes, Obama is "Engaged" -- in a Colossal Crime

For purposes of assigning culpability, Obama was fully engaged in setting the stage for the atrocity from the moment of his campaign reversal on off-shore drilling in August, 2008 after he had the nomination locked up. "My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," said candidate Obama. "If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done." So Obama bent over like a contortionist to pleasure the oil barons.

The full scope of Obama's "compromise" was announced almost two years later, on March 31. The White House gave Big Oil virtually everything it wanted that was politically possible, with no protections for the public or Mother Earth in the form of a "well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage."

"The federal government is fully engaged and I am fully engaged," said Obama, last week. OK, we'll accept that he has been engaged in furthering the oil industry's plans to drill at depths at which current technology makes mistakes irreparable as the damage from the current ecological holocaust is already irreparable.

Link:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Yes-Obama-is-Engaged---by-Glen-Ford-100603-568.html