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Posted at 12:29pm on Apr. 24, 2008 Obama Channels John Kerry: I voted FOR The Tax Holiday Before I Voted AGAINST It

By haystack

Mr. "I'm in touch with the American People" Obama brings us his very OWN flip flop via the Wall Street Journal. Seems 'ol Barry likes temporary tax breaks when he's a State Senator (something about placards honoring him for saving folks a couple hundred bucks), but has decided as a Junior US Senator running for President that he doesn't:

"I've said I think John McCain's proposal for a three-month tax holiday is a bad idea. We're talking about 5 percent of your total cost of gas that you suspend for three months, which might save you a few hundred bucks that then will spike right up," Obama said. "Now keep in mind that it will save you that if Exxon Mobil doesn't decide, 'we'll just tack on another 5 percent on the current cost.'"

Funny. Obama supported a gas tax holiday due to a "huge hike in prices" when gas was running at $1.52 a gallon. Now it's at like $3.50 or $4.00 a gallon, and he won't support something similar? That's a pretty big and hard-to-justify flip-flop, if you ask me.

Barack Obama seems to think a couple hundred bucks is no big deal to the American consumer...not surprising really, given he has millions to play with. Consider that he couldn't even show his sorry butt up long enough to vote for the stimulus package that gives another couple hundred bucks to the consumer via tax rebates...guess we know where we stand with 'ol Barry come judgement day as he fights for a POTUS budget. Flip flopping and mucking things up even worse for us is becoming standard fare with these Democrats...notice the Honorable Junior Senator from New York (who just happens to ALSO be running for President) couldn't be bothered to show up and vote to give us back a couple hundred bucks of our own money either...

What was that remark about elitists again? Sheesh...

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