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lontooni said, about 1 year ago
Everything is politics to a knee jerk emotional crowd. Contraception is political, AGAIN. Equal rights for women are political, AGAIN. Feeding the poor is a political dispute, with the people who say this nation was founded on Christian values coming out against feeding the poor; AGAIN. Naturally, the party out of office is going to make gas prices a political issue. Conspiracy theories are another perpetual problem. With that, thought in mind I have an attractive political conspiracy theory. This is my political theory “The oil companies are raising the price of gasoline before the election to help defeat for Brock Obama”. Be sure to tell everyone.
josefw
said, about 1 year ago
@lontooni
It’s not Brock, it’s BLOCK! Oops, I think Michelle spells it Barack. Sounds like you don’t really know him, you just blindly vote for him.
HAY EVERYONE, THE OIL COMPANIES ARE HELPING TO DEFEAT BLOCK OBAMA!
walruscarver2000 said, about 1 year ago
Forward to yesterday!!!
Doughfoot said, about 1 year ago
You could caption this cartoon “Natural Gas”.
mikefive said, about 1 year ago
@lontooni
Some friends and I are conspiring to start a conspiracy but can’t come up with any conspiracies to conspire on. Any suggestions?
Ms. Ima said, about 1 year ago
In June of ‘08 Congress was ready to hold hearings to determine why gas was so high… $4 a gallon!!!!!!!!!!!
Today gs is above $4, Obama LOVES it and what are the headlines? Secret Service agents shafting hookers. The media is so skewed liberal it’s SICK.
zoidknight said, about 1 year ago
@josefw
Hey, he was the idiot who said, “I hope gas prices reach $5 a gallon, and force everyone to use mass transit.”
zoidknight said, about 1 year ago
@walruscarver2000
Just as Obama has planned.
zoidknight said, about 1 year ago
@Ms. Ima
Well, it is called liberal lies media for a reason.
Simon_Jester said, about 1 year ago
Aren’t righties funny?
They consistently quote Obama way out of context on the $5-Dollar-A-Gallon Gas remark…then scream bloody murder when Mitt Romney is quoted out of context with his, "I like to fire people’ remark.
When gas prices were this high in 2008, the Repubs insisted there was nothing the President could do about it…and now that there’s a Dem in the White House, it’s ALL the President’s fault.
But the most hilarious thing of all is…watching them scream, ’Yaaaaaahhhhh! Liberal media bias!" over the Secret Service scandal being front page news…even though that scandal clearly hurts the Obama White House.
LOL! Who needs cartoons when ya got these guys?.
NebulousRikulau
said, about 1 year ago
and you need to notice that the price of gas is coming down.
slowly, and probably not much further, but down.
CasualBrowser
said, about 1 year ago
@josefw
Who’s Brock?
onguard said, about 1 year ago
@Simon_Jester
Big difference, Obama has backed up his Like of hight gas prices by his actions.
Simon_Jester said, about 1 year ago
@onguard
What actions? Be specific.
Are you talking about the Keystone Pipeline? That won’t lower the price of gasoline in this country, it’s being built for the purpose of exporting fuel, which will actually cause the price at the pump to go HIGHER.
phritzg
said, about 1 year ago
@Simon_Jester
Oh oh, there you go throwing a fact at a Republican. They will respond with irrationality and complete denial!