Are Oil Companies Bringing Down Prices To Help John McCain And The GOP

Gas prices in the US have dropped significantly recently with the price for regular down from $4.05 per gallon on July 14 to $3.82 on August 4. That is a drop of 23 cents in just three weeks. In 2006, we saw a similar trend with the price of a gallon of regular going from $3.00 a gallon on August 7 down to $2.20 a gallon by the November mid-term elections in 2006.

Another interesting fact is that the price of a gallon of regular has not gone back down since the 2006 election. So, anyone who says that this is just a trend is full of it. This "trend" seems to follow election cycles more than anything else. Last year, the price of regular actually rose from July to November and continued to stay at around $3 a gallon for the entire winter. And in 2005, the price of regular actually rose sharply from the summer into the winter.

So, basically the price of a gallon of gas rises in non-election years and decreases in election years just prior to the election. It seems to me that this is not a coincidence and if the price for a gallon of gas is around $3 a gallon by the election then we all know why.

McCain Doesn't Just Kick Librarians Out Of His Events

Keith Olbermann sat down with Stephen Price, a black reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, who was recently kicked out of a McCain campaign event. According to Price, another reporter by him asked why he was being removed from the McCain event and for daring to question Price's removal she was also kicked out of the event. 

Price said that he was told that he had to leave the McCain campaign event because he was a local reporter and the event was only open to the national press, but the only problem with the McCain campaign's story is that there were other local reporters that were allowed into the event and they all happened to be white. It seems very apparent that the McCain campaign might just have an aversion to black reporters judging by this incident. 

McCain actually did point out that Obama doesn't look like the other presidents on our currency

As the McCain campaign continues to feign outrage over Obama's so-called "race card" comment. It was actually McCain who, in June, pointed out that Obama doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.