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Campaign Promise Fulfilled: McCain ’08 Ad Predicts Obama Will Bring $4 Gas Prices

Sep. 17, 2012 11:45am Benny Johnson

John McCain promise comes true, gas prices under Obama skyrocket to close to four dollars a gallon

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

It’s hard for a politician to keep their campaign promises. However, John McCain told America in 2008 that an Obama presidency will bring $4 a gallon prices to the pump. Just months away from completion of his first term, Obama presides over a national gas average of 3.86 a gallon and that includes states where the average is $4 and above — just as one of McCain’s ads promised.

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Centralsville
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:18pm
It’s one piece in their plan to destroy the Middle Class. Communists always destroy the Middle Class first on their road to power. Obama is doing everything he can to divide America between the poor masses and a few very rich people on top. Trillions spent and the masses keep getting poorer.

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- scrudge
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 8:15pm
  welcome to communism 101… it is just the beginning comrads
  
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spfoam1
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:02pm
High gas prices help Russia and the middle east while they hurt the US public. Wealthy people are probably annoyed by high gas prices, but the poor and middle class are actually hurt by them. Is this what you were hoping for when you voted for Obama?

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:46pm
  The President of the United States (not just Obama, but any President) has little to do with the price of gas. Gas prices are high for many reasons, many of which won’t fit on a bumper sticker (the preferred format of Conservatives), but the big ones are oil speculation, production manipulation by OPEC, and the threat of war in the Middle East (which is why talking big about bombing Iran isn’t a good thing).
  
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- wtfci
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:51pm
  @VanceUppercut
  
  This is not true. The policy priorities of the United States most certainly have a direct impact on the pump price of gasoline. Consider for a minute the President’s famous quote about coal when he was running for POTUS.
  
  “You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
  
  And he did destroy that. It’s one of the few promises he has kept.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:30pm
  If we were allowed to drill in the Gulf, the price of gas would go down. However, everyone BUT us is allowed to drill there. We’re not allowed to drill because of potential oil spills, but it’s OK for them to do it.
  
  Sort of like forbidding your children from playing in the backyard for fear they’ll ruin the garden, but letting all the other neighborhood kids play there.
  
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- richard40
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 7:16pm
  Reply to vance:
  Funnly how all the dems howled about gas prices under bush, and and constantly cried “when will the president do something!!!”, but now they tell us that no president can possibly do anything. Total dem hipocracy. But Obama can do something, by stopping the policies that are raising gas prices like:
  1. Oppose the zero interest rate easy money inflationary policies of the fed, which is causing higher prices for all commodities, not just oil. This has the added advantage of encouraging thrift again, instead of making savers into saps, as is happening now.
  2. Open up fed lands and offshore to drilling again.
  3. Stop trying to kill coal.
  4. Stop opposing fracking.
  5. Build the keystone pipeline.
  6. Stop environmentalist policies that stop building of new refineries.
  
  So I say exactly what the dems all said under bush, When Will The President Do something!!!
  
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OniKaze
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:50pm
Gas will NEVER again drop below $3.00 a gallon… Why, you may ask (I doubt you guys will, since I am sure you ALL already know this)? Simple, the gas industry has realized that you can sell gas (a product that hasn’t really changed much in 20 years) for high costs and people HAVE to pay for it because we HAVE to have it…. When gas prices started going up, people really didn’t change their driving habits, so the demand didn’t really drop, seeing this tells the gas companies that the price of their product doesn’t matter.. Since we ALL need it, and HAVE to have it, they can charge anything they want, and we WILL pay it…

That is why I freak out when gas jumps $0.25, because that jump (while fluctuates) will be fairly permanent. As a business (as an example) if you Sell doughnuts for $1.00, and then because of demand, have to up your price to $1.50 and the product STILL sells as it did with the prior price, what reason would you have to lower the price back to $1.00?? You would be a fool to do that…

Gas should never have gone above $2.00 a gallon, but since we allowed it to happen, it will never be below $3.00 / Gallon EVER again… And in about a year (if Obama stays in office) I bet gas will be up to at LEAST $4.50/gallon with a $0.50 a year rise until we reach the $8 / Gallon that Obama said he wanted in his 2008 campaign…

It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out..

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- wtfci
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Prices can fall. They will fall. But other you have to know how prices have risen first to understand what policies it would take to make them fall.
  
  There are half the number of refineries in the United States today compared to 1980. During that same time period, 96 million more automobiles are on US roads. Why are there half as many oil refineries? Environmental regulation. If you make it too expensive to remain in operation the natural course is closure.
  
  When there is less competition the supply chain can be squeezed either by choice or by accident. Sometimes it is a fire. Sometimes it is the changeover period when refineries stop making “summer fuel” and start making “winter fuel”.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:39pm
  @ONIKAZE
  “Gas will NEVER again drop below $3.00 a gallon… Why, you may ask (I doubt you guys will, since I am sure you ALL already know this)? Simple, the gas industry has realized that you can sell gas (a product that hasn’t really changed much in 20 years) for high costs and people HAVE to pay for it because we HAVE to have it.”
  
  Well said. Sorry, people, but gas will never again be as cheap as it was, for the reason that ONIKAZE layed out–once the gas companies realized that they COULD charge an arm and a leg, they decided that they WOULD.
  
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- Conservative2
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 3:39pm
  You’re all missing the point of “the value of the dollar”, it has change in reference to other currencies, that is the true reason why gas will never go below $3.00 a gal again, we have double the money supply so the US dollar is worth half as much……….Now QE3…..get ready!
  
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- westtitus
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 3:53pm
  I am glad someone else remembers his promise of $8.00 per gallon in his speech. My electricity bill has doubled,gas bill has doubled and groceries up at least 40%. Why in the hell are the poor still voting for this failure. If they think th gov’t is going to bail them out they are very mistaken. If Obama get re-elected we are paing our house off and it will not hurt on our taxes becuase they have already proposed to cut the deduction on owning a house. In two years this tax credit will be gone if not sooner. Wake up people. If you vote him back in I don’t want to hear one complaint and I will hide all the money I can so the Dems can’t get to give to you…..GET A JOB!
  
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- OperationNorthwoods
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:10pm
  and don’t forget we are paying other countries for their oil with devalued dollars. So those countries must raise the price to retain the purchasing power of the dollars they are getting.
  
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- richard40
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 7:21pm
  The same thing was said under Carter, that prices would never fall again, and gas lines would last forever. Then we got a new president, reagan, that beleived in the free market, and let it work, and prices fell. Fracking technology and shale oil has allowed unprecedented new oil exploration, but it requires a president that will let the free market work, and reign in the radical environmentalists, which we dont have now.
  
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hi
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
But McCain’s other commercials were “I’m voting for Obama. You should too!”

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:39pm
Obama himself promised that energy prices would necessarily SKYROCKET !!!! So how’s that hope and change workin for all you poor black folks out there, who will vote for this turd at a 95% rate ? This Odumbass has been the worst thing to ever happen to poor people in the history of this ńation, there just to stupid to see it, which is probably why they’re poor to begin with……

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Nevermind
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:31pm
Weiners Wiener
You libs blamed Bush in 2008, but excuse Obama for his own high gas prices. That says it all.

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Nice try, was I on this site complaining about gas prices in 2008 blaming bush? No. Only an idiot would blame the President for gas prices since it is a world market that isnt dictated by just USA consumption. Its a nice try though.

The problem with the GOP is they have this ” blame Obama” complex for everything and they assume the American people are stupid and have no memories. Everyone knows that gas in 2008 was high ( and for most of Bush presidency) and to try to blame it on Obama is laughable at best. Anyone with half a brain knows that no President controls gas prices and since our production is up ( thats a fact) and it hasnt effected the price shows that we dont have much control over it.

The blame Obama card has been overplayed and most know the GOP is full of crap with the blame game, hence why Romney isnt doing so well.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:43pm
  And, everybody knows that the Dems, and Obama, were blaming Bush and ” his oilmen.” So, you either have a memory problem, or you’re lying.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:37pm
  “was I on this site complaining about gas prices in 2008 blaming bush?”
  
  This site didn’t exist in 2008 moron. Start making sense. Then go out and get a job!
  
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- richard40
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Funnly how all the dems howled about gas prices under bush, and and constantly cried “when will the president do something!!!”, but now they tell us that no president can possibly do anything. Total dem hipocracy. But Obama can do something, by stopping the policies that are raising gas prices like:
  
  1. Oppose the zero interest rate easy money inflationary policies of the fed, which is causing higher prices for all commodities, not just oil. This has the added advantage of encouraging thrift again, instead of making savers into saps, as is happening now.
  2. Open up fed lands and offshore to drilling again.
  3. Stop trying to kill coal.
  4. Stop opposing fracking.
  5. Build the keystone pipeline.
  6. Stop environmentalist policies that stop building of new refineries.
  
  So I say exactly what the dems all said under bush, When Will The President Do something!!!
  
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KingCanon
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:30pm
Simply and sincerely, this proves some politicians know
more than we are being told as consumers. NOTHING! and
I mean NOTHING! sold in such volume should exceed 1.99
a gallon.

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Gonzo
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:30pm
Considering the fact that Obama told everyone what he was planning for energy prices, predicting $4 gas doesn’t make you the Amazing Kreskin. The sad part is that HE TOLD US and a little more than half of us still voted for him.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:39pm
  Yep, that was an easy prediction since 0bama himself continually told us that energy prices will necessarily skyrocket!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:41pm
  But, I do have to admit that McCain was right on one of those rarest or rare times. As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. If only McCain had that high of record.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:46pm
  Compared to Obama, he’s a Rolex R.J.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:54pm
  GONZO, Well, when you put it that way….
  I still maintain my memories of McCain from the late ’80s into the ’90s. He was the rare Republican media darling because he was constantly outspoken against many Republicans and Republican plans and ideals. Especially when the Republicans held the Congress in the ’90s. I laugh at the thought of Rush Limbaugh’s McCain theme song, Maverick Is His Name. Sorry if you have not heard it, I just checked and it is not on You Tube. But, back to a comparison 0bama, he certainly would not be as destructive on our economy.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 9:31pm
  i think McCain was looking in his rear view mirror. gas was never higher than in the summer of 2008 prior to the election. It only tumbled when oil went to $40 in the winter of 2008/9 went the world went to crap.
  
  always makes me laugh to bear people talk about obama taking gas prices higher as though be somehow could have stopped europe from near collapse. besides, It is easy to hedge against higher gas prices…….buy oil stocks. and you call yourselves republicans.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:27pm
Romney should save money and just keep re running this ad…………………..Odumbass is the worst thing that ever happened to the middle class and poor, the damage may never be undone……

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G.E.R
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:25pm
U.S. based market speculators like Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo set the price of oil on the global market.The issue of gas prices has not only been misunderstood but thoroughly distorted by relentless ideological spin from the industry and its political allies, mainly Republican. Hardly a day goes by that some industry cheerleader somewhere tries to flay President Obama for driving up oil prices by denying the industry access to oil and gas deposits and imposing ruinous environmental rules.

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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:51pm
  GER, uhh no, the oil prices are thru the roof because the Obama dollar is in the basement……..oil is pegged to the dollar, when the dollar is worth less, they need more of them…..let’s just keep printing money, that’ll really help…..I hope it’s ten bucks a gallon on November 6th……..I will pay it, if it helps get rid of this incompetent community organizer ,,,,,whatever the hell a ” community organizer ” is…. I hope we can get back to being America again…
  
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zoro51
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:24pm
IMPEACH N THROW OUT OF THE USA OBAMA CRAP NOW hes theeeee most UN american president EVER god dsamn socialist needs to be REMOVED. no waiting till november..what happends on HIS watch IS HIS OWN DOING N FAULT

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jrcess
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:22pm
Obama and Biden totally a disgrace to the United States.

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Liztaylor1982
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:20pm
John McCain, a true American Hero, but on occasion a very dumb Senator. In this case predicting $4 gallon gasoline he was spot on. (Although a clock is right twice a day.) The middle class is being strangled — food prices rising and gasoline skyrocketing — we are cooked if we re elect the same “one” in the office. Romeny 2012

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- getitgotitgood
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:22pm
  To all the black,
  African-American, minorities what ever you want to be called because
  you have different colored skin, you are still obamas enemies because
  you live as citizens of AMERICA. That includes all races such
  as Mexican, Latin, Orientals and the list goes on. obama is not
  your friend. he wants you to suffer as every AMERICAN.
  his policy’s do not differ in race. IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN YOU
  ARE HATED BY OBAMA. I’m just saying. Obama is a suicide
  bomber he wants to destroy America.
  
  And this Rice is the epitome of EVIL LYING Bitch from HELL along with the gross pelosi.
  Martin Dempsey is a complete disgrace to the United States of America.
  
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historyguy48
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:17pm
It’s nice to see the Progressive McCain was correct about something, even if it is a very bad something.
But don’t worry, once Dear Leader is re-elected he will stimulate the economy with more “green” jobs so he can pay back his buddies while he works hard for Americas middle class.
Yep, he’s going to expend every bit of effort necessary to make sure the middle class becomes the poor so they can also collect some of Dear Leaders goodies.
I’ve been storing some plywood and some sheets of plastic because I’ve got a nice bridge overpass all picked out.

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Nevermind
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:16pm
They were over $4 in 2008,Average gas price June 2008 was $4.11 per gallon. I guess thats Obamas fault too huh? I love how the GOP say ” when push left office gas was $1.82 a gallon” which is true but due to a global meltdown . Stock market crashed , 401Ks were taking and we were bleeding jobs. Ahh the good old days . Spare me. Oil prices under the GOP were manipulated due to speculation and alot of peopel were calling in sick becasue they couldnt afford gas in 2008

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- Weiners Wiener
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:18pm
  You libs blamed Bush in 2008, but excuse Obama for his own high gas prices. That says it all.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:36pm
  @Nevermind
  
  seek help.
  
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TarheelFlyer
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:11pm
I took a trip with my parents when I was a teenager across this great country. My parents were “middle class”, probably lower-middle class. In order to make the trip, we had to keep other expenses low. 4 straight years, 4 straight weeks in a travel trailer. My parents planned for some time to make the trip “just right”. Today, you couldn’t do that trip. You couldn’t afford to. We would fill up that 40 gallon tank with 99 cents per gallon gas sometimes twice daily. 40 gallons today where I live would cost you $178. That would be nearly $400 per day in gas…that trip just couldn’t be done.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:21pm
  We did the same thing . you are right … the average family see the USA vacation is gone. People I know that go “camping” now go to a local lake and park it for their vacation .. and many can’t even afford to do that.
  
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mbriz
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:04pm
Presidents don’t control gas prices, that’s just another lie pols, and FUXED News tell. If so, where was the praise when gas prices went down? You folks are so easily manipulated.

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- Individualism
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:08pm
  OPEC, EPA and The Fed, those 3 influence it allot.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:18pm
  Keystone pipeline!
  
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- ginger100
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:38pm
  You must be new on the planet because it was the case under the last President and Vice President because of their connection with big oil.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:49pm
  btw .. oil is valued in U.S. dollars (for now) as the Fed PRINTS money .. the dollar devalues and the price of commoditites ESPECIALLY OIL go up!
  
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- spfoam1
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 1:19pm
  Obama stifled our own energy production as he stood behind his podium and promised to “skyrocket” the price of energy. The price of gas has doubled, and that’s only half of what he wants. Are you a dummy or what?
  
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Individualism
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:03pm
probably would have been six dollars a gallon plus rations because Mccain would have gotten us into world war 3.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Oddly, I find myself in agreement with you this time. A few years ago I would have disagreed. But, his constant desire to go into these Muslim countries to save them from themselves proves you to be correct.
  
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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:02pm
If I were Romney – I would not go around quoting John McCain
That asshat handed the election away by not SPEAKING OUT against Obama.

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- CatB
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Amen .. unfortunately he is campaigning with Romney tomorrow in Florida .. I nearly fell off my chair …
  
  R & R 2012 No McCaining.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:17pm
  in the future if things don’t change it will be Santorum 2016 no Romneying.
  
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ginger100
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:02pm
Yeah, and the old guy is still alive, go figure.

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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:01pm
Can anyone name ONE good thing Obama has done?

One?

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- floridareader
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:03pm
  I can name two:
  1- He woke up the conservative America
  2- He is the best gun seller in the history of our country
  
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- historyguy48
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:11pm
  He’s been pretty good for ammunition sales also.
  
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- JRook
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Another solid piece of journalism by a staff which claims to be non-partisan. While they claim the polls are somehow biased there desperation regarding Romney’s chances are all too visible in their lame attacks. Romney set the tone and approach during the primaries. Tell lies frequently and repeatedly until they are fact checked and then move on to another lie. When asked why you utilize offshore accounts, shell corporations and IRA tricks to avoid paying taxes, don’t answer. When asked about lies you have told, smile and look confused on to why anyone would ask that. When asked about specific positions or policy, don’t answer. The country was brought to the brink of disaster by investment bankers who were bailed out, received their bonuses and similarly cheat as much as possible to pay as little taxes as possible. And you want to put one in the White House. You want to vote against the PRESIDENT then do that. But stop trying to pretend Romney is a man of high character, integrity or ethics. He is what he is. And by the way take some time and read about what Christian scholars have to say about Mormonism.
  
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- Shifty6
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 2:27pm
  jrook: you are such a sack of crap! the question was “name one thing Obama has done that is good”. I’ll go one better and name one thing where America is better today. All you do is talk about Romney. YOU, the sinless jrook, does the EXACT same thing Romney does, your hero G Soros does the EXACT same thing, Obama does the EXACT same thing regarding taxes, EVERYONE pays as little tax as they can get away with.What a dolt
  
  We get it, everything Romney does is wrong and everything Obama does is great.
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:58am
We’re supposed to be impressed? Gaybama is the one who told us he’d war on the oil and coal industries; were we to think he was joking, this article might actually dazzle me with McPain’s insight. He was just parroting Gaybama, while firing his staff for referring to Gaybama by name, “Barack HUSSEIN [Gaybama]“.

Throw McPain a bone and let’s move on…

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:51am
That’s because the only way it stays low is the threat of blowing someone up. But land in America should be opened for drilling but since America has so much debt much of the land is collateral.

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CatB
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:50am
Yes .. a lot of us saw what was coming with Obama and we were “crazy” … like Muslms rising up … crazy right?

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:54am
  Yup, and now that we are being proven right they will try to blame all of us for their failures.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:11pm
  But of course SNOW … wear it like a badge of honor ;-)
  
  They attack when they can’t defend.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Yep CATB,……… I made a lot of predictions about an Obama presidency that have come true. I am still waiting to see if my prediction that he would be the last American President and the first American dictator was on the mark or not.
  
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sWampy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 11:49am
And the SOB has the nerve to campaign on being for the middle class, high energy prices hurt the middle class most.

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- subic
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Obammie the Commie
  
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