According to the AP, after bravely running away from the impending Government shut-down Crisis ™, President Obama attended a townhall meeting in Pennsylvania. During the course of the rally townhall meeting, he had this to say in response to a father of ten children relaying that he could not afford to fill his gas tank:
Obama says little short-term help for gas prices
“Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.”
“”If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”
Guys, stop bitterly clinging to your cars – and your hard-earned money! So you’d have to go into debt to trade-in your car and get a fancy pants Elitist-approved car. It’s hilarious and no big whoop anyway. It’s not like you have to buy arugula. Have you seen those prices?
Surprising that the AP actually reported that, isn’t it? But wait ! They of course swiftly realized the error of their ways; it does not suit to report, you know, the truth. It might make The One look bad. So, they changed the headline of the article and removed the offending section above. Forgetting, as always, that nothing actually disappears once on the internet. Instapundit grabbed a screen shot. It’s funny that people who constantly claim to be oh-s0-smart and worldly are actually such simpletons.
Haley Barbour issued a statement immediately, which I received by email (as did Instapundit), saying “Instead of changing his policies, President Obama is trying to blame the American people for skyrocketing gas prices by saying they should trade-in their cars.”
Exactly right. That is exactly what he was doing – it is his entire plan anyway. He doesn’t want lower gas prices. He wants people to have to buy pitiful little hybrid cars and such. He does not live in the real world, nor has he ever (he thinks cars get 8 miles to the gallon, for cripes sake.) He thinks “Y’all want freedom and ability to make you own decisions, including what you drive? Freedom Shmeedom! I know best! People have to buy said cars? With money that they do not have? Whatever, that’s neither here nor there. The seas must recede! Also, high speed rail!”
The woeful incompetence and delusional utopianism is staggering.
Steve Maley at RedState sums up Obama’s “solutions” in a nut-shell: Unicorn Flatus
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crossposted from That’s What She Said
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
I've transcribed a bit more of the video
IronDioPriest (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 6:14PM EST (link)Linked here:
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,892.0.html
Obama: “I know some o’ these big guys, there still drivin’ their big SUVs. You know, they got their big monster trucks and everything. You’re one of ‘em? [points to man in audience]. Well now, here’s my point. You know, if you’re complaining about the price of gas, and you’re only gettin’ 8 miles a gallon [laughs at man, pauses for audience to laugh at man, mocks the man with facial expression]… You know [laughs] you might have a big family, but it’s probably not THAT big [laughs, audience laughs]… So – how many you have, 10 kids you say? 10 kids? [mocking facial expression again, encouraging people to laugh at the man] Well… you definitely need a hybrid van then… Like I said, if you’re gettin’ 8 miles a gallon you might wanna think about a trade-in.”
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As commenter “John Florida” pointed out at It’s About Liberty, it’s not just the arrogance of this man that is staggering. It is the ignorance.
What does Lord Obama think will happen to that “trade in”? Does he think it will just evaporate, or wait quietly to die in the SUV nursing home, forever shamed by the fuel consumption of its youth?
Of course, the American people know that in a non-Cash-for-Clunkers world, the vehicle will enter the used vehicle market and someone else will drive it, being bled dry by the price of gasoline that Obama has admitted bluntly he’d like to see escalate in order to feed his social engineered Utopia.
Arrogant. Ignorant. Uncaring. This charlatan cannot be gone fast enough.
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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Obama
CarolT (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 6:24PM EST (link)What an arrogant ass! There is nothing more to say except we have to get rid of him next year. The fools that voted for him deserve him, we do not.
Obama's car does get 8 miles per gallon
YnotNOW (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 7:16PM EST (link)Remember, the Secret Service drives him around in an armored limosine!
YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?
Every day that the sun comes us
z06gal Thursday, April 7th at 6:24PM EST (link)I think that this idiot cannot possibly be more arrogant, he says something like this. I WILL BE SO GLAD WHEN THIS INCOMPETENT, ARROGANT, IN OVER HIS HEAD PRICK IS OUT OF WASHINGTON! My God he is utterly awful but thinks he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The man is a fraud and the biggest scam EVER.
Jerk is as jerk does
renny (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 6:58PM EST (link)And then, he’s going to veto the House agreement to precipitate a gov;t “shutdown” and will soon discover it is not the impetus to his campaign that he thought, because his thought processes are stuck in 1995,
Bork’em. And it looks like Possner won in WI. Should be good new for 2012.
He and Michelle put their noses up in the air and
happyhistorian Thursday, April 7th at 7:09PM EST (link)look down on us “little people” and say let them eat cake. I pray daily that God in Heaven will treat BHO and the people in his Administration and Sen Reid and Nancy Pelosi as he, GOD, treated Pharoh in Egypt at Passover, when Pharoh refused to let the Israelis go from Egypt. It is the Passover, Easter Season, right? Let’s all get down on our knees and ask God to show Pharoh Obama who is in charge and ask God to bring us true change that we can believe in and SAVE OUR USA.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin, 1759
EVERY voter needs to pray daily
edniceville Friday, April 8th at 8:06AM EST (link)Psalms 109:8. This must be ther prayer of EVERY sane American voter until The Arrogant One is replaced one way or another!
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
heres another scripture
4suramcan Friday, April 8th at 8:57AM EST (link)which I believe is the answer to restoring America.
ll chronicles, 7:14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall HUMBLE themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN will I hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
I agree 100% with what Obama said yesterday
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 8:38PM EST (link)Too bad Obama doesn’t realize that he’s the trade-in.
Obama has thousands of chevy volts to sell
Common_Cents (Diary) Thursday, April 7th at 9:16PM EST (link)I’d hate to offend used car salesmen in lumping Obama in that category, he’s much lower.
I hope Obama continues to drive gas prices up. We must endure short term pain to be sure we get rid of this guy in 2012.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Looks like most of it
redpenny Friday, April 8th at 6:12AM EST (link)has already been said but I just can’t resist——Buckwheat is a blithering idiot,an arrogant ass and worse.Damn the morons that voted for him and the equally out of touch fools in the congress.I’ve watched a bit of the debates in the house over the past couple of days and must say that the hypocriticy of the DIMS has been monumental.How can anyone,capable of independent thought, continue to support this dolt?
Don’t bother: the moderators tossed me out on my racist posterior already.
Profanity, cursing and harsh judgment anyone?
pcyoung (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 1:14PM EST (link)Can you read? Please Drop the name calling and think before speaking. Do you have any suggestions beyond the exposition of your prejudice and eloquence with the English language?
Your erudition is stunning. I guess in your world dolts, morons and asses, idiots and gosh I guess emotions usually interfere with the ability to think Clearly. I am not trying to attack you but that’s all you did with this post.
It would be wunnerful if we could try to maintain some self imposed restraint rather than blurting out how we feel.
Thank you and please refrain from flaming be back.
I Believe That We'll Just Trade Obama In nt.
Donald Ayotte (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 6:25AM EST (link)Wonder how many
ag8tor Friday, April 8th at 8:18AM EST (link)miles to the gallon those limos and the excursions etc. that follow them around get. Of course Curious George doesn’t mind riding in those at our expense. How economical were the jets that flew Michelle and her entourage to Spain or Pelosi back and forth to the left coast every week for six years. How much do you think it takes to light up Al Gores 6000 square foot house or fuel his jets. I don’t want any of these arrogant jackasses preaching to me about conservation. Just another pitiful attempt at humor by this so-called president. Guess this wasn’t on the teleprompter. He will go down in history making Jimmy Carter look like a genius. Something must be done in 2012 to rid the country of this cancer!
Hindsight
jrg50 Friday, April 8th at 8:20AM EST (link)The Mic was off when the questioner replied….Yes, Mr. Pres, I F’d up. Too many kids, wrong choice of cars, not enough operational cash. Obviously I made some bad choices based upon erroneous or disingenious data. Kinda like the same mistake I made voting for your a** in the last election. Since I can’t take back past mistakes, all I can do is try for better in the future.
Trust me, I’m trading YOU in, the first chance I get.
Law Mandates Car Seats
dx2krudop Friday, April 8th at 8:21AM EST (link)When I was young there were nine of us including my parents and Grandmother. When we went anywhere the six kids got in the back seat with some on laps and some on the floor. Today we would be arrested for that. A family with ten children HAS to drive an enormous SUV like a Suburban to fit all the car seats because of Federal & State laws. By the way Mr. President, there are no current hybrid minivans.
the good ole days
dbuls1238 Friday, April 8th at 8:41AM EST (link)i was watching Al Jazerra, and a young man in Egypt was talking about his conversations with his grandfather, who would tell him about the days when Egypt was prosperous and great. When my father was in Egypt in 1971, it indeed was a great and powerful seat of history and civilization.
I can also remember when us four kids piled into the car in the back seat of the ’54 ford. no expensive carseats, not even a thought about it. i can also remember when the police were local guys, friends you would wave at as they went by. i can also remember a day when, if you smoked a joint by yourself, you would not be arrested and humiliated. no harm, no foul. in the past, Wall Street was somewhere far away, respected for their ability to create money. now they are nothing but common thieves. oh yeah, if we did the same thing, we would be jailed.
when obama came into power, he had the chance to be a worldwide phenomenon, a Martin Luther King, who was willing to give his life for freedom and opportunity. he had the chance to be different, better, expose the criminal bush for what he was, and make the office of the president a revered position again. but, instead, he has given up his principles for money, and he is just like any other corrupt politician. you might think at least one of our “leaders” could actually be better, and think uniquely, creatively, and stand out for justice against the tide of thuggery that is caused by the illusion of power. but i guess not.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Buster you got that right!
pcyoung (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 1:07PM EST (link)Your comment is one of the better ones I have read on here. It is thoughtful and you are not polarized reflexively as most others are simply because of political party.
I agree that PrezO sold out and you could tell when he came to tell the American people about the GREAT BAILOUT stimulus package. Being one of the very few Americans who actually read it I can say that it was a Jimmy Hoffa Special.
No evidence of where the money went despite looking and looking and looking.
The best was the then sell out of the new GOP – with yet another bail out . This time to pay back the fat cats you purchased their ticket to become elected.
Joe Kennedy was the first to use this to get Jack elected but its become common practice and Bush Junior (and I do mean junior) was another cretin with a bunch of greedy friends just chomping at the bit to get their hands on the federal treasury. After all other avenues were manipulated for maximum profit then kicked to the curb.
Get Ready for it. America is so corrupt and so far from its home planet that only something very large and bigger than the politicians will be able to right its course.
But then again most people will never stick to their guns if you can grease their palms.
Its become all about what can I get for me and don’t mess with what I want- and Conservatives call the other side the Entitlement generation.
America used to have a destiny and either I have read my history wrong or am delusional but I do remember America having a common future that was clear to most. That a set of simple common values held us together.
That we did not screw the other guys wife, lie and cheat and steal as much because its just business you know and if you can get some money its okay to do what you need to – definition of a Free Market.
Good Post
No hybrid minivans???
uncle_fweddy Friday, April 8th at 10:02PM EST (link)Are you sure you looked in all 57 states? Or is that 59 states?
How Much Cash For This Clunker Can We Get?
bay0wulf Friday, April 8th at 8:27AM EST (link)That is … this CLUNKER of a President.
We can’t afford to feed him, his ego, his administration or his agenda any more …
WE COULDN’T BEFORE EITHER
Perhaps we could trader him in for a tax credit?
YnotNOW (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 4:11PM EST (link)YnotNOW
If not me, who? If not now, when?
Just remember ....
texan4america Friday, April 8th at 9:51AM EST (link)The bigger they think they are — the harder they fall.
Texan4America
tinfoil deathtraps.
2warabnvet Friday, April 8th at 11:08AM EST (link)Not everyone wants to put their families in government approved tinfoil deathtraps. Obama certainly doesn’t.
8 Mile Island
pcyoung (Diary) Friday, April 8th at 12:57PM EST (link)To the gallon? – There are two issues here, as always, and , as always Conservatives can’t wait to pounce.
I am a Conservative but try to consider what has really been said vs. knee jerk reactions. Despite the desire to cast Obama as insensitive snob impervious to the woes and tribulation of us common folk. There is a point here.
If you examine the issue and the issue is to reduce the cost of filling up one’s car (given Prez O. lacks the good judgment to not guffaw at our plight and buy a new car – there is a point and we here in America are gobbling up far too much gas and expect it to be very cheap whereas in other countries it is not as affordable as it is here.
Given the inevitable decline in the supply of oil we should consider not leaving behind a bunch of empty wells for our childrens children just so you can drive your 8 mile per gallon or even 20 miles per gallon is a waste.
Buying a new , more gas efficient car, might be a solution if more people had jobs and the economy was doing better. However, there is the issue of climate change. NOT GLOBAL WARMING but climate change.
I realize too many Conservatives prefer to believe it does not exist – keep deluding yourselves that it doesn’t and keep the faith baby that you have the RIGHT to drive around as big a gas guzzling car as you wish.
A Conservative Tenet is called – unintended consequences. Does anyone who is a conservative ever actually think before they spout off against what someone of the opposite political party says?
It seems people have mostly forgotten to think before speaking.
Is there such a thing within Conservatives that they actually examine our Principles and Tenets to determine if perhaps we are not being hypocritical?
coffin on wheels
rockymtn1776 Friday, April 8th at 2:11PM EST (link)Trade it in ? You going to make the payments on a new car for me Obama ? Remember voters thought YOU promised them a new stove, a morgage paid by the govt., a well paying job for someone with a 5th grade education, on & on. They are still waiting but will probably vote for you again anyway. We had a Constitution until you came along !
MPG
finnmccuill Friday, April 8th at 3:35PM EST (link)Tell me again why this imitation president has a “wife” who needs a “staff” of 27 people? Wonder how many air miles the USAF logs, carting her around to get her hair done? Kinda’ like that Pelosi fraud.
Every time he opens his mouth he displays his contempt for Americans, and America, except as the place where he can steal the most! Good thing he has the Hillary Twins, and the Chicago mob, to help him. Be a heartbreak if he couldn’t steal enough!