[TheRealVille]

You're notorious for believing only what you want to believe. I know gasoline prices spiked for a short time during W's tenure. Gas prices are a matter of record, charts not withstanding. Anybody can look them up. The facts are available on line. You can't defend the following;

(1) Obama said he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.

(2) Obama said he would cut every family's health insurance premiums by $2,500 dollars a year during his first term.

(3) Obama, being the Keynsian loon he is, said his ARRA would turn this nation around and unemployment percentages would be somewhere under 8% as a direct result. Even saying that he was risking his chances to be reelected on the success of his predictons.

(4) Obama said, and promised, that taxes would not go up on folks making less than $250,000 a year. Then his administration sent lawyers to argue before the SCOTUS that ObamaCare was a tax. Now we find out anybody not buying the extraordinarily high health insurance resultant from the decision handed down by the court is toast. Folks making as little as $25,000 will be fined if they do not comply with the dictates of ObamaCare, and that fine will do nothing toward them actually getting insurance, that will be extra. So, now 6 million families will suffer the penalties, not the 4 million number advertised. Individual policies will cost around 4 thousand dollars a year (that's a 4 thousand dollar tax) and a family of 4 will pay somewhere around $15,000 dollars, (that's a 15 thousand dollar tax) No new taxes?

(5) Obama said he would end income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 dollars. I guess he must think granting amnesty for illegals is a much more pressing matter cause that sure didn't happen yet.

(6) Obama said, oh heck, there is five pages of broken promises, I'll just give you a website--- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...en/?page=2

Your boy is the one who blows the smoke. BTW, feel free to believe anything you want to about gas prices, I know what they were.

Bullshit. They raised steadily the whole time he was in office.
Look at any chart on the years he was in office.If you know they were, then you are a liar, the facts are recored, and I drove though this period.


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Rising gas prices used to be big news, but not so these days. Although the national average climbed to $3.56 on Feb. 20, setting a February record after going up nearly a month straight, there was far less coverage than in 2008. Broadcast networks repeatedly covered the rise under the Bush presidency. Gas prices bounced around eventually reaching $3.56-a-gallon on April 24, 2008.

The Business and Media Institute analyzed broadcast network news references to gas or fuel prices between Jan. 20 and Feb. 20, 2012 and from March 24 and April 24, 2008. BMI found that in the 2008 period there were more than 4 times as many gas prices stories, news briefs or news headlines on ABC, CBS and NBC as there were in 2012 (97 to 21).

Coverage during the time periods differed not only in quantity, but in tone as well. During Bush’s tenure, gas prices were a huge economic threat and cause of suffering. The networks also used the high gas prices to attack the administration. In 2012, the networks aired mostly matter-of-fact stories on the rising gas prices, and worried primarily that they would hinder the economic recovery, not that they are making people suffer.

Dismal broadcast network reports about “skyrocketing” gas prices filled the newscasts in 2008. There were reports about businesses closing, airlines struggling and truckers protesting -- all because of the high prices. One ABC report said families were facing the “tough choice” between food or fuel. Others said that “wallets were running on empty” and consumers were told over and over that there was no relief in sight. But by the end of November 2008, prices had collapsed to $1.82.

The networks weren’t simply reporting the painfully high gas prices in early 2008 though, in many cases they were exaggerating them. NBC’s “Today” focused on Redwood City, Calif. on March 6 where regular gasoline cost $3.99, according to the photograph NBC aired. The national average for gas that day was $3.19 a gallon. Ann Curry also failed to tell viewers that California has the highest state gasoline tax in the nation, a whopping 45.5 cents a gallon at that time.

On gasoline specifically, reporters have routinely showed photos of extreme pump prices despite lower national averages. The Business and Media Institute documented this trend in 2007, 2006 and 2005.

But now, in 2012, gas prices stories are very different. “[W]e’re seeing gas prices creep up every single week,” said one ABC reporter after delivering a positive economic report about the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing in on 13,000 for the first time since 2008. One CBS story just pointed out that if certain steps are taking against Iran, gas prices everywhere could move sharply higher.

Although the time periods BMI analyzed were the same length and ended with the same national average price for gasoline, due to price fluctuations they were not identical. In 2008, prices rose from $3.26 to $3.56 in the month we examined. In 2012, prices were already higher ($3.38 on Jan. 20).



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Feed your BS to your cronies all you want, I drove through it, at the tune of about 20K miles a year.