Bill Clinton on Gas Taxes: He Raised 'Em in '93, then Opposed a "Vacation" in 2000

The OBAMA fanatics pick up lots of slogans from communists. They say nothing but just cry.

After this Tuesday, they shall have the real reason to cry when their OBAMA whine again.

By the way, have you heard anything positive from the inspirator OBAMA. His negativity and word-twisting ads will help the poll of his negativity soar.

He probably perspires so much that he needs an inspirator for himself.

Mona, please don't be fooled. You're not going to see a penny extra. Hillary just wants your vote. Please do the research, it's not going to happen no matter what she tells you.

The elitist's who support Barack Obama just don't get it do they? When I got to the pump and there are two gas stations directly across from each other and one says 3.79 and the other says 3.78 I am going fill up at the 3.78 gas pump. Why? Because that penny matters to me if it means I am saving something. So if what Hillary proposes is going to save me a penny in the summer...so be it!!!! Now if you choose to pay more for you gas, than by all means you definitely should be voting for Obama.

President Hillary 08

indy_voter writes:
"Belle Starr, I agree Edwards would have made a better nominee."

And that's still a possibility. The more states vote for Clinton, the MORE it's still a possibility: the Kerry wing is so closet-Republican, not to mention male chauvinist, that I believe they might do ANYthing rather than have Clinton become president.

Obama's just another pretty face with the mob behind him. Who needs it? Speaking on his feet, Bill Clinton -- like him or not -- is a lot more adorable in action. This has nothing to do with "race" -- it's charisma, the real deal.

Belle Starr, I agree Edwards would have made a better nominee. But Hillary Clinton as second choice over Obama? I don't think so. While you can argue the amount of credibility any politician has I believe Hillary has zero.

fontapa writes:
"how it is designed to HURT low income households in the long run ... Don't pretend to speak for Mr. Edwards, you Republican poser. He'd be outraged at your claims."

I said NOTHING about Edwards and the gas-tax matter, and somehow I doubt you'd have a shadow of an idea WHAT might outrage Edwards.

What you don't understand about poor people is that there isn't a "long run", just a continuing crisis.

When it comes to Republicans posing as Democrats, I'd worry more on that score about Obama's longtime associates from the Weathermen.

In 1992 gas prices were $1.98 clinton took ofice and kept them below a dollar for almost seven and a half years we always pay mor for gas when republicans are in because they want to drill and that is what the on going fight why did we have 30 refinery's in 1970 and now have just five they tell us we need more drilling and more refinery's. To bad we never know who is the liar. just look how fast the first lady is on tv for aide to Burma but NO three days and many dead and not one hand lifted .off subject but even if I am for it still p#####me off

John -Democrat writes:
"Obama is an scripted candidate with a gifted oratorical skills; but I should say reading oratorical skills because he is unable to debate or connect one on one with people."

One thing I've noticed in the last couple of days is that at least one of the news networks has taken to showing footage of a really OLD Obama rally.

Obama's good-looking, and baby-faced and telegenic. I don't think he really IS much of an orator -- unless you count repeating hypnotic phrases to a crowd that's all het up to see a celebrity -- an imitation of "charisma".

Fortunately, he lost a lot of that in the Wright matter -- giving that ponderous speech in Philadelphia, then going back on all his fancy feelings -- which has exposed him permanently as just the same old same old.

Len -

See, he's not trying to have it both ways. He never was a Muslim. Ever. No both ways about it.

He voted for gas tax breaks, and learned it doesn't work, admitted it, and is not going to make the same mistake twice by supporting it now. Only one way about that...

He denounced Wright's comments, but said the man was not ALL bad. Despite popular opinion, he may have denounced him in stronger terms the other day, but at no point did he say Wright is now irredeamable and dead to him. No two ways about that...

Hillary on the other hand hasn't admitted a change of heart on NAFTA. She's expecting us to beleive that while her husband was for it, she was FAKING support for it, but has always been against it. Trying to have it both ways there.

She wants us to beleive she gained experienc from working with Bill, that it was a Co-Presidency. But she only wants us to count the good stuff. It apparently was only a Co-Presidency when it just happened to be in line with her current position. The rest of the time she must have been faking it?

Her supporters want us to give her credit for things like the Peace in Ireland, but not the botched foreign affairs that failed to stop Bin Laden. She wants credit for the successful economy, but not for the recession that her husband's actions created upon leaving office.

Now she expects us to beleive that she doesn't see anything flawed with her gas tax holiday plan, when her own husband, her self-proclaimed closest advisor, saw PRECISELY what was wrong with it and said so on multiple occasions in the past.

What, are we supposed to beleive that on those days in their Co-Presidency, she was just faking agreement with him on gas taxes?

That's what I mean by wanting it both ways. She'd have done better to just campaign on her own successes, not her husbands. Then people would be unable to tie his positions and blunders to her.

She made that bed, sir, now she can LIE in it.

"Either NOTHING counts from her experience as Bill's wife, or ALL of it counts. You can't have it both ways..."

Either Obama IS a Muslim because he studied in Muslim schools when young or he is a Christian because he says so now. You can't have it both ways? Or can you?

Obama voted for a gas tax relief bill three times when it was politically convenient but is now against it? You can't have it both ways? Or can you?

Obama claimed Wright was his 'spiritual mentor' when it helped him win the Senate race but disowned him in this campaign only when it was too inconvenient not to? You can't have it both ways? Or can you?

The list is long and so are our memories. We all learn from experience. The relief is just the first move, skinny on the promise with more to come.

Now do you want to play cutting heads or discuss problems of national importance? When the votes are counted in November, you can only have it one way, and some of us Democrats believe it would be better to win the White House over making a statement about what reformed goodniks we all are.

Unless the Supreme Court intervenes again at which case we all quit and go home... again.

What excuse(s) will Hillary have after NC and IN cast their votes for continuing to stay in the race?

fontapa

Edwards is an ambulance chaser.

Belle Starr

I don't think anybody believes Obama (aka Soetoro) gives a damned about the poor.

He's preaches hope and delivers nothing. A real bag of hot air!

Belle Star -

John Edwards is an incredibly smart man with business acumen and a true understanding of class struggle and the long-term costs lower and middle income Americans have paid for constantly voting their short-term interests.

He would NEVER in a million years have endorsed this absurd plan. He'd have seen it for the fraudulent bounced check that it is. He'd have seen how it is designed to HURT low income households in the long run, and would have sacrificed the potential votes he'd have gained and done the right thing, like Obama has.

Don't pretend to speak for Mr. Edwards, you Republican poser. He'd be outraged at your claims.

Glenn, welcome to the show

SEN. OBAMA: And, and that's my point. I voted for it, and then six months later we took a look, and consumers had not benefited at all, but we had lost revenue.

MR. RUSSERT: So you learned from a wrong vote.

SEN. OBAMA: Yeah, I learned from a mistake. And, in addition, what happens is, is that this would come out of the Federal Highway Fund that we use to rebuild our roads and our bridges. And if we don't have that fund, then we're looking at thousands of jobs being lost in Indiana and in North Carolina.

fontapa writes:
"People are losing their houses, cars, and other property because they can't make payments"

And here's a news flash for you: millions of people, including a whole lot of young people and children, have no property TO lose -- and of those, many are depending on SOMEbody who drives a car to some kind of crap job so that they can keep EATING.

So what do we hear from idol Obama? A lot of hand-wringing about mortgages. Nothing about the zillion people for whom HAVING a mortgage TO lose would be a good thing.

The poor don't disappear just because the Democrats don't permit their being mentioned, and the media corporations don't see fit to put them on the "news".

Clinton, God bless her, at least is TRYING to channel John Edwards!

Nominating Edwards would still be the best bet for the Democrats -- it's reasonable to suppose that elderly war-nut McCain will suffer some timely incapacity following which the Republicans will nominate a candidate best-suited to trounce the Democratic nominee. Only if that nominee is Edwards, is there going to be a Democrat who can prevail.

Aside from the general creepiness of his actual biography, candidate Obama can't speak on his feet. If he were the nominee, the Dems would lose to the Republicans. Fine for post-partisan apparatchiks, but not so good for the poor.

Hillary and Bill are reaching for straws and trying to fool the people in NC and IN it wont work the American people are fed up with the Clintons, Bushs, and the old sneaky McCain Bush want-to-be politics as usual. The American people are to smart for that and will turn the page. The talk radio Conservatives shook Jocks want the American people to believe that their for Hillary but they want the fight between Hillary and Obama to continue until November to try and make McBush look good that want work either.

Obama's state wins 31 lost 15, Delegate count 1750 +/-, Negatives are way down, Better nominee

Clinton's state wins 15 lost 30,
Delegate count 1611 +/-, Negatives way up. Not a good nominee.

Fund Raising Obama beats Clinton or McCain Expediently.

Registering new voters Obama beats Clinton or McCain.

Bring the country together Obama beats Clinton or McCain.

Overall, Obama beats Clinton or McCain.

Race against McCain, Obama better nominee.

Obama all the way!

You for got contest won

Obama:31 Clinton:15

I guess since we are talking about the past, lets also talk about Obama voting to repeal the gas tax in Illinois. The same thing that he is calling a gimmick now. Instead you focus on something completely different that Bill Clinton did or did not do years ago when circumstances were quite different.

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I'll always remember Harkin smiling and applauding behind Howard Dean when Dean went on his famous rage.

I've disliked him ever since. He acted like a complete and highly challenged moron.