Hillary Hits Back Over Pandering Charge
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GASTONIA, NC - Barack Obama’s campaign and supporters have accused Hillary Clinton of pandering to voters by advocating a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax that they say would do very little to ease people’s pain at the pump. But two actual voters confronted Clinton with the charge at an outdoor rally today — getting the NY Senator all fired up in the process.
“I’ve been all over North Carolina, and people are really upset about these gas prices,” she told the crowd from her perch in the bed of a cherry red 1956 Chevy pickup truck. Spotting a handmade neon green sign in the crowd, she paused. “I see that sign over there,” she said. “Guy’s got a sign saying a gas tax holiday is blatant pandering. Well I’ll tell you what, I’d rather the oil companies pay the gas taxes than you pay the gas taxes this summer.”
“I’ll tell you something else. When the Federal Reserve and the Federal Treasury bailed out Bear Stearns to the tune of $30 billion, I didn’t hear people talking about it being pandering,” said Clinton, voice rising. “I think it’s time we didn’t just bail out Wall Street. What about bailing out Main Street? What about recognizing that for many people, they count those pennies every single week?”
Clinton implied that those who accuse her of playing politics with the issue are out of touch with the struggles working families are facing in the current economy. “It’s easy if you don’t have to worry about what gas costs,” she said. “It’s kind of simple if you can go to the grocery store and buy whatever you want and you don’t have to worry about what’s rung up at the cash register. But that’s not the way most Americans are living right now. And it’s time we had a president who recognized it and said we were going to do something about it.”
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With Hillary all we are getting now is sound bites and comments to make news headlines, “The Gas Tax Holiday” has not been thought out, just short term gain to try and earn votes.
As with the “Iran Comment” it is evidence that Hillary does not think first! everything is knee jerk reaction.
Indiana and North Caroline play such an important role now on Tuesday, they can bring this race to and end so we can start to prepare to defeat McCain! - Hillary is not going to bring change, it is going to be more of the same, very little different from Bush, only Senator Barack Obama can give us hope, against all the real problems we face, not the Wright story, losing our homes, debts, increasing cost of gas and food and health care costs!
Hillary is absolutely unbelievable. She is insulting the American people in a way that is beyond disgusting. She knows Congress will never pass the gas tax holiday because it is a bad idea for everyone.
Hillary is an embarrassment to everything that should be seen as “American.” The lies are coming out of Hillary’s mouth, not someone associated with Hillary.
Christian? The truth is the foundation of Christianity. President George W Bush and VP Dick Cheney have been embarrassments to the United Methodist Church (UMC). The UMC wrote letter to Bush about not going to war before the war started. They wrote him other letters about getting out of the war. The UMC wrote Bush a letter that UMC does not torture people. I would guess the UMC is tired of writing letters to unethical Presidents.
Democrats and others all over bashed George W. Bush for giving American taxpayers a $300 refund,saying “what is $300″. $30 might not be much to obama’s SF high class supporters or the educated experts speaking against it, but for a single mother $30 (actually around $60) buys baby formula for a single working mom!
Hillary just got a big boost by spinning gas tax. Experts say the suspension would only hike oil company profits! The trouble is not she got the problem wrong, but she got it wrong purposely to fool the voters.
150 Economists, including 3 Nobel Prize Winners, issued an open letter May 2 opposing suspension of gas tax for the summer and called it a bad public policy:
Brookings’ Henry Aaron sends over a statement (.pdf) signed today by 150 economists opposing the gas tax holiday. They include Nobelists Joe Stiglitz, James Heckman and Daniel Kahneman, as well as a Clinton O.M.B. director, Alice Rivlin, and Robert Shapiro, the chief economic adviser to Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. The letter says “Signers of this letter are Democrats, Republicans and Independents.”
Link for the open letter here:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080502_list_gastax.html
Besides, the suspension would cost 7000 construction jobs in NC because of the lost $9 billion highway fund!
writing letters to unethical Presidents? What about writing letters to unethical Rev. Wright? What about writing letters to candidates who sat and listen to unethical Rev. Wright for 20 years?
VOTE HILLARY ‘08
leighg1,
It’s all BS! ALL 150 Economists, including THE 3 Nobel Prize Winners ARE FULL OF IT. yOU HAVE 1000′S OF TOLL ROADS THAT TAKE IN REVENUE FOR ROAD REPAIR 24/7! IT IS ALL HOGWASH!
IT IS ELITIST BS SO THEY CAN TELL THE LITTLE PEOPLE TO DRIVE LESS, WHILE THE HUMMER GROUP DRIVES AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE! IT IS ALL BS!
Yea right, the economist said the gas tax holiday is bad, yea, because stock holder will lost money when gas tax holiday exist
Bruce,
I have read your posts and I couldn’t have said it better. Thank you.
Obama does not give me hope. His words are empty, He’s the same as the rest… he has you fooled to think he will be able to change anything. so why are you getting so excited? nothing will change. now whos grasping at straws? the negative ads are coming out in Indiana and NC. everything is the “same as usual politics” not even the change guy can change it.
Jim, you are slapping everyone around. What is your problem with paying less for fuel. Or is it because Obama is against some relief for the American worker?
THE EXPERTS IN FLA SAID THE SAME EXACT THING WHEN WE SUSPENDED THE FLA GAS TAX IN THE SUMMER OF 2004. WE SUPPOSEDLY LOST MILLIONS IN ROAD REVENUE, BUT LOW AND BEHOLD, WE HAD A SURPLUS REVENUE IN 2005. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? THEY RAISED THE COST TO DRIVE ON TOLL ROADS! AS I SAID IT IS BS!
You kno Fox News, make sure you cover ‘Paul v Clinton’. It is just going to be huge you may have to shut down your site due to the volume of the traffice on the net. There are a lot of people out there just dying to know what that case is about. It has been no secret that the Clintons are named defendants in this civil case because it has been circulating on the net for a long time, but we don’t know the specifics yet..
last year heating oil skyrocketed in price in one of the warmest winters in US history, and it wasn’t because of supply and demand. All speculaters!
Comment by BRUCE @May 4th, 2008 at 3:10 am:
“writing letters to unethical Presidents? What about writing letters to unethical Rev. Wright?”
Hey Bruce, I’m not voting for Rev. Wright, so I could care less about what he does or says. Try focusing on issues and topics that are relevant to citizens, not this crap.
The gas tax holiday will INCREASE profits for the oil companies, because everyone (including me) will buy gas during the proposed holiday. It will also INCREASE gas prices in the long run by sucking up supply, and providing no long term relief to working people like me. Barack Obama sees this proposal for what it is, a FAKE SOLUTION meant to shore up votes from struggling people. I used to be a huge Bill and Hillary supporter, I voted for Bill twice….but after this campaign, I have lost all respect for them. They are the millionaire elitists, not Barack. Senator Obama could have worked for any Wall Street firm he wanted after college, but chose to go back to Chicago and work in community outreach for the poor. The American public is not stupid enough to fall for these McCain-Clinton-Bush style politicians anymore. I am so disappointed in the Clintons. They seem more like republicans every day.
bb,
I am sure the obama networks (MSNBC, CNN, CBS, and NBC) will cover ‘Paul v Clinton’ if it is anti-clinton!
haydesigner,
obama judgement of sitting there for 20 years before becomming angry and sad is an issue!
It’s a shell game to quote Obama. well let me tell you something you back stabbing piece of black and white piece of trash. To some people, thirty to seventy dollars is not a shell game. You are
nothing but a contrary, self serving, sell out your friend, claw your way to the top ingrate that
would do anything to enhance your position. You don’t deserve the effort and money that your supporters put into you.
haydesigner,
how many 9-11 style attacks on America will come before obama gets angry?
obama’s grass roots following would have great to raise some money for the poor sole in NO in 2005, but I forgot he only needes those people to get elected!
oil prices is getting less and less supply and demand, but more speculation!
bb and haydesigner—
are you two intimate friends? You are both hoping that your personal statis and lifestyles will benefit from your efforts to promote Obama? Nope, you’ll be sitting right next to Reverend Wright and wondering why you have to go back to work to make the best of a bad thing. But then again, if thats were your head is at , then here’s your sign.
haydesigner,
I know you and other obama supporters would like the Rev. Wright thing to go away, but some understand that the Rev. Wright issue speaks to obama’s character! That is an issue for citizens!
A must see Video Funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFArdWcqssc&feature=email
Go Hillary!
haydesigner,
hay is up 50%!
bawk… bawk…
I’m not sure what a hay designer is. But it is starting to sound a little effeminate.
Former Clinton Supporter (Judas),
The American public is not stupid enough to fall for these Mondale-Gore-Kerry-obama style politicians.
BikernAz,
The little effeminate the way obama plays basketball?
DEBATE! DEBATE!! DEBATE!!!
It’s time for everyone to face the truth. Barack Obama has no real chance of winning the national election in November at this time. His crushing defeat in Pennsylvania makes that fact crystal clear. His best, and only real chance of winning in November is on a ticket with Hillary Clinton as her VP.
Hillary Clinton seemed almost somber at her Pennsylvania victory speech. As if part of her was hoping Obama could have proved he had some chance of winning against the republican attack machine, and their unlimited money, and resources.
But it is absolutely essential that the democrats take back the Whitehouse in November. America, and the American people are in a very desperate condition now. And the whole World has been doing all that they can to help keep us propped up.
Hillary Clinton say’s that the heat, and decisions in the Whitehouse are much tougher than the ones on the campaign trail. But I think Mr. Obama faces a test of whether he has what it takes to be a commander and chief by facing the difficult facts, and the truth before him. And by doing what is best for the American people by dropping out of the race, and offering his whole hearted assistance to Hillary Clinton to help her take back the Whitehouse for the American people, and the World.
Mr. Obama is a great speaker. And I am confident he can explain to the American people the need, and wisdom of such a personal sacrifice for them. It should be clear to everyone by now that Hillary Clinton is fighting her heart out for the American people. She has known for a long time that Mr. Obama can not win this November. You have to remember that the Clinton’s have won the Whitehouse twice before. They know what it takes.
If Mr. Obama fails his test of commander and chief we can only hope that Hillary Clinton can continue her heroic fight for the American people. And that she prevails. She will need all the continual support and help we can give her. She may fight like a superhuman. But she is only human.
Sen. Hillary Clinton: “You know, more people have now voted for me than have voted for my opponent. In fact, I now have more votes than anybody has ever had in a primary contest for a nomination. And it’s also clear that we’ve got nine more important contests to go.”
Sincerely
Jacksmith… Working Class
Later All:
VOTE HILLARY ‘08
Tammy— great video. Obama is showing his wimpy side after getting his a$$ kicked in Pennsylvania
and the last debate. He snivels a lot and I don’t like weasels.
Bruce, no, actually I was talking about his posturing in front of the camera. If I was
married to michelle, There would be no kids. I would have faked a premature orgasm,
rolled off her and headed for the shower.
Good night all. Peace and freedom.
Jacksmith, I agree with most of your post. But, Hillary does not need Barack as VP. Surround yourself with puppy dogs, not alligators.
do a google news search:
clinton holiday economist
look at results. (try and find an economist who thinks the holiday is a good idea)
Gas taxes pay for roads? How come Congress doesn’t put money aside each year for road structure? They put enough a way for pork spending. To me $30. is $30. Maybe the rich don’t care, but I am not rich. Obama has some nerve, now he flip-flops, check it out in the year 2000 as Sen. of Illinois he was for it, for his state!
Are you people ready for what is to come in the next few months as your boy gets the spotlight on him? Poor old codger is going to be crucified over his Vietnam ‘hero’ stuff, more than Kerry ever was.
Here is a sample from the famous (late) Colonel Hackforth:
John McCain is being hailed by the press as a “genuine war hero.”
Yet in McCain’s own words just four days after being captured, he admits he violated the U.S. Code of Conduct by telling his captors “O.K, I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”
A Vietnam vet detractor says, “He received the nation’s third highest award, the Silver Star, for treason. He provided aid and comfort to the enemy! The facts are that he signed a confession and declared himself a “black criminal who performed deeds of an air pirate.” This statement and other interviews he gave to the Communist press press were used as propaganda to fan the flames of the antiwar movement.
McCain refused an early release. An act of valor? Three former POWs told me he was ordered to turn it down by his U.S. POW commander and he “just followed orders.”
Why is the people in this country can’t see when they have someone that will help them, is it because of color, sex, other family members, WHAT? we would be so lucky to have a president like Hillary a real American who cares about this country and may i add loves her country and always has, she dorsn’t think we’re a bunch of animals !Obama would not be where he is now had all this rev.wright, rezco,ferracon,ayers and his wife, or b.h.o.’s wife been reported on before feb.2, vote this would have been over a long time ago i know there are a lot of people outthere that wish they could change their vote now! I hope the super delegates do their job and have the voice of the people who were DUPED by this man on day one til now! This man has used the color of his skin to get where he is now, he has duped the African American communities by letting them think he’s African American when he knows he is not! This man is ARABIC he is ashamed of his own lineage and even more hates being half white i think he is a man who has no respect for his mother grandmother or his father! He wants to be something he is not and he really doesn’t need to be president!
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A SUSPENSION OF THE GAS TAX ..IT IS NOT A PERMANENT SOLUTION NOR IS IT MEANT TO BE IT IS A WAY TO OFFER SOME RELIEF ALTHOUGH NOT MUCH IT IS SOMETHING AND IM SURE THERE ARE SOME FAMILY’S OUT THERE THAT IT MIGHT HELP SHORT TERM .RATHER THAN OBAMA BASHING IT WHAT HAS HE OFFERED FOR ANY SHORT TERM RELIEFHE’S WEAK THIS IS ALL HE HAS LEADING UP TO TUESDAY..PLEASE INDIANA AND NC JOIN PENN. IN CHANGING THE DISASTROUS COURSE THE DEMS ARE HEADING IN VOTE HILLARY FOR SOLUTIONS AND CHANGE…WORDS ALONE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH AT LEAST SHE GIVES CLEAR PRECISE ANSWERS …….PLEASE SEND A NEW MESSAGE OF HOPE TO ALL THE EARLY VOTERS WHO CANT REVOTE AFTER LEARNING MORE OF OBAMAS HISTORY
isn’t it funny that all the voices in washington that obama despises are the same people that has surrounded him …….these are the people he talks of getting rid of…..it doesn’t add up his campaign preaches unity but it appears more divisive than ever ..talks of riots and protests and all they can do is blame hillary and her husband for everything…..it is unbelievable if he does get the nod and loses to mccain hillary will still get the blame…the only ones dividing this party are obama and his supporters and they only have themselves to blame when they are wondering what went wrong .it cracks me up that howard dean screwed this whole process up and people like al sharpton predicting riots and protests …he talks of disenfranchised voters what about fla. and mich. he says he doesn’t support eitrher candidate…what are we stupid!..where are the polls asking people who already voted would they change there votes knowing what they know now….please the american people need to let it be known that they were duped and believed all the hype…vote hillary on tuesday indiana and nc redeem the people who can’t redeem themselves start to point this country in the right direction so we can stop the bleeding before it’s too late.
Perhaps someone should remind obama that he actually voted 3 times FOR such a plan in Chicago back in 2000 when gas was $2 a gallon.
Hillary’s gas tax plan is only the begining. Like they say. “Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Apart from giving some savings from the American people as a start, she is giving a CLEAR signal to the big oil companies that she MEANS business, and she’s is going to go after them and their astronomical profits.
She has the guts go on the record and look at O’Reilly in the eyes and say that she will take on the big oil companies and take on OPEC.
Can obama do that since he love to get his fans to chant “Yes We Can, Yes We Can….”??
He can’t. Firstly because obama doesn’t have the guts and what it takes. Second, he has NO plan. He is just playing classic Washington politics of using “snipets” of Hillary overall plan and mocking it. All he can do is to have his surrogates set up a platform at the gas pump and give a Speech. Again another speech.
Can’t every one see Obama is the one who is OLD WASHINGTON POLITCS!
SHAME ON YOU, BARACK OBAMA!!
At least Hillary’s plan reduces pain at the pump for low income folks who are really struggling. They get to save $50-60 in the short term. She will take on the big players when she becomes president and has more executive power.
Obama thinks that his giving of a SPEECH at the gas pump - telling folks to use less gas - is a better solution. Maybe what seems to be common sense to an ordinary person is not common sense to obama.
Remember it took him 20years + 2days for him to get it that folks are offended by Wright. And it took him 2 weeks (with the help of his surrogates explaining to him) for him to understand that folks do not cling to their guns and religion and bigotry because they are frustrated with the government. Maybe it will take him another 20 years to understand that GIVING A SPEECH will not solve anything…
This guy is absolutely a USELESS bump.
SHAME ON YOU, BARACK HUSSSEIN OBAMA!! DROP OUT NOW!!!!
Bruce,
If the toll pay for the roads, then why don’t Hillary eliminate the gas tax forever, we don’t need it for roads, what do we need it for?
John,
Obama does not use “common sense”, he use “Logic”. The Un-educated vs the Educated.
After you vote for Hillary and the price does not go down, but up, who do you think she will blame, sniper fire? or maybe she will blame Barack for not supporting it.
FLORIDA and MICHIGAN video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FU8XlYiCo
powerful video even if Barack doesn’t care, I hope at least he watches it. A young voter’s cry!
ICHOPE
You are partially correct
Obama does not use “common sense”,
Clinton pandering?…well they all do it some more than others. The WORST OFFENDER is Obama!! His pandering as an africian-american and adopting the mannerisms of the black community when he is not black-american….he is an arab american. He adopts their style of walking when he goes to their events, his speech presentation changes and his entire mannerisms change. Talk about pandering with a big P. As he stated in his book…he knows how to move from one group to the other smoothly and stealthly so as not to alarm anyone one group.
What is worse is the black community has been so starved for political power that they would accept even the voice and views of Wright/Ayers/Farahkahn…speech and thought process decidedly anti-american…black power….this extreme view of american that does not really represent their morale character/views….a very dangerous approach indeed. As much as they point the finger at the KKK for its association to white racism they should point the same finger to these 3 “wise men of south side of chicago politics” for they represent black racism/deviant black power and pure terrorism.
If it is jobs and improved economic situations that blacks and others desire then following “the 3 wise men of chicago” will end you up in the poor house. They likely will rob or effectively tax individuals and american business to the extreme which will cause many to more out of the country or not expand. You thought NAFTA was bad…which it wasn’t….you have not seen anything yet. And more important…business know now how to move across the border….before when things were bad they just closed their doors and disappeared totally.
video/ i did it my way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3i7J9CvFA
Must be the same exprerts that told GW Bush the economy was doing just fine. You believed him to right. Ask a trucker how much tax he pays on just one fillup. It’s short term immediate help to those that need it most. It’s not a long term solution. Mr Obama is good at talking problems but has no solutions. Some people need help right now. Whats his plan for right now. Hmm umm ahhh geee I umm forget it. Just vote Hillary so we can get past all this nonsense.
To John and Bruce,
Love you both for stating the facts. Hillary is our only hope. This woman has what it takes to stand up for what she believes in.Obama claims that we need to change how Washington works.Does he himself believe that he can change the way Washington works all by himself. That alone tells me that he is out of touch with reality.He is not going to be able to change Washington he is going to have to fight hard if he wants to get anythiny done. That’s why I believe that Hillary is our ony hope because she knows how Washington works.She is gusty,tenacious,tremendously hard-working,brilliant and has the passion to be President. She will as she says roll up her sleeves from day one to start working for the people of our country. She has been the only First Lady ever to have had an office in the White House because she worked on many different Programs.I would hate to see another 8 years of our lives go down the drain because I think Obama’s lack of experience would take him longer to get anything done. Indiana and North Carolina our future is in your hands,please make the right choice,Vote for Hillary!!!!!!!!!!!
Hillary mispeaks again>>>
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4757257&page=1%20ABC%20news%20article%20on%20Magnequench
How in the world can Obama talk about Hillary pandering when he has done the same thing in answering his relationship with his pastor or former pastor. Why did he only denounce him when the polls started showing that his support was declining. He is trying to have it both ways. I am an African American who supports Hillary bwecause she is tentancious, smart and strong, and will make a great president.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, so there leaves no room for any of us to talk about the rest of us. If you throw a stone, one may be thrown back at you. Take a look at your own faults before critizing others fault, you may see something about yourself that need to change.
How can we elect a man with pratically no experience in such critical time. Wait people it is going to be about racial issue as Mr. Kool make sure he brought it up so he made sure none of us white will dare to say anything about him. Lets be honest if he was white he will not be where he is now and all the black community is making sure they are threatning us if we don’t vote for him just because he speaks well with empty action. Well god bless us all you’r fool intelectual liberal I hope IN and NC save us. A long time liberal democrats who scare of the Obama hope and dishonest machine.
Senator Obama VOTED for the GAS TAX HOLIDAY twice or three times before and at the time the price of a barrel of gas wasn’t even half of what it is today, but as usual if he does it HE HAS VISION, but if it is Senator Clinton, she is pandering. Furthermore, she made it very clear that IT WAS NOT A SOLUTION to our oil dependency crisis, but simply A SHORT-TERM RELIEF for people during the summer months.
I’m fed up with all the hope nonsense. This is the real world and the only way to bring about any kind of change or achieve anything in life is through HARD WORK, faith if you happen to be a believer, and maybe some luck; the rest is just pure rubbish.
His talk about change is hollow coming from a man who has brought about NO CHANGE to Washington or even his own backyard during his 8 years in the Ill senate. Look as his Congressional voting record (www.senate.gov or LIbrary of Congress) or go to the Center for Responsive Poitics so that you can see all his big donors.
As profesor Adolph Reed said, “Obama struck me as a vacuous opportunist, a good performer with an ear for how to make white liberals like him with his empty rethoric of hope and change and new direction.”
Senator Obama is a fraud and an egotist;its all about him. The only reason he denounced Rev. Wright its because the reverend implied that he was just like any other politician saying what he needed to say for personal gain or in his case, for “self-preservation.” It so ironic that from all the despicable things that Rev. Wright said, the word POLITICIAN was the one to do the trick.
He loves the words I, me, and “we”, but when he uses we he really means I. “We are the ones we’re waiting for.”
I am asking the questions to any obama voters what has he done for america , that puts him the same league as hillary clinton what has he brought to the table other then most blacks who really think that he is going to be a savior to the black american black. look this man grew up in haswii and indonisia he went to go live with is white grandparents because his radical atheist mother dropped him off he went to private schools he has no idea what the american black person growing up here was like so he is not going to be what the black people want him to be for them a savior who will what set them free get them a better education what do you think he went to that rev.wright church for. he is pissed he is half black he is pissed because his mother bedded down with an african he will get back at his mother by flipping us all off like he did his pastor. dont be blinded by the glitter its not real. its phoney of him to be president we dont know this man . but tell me what you think he will do for you that hillary and bill clinton has not?
ireally need to know this i am afraid that this phoney will be the beginning of the end for democrocy. he my dear friends is not one of us. and race has nothing to do with what i am saying believe me. why do you believe him.??????//
I can’t believe that Hillary has not made an issue of Obama’s lack of patriotism. He has yet to put his hand over his heart during our counties National Anthem or worn the coat Pin(USA). The people needs someone who Bleeds Red , White , and Blue. A true American.
The Gas has gone out of control and a Summer Break is better than no break at all. The American people need to feel that our next President is feeling the American People’s pain.
There are millions of Americans that can’t afford gas prices because not everyone makes over minimum wage. We need to stop sending so much aid to other countries and concentrate our efforts on our American Land.
I am an American and I do Bleed Red,White,and Blue.