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The president could easily turn that around on the GOP by rightly blaming it on speculation and calling for reforms in commodities trading and then watching the republicans close ranks around their Wall Street friends showing the thing they really care about most.
Blame Obama for the high gas prices ... and the ones blaming him all own stock in BP, Chevron, Exon ...
Not only that but who gets the most campaign funds from the oil companies?
Repubs need a better arena than this because if they start by trying to pin the price of gas on Obama it will bite them in ass!!
If gas does go up and it always does every summer the real threat to Obama is the economy. Once gas gets to $4 a gallon the economy starts to shudder, look at last year, and if it gets to $5 it will tank fairly quickly. Of course that is what the repubs are looking at but they can not say they hope gas prices go up because that costs jobs.
As weve seen here on this forum, a lot, a WHOLE FRIGGIN' lot of pubs don't know that the president of the United States does not control or influence the price of oil or gas so yeah, I'm sure we'll hear a lot more about how President Obama is the reason for the high gas prices.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could EDUCATE the damn rw's.
but, if we did that, there would never be anything as lame as the teebaggers.
Predictions of record high gas prices this spring and continuing on through summer will certainly be a major sticking point in Obama's bid for a second term.
Record Gas Prices Bolster GOP Arsenal Against Obama
And yet, I seriously doubt they could come up with much evidence that could attribute the rise to Obama's policies.
That being said, the American people would probably buy it anyway. So, yeah, Obama should be worried.
Just as the perception worked in the opposite direction, so should it work against Obama.
His leadership is in question.
The president could easily turn that around on the GOP by rightly blaming it on speculation and calling for reforms in commodities trading and then watching the republicans close ranks around their Wall Street friends showing the thing they really care about most.
The president could easily turn that around on the GOP by rightly blaming it on speculation and calling for reforms in commodities trading and then watching the republicans close ranks around their Wall Street friends showing the thing they really care about most.
Wall Street...Yes. The very same Wall Street you guys are crowing about because Obama is causing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to climb. Wall Street...The same people who helping to fund Obama's campaign. That's right, Wall Street people are handing Obama money like they weren't going to make any more.
And BTW, Obama has had plenty of time to order up new regulations on commodity speculating, but chose to sit on his hands. Why? Because it was politically prudent for him to do so!
Man, it really is like Jimmeh again. Hi gas, horrible economy, Iran crisis.
Obama's new campaign slogan:
Come On! Let's give Carter the second term he never had. VOTE OBAMA
I can't take credit for that but I love it.
High five!
July 2008, just before the recession hits, average gas price was $4.11 a gallon.
February 2012, average gas price is $3.56 a gallon.
Difference: -14%
July 2008, just before the recession hits, average gas price was $4.11 a gallon.
February 2012, average gas price is $3.56 a gallon.
Difference: -14%
Average gas prices--January 26, 2009
July 2008, just before the recession hits, average gas price was $4.11 a gallon.
February 2012, average gas price is $3.56 a gallon.
Difference: -14%
Average gas prices--January 26, 2009
And what is your point?
And what is your point?
Average gas price was less than $2.00 when Obama took office. That's my point.
And what is your point?
Average gas price was less than $2.00 when Obama took office. That's my point.
And it is the Koch Bros who are singlehandedly responsible for creating oil derivatives that made oil speculation possible and then formed "The Energy Group" lobbying coalition to lobby for the deregulation of oil speculation which led directly to the "Enron Loophole" (thank you Phil Gramm R-Tex) and at least a 25% increase in the price of oil.The president could easily turn that around on the GOP by rightly blaming it on speculation and calling for reforms in commodities trading and then watching the republicans close ranks around their Wall Street friends showing the thing they really care about most.
Man, it really is like Jimmeh again. Hi gas, horrible economy, Iran crisis.
If we hit A days and B days again, all hell will break loose.
