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President Obama spoke Wednesday to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s 20th Annual Keepers of the Dream Awards gathering in New York.

Obama addressed an increasingly critical fact of American life â€" that the price of a gallon of gasoline is pushing $4. (In Chicago, where I live, and where Obama still keeps a house, even “regular” has topped the $4 mark.) The president knows that the unemployment rate might creep down toward 8 percent and make his reelection likely, but rising gas prices can trump all that and make him a one-termer.

So President Obama told his audience, "I don’t pump gas now, but I remember what it was like pumping gas.”

Well, that was fuel for Limbaugh’s Thursday morning radio rant.

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