Horsefeathers

From an article on Hillary's appearance on "This Week":

An Obama supporter picked from the audience by Stephanopoulos to ask a question in the town hall meeting format of the show said she makes less than $25,000 a year, so the price of gas is not an academic issue for her.

“I really do feel pain at the pump,” said Kara Glennon. “However, I do feel pandered to when you talk about suspending the gas tax. I don’t think that it’s really a reasonable plan. Call me crazy, but I actually listen to economists because I think they know what they’ve studied.”

Glennon asked Clinton how the proposal squared with her concerns about energy independence and global warming as lowering the gas tax would not encourage people to save energy and drive less.

Clinton said that while suspending the gas tax would offer short-term relief, she’s also advocating long-term solutions to gas prices and energy independence, including making vehicles more fuel efficient and having the United States be a world leader on addressing global warming.

At a rally in Indianapolis Saturday night, Clinton used the gas tax issue as “just one more indication” that Obama is “not understanding what’s going on in so many people’s lives.”

She is more or less admitting to using the gas tax suspension as a means to getting to voters! She is acknowledging that the proposal is not a long-term solution and is in fact counterproductive! She should not be allowed to tout herself as a global warming fighter while this is happening! How do people get away with this? McCain too, for that matter! And not just the politicians; where is the responsibility of the journalists? I know Stephanopoulos is a former Clintonian, but why even fake it at this point? This is ludicrous. And that quote about Obama just makes me want to punch her in the face.