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I am definitely more on the liberal side. So I am sure that my blogs reflect that.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Obama's Ad - Gas Prices

This is Obama's new ad that will run in Indiana and North Carolina. I received it in an email from his campaign. It is a response to Hillary's attacks about his opposition to the holiday gas tax. I am very glad that this commercial will be playing, because a lot of people may not understand the full picture if they just listen to Hillary's side. I think that it is important for people to understand that the gas price holiday is a gimmick.....like Obama says, it is what the people in Washington do. It is a quick fix to the problem that really doesn't help the problem at all. It is important for the voters of next Tuesday's primary to understand why Obama is against the holiday, otherwise they might think that he does not care about the high prices, when in fact it is just the opposite. He is turning to real solutions, that will hopefully lower the actual price of gas, rather than just suspend a small tax and the expense of the government's revenue. It makes me mad the Hillary and McCain are making the gas tax holiday sound like such a big deal and making it seem like it will really help people. But what makes me even more mad, is that they have the nerve to turn around and attack Obama for not support such a bogus idea. I think that him opposing this shows that he is different than most politicians, he will not try to fool the people by telling them that we have a solution, when in fact it is not much of a solution at all. Like he says, we have to change the way Washington is run, and I think that the way he is handling all of this demonstrates that he is the candidate that will change it. I have a lot of trust in him for reasons like this. It makes it hard to trust someone like McCain or Clinton when I hear them talk about this gas tax holiday like it will help the people so much, when it really wont. Obama knows this from first hand experience when something similar was done eight years ago in Illinois, so I am pretty sure he is in the right here.
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