April 30, 2008
... and ye shall receive
Not a speech, but here's the Obama TV spot going after McClinton on the gas price holiday.
It seems to me to work pretty well, but (or perhaps because) it doesn't say what my fellow wonks and I want it to say. It doesn't argue with the premise that eliminating the gas tax will reduce prices in the short run; instead it points out that the benefit to the consumer would be abut $30, or the cost of half a tank of gas. And it doesn't bite the bullet by saying that higher gasoline prices are beneficial; instead it talks about fuel efficiency standards and "oil-company price gouging."
So I'm delighted that Obama, instead of ducking, is willing to say long and loud that a bad idea is a bad idea, but I wish he were willing to say exactly why it's a bad idea.
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