Todays Presidential "statement of the day".... (1 Viewer)

[efil4stnias]

From President Bushs' press conference this morning....

When asked what advice he would give to the average person facing the prospect of gas prices hitting $4 per gallon, Bush stopped the reporter and said, "What did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gas?"

"That's interesting. I hadn't heard that," he said at the Thursday news conference-CNN.com


classic

 

[varanook]

Can't be right.

He is president he has to know things like that.

 

[Shockmo]

Have mercy....a president that doesn't actually listen to the prognosticators in the media ...all is lost.

 

[efil4stnias]

Have mercy....a president that doesn't actually listen to the prognosticators in the media ...all is lost.

not really...just when gas IS $4.00 a gallon he can call another press conference and talk to us with that "deer-in-headlight" gaze....he just lost all plausible deniability.

 

[TPS]

$4.00 gas (with our current 7.1% inflation) is likely to consume more than its fair share of my 3.5% or 4% annual raise. I mean, damn. That's going to kill some of us who already make good money, aren't in credit debt, but just try to make honest ends meet. No doubt this presidency has been good for exactly those I said it would be good for when I posted about it in 2000 - big oil, pharmaceutical giants, the MID, the insurance industry and the rich.

4 more years!

TPS

 

[Goats]

Good thing the economy is not weakening and we are not in a recession

 

[FWtex]

$4.00 gas (with our current 7.1% inflation) is likely to consume more than its fair share of my 3.5% or 4% annual raise. I mean, damn. That's going to kill some of us who already make good money, aren't in credit debt, but just try to make honest ends meet. No doubt this presidency has been good for exactly those I said it would be good for when I posted about it in 2000 - big oil, pharmaceutical giants, the MID, the insurance industry and the rich.

4 more years!

TPS

So how is Obama going to drop the price of gas and drugs? These are private companies.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

$4.00 gas (with our current 7.1% inflation) is likely to consume more than its fair share of my 3.5% or 4% annual raise. I mean, damn. That's going to kill some of us who already make good money, aren't in credit debt, but just try to make honest ends meet. No doubt this presidency has been good for exactly those I said it would be good for when I posted about it in 2000 - big oil, pharmaceutical giants, the MID, the insurance industry and the rich.

4 more years!

TPS

Right now for many the annual health insurance premium increase is larger than their raise anyway. At my old company everyone got a 3.5 % raise this year and their health care premium went up. For my buddy making 65k per year it amounted to a net loss of $20 per paycheck.

 

[TPS]

>>So how is Obama going to drop the price of gas and drugs? These are private companies.

When did I say I was going to vote for Obama or that he'd institute policies to lower the costs to middleclass consumers? He might have given some of his reasons however.

So the broader question is what does your challenge to me do for the thread? I told everyone here who was going to make out like bandits in a Bush/Cheney Administration and I was right. That's what I'm saying. Unfortunately I had no idea they'd allow the dollar to freefall (was at record lows vs. the Euro eariler today) and allow the credit and home crash. Some argue this is all a plan to force us to give up the dollar and join some new currency group(s) in order to stave off economc collapse. Just remember, in March 2001 (less than 2 months after President Bush took office), the Euro was worth about seventy-four cents. As of this second, the Euro is worth one dollar fifty-two cents .13 ($1.5213). So if I'm a European, I'm all warm and fuzzy over American inaction. If I'm an American, I'm worried that my money is worth less than half of what it was 7 years ago compared to our father nations. Strange coincidence?

/now back to the thread

TPS

 

[Shawn]

Have mercy....a president that doesn't actually listen to the prognosticators in the media ...all is lost.

Pfffft.

I paid $3.79/gallon last night.

 

[jpcdolphan]

Have mercy....a president that doesn't actually listen to the prognosticators in the media ...all is lost.

Does he listen to economists, energy traders, and the AAA? Because those are the ones saying it. The media is just passing it along.

In fairness, there are economists and people in the industry that don't predict that but the conventional wisdom is definitely trending towards 4 dollar gas, in some cases as soon as early spring,

 

[NCSaint]

WRT to the OP somehow the President has to have a pulse on reality. And it is clear this president never has.

 

[RebSaint]

WRT to the OP somehow the President has to have a pulse on reality. And it is clear this president never has.

+infinity. It's exactly why this bunch can't get out fast enough for me.

 

[rob021275]

"Mr. President, what would you say to people who are soon going to have to pay $4 a gallon for gasoline?"

"I would tell them that if they do more hard work, maybe the jobs that Americans don't want to do, then it won't be such hard work affording it."

 

[Goatman Saint]

Considering I just put in gas that cost $3.69 last night, I don't think $4.00 is out of line. This imbecile that we have for a president has been out of touch with the average family for so long its not even funny. As a matter of fact it is starting to get scary.