Dang.....I just wish the headline read..... "OBAMA MOVES"...... i guess i will have to wait for next January :)

"President Barack Obama wants Congress to give oil-market regulators more power to keep speculators from manipulating oil prices". This is such a sham. If Obama would allow the Keystone XL Pipeline to open, the "oil speculators" would work in the public's favor. All this bull crap showing the President "looking all serious" on the phone in the oval office...when he and his Energy Secretary said higher gas prices is a good thing. Really, Mr. Zatzariny, give your readers some credit of having some intellingence. Huffington Post...LOL, Courier Post...LOLOL.

Wow...four years of rhetoric against the oil companies, the weather, Bush and "just bad luck"...and THIS is the best Energy Policy to help Americans at the pump that this "genius" Obama and his Marxist Socialist Democrats can conjure up! Talk about the clowns taking over the circus. These are the most inept and most MARXIST government control freaks America has ever let take over our great country. Obama and the Democrats have been using government power to RAISE gas prices not lower them....and this silly action reported here ...if it does anything will only further raise prices again. If the "genius" Marxist Socialist Obama and his Democrats were serious over the LAST FOUR YEARS they would have APPROVED the Keystone Pipeline from Canada, APPROVED new off-shore drilling leases, APPROVED opening more Government owned properties to drilling on-shore, REDUCED EPA regulations on oil refineries and truck diesel fuels, and created an atmosphere that overall ENCOURAGED coal, shale oil, natural gas etc for energy production INSIDE AMERICA. But they DID NOT. Instead they did exactly the opposite! Now its election time and they want you silly Liberal voters to buy into their "new energy policy" to lower gas prices....LOLOLOL. They are a bad joke, but an even worse joke are those that still BLINDLY BELIEVE these Liberal Socialist Democrats want gas prices to go down! Wake-up America. We let the Marxist into the oval office...and he wants to control OUR LIVES!

Wonder who fell into the category of driving as much as before prices went up???
Probably NJ state employees that are taking state vehicles home on our dime!
Their is no way they need that perk. No way in Hell is there a state Gov. agency office open at 6:00 AM & still open @ 7:00 PM when I see these cars on my commute in my company van.

Isn't Obama speculating with our tax dollars on "green energy"?! He has blown probaby billions of our tax dollars on failed companies. Where are the "cops on the street" he's now talking about, looking into what he's done, blowing away our money speculating on wind and solar. Judy Juzaitis

Mr. Duhart,
You are deflecting the real issue of the President's ineptitude and radical policies about his and his Energy Secretary's cause and promotion of higher energy prices, by trying to insert a trumped up issue of lack of "civility". The previous writer merely was pointing out that the energy policies are that which is characteristic of Marxist Socialism. Typical progressivism: "Don't look here at the real issue, LOOK, WHAT'S THIS? INCIVILITY, RACISM, WAR ON WOMEN".

Mr. Duhart,
Your comment about our opinions bringing out "the worst in some people" are testimony to the sorry state of journalism these days. Truly pathetic.

Ric, you're the one who sounds like a "wedge driver" if you ask me. Moderate Republican=still stuck in the evolutionary process of having one's head stuck in one's oriface. November 2010, remember?

Ric,
November 2010.

If we just listen to the President and inflate our tires and get tune up on our vehicles then gas prices won't be so bad.

There is nothing about race in my comments. Only a Liberal Socialist sees race in every Conservative argument about Obama. And they really only claim to see race because they cannot face up to the fact that Obama is the poorest performing President in modern American history. Why is putting a name to exactly what Obama's instituted policies and overt executive actions represent in America so darn "uncivil" to the Liberal Socialists out there that worship him and brought him to power? Look he is your leader. Rejoice in his ideology. You follow his every ideological inflection with bated breath. He is a Marxist Socialist. That is not a curse word, is it? I am sorry it offends YOU. But frankly it really does offend me that YOU put him in charge of America and yet you cannot face up to and openly embrace the ideology he brought with him to inflict on this country. You can't have it both ways, stop hiding behind claimed "incivility" of words and "race hate" as an issue to deflect the truth for an abysmally failing President.

Why in the past few weeks has Patch become a mouthpiece for the Obama Administration? Not enough local/regional news that's fit to print?

http://www.eia.gov/finance/markets/ Is why gas prices are high. Obama has nothing to do with it. The idea of "domestic fuel supply" is a joke. Oil companies will simply sell what they can get to the highest bidder. (China/India)

Obam is the Poster Child for the Pro Aborttionists! ~Rick Magee, FL

Paul DiBartolo: You sent a reply to me. What in my post do you disagree with? My comments are accurate as to the Donors and the FAILED "Energy" Companies to which Obummer gave Our Tax Dollars. Moderates are RINO's. ~Rick Magee, FL

Wow, How sad that race has to be brought into EVERY conversation in a HP story. And when it's not brought in to it by a reader/poster, It's brought into the mix by one of it's journalist. Yes Bill, We did understand you completely and yes you did make a racist comment. And believe it or not, Just because you didn't say it out right doesn't mean we all don't know what you are trying to say. As far as Obama goes, In my book. I just think he's a poor POTUS and we need a change.

Jack, it was I who posted the story/poll about President Obama's actions regarding oil-market regulations. My reasoning was that high gas prices affect everyone, and that this was a story of great interest locally. My decision had nothing to do with being a "mouthpiece" for the Obama Administration, or anyone else.

Hey, a lot of fun words are being tossed around here. Let's see if we can agree on some definitions of terms. Since we're speaking in economic terms, do these work for everyone?

Marxism: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Marxism.html
Socialism: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Socialism.html

Let's see if we can lose the ad hominem attacks and discuss the issues at hand. Anger and emotions are only going to cloud any chance of this being a productive discussion. Come back to me after you've read.

No, Matt, I don't "see" this today. I see financial collapse of Greece because of out of control GOVERNMENT spending. I also saw the collapse of Spain's economy because of that country's revamping of the entire economy to fund "green" technology. Marxism and Socialism never worked, is not working now and will never work.

BTW Dan,
$4.00/gal July 21, 2008 to $1.63/gal Dec 29, 2008.... This was a direct result of President Bush lifting the Drilling moratoria.

http://www.arthurhu.com/index/genocide.htm:
"Dedicated to the hope that people will one day stop using the name of economic justice to kill their fellow man and woman, and finally realize that Karl Marx, not free market capitalism, is the most evil system of thought, and biggest source of death and poverty in human history." And, "And the award for the most mass killings credited to one man goes to ... (ta dah...) Karl Marx! Congratulations! It exceeds all war deaths in the 20th century, and even the wildest inflation of deaths due to slavery."

Matt,
Marxism certainly is effecting bad policies and it certainly did set Marx's policies.
The housing market woes is a great example of the GOVERNMENT forcing banks to make bad loans.

Look at our current predicament and think about this: "...the development of capitalism has arrived at a state when...it has in reality been undermined and the big profits go to the 'genius' of financial manipulation." --V. Lenin

Bill Duhar

2:33 pm on Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Who said anything about race John?? My picture is on my comments because I stand by the integrity of this site and my comments. I think it's incredibly ignorant to assume I support Obama because of my race. Obama clearly draws strong reactions in you and only you can determine why that is. Now, let's talk about facts... You think it's a fact that Obama is a Marxist and a Socialist?

Bill,

I'd say it's a pretty good bet by what you say here linked with your picture that you strongly support Obama. Black support for him makes any reasonable person suspect that some type of racism is at work. Personally I think most Blacks, having been historically handed the dirty end of the stick(of which I somewhat agree) are unable to process Barak Obama. When a specific group so soundly backs the aberrant and un-American actions of a person of similar background, what are people to think? Blacks voting in lock-step to the tune of mid 90%? I have voted for and against people with whom I shared a common background but could never do so based on that. I think the fact that Obama was even elected in the first place shows that someone's color means far less than their ideology...unless of course you are Black. Then excuses are made and even people, such as yourself, with a clear "bias" such as yours, do nothing to quell such fears. Valid observations are just that regardless of color.

Patch seems to miss the point that Haddonfield is predominantly a right-of-center town. While the number of Republican voters in town is no longer at the 75%+ level it was just 15 or 20 years ago, it remains well above 50% today. Obama got a good proportion of the local votes in 2008, but was clearly a one-time event which will not be repeated in 2012 given what Haddonfield voters now know about his policies. If Patch wants to retain its relatively modest readership in Haddonfield, it must strive to be more objective (e.g., it seems to run only or predominantly Obama articles), or we'll all go back to reading the Sun. Know thy readers, Patch.

Jack, please let us know what stories you'd like to see on Haddonfield Patch. We accept news tips/story ideas 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. My cell number is 609-775-5880, email is tim.zatz@patch.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

It may make sense for a paper like the Philly Inquirer -- which is based in a predominantly Democrat city -- to run articles that present just President Obama's spin on an issue. Though that has not necessarily helped the Inquirer's circulation or ad sales in recent years. It makes no sense for a local paper like the Patch to run such articles, in a predominantly right of center town such as Haddonfield. In fact, one of the things that is really nice about Patch is that a lot of its articles are apolitical in nature, allowing one to escape from the campaign infighting. If Patch feels compelled to run political stories, my hope is that it would at least present both sides of the issues, and include truly local commentary. It has run some of those in the past (e.g., man on the street interviews), but the article above (and some other recent articles) are not among them.

Mr. Zatzariny,
I would like to submit a story idea, namely, the price of gas and how the price plummeted when President Bush lifted the drilling moratoria. Be sure to include what happened to prices when Obama reversed Bush's plan.

Matt,
I beg your pardon, but your two clarifications don't get to the genesis of the problem---socialist big government. Call it whatever you want, but the President's policy decisions are ruining this Country. He has run up our debt and deficit more than all of our past Presidents combined.

Mr. Zatzariny,
I would like to submit a story idea, namely, the price of gas and how the price plummeted when President Bush lifted the drilling moratoria. Be sure to include what happened to prices when Obama reversed Bush's plan.

Slim chance of that. But they will advertise the successes of Obama's new "Fart Car". He says he's going to buy one when he gets back to Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBP1JJKeeY

David and Jack,
The Patch is owed, as mentioned above, by the Huffington Post which has been financed by George Soros, the uber left billionaire, who reportedly dabbles in the destruction of nations' economies. The Patch staff never criticized contributors as vociferously as they've been doing on this thread. They must have been given their marching orders from Arianna Huffington to quell dissent of Obama as the election approaches.

Why is Socialism a bad word? "A socialist economic system would consist of an organisation of production to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit driven by the accumulation of capital, and accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time.[5][6] Distribution of output would be based on the principle of individual contribution."

That sounds great. In Canada (and most other countries) people don't become homeless because of medical bills. It is a wonderful thing to at least know that you will still have a place to live after having a serious medical condition attended to. I have a real problem with people who claim to be proud of this country but disagree with everything Obama does just because he is a Democrat. Most people just seem to be throwing words around without even knowing what they mean. Do a little investigating on your own. DON'T go to the news source you regularly go to...try others and come to an enlightened conclusion on your own. Spouting out buzzwords and using catch phrases don't prove that you are informed. It makes you a tape recorder stuck on "playback."

libsrsic

David and Jack,
The Patch is owed, as mentioned above, by the Huffington Post which has been financed by George Soros, the uber left billionaire, who reportedly dabbles in the destruction of nations' economies. The Patch staff never criticized contributors as vociferously as they've been doing on this thread. They must have been given their marching orders from Arianna Huffington to quell dissent of Obama as the election approaches.

It seems you are correct. I knew the Obama man-love going on here was very strange. This is something the people of this local area should know.

Thanks

90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border. It doesn't take a whole lot of "means' to get here.