As I was putting my 7 year old daughter to bed on Thursday night (just before the debate) my daughter says, “Daddy, if Obama wins, will he make gas prices go up?” I was a little stunned, but I recovered quickly.
“Hmm. I don’t know. I guess that it is possible that he might raise the taxes on gas a little bit. But he wants to use that money to make cars go farther with less gas.”
“So when I drive, I won’t have to buy as much gas?”
“That’s right.”
“Jenny didn’t tell me that part of it.”
“Huh?”
“She said that if Obama is President, gas prices will go up. Then her Mom walked in and said ‘shhh!'”
I fear that my identity as a liberal blogger is getting around the neighborhood.