Hackitude on the Gas Tax

It was bad when Clinton came out and defended John McCain’s gas tax holiday proposal. It was worse when she started attacking Obama for calling the proposal nonsense. What I hadn’t expected, though, was that Jerome Armstrong would actually defend her position on the merits. Here’s the problem, Jerome; the proposal has no merits. And you’re doing no one any favors by pretending that it does. Christ, not even TalkLeft is defending Clinton on this one. Let’s review: Just because you support a candidate DOES NOT mean that you have to defend that candidate’s most boneheaded and nonsensical proposals.

…Armstrong:

First, by making the claim that this only saves individuals $20 bucks a month, Obama doesn’t realize how out-of-touch and elitist that sounds to the average low-wage earner who would view it as their ‘best day in weeks’ to find a Jackson laying on the sidewalk.

“out-of-touch and elitist”; I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean, Jerome. And that’s setting aside the assumption that Democratic primary voters are too stupid to see a pander for what it is. At my lowest wage point I would have been delighted to find a $20, but simply because people earn low wages doesn’t mean that they’re morons.