Obama thinks you drive a tank

1959 Cadillac: 18 mpg!

The mainstream media's complicity with the Obama administration is often reflected in questions not asked.  For instance, was anyone surprised when the subject of the Wisconsin union riots was never mentioned during Obama's Friday news conference?  

Debra Saunders has analyzed Barry O's Friday boilerplate, and noticed something else none of the crack reporters in attendance thought to question:

At Friday's news conference, President Obama tried to connect with the common man coping with rising gasoline prices. Instead, the president left little doubt that he is clueless about cars.

"You may want to buy a fuel-efficient car," quoth Obama, "but you may not be able to afford it. And so you're stuck with the old clunker that's getting 8 or 10 miles a gallon."

Eight to 10 mpg? Which clunker would that be? I wondered. An old Hummer? Your father's father's Oldsmobile? A late-model Lamborghini? It takes a luxury brand, a boat-sized machine and/or a few decades to approach those dismal mileage numbers.

An 11-year-old Pontiac minivan, for example, gets 17 mpg in the city, 24 mpg on the highway.

You have to go back to the Carter administration years or earlier to find Obama's idea of a gas-guzzling family car -- and even that vehicle would have been a van, light truck/SUV or luxury model. And yet he is behind the wheel of Washington's energy policy.

Can you blame me for believing Team Obama was pushing the pedal to the metal in a rush for higher gas prices?

It's clear to Ms. Saunders, as it should be to all Americans, that high gas prices are part of Obama's plan for national decline.  When you talk with your elected representatives, make sure they tell you what they're doing to fix this today.  And you are planning to talk with them soon, right.....?