But President Barack Obama did tell an American worried about gasoline prices that he should buy a new car: “If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting eight miles a gallon, you might want to think about a trade-in,” Mr. Obama joked in response to a questioner at a campaign stop near Philadelphia April 6.
It apparently didn’t occur to the president that people for whom it is a hardship to pay a dollar more a gallon for gasoline can’t afford to buy a new car.
The remark makes Mr. Obama sound clueless, or callous, or both, but most of the journalists who covered his visit to Gamesa Technology Corp. didn’t report this exchange. They couldn’t drop it entirely down the memory hole, though. Blogger Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) made a screen grab of the initial AP story that reported it. Video of the exchange was posted on YouTube.
And the “can’t afford to buy a new car thingy”… Obama can make a government program for that. Just order up QE3 and print the money.
And one must wonder why this is so…
But only 1 percent of the oil price stories on the evening newscasts of ABC, NBC and CBS since the drilling moratorium was imposed have mentioned there might be a connection between administration policy and rising gasoline prices, noted the Business & Media Institute.
Legacy media carrying Obama’s water. Eventually that’s going to become to heavy, even for them.
