THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, we’d have a President who was in bed with big oil. And they were right! Palin accuses Obama of being in bed with big oil. “Sarah Palin accused US President Barack Obama on Sunday of leading a lax response to the Gulf of Mexico spill because he is too close to the big oil companies. The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor, who champions off-shore drilling, criticized the media for not drawing the link between Obama and big oil and said if this spill had happened under former Republican president George W. Bush the scrutiny would have been far tougher.” Undoubtedly.