OBAMA TAKES CREDIT FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

"Suddenly America is like the biggest oil producer, the biggest gas producer,” said Barack Obama in an impromptu remark at Rice University on Tuesday. “That was me, people." After a minute of additional economic boasts, Obama instructed the audience, “Say ‘thank you.’”

Here was the essential Obama on display: smug, verbally maladroit, and shockingly dishonest. If America increased its energy production while Obama was in the White House, it was in spite of his policies, not because of them.