{"id":28419,"date":"2012-06-28T00:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/gas-prices-and-presidential-politics.html"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:18:57","slug":"gas-prices-and-presidential-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/gas-prices-and-presidential-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Gas prices and presidential politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the prices go up, it's the president's fault. If the prices go down, it has nothing to do with the president. \u00a0(And, yes, Dubya was thumped in much the same way.)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHaving been roundly criticized for the sharp rise in gas prices earlier this spring, President Barack Obama would seem to be in line for a bit of credit for the drop in gas prices, which declined 6 p…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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If the prices go up, it's the president's fault. If the prices go down, it has nothing to do with the president. \u00a0(And, yes, Dubya was thumped in much the same way.) Reshared post from +Jim Feig Embedded Link Republicans: Obama Deserves No Credit For Fall In Gas Prices Having been roundly criticized for the … Continue reading “Gas prices and presidential politics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/high-gas-prices-are-all-the-presidents-fault-except-when-its-our.html","url_meta":{"origin":28419,"position":0},"title":""High gas prices are all the President's fault! 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