As is usually the case on the eve of primary elections, the rules go out the window the night before. I remember driving home from Mccain HQ in New Hampshire the night before the primary and hearing a Romney radio spot saying all sorts of things he had declined to say during the campaign when there was still time for rebuttal and cries of foul play. This is exactly what is going on in Indiana and North Carolina. The Obama campaign had a spot ready to go in response to the negative ad they anticipated the Clinton people would put out. Here they are: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/05/clinton_whats_happened.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/05/obama_hometown.html
3 responses so far ↓
1 Aaron Nathan (anathan10) // May 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Gas tax. Oy. Just watched the first ad–so the oil companies are going to pay the tax instead of us, eh? I just yacked another HuckaBurger.
2 caravan70 (dpshupe92) // May 7, 2008 at 8:08 am
I don’t protest too much at the idea of the gas tax holiday; I suspect it will have a negligible impact. I do, though, worry that it runs a bit counter to what Senator McCain’s stated position has been - that we need to develop alternatives to our dependence on foreign oil so we’re not funding organizations and states that want to kill us.
It’s more of a quick fix than a long-term solution, I suppose.
3 Sam Rudman (srudman09) // May 7, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Does anyone else think that this whole energy independence thing is a crock? You get it from both parties but it just seems so wildly unrealistic. One of the few coherent points made by Thomas Barnett during his talk here was the idea that in the age of globalization it is ridiculous to expect to be totally self-sufficient at anything, let alone something you are historically dependent upon others for, like energy.
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