PRESS CONFERENCE FOLLIES: Obama: Um, I’m not sure if the MMS director was fired or resigned. Plus this Obama defense from the right: “WaPo writers are touting the fact that he officially ‘owns’ the spill now and Chris Matthews continues to hammer him on MSNBC, all of which I’m happy to play along with politically, but I’m a little hazy on what precisely people want him to do that BP isn’t already doing. Jindal criticized him over the weekend for being too slow in approving materials needed to build oil barriers for the coast, so that’s one thing. But I think our favorite liberal has it right: Most of The One’s negligence here happened before the BP rig exploded, not after.”