joining me as an accounts parry income most of the young turks the beyond
correct dot com in on current t_v_ and we've been talking for weeks now about
this great memo that the uh... r_n_c_ sent out with
three bullet points on here's how we should be going about criticizing
president obama and one of them was try to link high gas prices and all of the
problems that are associated with those high gas prices to president obama an
incredibly steve do you see a fox news took the bait perfectly actually using
the memo as a segway into a segment about how bad it is that gas prices are
so high and what the president obama do about it but now we've actually seen
the media go completely silent since gas prices
and actually dropped i'm not at all for prize the r_n_c_ doesn't want this is a
talking point anymore but you would think if we had some kind of independent
media they would be covering both sides of the story but we're not seeing that
yeah we're not seeing that it's really interesting i feel like i've seen is gas
prices
are going down
oleanna while his approval rating goes up a little bit
everyone just kind of rosty issue and i think that that's not a bad idea for the
independent media they should definitely continue talking about this issue
especially because
president obama has nothing to do with the gas prices going up in fact oil
production is our country right now is out of all-time highs so he is doing
everything he can to keep gas price as well
but it's important for the independent media to talk about speculators
to talk about you know the unrest in the middle east and how that contributes to
higher a gas prices
that's basically something that the republic in school completely brush into
the running retirement doesn't exist and a get this
message model intimate meet mainstream media
and people are under the impression that people prices are the gas prices become
higher because of uh... president obama's doing but that's not the case at
all but i mean even even mit romney said very clearly
he gets full credit or blame
or what happened to this economy and what's happened to gasoline prices under
his watch but i've not seen that ronnie one thing i got to give the guy credit
gas prices are down
yeah mommy acupuncture d_-twenty credit when the gas prices go down campaign
because if i would love to take credit for the city uh... doesn't do it all and
but uh... i like to see
uh... in from the i'd loved he took credit for that may not be sickly he was
against the bailouts in the beginning on but i will say that
i liked the fact that the obama administration
tried to set the record straight about oil speculators d people pay attention
to helping laminates to be aggressive and he really attempted to do that at
the time that they gas prices route and now that the prices are down i'm glad
that the republicans tropic accept our requests political had asked how the
west about at his current thoughts on the gas prices and atlanta new he took
out this chart from his pocket and he said that you know what the gas prices
were cardiac
during obama's inauguration and of course they were lower than they are now
but seriously do it
dropping you guys are losing when it comes to this issue
the other thing who is i started thinking about
does the average person when they go and fill up their tank and see a high number
slightly last high number of whatever
do they think this have to do with president obama and and are they
thinking that now after we've seen this campaign from republicans anyone i don't
fill up
uh... by i a do get angry sometimes and you know some of the leading spray down
other vehicles with gas just in protest but i never once actually think to
myself
that i'm paying this price because it's something the president did ended in
when it was bush and i still don't know i don't know if the average person make
that connection
well i think that you're right in uh... each skeptical of the average person be
informed enough to know that it's not really president obama's doing i mean
when you start bringing up phrases like oil speculation i think that most
americans kind of just like
you know that i was glad it's over and because it sounds like it's something
that's complicated the mainstream media it doesn't really report on a so if you
want to know the truth about oil prices you have to do your own research and
depend on independent media so does the average american dude that yellow and
it's ida laymen i mean especially with this economy with the lack of time and
resources people don't have the ability to be contest
informed as they need to be understand why gas prices are but they are
so um... i think that's something that republicans have capitalized on
you know basically taking advantage of the average american who is informed on
this issue
would be the first time that that uh... the republican strategy
we had a poll out that david pacmdoc on asking people
wet with regard to the mit romney
flip-flops pandering being on every side of every issue all the time
option president obama once the campaign that the one-on-one campaign really gets
going attorneys go out those flip-flops directly should he kind of try to do it
in a more discreet casual may be classy way or should it just right of way the
topic altogether and letting the third-party gr
room floor
uh... his his campaign staffers go after him what do you think is the best
strategy
i'm in favor aggressive tactics so i don't think you should ignore any i
don't think he should be settled i admire campaign its aggressive so uh...
attack communist flip-flops i think is axle because disk drives or something
that
uh... even the republican party
is uneasy wet so to have uh... alabama target independent voters who say hey
look at the sky and he even republicans don't know what destroyed any is there
not even excited about voting for him do you really want to talk with this guy i
think that that's a great strategy
but also pharma is now be shift from
focusing on the flip flops to focusing on the fact that money is basically a
vulture capitalist and that's another great strategy because during this time
when people are mad at the corporations for not paying their fair share of taxes
when you have an occupying late when you have people
who are realizing that there were a wages are stagnant
it's predicted target running for that because those are all the things the
wrong is in favor of four agora
so
i think that
while there's a lot less aggressive
he will be successful because ronnie is a terrible candidate attending could
even republicans i'm excited about
allowed to take advantage of that all right wolf you would strategy he
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