I think it could be a little bit of the latter. I mean, the idea they're doing this now, I mean every energy expert agrees on it. The president doesn't have anything to do with gas prices. But every political person knows that when these things rise, you know, it hurts the president a little bit.
James Carville analyzes the political implications of President Obama's energy push amid rising gas prices.
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let’s do everything we can to give them even more trouble between now and Election Day.
That's so often what people are forgetting in politics. And for the life of me, I hope ... that we do things like this that are popular, are actually helpful, that can help the country.
I would advise them to attack CNN, attack ABC, attack NBC, attack MS NOW, because they didn’t air the speech.
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