I need some help to destroy a post please. Obama smear

[and-justice-for-all]

this is a post on my local papers forum: http://community.cnhi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/34110106/m/5441009831

I need some help with cruching this garbage, of course it is from a Clintonian:

"OK, here's the thing. It's not the 18 to 29 cent a gallon savings that Obama and corporate economists object to here, it's Clinton's call for a windfall tax on oil profits to pay for it. Boy, what a terrible idea... These struggling oil companies see suggestions like this as tantamount to treason. And Obama has demonstrated an alliegance to those firms. You may recall that his claim that he doesn't take money from them has been widely debunked. (See factcheck.org and opensecrets.org for the details.) He also supported the Cheney energy bill in 2005, which was larded with subsidies for the oil companies. Really, anyone who seriously researches this candidate will find that it's not the little people, by and large, who have supported him with a quarter billion dollars in contributions (so far). The gas tax holiday, by the way, IS a bill in Congress, and not the so-called "gimmick" it's portrayed to be. If Obama joined the other candidates and supported it, the bill would probably get passed, along with other short-term solutions on the table. Anyone interested in reading an article on the manipulation of the primaries, here's a link to one published at thecityedition.com."


http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html

[Dr Ron]

1. Typical Clinton Smear

The argument that Obama is obecting to the gas holiday has noting to do with supporting the oil companies. For example, Obama has proposed a windfall profits tax on the oil companies:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aP_1wrIyt1Nc

I have more info and a couple links criticizing the tax holiday here:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3220