Guardian: Barack Obama’s crude comparison of the Deepwater spill to 9/11 marks a new low in the political grandstanding over the Gulf of Mexico disaster. While the president might be right to haul BP over the coals for the company’s apparent negligence prior to the explosion, the distancing of the US government from the private sector is a cynical way to exploit the tragedy. If Obama’s post-spill proclamations are to be believed, the US administration bears no responsibility for the …