Bill defends wife on gas tax

Frank, Missouri — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:18:09 GMT

Well ... that would be McCain's 'Gas Tax'. He came up with the bread-crumbs-for-your-vote idea.

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Lisa, New Britain CT Women for Obama — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:18:54 GMT

You wanna talk savings? Who is paying for all the gas Bill is using these days on all his trips? I'm guessing NOT millionaire-many-times-over Bill and Hill...

We could save a chunk of money there...now if we were funding the gas tax out of that cost savings (keeping Bill at home), I might be for it.

(using the search button on Cafe Press to find the NO MORE BILL campaign buttons)

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Andress — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:37 GMT

What a load of bull, Bill. Thousand will lose their road constuction jobs, what about them.. .I already know--you would rather put 30-40dollars in everybody's pocket and be called a good guy. What about their jobs--Bill...Furthermore--that 30-40 will be spent sitting in traffic because the roads and bridges have not been fixed.

Only a foolish, elitist, 109 million dollar politician would pander like this.

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Brian, Clinton, IA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:20:31 GMT

Sorry, Bill. Putting less than $5 a week into a family's pockets is not going to make the difference in buying groceries, and it's not going to make the difference in paying their bills. Quit exaggerating the so-called benefits of this "holiday."

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Steve, Hunt Valley, MD — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:20:41 GMT

If people are foolish enough to vote for this tax bait and switch they can vote for McCain. It's terrible to see Hillary imitate the Republicans. She is, indeed, Bush/McCain Lite!

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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:17 GMT

Bubba: can you please just shut up for once? I'd rather you go back to the Bosnia story.

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twocanpete — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:34 GMT

http://twocanpete.blogspot.com/
Well sure, the tax fairy will just come along and pay for all the road repairs. I mean now that Bill and G.W. have sent our jobs to Mexico and China it's kind of hard to collect the payroll taxes from those jobs that lazy Americans 'just aren't willing to do'.

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Que, Crested Butte, CO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:22:09 GMT

Oh yes, the patented "I feel your pain" motto. Bill, I want solutions and leadership not a pandering handout that would jeopardize the economy (300,000 jobs lost) and our infrastructure (hello - can you say Minneapolis bride collapse?). You and your wife sound like snake oil salesmen who normally run for office under the banner of the GOP. Shame on your both. I expected more.

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the Pajama Pundit — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:22:19 GMT

"We're dealing with people here that cannot pay their bills."
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Really Bill? People who cannot pay their bills? You mean people like your wife's campaign?

It seems to me that if you are going to talk about economic issues, I would avoid phrases like that - given the Clinton campaign's history of shafting their vendors.

http://thepajamapundit.com/

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Ron Hussein — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:23:21 GMT

I just donated the 25 dollar 'tax relief' Clinton would like to give me to Obama.

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Jaspreet Kochar, NY — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:23:58 GMT

well well bill, seem you contradict your own policy, and robert rubin: "the best evidence on any of this that's around is what happened in 1993, because we put in place a powerful deficit reduction program. It had income tax increases on top the top 1.2 percent of Americans, a small gas tax and the supply side critics said that this would lead to high unemployment, recession even worse. And instead what we had was the longest expansion, economic expansion in American history, the creation of over 20 million new private sector jobs, high growth, low inflation, low interest rates, incomes increase at all levels. It was a remarkable period of economic conditions" so in 1993, when the economy was in bad condition, YOU, BILL CLINTON, RAISED THE GAS TAX. and yet people got by.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec03/rubin_12-10.html

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Terry, IN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:24:55 GMT

Someone wants to control and manipulate everything, never mind the rules - or laws. Forget about accountability - or the ones who are being sacrificed.

The Clintons and Bush sound a lot alike to me.

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Blaine — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:25:09 GMT

"Take My Husband". PLEASE.

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aleese — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:25:38 GMT

Once again, the Clintons have not done their homework.

They have blindly walked into the panderer's trap. The people of Indiana know that the gas tax hoilday is a loser. The Clintons have proven themselves stupid to the panderees.

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CitizenJ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:28:43 GMT

Hey Bill, what do you think is the major cause of these high gas prices? Oh yeah, it's the IRAQ OCCUPATION that YOUR WIFE VOTED FOR.

She has ZERO judgement, ZERO class, and it offends me that she calls herself a Democrat. You too, Bill.

What was that thing you said a couple years ago about listening to the person who encourages you to hope rather than the person encouraging you to fear?

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BL, Cincinnati OH — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:28:57 GMT

If she cares so much why hasn't she put her money where her mouth is and put a bill before the Senate for her plan? John McCain did, as unsound as his idea was, he at least took action on his words. Why hasn't she? Because it's pure pandering, and by time Election day comes around she won't have to live up to her pandering promise as the "holiday" will have passed.

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Wal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:29:18 GMT

That is the latest joke from Clinton and McCain.
On campaign trail they say anything. why she didn't introduce that legislature about taxing oil industries prior running for president?
you save $14.6 cents , tax oil industries and they increase the price by $14.6 cent where is the saving? where is the beef?
after 35 years of experience that is what we get from Mcain/Clinton.
Americain People are smarter than that.

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PANDER ...PANDER ...PANDER ...PANDER ... — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:31:02 GMT

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"I feel your pain" IS BACK ... this time on a flat-bed truck --- which probably gets about 2 miles per gallon of fuel.

PANDER ...PANDER ...PANDER ...PANDER ...PANDER ...

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Brian M. New Castle De. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:31:13 GMT

Bill if you had to get out and pump your own gas you would know that 18 cents a gallon does not go a long way. It would be about a savings per average family of between $29-50 dollars during the summer. With a loss of about 230000 highway workers jobs and a lack of repair to our highways.Somebody else proposed this idea but I kind of like it Freeze gas prices and investigate the Oil companies to find out why they are charging us record prices making record profits and not finding a need to increase production .They are pricing the middle class out of their homes. I wish I could make a lot of money pandering speeches all over the world.Then I would not have to pump my own gas and would be even further out of touch with The Middle Class too.By the way I can barely afford my bills now so how the Hell am I supposed to afford a new car Hybrid or not.

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Gail, Dayton, OH — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:31:26 GMT

Has anyone noticed that Clintons Superdelegates keep coming from people who are not elected by or accountable to the people? Its time to end this little dance.

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Terry, IN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:14 GMT

There's one thing that really makes me angry. I know it's part of the Rove playbook to de-humanize your opponent. Neither Bill, or Hillary ever use Obama's name. It's disrespectful, insulting, and degrading.

Soon they'll have to call him MR. PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!!

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Norm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:22 GMT

Doing something is better than nothing at all

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Vicki — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:30 GMT

BILL, it's pandering.

We can ALL make $800,000 taking with Columbians. You can afford higher gas. I can't.

Don't tell me a lie just to get my vote. That's the reason I don't like or trust you.

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Michael — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:58 GMT

It's not pandering to offer people relief, it's pandering to offer them a scheme that people will think gives them relief when it does no such thing. The market price has been set for gas, so removing the tax won't just chop 20 cents off the price of gas. Most of that will be rolled back in to profits, or used to offset the "windfall tax" that Hillary is offering to offset the loss of the gas tax- which means simply shifting the name of the tax and where it's paid, not how much it is or who is paying it. It's been tried before, it won't work- that's what makes it pandering.

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BIGOLDTEXAN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:36:09 GMT

IRAQ SHOULD BE THE COUNTRY GIVES US THE OIL THAT WE NEED FOR GAS AS IT IS THE WAR THAT IS CAUSING THIS MESS AND HRC IS ONE OF THOSE WHO VOTED FOR THIS WAR.

It was promised that they woud foot the bill for this war and they have not.

Bush needs to get off his ASS and make them pay us back for all the LIVES & FUNDS that we have lost.

Old Bill knows that it is true that this will not help us, he is just trying to help HRC get the nomination with all the LIES that HRC is promising.

If they do go this route with the gas tax releif we will be very sorry in the long run for $30.00 worth of gas that want last past the week going to and from work.

Who wants to cut the road repairs in this nation?

What about the bridges that are already in trouble and in need of repairs now.

The country has not even started to repair them as of now.

Now she wants to put a GAS TAX RELIEF out there just to get votes, this is not the safe way to go, more people will get hurt or maybe die because she is just jumping on the bandwagon with McCain.

Told you all that the woman is a republican, and if Bush buys this he a BIGGER IDIOT than HRC.

Go Obama '08

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Bill,Rochester,NY — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:36:44 GMT

Hey Bill listen up! Your wife's gas tax plan IS PANDERING. She proposes a windfall profits tax on the oil companies to make up the lost revenue of a gas tax holiday.
Such a proposed tax is and will be DOA in either the House or the Senate. If I know this you and your wife certainly do too! Stop treating the electorate like children or more accurately like marks in a con.

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C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:04 GMT

A short term benefit to the average American of less then $50.00. If this is not pandering and a means to sell people on a bill-of-nothing-goods to get elected I don't know what is.

You see what Hillary is doing don't you. She knows your average white working class person in NC and Indiana who does not evaluate and weight the details of this proposal will say, golleeeee, Hillary is going to save me a bunch of money this summer on gas so I'm going to vote for her. This is more then pandering. This is calling your average white working class person in NC and Indiana ignorant.

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Hillary, and Bill; just say no — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:04 GMT

If cars ran on methane, Bill's breath could power the planet.

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Paula, Maine — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:40 GMT

And 18 cents a gallon is really going to help anyone pay their bills. A dollar or two a week. Give me a break.

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MK,MO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:37:44 GMT

pomp and circumstance devoid of meaningful facts pretty well sums up the media coverage of the entire dem nominating process, all worthy of being placed on the front cover of any tabloid next to "an alien impregnated me"

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NoRecession — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:01 GMT

Gas tax relief. Republicans mean it. Democrats are faking it.

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jmp — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:38:14 GMT

Just a little number crunching, but to 'save' $50 from a summer's use of gas (with no fed gas tax), a person would have to put 25 gallons in the tank EACH week.

Yep, put 100 gals into your tank over the month at an approximate cost of $400...and you could 'save' less than 5%.

Use more like 10 gallons per week (and not the 25 gallons that Bill is suggesting)? Well then, over a whole summer of gas usage you could save $20...enough to buy 5 gallons of gas.

I say 'could save' because in reality, the markets will readjust to a higher price and we'll be paying just as high of a price as we would have with the tax.

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Gary Schear, Bozeman Montana — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:20 GMT

Wife's? As in multiple wife's. First, it should be spelled wives.
Second, Does this work into that FLDS story in Texas with all those pregnant little girls?

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at, pa. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:30 GMT

Bill says, 'don't worry about the price of gas, we Clintons will always be good for a SPIN!

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MBM Chicago, IL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:32 GMT

What has Hillary done as an environmentalist? She voted against the oil bill that would have required the oil companies to develop alternative energy.

Did Bill talk about his work for the Colombian lobbyists for $800,000? Maybe some of the people that are having a hard time buying gas, and just making it in general, would be in better shape if they had a good paying job? A more fair NAFTA like agreement, for example.

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Leslie Philadelphia PA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:41:00 GMT

It is pandering pure and simple. A temporary 18cents holiday tax will not be a cure all. With gas being almost 4bucks a gallon, 18cents will hardly be noticed
all it will do is take money away from highway and road repair, which is greatly needed. We need a clear and concise approach to reducing gas consumption
and a real investigating of the oil companies exorbitant profits. Clinton and McCain sound like running mates. I think we need a real investigation of those two.

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Eric — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:42:30 GMT

That gas tax sure wont help the 300,000 roadworkers that will be out of a job to give people approx. $2 off of a fill up.

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Doug P, Renton, WA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:43:05 GMT

Obama is right on this. A gas tax holiday would only put more money in the oil companies' pockets. And a windfall profits tax would almost certainly not pass in the Senate, let alone president Bush's desk. Just another example of fiscal irresponsibility.

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Phred, NH — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:43:13 GMT

Rather have the tax on home heating oil repealed for the winter.

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Torpedoyou, Tempe, AZ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:43:38 GMT

To all you "bitter" gun toting, bible thumping, misandrist Hillary supporters who consistantly refuse to look at her record and consistantly vote against you ecconomic interest; Here is a better idea: The federal government should declare a a one day moritorium on all witholding taxes for those making under $75,000.00 a year which is in effect an instant tax credit. But then again I suppose you would rather have more bridge collapses and unrepaired roadways.

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j fl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:43:58 GMT

Obama is TOAST. Hillary was our candidate in the beginning and she will be again. Hillary is the only one who can beat McCain. Obama screwed it up for himself. The media screwed up by pushing him to the forefront without knowing who the hell he really was. Now we know he's weak,can't make a decision if his life depended on it, and has poor character and judgement.The cat is out of the bag, shall we say.

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OREGON TAXPAYER — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:44:05 GMT

The gas tax holiday will not save the consumer anything. The station owners will use it as extra profit and claim that the prices were raised on them during this timeframe.

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Anwar Anyone — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:44:15 GMT

Democratic congress! Nearly two years ago, you said you'd have an energy plan on the presidents desk in a matter of weeks. Still waiting . . . . .

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Gary Stipple — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:44:54 GMT

Bill isd wonderful! Best President ever!!

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Michael California — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:13 GMT

Bill,Bill,Bill. We know you feel our pain. We know you want to return to the 90s. We know you want the average person to save $28. this summer assuming the price of gas would drop and the oil companies would not raise prices anyway. Bill you and Hillary have not bought gas unless it was on the futures market for some time. Stop pandering and telling lies. Take your E.D. pills and find you a young staff worker to not have sex with. Hillary would probably set you up if it would get her a vote.

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along — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:18 GMT

it's three months, Bill. and they still won't be able to pay their bills at the end of the summer. total cynical pander.

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K, Seattle — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:46:35 GMT

This is pandering of the worse sort.

We don't need short term fixes. The government needs to hit the oil companies like they're hitting us. Reduce their subsidies and special tax breaks.

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Y, OHIO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:21 GMT

The problem is that religion can only do religious things well. And when a Rev. Wright speaks at the National Press Club, or when a Billy Graham endorses a Nixon or when the adulterous Bill Clinton invited ministers to the White House to airbrush his squalid affair, or when McCain sucks up to the worst of the Religious Right that he once called "agents of intolerance" so he can get elected by religious nut-jobs, or when Hillary Clinton speaks of her faith and of carrying her Bible everywhere, so she will make good with those blue collar voters, it's hard to tell who's abusing whom -- the preachers or the politicians. One thing is certain; the relationship of religion and politics does America no more good than the Oracle of Delphi did the ancient Greeks

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Wayne, Austin TX — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:30 GMT

I wonder who actually has had to purchase gas recently, Bill/Hillary or Barack/Michelle. My money is on Obama's. I bet Bill and Hillary hasn't even driven a car in the last 20 years.

Hey, here's a good idea for a story: does Hillary/Bill even cars, what about the Obama's, and what kind of cars do they own, and what is the mileage on them? This important for me to decide between the two candidates.

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KJ, Dallas, TX — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:48 GMT

"Hillary has got a long record as an environmentalist," he said."
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Yeah, right... and I'm a neuro surgeon.

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Mark - Frederick, MD — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:55 GMT

Bill, the fact is you and Hillary are trying to throw us a bone, when we need a little meat.

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N.E. BodybutHillary — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:48:05 GMT

There is no fool like an old fool

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Db Texas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:48:16 GMT

Drip drip drip. Obama has three times as many drips running his campaign as anyone else. Obama is the biggest one, drip that is.

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Jaime, Boynton Beach, FL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:48:30 GMT

I think Clinton needs to be investigated for "voter manipulation." A gas tax holiday? That would be TERRIBLE!!!!! Must I offer a quick reference to economics 101?

Hmmm...
1) Gas tax is cut out, so prices fall.
2) Prices fall, so demand goes up.
3) Demand goes up, so prices increase.

Therefore, by the end of the summer, we're right back where we started, except for two HUGE hits to the hard-working American people:
1) None of the increase in gas price is tax money that goes to maintaining and building America's infrastructure. Therefore, our old, run-down roads and bridges take an even bigger hit.
2) Once the gas tax is reinstated at the end of the summer, it will be TACKED ON to the already-back-where-we-started price. Therefore, gas prices will soar over current levels.

Think, people: A gas tax holiday = 1) A significant loss in funding for our crumbling infrastructure and 2) paying MUCH more at the pump than currently projected by the end of the summer.

Obama understands this. Economists understand this. Even Clinton and McCain understand this. But, Clinton and McCain are just pandering.

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Kris STL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:48:59 GMT

I am not a proponent of the gas tax. I believe that it is putting a bandaide on an open wound. Not to mention in the long run it actually hurts our already failing infrustrucre. So eliminationg the gas tax would be ok if and only if they could pay for road and bridge maintenance another way.
America has had lower gas than most of the world for a long time. Now we are paying the price it sucks, but it is our reality. And we can thank the people who voted for pres. Bush not once, but twice.

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chris, SC — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:49:06 GMT

It's sad that a former president, and one that I voted for twice, has lowered himself to push the propaganda of a gas relief tax for the summer to promote his wife's nomination. They both will do anything to return to the white house. Bill, you're not very attractive as the bad cop.

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Brendan D, Niles, IL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:49:25 GMT

"[P]eople are choosing every week between whether they got enough money to go to work and enough money to put food on the tables for their kids[.]"

Okay, Bill, how does rescinding the gas tax for six months help when our infrastructure is falling apart? Sure, it'd be great to pay less at the pump; but I'd rather pay more at the pump and not have to pay $600 to get my car fixed because it hit a pothole that couldn't be covered because there were no funds.

Bill, you pandering butt-hole, go away.

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Paj man — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:49:42 GMT

Drip . . . drip . . . drip. More information is coming out on Obama's beliefs and values ever day, and it's not pretty. Drip . . drip . . drip.

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Al in LA, CA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:49:55 GMT

Bill's nuts. $50/3 months is just over $4/week. Who can feed their kids for $4/wk? Is he advocating ketchup sandwiches? Even then that would not be enough for the ketchup.

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shirley, san jose, ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:09 GMT

Hillary is trying to throw voter's a bone with her suspension of gas tax for the summer, we all know the price will go right back up. I would rather Hillary spent her time explaining how her Government mandated Health Plan would collect premiums from us and what the penalty would be if we don't choose to pay them. Hillary's plan would exempt large corporations from providing health benefits to employees and those worker's will actually be paying more for insurance under Hillary's plan. Sounds like a big payoff for business. Also would like Hillary to explain how she was excused from testifying in the 'Clinton vs Paul' Federal case until after the election, this is something we voters' need to hear BEFORE we elect a President.

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Daley Dunham — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:31 GMT

I'm just a regular ole' Obama supporter (not in the campaign or anything), but if I were an ad guy, I'd put together and run something like this:
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Senators Clinton and McCain are proposing a summer gas tax holiday, because they say it will ease the burdens of high gas prices. Those savings, for the average family, will add up to about $28, total. That breaks down to about $9 a month, or around $0.25 a day.

And what comes as a result of that quarter? The Federal Highway Fund loses $3 billion that would have gone to keep roads and bridges safe. 200,000 construction jobs will be lost.

The economy may be in trouble, but we’re all in this together. Do you really want to cost someone their job for that quarter?

Make no mistake, the Clinton and McCain campaigns are doing nothing more than trying to distract you with a shinny object [IMAGE: spinning quarter].

For real, meaningful solutions, take a hard look at Barak Obama. We truly need a different kind of politics.

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Concerned Citizen — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:34 GMT

Drip .... Drip. That's the air dripping out of Obama's poll numbers.

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James, Jeffersonville, IN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:50:53 GMT

If the oil companies can sell gas for $3.75 with the gas tax, then they are going to sell it for $3.75 without the gas tax. In saying and defending the suspension of the gas tax, you are either naive, or pandering.

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Culture NY — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:05 GMT

if the economist have come out and said its not a good idea i think we should listen. besides, the gas station would still raise the price to cover the tax lose.

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Betty in Baltimore — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:06 GMT

What a scummy, two-bit liar.

Hillary's just isn't a defendable position, and yes, it is 100% pandering. The nominal benefit is outweighed by the longer-term burden created by it.

McCain-Clinton 2008!!!!

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Bob, Chicago — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:07 GMT

Go for it MSNBC.....can't stop HRC reports this morning and the only thing you can talk about Obama is the Wright issue. Are you people for real? You asked Obama to sever the ties, he did now what do you want?

Further to my point....Joe Watkins was on this morning as a republican minister MSNBC analysis but was more as a republican politician than a minister. Why do you allow him to have it both ways. Oh I get it if a black minister goes after Obama you can wash your hands of the comments.

Bob, Chicago

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Jey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:54:36 GMT

Less than 50 dollars... Short-term pandering...nothing more, nothing less... Not to mention it's taking money away from the Highway Trust Fund.

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Nashville_fan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:54:58 GMT

And people call Obama a Manchurian candidate? Talk about can't see the forest for the trees . . .

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Craig, Harrisburg, PA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:20 GMT

Make that 3 to 1

http://thepage.time.com/2008/04/30/obama-nabs-iowa-superdelegate/

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Anthony, San Diego, Ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:39 GMT

I am very upset that the Clintons think we are gulable and stupid. We all know that is a temporary fix and they are playing on the fact the nation is in a recession. We need long term solutions because that solution will lead to a destruction of the infastruction of our roads and road workers. The gas tax goes toward keeping our roads safe and employing those workers. Why do they want to be a part of having workers laid off. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. America wake up and do the homework on this. It is very stressful that people are buying this crap the Clintons are feeding out to the people. NAFTA loss jobs now they want Gas tax relief to lose jobs for people. ENOUGH is ENOUGH Clintons.

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Obama's "Jeremiah Wright" Mistake ..... — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:55:57 GMT

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Obama may not be ruthless enough to win.

Perhaps Obama should have thrown Rev. Wright ‘under the bus’ as Hillary did to Geraldine Ferraro, for far less.

Obama should have learned that the Clintons’ motto is: “Nice guys finish last --- when taking them on.”
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Yola/CT — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:56:12 GMT

Please... someone give this man a blanket and a cup of tea and find him a rocking chair! He is an ASSet to his wife!

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Cory(SC) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:57:57 GMT

Let's call a spade a spade here people. The "relief" is nothing more than what, $3-4 every time you fill up? I hardly call that relief.

In no way does that relief justify the $10 billion that will be lost for our roads and infrastructure or the jobs that would have been created with that $10 billion. This argument holds not water in the long term scheme of things, sorry.

http://www.politivine.com

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Jeff Midwestern city — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:58:30 GMT

Oh please Mr. Clinton, would you rather save the taxpayers $25.00 each which would cost each state millions of dollars for bridges and road repairs thus eliminating jobs for the working people. Lets think about this! Go O'Bama!

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Ames in Anaheim, CA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:12 GMT

Yes, Bill, it is pandering. Why not just stand on the corner and pass out twenties if you want to "help those who are hurting". Or better yet, go back in time, and Don't pass NAFTA and give China Permanent Most Favored Nation Trade Status. Get in that time machine, apologize to the country, admit your lies & resign. Then Gore would've stepped to the Presidency and restored some dignity to the office and we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Now Bill, you are pushing Colombia Free Trade all around Latin America, getting paid $800,000 while Hillary pretends to be against it. You can't trust a Clinton.

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Lilly - Maryland — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:02:29 GMT

Personally speaking, Hillary's bandaid proposal of elimination of the gas tax during the summer months will not help me. I did the math - I would only save $30.24 - total! I'd rather pay the gas tax which funds infrastructure maintenance and construction workers' pay. Her proposal would also result in construction worker layoffs. How does this plan really help?

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Enri, Ocanside, Ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:03:17 GMT

Bill, Sen Clinton, and McCain must take American people for fools. If you do a Holiday gas tax relief it will hurt the road workers and repair of our roads and bridges. There is a reason for the tax and if you take it away it will cause a deficit and to meet that deficit and jobs will be lost once again. The Clintons have already lost jobs through NAFTA and now they want to create more job loses. Do your homework people before they take more food off your tables. They painted NAFTA as a revolutionary program that would create more jobs and bring money to America instead it brought more money to those overseas. My friend is a road worker and says that if that Gas relief tax happens there will be layoffs and cutbacks of road and bridge work done which will make things unsafe in the long run. We have to think long term and not just for the moment.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

alison — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:05:03 GMT

shameless - both of them

Even Paul Krugman gave OBama credit for being on the right side of this issue -- and you KNOW that must have killed Krugman to write anything nice about Obama

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Dan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:05:30 GMT

Domenico, as a journalist do you have no responsibility to point out that Bill Clinton's fierce defense of his wife's policy is an outright lie that relies on a completely false premise. Her policy will not provide a single penny of relief to the American people. If you cut the tax on a product with a supply that cannot be expanded and a demand that is inelastic the price of the product will go back to the same level before the tax was cut. If the policy doesn't lower the price how does it provide relief to the American people? In reality it only changes who collects the 18.4 cents from the fedral government to Exxon Mobil.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

David, New York, New York — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:06:24 GMT

Bill Clinton in 2000 on a proposed gas tax holiday:

"But the problem I have with it, apart from what it might do to the Highway Trust Fund and the spending obligations that have already been incurred by the acts of Congress, the budgets, is that I'm not sure that the savings would be passed along to the consumers in addition to that."

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Tamarac, FL — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:06:50 GMT

OK, Obama disowned his pastor, I think it's time Hillary disowns this insult to America.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Marc NYNY — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:07:06 GMT

Ya-da, Ya-da, Ya da.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Darrell, San Marcos, Ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:07:43 GMT

Just like the Iraq War we will find out that once again Sen Clinton and Sen McCain got it wrong and Sen Obama gets it right.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

jesse St.Paul Minnesota — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:07 GMT

Please slick willie,tell me how much of a break I'm going to get,a half a tank,not even.So out of touch.Three jets flying hillbillys around the country,pandering to the not so educated who will never see the real effect this will have.This is just more big oil lobbyist that own the hillairs and McBomb .300,000 jobs would be lost if this tax where to be used,billions of dollors for road and bridge repairs would be lost,do you think big oil will not raise prices to offset the losses.This is what happens when you are in the lobbyist pocket.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Quinn, Denton, TX — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:27 GMT

Go away Bubba, no one cares what you think.

Obama all tha way

Bill defends wife on gas tax

sandy oregon — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:11:02 GMT

People will have to figure out sooner rather than later that they can't feed their gas hogs forever. We've had 30 years to learn. The gas tax holiday will only hurt the economy by obliterating highway construction jobs. Is that worth it to get maybe ten bucks a month???

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Joe Schmoe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:11:31 GMT

Bill... shut up. Please.

The removal of the gas tax is less than (probably) the "relief" people are getting with the rebate checks Congress passed, which are now pretty much universally derided as doing nothing to ease economic pain. It's actually worse than that, because the underfunded highway trust fund gets thwacked at the same time.

Bill was good president. But please, can't we find this guy an intern and a box of cigars and lock him in an office until the primary is over?

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Jerome, Orange County, Ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:11:34 GMT

Anything but the truth from the Clinton to get back into the White House. We know if you lift the gas tax that it will create a problem elsewhere and may even cause job layoffs. Need a long term plan to get my vote and I think Sen Obma has showed the long term interest that will help my children and grandchildren, its not about me it's about us and Sen Clinton has yet to learn that.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Joe Schmoe, Roseville, CA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:11:44 GMT

Bill defends wife on gas tax

GG,ca — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:12:12 GMT

It IS possible to do 2 things at once: provide short term relief while working on long term solutions. Working families will not sniff at an extra $50 for groceries during this period. Tthen again for the GOP,a party that answers everything w/tax cuts, what a concept!

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Harmony — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:14:05 GMT

This would do more harm than good! Instead of a gas tax holiday that comes out of money that builds roads and provides many thousands of jobs, how about making the oil companies pay us back out of their immense profits that they stole from us!

Bill defends wife on gas tax

dave, San Diego — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:23 GMT

Way to stand by your wo-MAN Billy-Boy!

Mr. Clinton also added that "Hillary has a long record of making poor choices and living with them regardless of the fallout because it is what is best for her political career. Hell y'all, if she'd divorced me do you think she'd be doing this well in the race? Now when I say "race" I'm talking about the primary, not the color of anyone's skin. Dang it! You press mongers are always twisting my words around."

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Lonny, Seattle, WA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:29 GMT

The gas relief is a joke.

The oil companies will just raise the price of gas to reap the extra reward anyways. All that will happen is the government will lose out on taxes.

BTW, if its so easy to place a "windfall profit tax" on oil companies why wouldnt she suggest that regardless?

Obvious pandering.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

CP — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:38 GMT

hahaha.... he should get off that truck and catch up on the news. Top economists (including a Nobel Prize winner) are SLAMMING that moronic gas tax cut plan. It's all over the media.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Raider Dem, Maryland — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:17:02 GMT

It was all quite contrived, like many campaign events, with Secret Service in the back seat of the truck and a swarm of media at the station.
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But Obama playing basketball with UNC isn't at all contrived? I doubt he was talking policy while shooting hoops. But that's a 'cool' publicity stunt, right? If we're going to have a stunt designed to draw attention to something, I'd rather it be ridiculous gas prices, than basketball (no offense basketball folks, I'm a Terp fan myself). March Madness is over.

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Pete - Albany, NY — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:17:49 GMT

Bill, I would suggest, then, that your wife should introduce the legislation to make it happen if she believes in the Gas Tax Holiday THAT MUCH!

C'mon, Senator Clinton...what happened to "Solutions, Not Speeches"?

You have the power.

You're a US Senator!

...but you won't introduce the legislation because if it passes you'll lose the pandering...er...talking point and if it fails it might show the American people that the majority thinks it's a bad idea.

No...better to score points on the stump by pretending you're powerless and just talking about the Gas Tax Holiday!

There's your "fighter" for ya!

Bill defends wife on gas tax

Carrie in Texas — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:17:50 GMT

It saddens me that Hillary is pandering to cash-strapped, undereducated voters in order to win this thing. Just shows the cynical, dishonest politician she is. Why doesn't she mention that there's no way her gas tax plan would work, since there's NO WAY this Congress would approve a windfall profits tax this summer? Does she plan to put on her Rocky boxing gloves and beat the cr-p out of every Congressperson to get her way? (being the "fighter" she is, of course). Sheesh.