Obama takes responsibility for oil spill

On the suspicious more than five weeks into the country's worst still oil spill, insisted President Barack Obama on Thursday that his management, not the oil giant BP, was calling the shots in the more and more vain answer.

Obama, who has come under greater than before pressure to show leadership over the free, suspended the planned examination off the coast of Alaska, and canceled a awaiting lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico and a future lease sale of Virginia.

Addressing journalists in the White House, a worn-looking Obama says his daughter had ask him when the oil will stop the leak.

"In container you are wonder who is responsible, I take blame," he said, leaning over his dais.

"It's my job to make sure all is done to shut this downward," he said.

The president rejected criticism that he and the federal management had not taken responsibility as BP Plc is under pressure to stop the gushing deep water oil well.

"There should be no mistake here. Federal authorities are dedicated, and I am in full swing," he said.

"From the moment the tragedy began, led the federal administration response efforts."

Offshore oil drilling is an significant part of Obama's efforts to rejig the nation's energy policy and a welcome inducement to get Republican support for a bill in the governing body.