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In article <s1sc4jtgc7r2mbvapnvln2283rqmb8aqq3@4ax.com>,
 shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 May 2024 13:18:27 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> >In article <v25mp9$1nota$1@dont-email.me>,
> > Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
> >
> >> For the second time in a week, President Joe Biden made a false claim 
> >> about inflation-- and he did not get away with it as journalists and
> >> political rivals called him out on it.
> >> 
> >> Biden told Yahoo Finance in an interview on Tuesday that inflation was
> >> at 9% when he became president back in January 2021.
> >> 
> >> However, as fact-checkers pointed out when Biden made the same assertion 
> >> during a CNN town hall last week, inflation actually was at 1.4% when he
> >> took office.
> >
> >But Trump is the one who lies all the time. We should vote for Biden 
> >because he doesn't lie, they say.
> > 
> >> The latest gaffe by the president
> >
> >It's not a gaffe. A gaffe is an unintentional mistake. This is an 
> >intentional bald-faced lie. And so is the media downplaying it as a mere 
> >gaffe. Biden is lying and the media is lying about his lies.
> >
> >Biden's team knows what the inflation rate was when Biden took office 
> >and they're intentionally lying about it because they know that the 
> >grocery bill is something that Mr. & Mrs. Middle America are going to 
> >vote on.
> 
> It's also something the President doesn't have real control over.

Well, much like the gas prices, the Biden people need to figure out if 
he has control over it or not.

When  gas prices go up, they plead "the president has no control over 
gas prices".

When gas prices go down, that empty can Jean-Pierre is up on the podium 
before the press boasting about how Biden "lowered gas prices for 
hard-working Americans".

Which is it? Because if you're gonna take the credit for prices 
dropping, you can't then duck the blame when they rise.

Same with inflation. If the president can't control inflation, then he 
needs to stop going from one news outlet after another bragging about 
how he lowered the inflation rate-- especially when it actually went up, 
not down.

But if he *is* going to brag about it, then he has to expect to be held 
accountable when the inflation rate goes the other way.