Senator Obama said one thing, President Obama says another
Can’t wait to see how Obama spins these record gas prices now that he is President. President Obama has eaten a lot of crow for the words Senator Obama spat.
From Investors:
Energy: When gas prices hit $4 a gallon in 2008, candidate Barack Obama said it was due to previous failed energy policies. Now that prices are heading still higher, President Obama calls it progress.
Already, pump prices are higher than they’ve been in previous years, suggesting they will top $4 soon and possibly reach an unprecedented $5 this summer.
President Obama is starting to notice the political implications. So he sent Robert Gibbs — now a top campaign adviser — out to tell the public not to worry.
“Just on Friday, the Department of the Interior issued permits that will expand our exploration in the Arctic,” Gibbs said Sunday. “Our domestic oil production is at an eight-year high, and our use of foreign oil is at a 16-year low. So we’re making progress.”
“Progress” isn’t exactly how Obama described the country’s energy picture in 2008, when gas prices were closing in on $4 a gallon. Then, it was a clear sign of “Washington’s failure to lead on energy,” which was “turning the middle-class squeeze into a devastating vise-grip for millions of Americans.”
“For the well-off in this country,” Obama said in May 2008, “high gas prices are mostly an annoyance, but to most Americans they’re a huge problem, bordering on a crisis.”
In August that year, he declared rising energy costs to be “one of the most dangerous and urgent threats this nation has ever faced” and that gas prices “are wiping out paychecks and straining businesses.”
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[...] to point out a failure of leadership. Senator Obama said high gas prices under Bush were a “crisis.” Now that gas prices are about to hit record highs under his “leadership,” Obama [...]
SO, gas at $4 a gallon in 2008 was due to previous failed energy policies. It follows that hitting – and, possibly exceeding – that price, now, must be due to HIS failed energy policies! Just like when he said “raising the National Debt is a failure of [past] leadership” it follows that HIS raising it ALARMINGLY must be a FAILURE OF HIS LEADERSHIP (if you can apply that word to what he’s doing in DC)!