You blame Obama?

[babylonsister]

I wish this would go viral; found on FB, so it might!

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Blame Assignment ,ShrubCo

Companies Stealing 300% - 600% profit during the first part of this century might have a little bit to do with it.

[liberal N proud]

2. Blame the speculators

Koch brothers.

[KeepItReal]

3. And Goldman Sachs

A breakdown of the culprits:

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/09/15/317330/leaked-cftc-oil-speculation-data/

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. I love ThinkProgress

great Truth resource

[gateley]

11. This is GREAT -- wish every person in the country could see it. And,

wish reporters would have these facts for follow up challenges when the Republicans (who very well know this themselves) blame Obama.

[ProgressiveATL]

5. I don't blame Obama for oil

That's Kabuki Theater, what folks are doing with the oil narrative. We know it's not the truth.

What is the truth, Obama was willing to get rid of employer contribution to social security, all to appease politicians representing the 1%. What social fabric?

Some things aren't negotiable.

[great white snark]

6. What an odd segway.

Not sure what the good old "bad Obama the appeaser" meme has to do with this positive OP but hey, whatever gets you through the day. BTW DU groups have rules and you should probably read them before posting.

Welcome to DU.

[DevonRex]

14. Do you realize you're in the Obama Group?

Please read the SOP pinned at the top of the front page. All posters here are expected to abide by it. We enforce it very strictly. The respectful thing for you to do would be to edit your post. Thank you for your cooperation.

Devon

P.S. There's also a list of the Group Hosts pinned at the top of the front page, just for your information.

[FrenchieCat]

19. I equate Kabuki Theater to those who aren't truly informed, but perform as if they are.....

The Obama admin proposal was to reduce employer contribution by half only for the first 5 million in payroll.

Those businesses who would be helped the most with this proposal were Mom and Pop shops...many whom are totally struggling trying to keep their doors open.

I do accounting for small businesses, and one has about 120 employees, and a payroll of a little under 5 million. That's paying 120 employees 41K per year.

He also proposed halving employer payroll taxes to 3.1 percent for the first $5 million of payrolls in 2012. The president also wants a complete payroll tax holiday that would apply when companies grew their payrolls by up to $50 million in a year by hiring new workers or raising the salaries of existing workers.
http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/09/09/would-obamas-payroll-tax-cut-hurt-social-security/

[Cha]

23. Thanks Frenchie for schooling our

ignorant poster who had nothing better to do than show off their ignorance.

[Tennessee Gal]

7. I wish I knew how to post this on Facebook.

[frogmarch]

10. First, you’ll need to save it

to your computer. To do this, right-click on the image in the OP, then click “Save image as” (or “Save as” or however your computer says it), then in the left-hand sidebar, click the location in your computer where you want to save the image. Then, if you want to, you can rename the picture by deleting the old name in the file name slot and adding a new name. Then click Save.

At Facebook, click “Add Photo/Video,” click “Upload Photo/Video,” click the “Choose File” button and find the image in your computer and click on the file name, and then click “Open.” Then on Facebook, click “Post.” Fb will ask if you want to say something about the image. You don’t have to if you don’t want to.

[soryang]

8. Who left Goldman stooge Gensler as head of CFTC?

The Bush administration or Obama?

Gensler could increase margin on oil futures contracts. He could impose position limits on speculators. Obama could fire Gensler for failing to take these effective actions. But Obama is a bankster captive and Chicago school dupe.

[Cha]

25. NO, President Obama is not a "bankster captive

and a Chicago school dupe"..that just stupid suckered emo drivel.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

9. Randi Rhodes was brilliant the other day. She played a montage of Republicans defending Bush

Their argument: The president has NOTHING to do with gas and oil prices. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly were the worst culprits.

Now, only now, the president has *EVERYTHING* to do with gas and oil prices!!!

[gateley]

12. She's brilliant almost every day, IMO. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. Yes she is indeed! I love Randi. My day is incomplete when

she's out. No offense to Nicole Sandler who often whines too much. But Randi is much more thoughtful and less emotional or knee-jerk when it comes to Obama.

[progressoid]

13. And,

I bet there are dozens of threads on DU & DU2 blaming Bush for gas prices by our team. I remember quite a few saying he lowered gas prices just before the 04 election.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. To the extent that his oil buddies benefited

from the speculation, sure. But, I and many of us did not blame Bush. We know better. And those who you say did point to Bush, they're either being intellectually dishonest or they're idiots!

[Larry Ogg]

18. I've been saying it for a long time...

Blaming one party and not the other in our pretend Democracy, leaves people fighting over what is better,

being hung with a blue rope or being hung with a red rope.

[Larry Ogg]

17. So Obama's defenders best defense is that...

Obama is absolutely powerless to do anything except for what the Republican Party and Corporations want him to do.

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Perhaps you didn't notice, but this is the BOG. Did you get lost?

And as for "Obama's defenders", we're smart enough to know that oil prices aren't set by the WH. What would you have him do? Start another war for oil? What "power" do you think he has, keeping in mind that he is a president, not a king? Perhaps a Chavez style takeover of the oil industry? And how would that work, exactly?

[Cha]

24. No, that would be stupid. nt

[FrenchieCat]

20. I'll do my part!

[politicasista]

22. Kick