Erich at Viking Pundit has posted the tale of John Kerry stopping traffic on I-5 in California so he could preach to a single customer at a gas station, and a slew of TV cameras, about the high price of gasoline.

After Kerry’s shtick, customer Kevin Burlingame told the Boston Globe that a President is not the master of gas prices: “He can introduce policy, but overall I don’t think he can affect gas prices.”

But to stop traffic like that for an ineffective diatribe… methinks this campaign is getting to Kerry,

tick… tick… tick… tick…