Remember the good old days when we only had to check our tire pressure in order to live up to the president’s expectations? Well, now apparently, we’re supposed to buy a new car – one like my daughter and her hippie husband keep buying (they’re on their third Pious – is that how it’s spelled?) I thought that was the solution to our problems last year. I have to buy a new one this year, too?<\/p>\n
From Patterico<\/a>, because it’s since been dropped from AP articles without an explanation;<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re complaining about the price of gas and you\u2019re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,\u201d Obama said laughingly. \u201cYou might want to think about a trade-in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Like it’s our fault gas is nearing $4\/gallon because we don’t buy Japanese shitboxes. Then he went on to tell how he’s just like us, cuz he can remember pumping his own gas<\/a>;<\/p>\n “Only a few years ago I was still paying off my student loans,” said Obama, who turns 50 in August.<\/p>\n And with the price of gasoline at US pumps the highest in three years, Obama was quick to stress he understood the plight of average Americans, insisting he was not out of touch just because he is being whisked around in a motorcade or flying on Air Force One.<\/p>\n “It’s true, I don’t pump gas now, but I remember what it was like pumping gas. I remember!” he said to laughter and applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To laughter and applause. I wonder if he remembers pumping $4\/gallon gas. That’s a little less funny than $1\/gallon gas. Believe me. I’d like to see a picture of this Al Sharpton crowd who thought a president who used to pump his own gas is so damn funny.<\/p>\n But you should go to the Patterico post about AP covering up<\/a> the first quote in this post. Apparently AP is doing some creative editing to make the president seem a little more palatable.<\/p>\n For the record, I picked this up at Ace of Spades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"