Posted on 08/27/2008 4:05:40 PM PDT by hecht
OFF THE DEEP END-Jimmy Carter Says Big Oil Reducing Prices to Help McCain
Admittedly Jimmy Carter has always been a moonbat, but the former president has now gone past the tin foil hat stage and is approaching the "nice white coat with the extra-long sleeves that tie in the back" stage. The guy is now totally off the deep end. Today on the Early Show he accused "big oil" of holding down prices to help John McCain. So which is it? Is big oil so hungry for profits that they would run over their own grandmothers to make one more penny (as Obama and Pelosi Claim) or are the artificially suppressing prices to get what they want politically as Jimmy the Dhimmi says below?
Carter: Oil Industry Will Hold Down Prices to Help Republicans By Paul Detrick Is there an echo in here? Nope, just another attack on oil companies in the months leading up to an election.
Former president Jimmy Carter told Harry Smith on CBS's "The Early Show" August 27 that he predicted "oil companies will hold down oil prices a little bit, you know, to try to help the Republican ticket."
Carter also said that the economy would be the most important issue, "as it was when Bill Clinton was elected the first time."
The former president also said it was "surprising and gratifying" when presumptive Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Ill., carried Georgia in the primary "over two attractive white candidates-Hillary Clinton and John Edwards."
Greg Hunter, a CNN correspondent for "Your $$$$$,"made the same prediction that oil prices would go down as the election nears on the June 16 broadcast. "[T]hey're going to drive that price down, they're going to pop the dollar up, they're going to drive the price down, they're going to work this, say, for the election," he said.
The prediction is old hat if for some media personalities on CNN. Before the 2006 congressional midterm elections, CNN contributor Jack Cafferty took a shot at oil companies:
"You know, if you were a real cynic, you could also wonder if the oil companies might not be pulling the price of gas down to help the Republicans get re-elected in the midterm elections a couple of months away ... The interesting thing to watch on that story about gas prices is what happens to them right after the midterms, John," Cafferty said Aug. 30, 2006.
Carter has been giving interviews to a lot of news divisions at the convention.
On CNN's "American Morning" August 27, co-host John Roberts pointed out Carter's own objection to Obama to the former president with a clip from the Nov. 30, 2006, "Charlie Rose Show," where the former president had this to say about his would-be successor: "He's got yet to prove substance or experience to be the president."
Alzheimer’s is a really cruel disease.
It’s causing morons like Carter to give morons a bad name!
Yeah right Jimmah.
Carter, one of the alltime worst POTUS EVER!
The mess in the middle East is entirely his creation.
Yep, “big oil” for McCain. I wish life were that simple.
I thought reducing prices was the goal to help everyone?
Just to help McCain? What a moron.
Poor Jimmuh. A hundred years ago he’d have been that crazy uncle you have to keep locked in the attic.
If Bill Clinton had any guts he would refuse to speak at the convention!! Imagine the Obama crowd trying to tell the ex-President what to say!
They also tried that with Mark Warner and he told them he would have nothing to do with it! They wanted Warner to attack McCain. It is kinda hard to attack a War Hero.
Warner is not crazy! he knows the fastest way to defeat in Virginia is to be partisan.
This Obama crowd appears to be patriots of Cuba.
*****Yeah Jimma, a few months ago you and your party was claiming that the big oil companies were soaking the poor and making huge profits for the rich..... You can’t have it both ways.****
Yes they can, yes they have, and yes they will!!!
The MSM guarantees it.
sod;)
They’re coming to take me away ho ho
they’re coming to take me away hee hee....
What was his excuse then?
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