RAND SIMBERG: “Why is it that the president would talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions, but he thinks that, in the middle of arguably the biggest domestic crisis of his presidency, it’s a waste of his time to have a conversation with the head of British Petroleum?”

UPDATE: Worst interview ever? “Even Chris Matthews says the ‘public is probably stunned’ that Obama hasn’t talked to the BP CEO.”