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May 05, 2008 5:46 PM

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, landed in Indiana Monday and picked up where she left off yesterday – hammering Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hard on the gas tax.

"I think it’s a false choice as my opponent and others have been trying to say. ‘Oh we can’t do anything in the short run to help people – we can only worry (about) the long run.’ People live in the short run. People get up every day and have to go fill up their tanks."

Clinton wanted the people of Merrillville, IN to know that she understands the value of the dollar.  Speaking about her plan to have the oil companies pay the gas tax this summer Clinton said, "My opponent Senator Obama, he disagrees with me. He wants you to pay it. Not the oil companies. And he’s always going on TV, and he’s always saying ‘oh you know that’s just like $20 dollars.’ Well you know for a lot people $20 dollars is something right? $20 dollars means something."

Clinton pointed out the importance of the race tomorrow in a larger context – but the outcome in Indiana is equally critical for the survival of her campaign. "Tomorrow is consequential. Every election is important. But this one holds special significance. Because after what we have been through these last seven years – we know we’ve got to get a hold of our country."

Concluding her remarks, Clinton pointed to a sign she had seen in the audience and said, "I do see you, and I do hear you. I do believe that you’re doing the best you can under difficult circumstances and were going to get in there and we’re going to reverse these circumstances but in the meantime lets provide a little help along the way. So you feel like you’ve got some leadership again."

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The problem for Obama is the fact he never offered up any alternative for the gas tax holliday.

He just sat there pointing the finger at his opponent. Voters sit in the middle and could care less about the political MIND GAMES .

They just see one person actually TRY to do something, and the other one whining and complaining about it.

Obama had the high road on the gas tax, but then BLEW IT by not offering anything himself.

Posted by: tomdavie | May 5, 2008 5:54:42 PM

Hill has no respect for people, considering that everybody has to listen to her immature ideas about this gas holiday which came from McCain by the way, is just unthinkable. Her plan is to make 28 cents available for everybody by taking money from road and bridge safety funds i.e. giving us 28 cents money to go on unsafe roads and bridges, that is just incredible. Can somebody tell her that even McCain has abandonned the idea. Can she stop insulting our intelligence. We know that she is hunting the blue-color again or the old, but please this does not make it. God save America from BillHilary, FoxNews, McCain and Hannety. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

Posted by: BKMC | May 5, 2008 5:57:21 PM

Hillary is the best candidate in this race. She is talking to us, we can hear her well, she is connecting with middle class America, the people that win elections. Her husband is doing the same going to small towns, talking to the people and listening to them, can't be better than that. In the other hand Obama is all about big speeches, big campaign events, long term solutions only, dream of the future, etc. We can't have a future if we can't tackle the current issues head on and to do that we need leadership. As Bill Clinton did it in the past Hillary will do it again and probably better. We need a leader and she is showing us the real Hillary. Obama should learn from her and from Bill instead of trying to divide the party blind for his personal ambitions!

Go Hillary, the country needs you, we Democrats need you!

Hillary 2008

Posted by: Paul J._North Carolina | May 5, 2008 6:00:15 PM

So 20 dollars is being in touch? Sounds like pandering to me.

Go Pander Bear!

Posted by: Thinking | May 5, 2008 6:02:14 PM

If Obama is "out of touch," then so are the majority of the voters who voted for him, NOT for her. An alternate, and more likely explanation, is that Clinton is not telling the truth--AGAIN--out of desperation for her failed candidacy. Clinton is toast!

Posted by: Justinteim | May 5, 2008 6:08:47 PM

It is very funny Obama offered nothing but complaining...This is the exactly what he is: "empty' speech vs substance....

What good things has he done to Americans so far??

Posted by: True Truth | May 5, 2008 6:11:52 PM

Sometimes 'no solution' is better than the wrong one.

Posted by: MIguy | May 5, 2008 6:15:54 PM

Most Obama supporters are gambling, voting for a completely untested candidate without no records, experience, bills passed or proven leadership. I can tell they watch way to much reality shows and bought into the millions of dollars in ads, Hollywood production stages, big arenas entertainment like events and cheap rhetoric.
Obama has never been a leader, no even in Chicago or Illinois. I went to school at the U. of Chicago and never heard of this dude. I heard of his wife, that she was a power hunger cocky lady. Thats it!

No with Obama. This are not times to teach a wimp or light weight candidate. We need a leader that is tough and can deal with big issues.

Go Hillary 2008!

Posted by: Nancy_ Chicago | May 5, 2008 6:16:57 PM

"Sometimes 'no solution' is better than the wrong one."

No solution is all Obama EVER offers.

Posted by: trettin | May 5, 2008 6:21:55 PM

Clinton sold out America when she voted for the Iraq war. She was out of touch with reality then and she out of touch with reality now.

She didn't have the spine then to standup, and she doesn't have it now.

She and the majority of Congress, did not have the moral authority to lead then, and they do not now.

She and the majority of Congress do not deserve our vote.

Posted by: Thinking | May 5, 2008 6:23:43 PM

Hillary...
You can't even pump your own gas and you don't know how to operate a coffee machine!!!!!

Who's really "out of touch" here?

Posted by: BeboCampbell | May 5, 2008 6:24:29 PM

Obama is out of touch with regular folks. Go Hillary/McCain.

Posted by: kittyCat | May 5, 2008 6:28:27 PM

Several misconceptions have been posted by Obama supporters concerning the gas tax suspension proposal.

Initially, Hillary Clinton's proposal would require that any lost revenues resulting from the temporary gas tax suspension would be paid for with oil company profits.

The boogeyman approach of those who would have us believe the temporary tax elimination will make roads unsafe or eliminate jobs suggests misunderstanding or an attempt at misinformation.

For those who suggest that a few cents a gallon is not enough, you are proabably right.

But, no one piece of legislation is going to get the economy back up and running as it should be.

Simply put, the economic woes did not emerge overnight and will require a lot of changes, not just the temporary suspension of a tax.

But, it is a start, and at least Clinton and McCain are doing something.

Regarding this issue, Barack Obama has done....

Nothing....

Posted by: Jayhawk | May 5, 2008 6:32:32 PM

I guess the fact that 200 of the nations leading economists have written a letter proclaiming the Gas tax repeal a bad decision. Hillary is going to double down on the bad decision in order to pander for votes in the short term. Next she will be outright paying for votes. She is shameless and scandal ridden.

Posted by: Progressive Democrat | May 5, 2008 6:37:22 PM

Peter_Indy for Hill, could you tell us what Hill has done as a senator, she is trying to run on the performance of her huseband in the 1990s, we have to understand that old solutions cannot work in the 21 st century. Look at her offer for a gas holiday which she has stollen from McCain, do you believe that that kind of politics will work in 2008? Pathetic, America needs real solutions and not pandering. The "Born to lead-Clinons Cult" will not work this time around. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

Posted by: BKMC | May 5, 2008 6:54:43 PM

If Hillary thinks that $20 or $30 dollars is going to help me survive it shows that she is out of touch and an elitist. Only those who have millions of dollars would think that a couple of dollars will solve my problems is soooooo out of touch.

Posted by: Kristle | May 5, 2008 6:56:20 PM

Obama doesn't' even know what to say if he isn't in front of a TelePrompTer. When left along, he stutters as if he's trying Clairvoyance to catch the waves of his keepers. Never has there been a less competent candidate.

And his promise of hope without any knowledge of where his new direction is going. He's a NO ISSUE candidate who preys on the mentally weak.

Posted by: T | May 5, 2008 6:56:29 PM

Poor Poor Peter in Indy is out trolling for the losing cause. You are a typical dead ender peter in indy. I feel sorry for you. You are with the anti-hope candidate. That is sad and despicable. To answer your weak minded and dimunitive question; THE IRAQ WAR!!!

Posted by: Progressive Democrat | May 5, 2008 6:57:59 PM

Come on folks. A gas tax holiday?? Nothing but pandering for votes on Hillary and McCain's part. Gas users would realize less than $4.00 per tank under this grand scheme. How stupid do they think we are??

Posted by: JB | May 5, 2008 7:03:21 PM

This college educated young woman is voting for Hillary. Obama is in it for his ego, not for the good of the people. He feels he is entitled, where Hillary knows she has to work hard to have the respect of the American people.

Hillary 2008!

Posted by: Jenny | May 5, 2008 7:12:38 PM

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