Ah yes, remember who the media blamed for sky high gas prices in 2003-04?

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Why President Bush, of course!

Who was raising a big stink about it being Bush’s fault?
Bloomberg news and their hit piece.

Americans are paying 30 percent more for regular gasoline than a year ago, an average of a $1.94 a gallon, and a poll by American Research Group May 3-6 showed voters becoming concerned. Oil futures have averaged $28.62 a barrel since Bush took office, 42 percent higher than the average during Clinton’s two terms. Oil reached a record $41.38 a barrel on Friday.

Thurston Kerry III via Fox-
SEATTLE — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search), visiting a swing state with rising prices at the gasoline pump, is blaming President Bush’s foreign policy for high energy prices he says endanger national security.

The LA Times
Experts have a lot of good reasons to explain why prices are going up at the moment: unrest in the Middle East, gas-guzzling cars and greed among the oil producing nations, among others. But there is another culprit that is being ignored and that is making the problem far, far worse in the U.S. than elsewhere: the decline in the value of the dollar.

“Instability and danger in the Middle East are driving up the price of oil,” the Massachusetts senator said in remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday in Seattle

The NYT-
INDIAN WELLS, Calif., April 22 — President Bush spent an Earth Day marked by record-high gas prices promoting his support for hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars, but Democrats said that the vehicles were years away from reality and that the president needed to do more to relieve sticker shock at the pump.

Today is different though isn’t it? Sure, we all know a Democratic president could NEVER be blamed for high pain at the pump, even though it is HIS fault that our domestic oil production is WAY down!

In related news, it looks like Obama is creating a team to “root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices.”

“That includes the role of traders and speculators,” Obama said at a town hall-style meeting in Reno, Nev. “We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of American consumers for their own short-term gain.”

“This gas issue is serious,” Obama said, adding that the best solution is developing alternative energy sources.

No one is doing more manipulating than Obama himself! Who is it that is refusing to issue new drilling permits? Who is it that has issued drilling bans almost everywhere we have oil here? Why, that would be the Manipulator-in-Chief!

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