The last time a Republican was elected president without a Nixon or Bush on the ticket was Herbert Hoover in 1928.
If you’re waiting in line to vote, here are some amazing presidential facts to help pass the time.
And it continues.
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View Larger Before most people knew Obama was in Afghanistan, many rumors abounded about whether or not he actually was there. The White House’s national security team went on the offensive in an attempt to squash the stories, which started when an Afghan news source reported the president had landed in the country. (The president was actually in transit at the time, not in Afghanistan.) But that didn’t exactly calm nerves in the White House, which called up journalists asking them to take down tweets and stories in an effort to keep the president out of danger. Pretty crazy, right? On a side note, be sure to check out what the president signed yesterday.
What idiots, why would you want to tell people the President is an Afghanistan?
I feel like Chuck should be reprimanded for calling the President stupid, but then I actually read the tweet and realize that I can’t understand anything he said. Did he call Obama stupid, or the ppl?
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The Real Reason Gas Costs $4 A Gallon : Planet Money : NPR →
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, Saudi King Abdullah almost doubled his Kingdom’s budget, committing billions in subsidies, pensions and pay raises in an effort to keep his subjects from storming the palaces.
This expensive response effectively raised the price of oil needed for the Saudis to balance their budget from under $70 a barrel before 2011 to at least $110 a barrel by 2015.
Like it or not, the bill for keeping the Persian Gulf monarchies in power is now being footed by every American. Every time we fuel our car we send an extra 35 cents per gallon, or roughly $6 per fill up, to the Save the King Foundation. Since oil goes into everything we buy from food to plastics, this adds about $1,500 annually to the expenditures of the average American family.
Paradoxically, we are forced to fund social programs for other nations at the very same time we are engaged in a heated debate about cutting social services and entitlement programs at home. It is a sad state of affairs that in the 21st century the world’s most strategic commodity is still being controlled by a cartel.
Cartels, by definition, exist to maximize the profits of their members. OPEC members, which last year raked in $1 trillion in oil revenues, are doing that masterfully.
No amount of U.S. drilling or efficiency measures will change that. The cartel’s financial needs will drive it to respond to counter moves by its clients: When we drill more oil at home, OPEC can drill less to return to a tight supply-demand relationship. When we use less, OPEC can drill less.
To change this vexing dynamic, consumers must be able to substitute for petroleum by purchasing competing fuels, like alcohol fuels, biodiesel, natural gas or electricity, if they are less costly on a per mile basis. But as long as our vehicles are able to run on nothing but oil, keeping oil monarchs on their throne will remain our national side job.
Long, but important read. Why the high gas prices aren’t the fault of the President, and never will be.
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Rachel Maddow breaks down the similarities between Mitt Romney and an etch-a-sketch.
This is a great segment on exactly why Romney should not be president. Not necessarily based on his policies (which are terrible), but on how he chooses his policies.
Three years ago today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Where were you on Inauguration Day?
I was there, where were you?
