Carl Klutzke ([info]sirvalence) wrote,
@ 2008-05-06 08:37:00
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Hillary Offers $30 for Your Vote!
I hate this kind of stupidity, and this is exactly why I don't want Hillary in office.

In a nutshell, Hillary is pushing a summer-long tax holiday on gasoline. I have to believe Obama is right on this: this is nothing but political pandering--offering a short term benefit of maybe $30 in gasoline savings--in order to collect votes. It won't help anything in the long run, so why bother? How stupid must we be if we fall for this? And when Obama doesn't jump on board too, she says he doesn't care about ordinary people. Grrr.

Hillary supporters have called us on the phone three times, interrupting our lives to try to get support for her. I hate that. Obama's supporters have not called us once. So that's another reason why I voted against her this morning.

I don't like to get political, but jeesh. This is ridiculous.

 

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[info]kriz1818
2008-05-06 12:55 pm UTC (link)
See, and my certainty that she & Bill would bring us more of the same BS is exactly why I didn't vote for her, either. :sigh:

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[info]princejvstin
2008-05-06 03:18 pm UTC (link)
And why I didn't vote for her, either.

This pandering earns Hillary the Venger icon!

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[info]dougo
2008-05-06 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Even stupider, it's not actually likely to change the prices. Removing the tax will just mean more money goes to the gas companies. Though I guess Clinton has some plan to get that money back from them, which makes it better than McCain's, but it's still pointless.

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[info]yekrats
2008-05-06 06:43 pm UTC (link)
We had 3 calls: two from Hillary's campaign, which asked for Cheryl, and one from Barack's campaign, which asked for me. I'm not sure if there's anything to that, or if it was just random chance.

One Hillary quote really stands out in that article: "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists," Clinton told George Stephanopolous on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday after he asked her to name a single economist supporting her plan.

I voted for Mr. Obama a couple of weeks ago in early voting. The whole "Hillary dodging sniper fire in Bosnia" story which played out in March really sealed her fate in my book.

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One thing that annoys me about that story...
[info]yekrats
2008-05-06 07:38 pm UTC (link)
The lede and headline of the story states that Obama's campaign sees Indiana as a tiebreaker, but they don't cite any specific person saying that. Hillary is heavily favored to win Indiana, and Barack is heavily favored to win North Carolina. I highly doubt that the Obama campaign said that, considering it would lend credence to Hillary continuing after winning the "tiebreaker", which was actually fewer delegates than in N. Carolina.

Furthermore, the vote is not close to being "tied". Obama is about 133 delegates away from getting a majority of state delegates. (After today, only about 35 more to go.) Hillary is behind by like 150 state delegates with only 400 left, so that's an easily doable ~70% of the remaining contests, right? Actually, all Obama has to do is coast at this point.

Anyone that is telling you this is a close race is shilling for Hillary's campaign or trying to sell you news! ;-)

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well done
(Anonymous)
2008-05-08 04:39 pm UTC (link)
thanks much, bro

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