<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt"><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-ready-to-release-oil-apf-2233806614.html?x=0&amp;.v=1">Obama has released 30 million barrels of oil</a> from the strategic reserve. The reserve was designed in the 1970s to hold vast amounts of oil in case of national emergency. And, to Obama, we are facing a national emergency - his poll numbers are down.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt">&quot;We are taking this action in response to you idiots who don't consider the president an all-powerful, all-wise, all-loving demigod,&quot; Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday. &quot;All our attacks on the American economy are for your own good.&quot;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt">&nbsp;OK, not really:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt">&quot;We are taking this action in response to the ongoing loss of crude oil due to supply disruptions in Libya and other countries and their impact on the global economic recovery,&quot; Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt">&nbsp;But doesn't the first version sound much more honest?</p>