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Posted: Feb 24, 2015

Some on this board credited the falling gas prices to Obama.

Are the rising gas prices attributed to him as well?

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I would have said Saudi Arabia - low gas prices - and high gas prices

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I agree with you. - sm

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There are some on this board, however, who were giving all the credit to Obama when the prices were falling. Now that they're on the rise again, I wonder if they have they new information that that is Obama's doing. Or maybe it is Bush's fault.

Selective memory...sm - VTMT

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It was the republicans who blamed Obama for the rise in gas prices to over $4.00 a gallon. It was the dems that held the position that it was not. When the prices fell, we felt the same way and no one cheered that president Obama brought the gas prices down. Now that prices have gone up a few cents in the past week is it now supposed to be be the president's doing again?

Except when joking amongst ourselves the phrase - "must be Obama's fault"

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when gas went down so low. I sure hope it doesn't go up so high again, but who knows.

Case closed. - SM

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http://general.mtstars.com/401206.html

A quote from a joke by Chris Rock? - Really? nm

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Liberal humor just is not understood by Republicans - nm

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Conservatives: The Party of Selective and No Memory - sm

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What has been said on this board by liberals is along the lines of: Now that the price of gas is going down, I wonder if the conservatives will thank Obama? It was a rhetorical question because, believe me, we all knew the answer.

I guess conservatives don't remember how Mitt Romney and his surrogates spent several months hammering away at Obama and the high price of gas and how it was all Obama's FAULT and actually a conspiracy by President Obama to raise the price of gas to force us all to buy fuel efficient cars. Board discussions regarding gasoline prices have generally been some conservative whining about how it was Obama's fault that gas prices were so high and spewing the party line on how we had such low prices with Bush (ain't recession prices great?).

Remember Romney being a jerk in debate number 2 and blaming President Obama for the price of gas? Remember Romney being a jerk in debate number 2 in general? PROCEED GOVERNOR. LOL. See link below.

Seriously: Want a perfect illustration of conservative selective and no memory and how they use their propaganda to dupe the masses? Watch the Fox News commentary on gas prices when Bush was president in 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEnKdBAb_o

Now contrast that to later commentary in the first link where conservatives are discussing gas prices and how they are President Obama's fault and the second link showing Fox News THEN and NOW (propaganda at its finest):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztc8UxvSSTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTvomrCjnQc

Case closed, indeed!

In other news: President Obama signed only his third veto today and killed the Keystone XL pipeline, and the conservatives #1 priority just went down the drain. Thanks, Obama!

I sure love our president - - nm

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Yes! Thank you Mr. President! - nm

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Rising prices in CA not attributed to Obama, - but to a refinery explosion. (sm)

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Some dumb oil refinery that was already in trouble for code violations and maintenance issues had an explosion that affected their production. It was their own stupid fault, yet of course they're passing the costs down to us.

It's oil company greed. Obama has nothing to do with it.

Jerry Brown, - SM

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Governor of California, wants to raise the gas tax another 75 cents per gallon. Another tax-and-spend liberal, he needs the money to pay for all the illegal aliens and his "crazy train".

I'm already familiar with gasoline taxes. What - I was talking about was the - sm

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refinery taking advantage of a temporary shortage (caused by their own stupidity) and using it to gouge the consumers. And of course, all the others follow suit.

Well, you may be familiar, but not everyone is and - not everyone agrees with you.

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One refinery in one state can't be responsible for everything, and of course you have no facts to back up your statements.

What is your problem? I'm just talking about - what drove up CA prices.

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I wasn't talking about what causes other states' gas prices to rise, just Cali's.

What is YOUR problem? - SM

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The OP isn't about California. It's about the United States of America. Got it?

The last I heard, CA is still part of the U.S. - I was just giving a CA perspective.

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Calm down.

Conservatives won't blame Obama this time; no one believes their propaganda anymore. - Been there, done that - nm

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It's against BO's will to lower the cost of anything. - sm

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He does not know one thing about budgeting as evidenced by his skyrocketing debt, which happens to exceed the debt of all 43 preceding presidents.

He wasn't responsible for the lowering of gas prices as the Dems would like to believe. As far as being responsible for increasing the gas prices, we'll have to wait and see, but it could very well be due to some crackhead policy he dreamed up. Time will tell.

The cost of my health insurance went down - because of his "will".

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So I'm happy.

Mine too! - :)

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So glad I live in a blue state.

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