So for the next few days the news will have photo ops and video clips of our President reading from his teleprompter in front of pipelines, oil rigs, pumpers, solar panels, windmills and a half dozen others. This is a campaign trip, make no mistake about it. Deception is the name of the game in elections.

Under pressure from fuel prices, Obama starts energy blitz

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Shiny solar panels, sprawling gas fields and the site of a future oil pipeline will give President Barack Obama a set of convenient photo backdrops this week as he launches a campaign-like tour to tout his energy policies to Americans.