Obama slams Hillary/McCain gas tax holiday.. A must see..

[Bensthename]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-zehvWOV4

Hillary better hope IN and NC voters do not watch this..

[Aloha Spirit]

1. Holy shit, he knocked her on the "with us or against us" quote. I love this candidate.

[Tippy]

16. And she handed it to Obama on a silver platter....

"With us or against us" will change some votes to be sure...Any red blooded American should be against that term no matter what the context....Us it or loose it Obama....

[Tippy]

18. Clinton pushing for a quick vote....

E-mailed my Congressman yesterday....before I knew she called for a vote...

AP had this:

"MUNSTER, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs."

Go Obama.......tell Americans just how many jobs we will lose because of her foolish idea to gain votes.

[Aloha Spirit]

2. with us or against us: "us" refers to "me and John McCain"... *must* watch.

[bigdarryl]

6. SMACK DOWN DAAAAAAMN!!!!!!

This is the most focused he's been in three weeks

[Bensthename]

10. It was a dandy.

[Zachstar]

3. He smashed through the issue of the gax tax.

And landing a BIG political blow to the Clinton and McCain campaign!

[Bensthename]

12. yup

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. And yet, today he proposed a windfall profits tax on energy companies.

Just
Like
Hillary

... except he doesn't intend to use the proceeds to replace the sales tax.

[Aloha Spirit]

7. He proposed it at least a month ago/

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. I first saw it this morning.

The complaints about Hillary's "tax holiday" are:
1) Tax holiday sounds just too GOP-ish. I agree with this.
2) Her windfall profits tax on energy companies will never pass. But Obama's bigger tax will, of course.
3) Her repeal of the sales tax on gas won't have any effect on pump prices. But Obama's bigger tax on producers and with no change in the sales tax won't either.

Hillary would replace the sales tax with a moderate windfall profits tax. Obama would ADD a very large windfall profits tax on top of the sales tax.

I choose the first one.

[Aloha Spirit]

9. That's fair. Well, I'm going to keep an open mind...not a fan of the WPT or tax holiday right now.

I guess I was just pointing out that Obama wasn't copying the WPT from Clinton.
Cheers

[Inuca]

21. That is NOT the point

This idea has been floating around the democratic side of COngress for a while know AKAIK. The point is that Clinotn claims that the windfall tax makes her proposal different from McCain's because she says this money will be used instead of the gas tax. The problems with her claim are twofold: 1. the windfall profits tax will NOT PASS, at least in the Senate until we hopefully get more dems next year; and 2. it seems (sorry, no link, heard it on TV) she also wants to use the same $s obtained from the oil companies to fund research into new energy sources, sorry, can't do BOTH. As usual, she is pandering, and hoping that people do not notice.

[TeamJordan23]

5. k&r. nm

[Aloha Spirit]

11. kick

[Aloha Spirit]

14. re-kick

[Aloha Spirit]

15. kck

[PoliticalAmazon]

13. Damn, he handled that WELL. Powerful, articulate, no BS, just the facts. n/t

[Frank Booth]

17. This is good, but he should make an ad out of this.

The ad on the gax tax holiday that's he's been running is kind of weak. This speech addresses the issue much better.

[Tippy]

19. I propose ...we do a letter to folks we know in IN and NC

Telling them the truth and what will happen to jobs if it is passed...

edit for correction

[Bensthename]

24. you are right.. He could have done alot better.

Where he says we would save half a tank of gas, it sounds like a half a tank each time.. And it does not mention the job lay offs that woulld happen.

[Aloha Spirit]

25. I'm a gastank-half-empty kind of person.

[DerekJ]

20. Bam!! N/t

[DerekJ]

22. Kick

[Bensthename]

23. Error: you can't recommend your own topics

[Kahuna]

26. Excellent! GOOOOOOO-BAMA!

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