On Jan 26, 2000 then governor Bush made the following statement:
'What I think the President ought to do is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. The President of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price."
Oil has just reached a record high price of $98 a barrel. Now, personally, I don't think Bush was right that Clinton should have been responsible to "jawbone" OPEC, but since he said it, shouldn't he now be doing it? His implication was clearly that Clinton was responsible to lower oil prices since he was president at the time. Shouldn't Bush be held to his OWN standard now that he holds the office? Can we blame him for the curent high oil prices, or is he somehow immune from the same criticism?
2007-11-07
12:37:16
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