this article<\/a> that dares to mention the bleeding obvious. \u00a0And it\u2019s USA Today! \u00a0That\u2019s right, McPaper. \u00a0And that\u2019s where I find a story about the ongoing rise that has been happening. \u00a0Most of the rest of the media is busy covering Obama\u2019s buster brown, and is falling on any diversion possible to keep attention away from our President\u2019s ineptitude and incompetent lack of leadership. \u00a0So because rising gas prices might make him look bad, it\u2019s better that Americans suffer than let the cat out of the bad and admit what historians of the future will know: that we have one lousy leader in the White House. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just thought I\u2019d throw that out there. \u00a0If you\u2019re waiting for the same media stampede that happened back when gas prices went up during the Bush administration, don\u2019t hold your breath. \u00a0All pretense of objectivity has long gone the way of the \u00a0 Hence I had to dig a while before I found this article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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