Clinton: People 'live in the short run'

Flagrantly biased toward Hillary. Nauseating.

If $20 is a lot to someone, carpooling, biking, walking, or public transit will all save vastly more than Clinton's proposal, while having many other benefits and not hurting federally funding programs. She may be right that people live in the short term, but that's called being shortsighted and isn't a good thing. "Fixing" today's problem, while causing tomorrow's.

Clinton knows how to pull the heartstrings of those who are hurting. Too bad they'll keep right on hurting once she has their vote. Shame, Hillary, shame.

the idea that just because a person is not wealthy (like her & Bill are), they don't look past 'tomorrow' is insulting and offensive!

i agree 20 bucks is 20 bucks everything helps NOW!!!!!!

LOL! Here ya go. Here is $20 vote for me. I will go home to my 109 Million. What a joke!

I'm from Illinois and we think that people from Indiana are not the "sharpest takcs in the pack" . (I understand they feel the same about us.) However, even we don't think they are as dumb as the East Coast elitist liberals who are promoting this idiocy. $20, you can go to a movie, but nopocorn

Right, a "populist" message sponsored by special interest groups and lobbyists. Obama's campaign is the one sponsored by a huge number of small donations from the public.

Hope she brings her message thats in the huffington post hil and mc cain want long time presence (WAR) in Iraq
Obama2008! YES WE CAN !

Exactly as Senator Clinton said - we have to pay for the gas today - not next week

Wow, she's actually criticizing Obama for offering long term solutions. Her short-term, feel-good (non)solution is the kind of policy that has put our country in the economic situation that we're in today- no long term energy strategy, massive deficit spending, not enough investment in our future.

That "down home inflection" is reason enough not to vote for Hillary. She is so willing to sell her sense of honesty to the devil of political power, she can't be trusted.

What a joke.

GO, Hillary, GO!!!!

Believe it or not, I'm not that short sighted that I think that giving money to oil companies will cause them to give us a price break.

In the short run, at least the tax rebate check (another election gimmick) provided a more concrete bit of help.

As someone said, "Cars can run on all sorts of fuel these days. Unfortunately, snake oil is not one of them."

As I observe this Iron Maiden manuvere herself around her new "Flavor of the Week" political crisis, I can't help but note the insincerity in her voice and the trembling, if not phoney smile, on her face, as she pitches yet another unrealistic bandaid solution to the American public. If elected, prepare to brace yourself for the next 4 years of excuses as to why things can't be done. Lets think...Short term solutions are what most mortgage corporations and financial institutions pitched to the public over the last 5 or more years. Now where are we ? Need I say more!!!!!!

i have yet to talk to anyone who supports any of the 3 candidates.... they look and sound like characters out of the 1940's dick tracy cartoon series... how have we sunk so low...

GIVE UP !!

Please ...

Amazing how the Democrats prepare to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, with more than a little help from the corporate "mainstream" news media.

I simply do not like this woman! Go away already Hillary! You're not going to get the nomination unless most of the Superdelegates are a bunch of numb-nuts!

Hillary is Sounding "Pennywise but Pound Foolish"

Seems she is more than willing to pay dollar 200 to every voter who votes for her, if that was possible for her in this country. However she found an alternative, sure she know people live in short term, and that what has created this situation today - energy crisis, food crisis, climate change and global warming in the first place.

What Hillary "God bless us rich people" Clinton really meant is that the little people live in the short run, and she's willing to con them into thinking that she's doing something for them. She is pandering, and nothing more. Even if she could get this silly gas tax holiday passed, would she be able to guarantee that the oil companies wouldn't simply leave the price where it is or raise it to offset any lost revenue? Is she planning to set prices for all products sold, as they did in communist countries? Not one economist would back this idea... gee I wonder why?

Jeez, even Huey Long was less brazen than this. And trying to paraphrase Keynes after she told Stephenopolos that no economists supported her plan is disingenuous.

After the gas tax proposal and the threat to nuke Iran, if we elect her, we'll deserve what we get as much as we did by electing Bush.

I sure hope there is some intelligence left in Iowa and North Carolina...

Wow. Clintons are down, out and still scraping the bottom of the political pandering barrel. It's sickening.

People may live in the short term, but we need a President who can take us to the long term. If all she has are short term fixes, people will continue to live in the short term and nothing will get better.

When the states no longer have money to pay to maintain the roads the people are using their gas to drive on, or money to invest in alternate transportation options like buses and mass transit, who will they have to blame? Hillary Clinton. They'll have $20 in their pocket for their 6 months of not paying taxes, but they'll be paying MORE for their alignments and suspension problems after 6 months of underfunded roads and highway systems. BAD IDEA.

We can't think in the short term anymore. We need long-term, permanent solutions from thoughtful leaders, not short-term stop-gaps from simple-minded leaders. The first thing to get Americans out of living in the short term is to have a long-term-minded leader.

It's thinking in the "short run" that has gotten this country into trouble:
global warming is a long term problem, but the "short run" solution of more expensive cars that pollute less and use less gasoline is not appealing.
Getting $20 now for gas instead of maintaining our bridges and roads will just endanger our long-term infrastructure. Plus, gas prices will rebound even higher. $20 now will end up costing us much more in the future.
Buying more stuff, running up our credit-card debt are short run solutions to improving our lives, but it leads to financial disaster in the future.
Borrowing more money now to pay for the Iraq war and rampant government spending in the "short run" will lead to devastating inflation and massive deficits for our country in the long run.

What MANY folks fail to understand is, that come November, a LOT of the support Obama is getting, from Independent and Republicans, in these Primary Elections and Caucuses, is going to disappear, as these Republicans and Independent voters will remain faithfuf to their party's candidate!! ~ They will be voting for John McCain!!! ~ I'm sorry, but, it's the TRUTH, and MANY Democrats are waking up, to that fact!!! ~ Support Hillary Clinton for President!!!!

Cutting the Federal Tax will do nothing to solve the problem.
We need leaders that can see past the short term and give us some real help!
These people are so out of touch that they have no idea how to fix the problem.

Barry
Huntington Beach Ca.

Oh, I am so glad Hillary knows what the value of 20 bucks is. Good for her

She is finished and desperate. And she is conning stupid people.

If you need 20 dollars to get by ,its time to ask for aid from the United Nations.
When everybody says that Clinton appeals to the illiterate ... it's true.
When exactly does this lady expect to get her 20 dollars ? Can you say NEVER ?

She's even adjust her vocabulary to match her targeted audience. Amazing! Ask yourself, if Hillary said that she would impose a 18 cent gas tax in September, would you support that? Think about that for a second. There is no chance that company's that ship goods, and the oil and gas industry are going to pass on these costs. Nada! And it's just the start of simmer driving season! The price of fuel is directly related to the refinery capacity of the US. Can you build a new refinery in time for summer? Then the cost of fuel isn't going down. Iy will, instead, be absorbed into the ever raising price that always occurs over the summer. Now, here's the fun part. This reduction is only temporary. Till September! If the price of fuel is not reduced from what you pay now, what happens next? Economists drive too, you know, and they don't like paying more for gas.

Is it just me or does Sen. Clinton always seem to just see the "short run"?
With advocation for NAFTA without the vision of the consequences, a vote to authorize a war with no plan on how to end it, and a bitter fight for the nomination regardless of the negative impact to her party, I am unsettled that this "short run" perspective is the same one that plagues our current president.

Call me an elitist, but what's wrong with believing that the leader of the free world should be the absolute best this country can offer? It's better than a guy you can just drink a beer with.

Does anyone remember the pictures and loss of life on I-35 last year? How can billions lost for a small personal gain be worth it?

1) This is going to cost thousands of people their construction and infrastructure jobs, at a time when they need their jobs and we need them to fix the roads, etc. 2)The oil companies aren't stupid. They're gonna jack up the price to make up for this. Obama's tax cut is a much better plan that this demented pandering.

there are a lot of really stupid people..and Clinton saying we should give a gas tax break..will have people vote for her just for that reason..to think someone would sell their vote.. for 30 dollars makes them no better then the politications we have in office now ..getting money from lobbyists..but.. a whole lot cheaper.

The long run is her responsibility. What is MPG average for cars sold in America she supports? She doesnt say. She doesnt want to offend ANYONE. She is only about kissing baby butts.

Obama makes the point every day, we need higher requirements than Bush's 30 MPG for 2012.
Who is going to tell the SUV and Dodge Ram owners that they are responsible for the oil shortage that drives up prices because we need to import oil just for them?
if you have a car that gets 43 MPG there is no gas price issue. I get 43 MPG and I fill up once a month. Also, I get passed on the highway, if I only go the speed limit. I see the SUVs bigger than whales, going 75 and 80 on the interstate.
I bet they get, what? 15 or 20 mpg? Real smart. Sooo... she is going to bail them out from their irresponsibilities, with an 18 cent gift that would rip off the highway building fund, instead of telling it like it is, you are messing up this country with your 400 HP cars and trucks, and you need to get a car that wont pollute and wont eat up oil every time you stomp on the gas just to hear your mighty engine roar.

We deserve this kind of trash to be leading us, because we are the idiots that listen to it. Nobody forced America to have to choose between these morons who use such stupid "messages" to get votes. But the bottom line is, it works.

Don't ask how spending billions and billions fighting 2 wars with a dwindling value of a dollar (which is what oil is traded in on the international market) affects the price of oil.... CUZ A SUMMER BREAK OF 15 CENTS A GALLON WILL FIX EVERYTHING. I want to shoot myself.

We deserve this until we collectively develop an IQ above 37.

I'm not hopeful.

Ugh. The short run got us here. We need long term fixes. I was on the fence until this gas tax debate. Brought me over to the Obama camp.

I see many just simply want to disagree with her.

Forget what the economists say. If they are so damned right, the economy won't be in such bad shape to start with. Sure, some of you fokls talk down on her "pandering", how about the other end of the stick. Is Obama pandering to big Oil by rejecting temporary relief?

Oh for xxxxx sake, this plan that plan, anything that can put food on your table is still a good plan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJnVSKTkcE

Hillary is a disgrace to our county. She is an intelligent woman that knows Congress will never pass the gas tax holiday. Next she will say, "I tried but others in Congress are Elitist." Congress has been holding hearings on the increase in gas for over two years. Where has Hillary been?
W

20 dollars now thats disrespectful

"Forget what the economists say. If they are so damned right, the economy won't be in such bad shape to start with."

Unfortunately, mitsucolt, economists don't actually set economic policy. Dishonest, pandering politicians like Clinton and BUSH set economic policy, and they have given us short term "solutions" that will devastate us in the long term.

Your economic stimulus check is a LOAN. Enjoy paying it back for the next 20 years.

Hooray for you, Veronica Veil!!!!! You hit the nail right on the head! I, too, think that it is not only insulting and offensive to say that those of us who are not wealthy don't look past tomorrow.......IT IS ELITIST!!!!! She has the nerve to call Obama an elitist!!!!! She is running her campaign just like she is personally.......NASTY, DECEITFUL, AND FULL OF EMPTY PROMISES!