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Its now 2015, nearly two years after Obama took the oath of office for the second time. A few years ago, prognosticators were very confident about what would happen to America by now because of Obamas reelection. Lets check in and see how their predictions turned out:
1. Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon.
In March 2012, on the floor of the United States Senate, Mike Lee (R-UT) predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would cost $5.45 per gallon by the start 2015. Lee said that gas prices would rise 5 cents for every month Obama was in office, ultimately reaching $6.60 per gallon.
Lee was not alone. Newt Gingrich, running for the GOP nomination, predicted that if Obama was reelected he would push gas to $10 a gallon. Gingrich said he would reduce gas prices dramatically by reversing Obamas energy policies. Gingrich flanked himself with campaign signs promising $2.50 gas if he was elected.
2. Unemployment was supposed to be stuck at over 8%
3. The stock market was supposed to crash
4. The entire U.S. economy was supposed to collapse
the rest
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/01/01/3607416/4-things-2015-obama-reelected/
treestar
(82,383 posts)that Presidentin' while black results in less than total incompetence.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Any bets that it won't be used?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)So why start?
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)as they are the ones who create the debt, it's actually difficult to argue this...
malaise
(269,157 posts)Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahha
edhopper
(33,606 posts)because Bush outdid even the worse predictions of his Presidency.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Lucky for him, the chucktodds have decided that they shouldn't ask the Senator any tough questions. He might not come back! No, that's something the chucktodds would not like, see? So nobody will ask Sen. Lee why his 2012 prediction about gas prices was so horribly, completely wrong.
Cha
(297,528 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)If anyone needs any proof that the US president does not really have anything to do with the price of gasoline, these past few weeks should make that clear.