Blame Obama for the price of gasoline? Might as well get mad at him for the weather too...

The meme being spread hither and yon this morning by the presstitutes in the M$M, is that President Obama's popularity is taking it squarely on the chin due to the high price of the go-go juice that Mr & Mrs America need to put in their vroom-vrooms. This makes as much sense as yelling at the clouds because it's raining. For those unclear on the concept, let me explain. Barack Obama is President of the United States of America, but NOT President of the oil companies that run it. The people that Mr & Mrs America should actually be focusing their ire upon are the gouging motherfuckers that run Exxon-Mobil, Shell and BP.

Oh, and just for good measure, whilst gasoline inexorably approaches the $5 gallon mark, Exxon is apparently set to announce that their profits have risen 60% last quarter. Now, I'm not a maths genius by any stretch of the imagination, but if someone's profits have increased it's usually due to one of two factors; either costs have gone down, or prices have gone up. Now, we know that costs can't have gone down as oil hovers around $113 a barrel, which means that prices must have gone up. In point of fact we all know that the latter is true, and we all know that the reasons given for the rise in prices have been bullshit, 'weaker dollar', 'regional uncertainty', 'the dog ate my balance sheet'. It's all bullshit but we put up with it because we HAVE to. What are the alternatives, mass public transit, electric vehicles? Don't make me larf. Big Oil has made damned sure that anything that could possibly threaten their stranglehold on the American consumers wallet has been marginalized, stigmatized or regulated out of existence. This has been done by their well-paid whores in the halls of congress, the very same hyenas that are now baying for the President's blood because of the prices that their benefactors are charging their constituents.To say that the system is bent would be an understatement of epic proportions.

The funny thing I noticed though is that none of the apologists that crawled out from under the rocks to defend Obama's predecessor from these attacks the last time Big Oil decided to rape us at the pumps, are nowhere to be seen this time around.

I wonder why?