Both John McCain and Hillary Clinton support suspending the 18.4 cent per gallon gas tax for the summer. The goal is to let people enjoy their summer more, maybe take a vacation, and stimulate the economy. Citing the experts, Obama claims the average gain will be about $30, criticizing the plan as having only a marginal benefit and therefore ultimately ineffective. GOPers have retaliated, calling him elitist and out of touch, since maybe $30 couldn’t cover one of his “luxury trips to the Virgin Islands”, but it could mean another tank to get to Grandma’s for a cup o’ lemonade. Does finding $30 insignificant merit his trips being called “Obama’s Elitist Vacations”? This article about the matter links to a discussion forum, where angry Republicans sling mud in Obama’s general direction. Here are a few gems:
“Well Obama, if the $30.00 is so insignificant why not let the peasents have it?”
“That $30. or more that Obama thinks is meaningless could make the difference in many peoples lives. Just because it is a pittance to him, doesn’t mean it is to others less fortunate than he is.”
“Just one more bit of evidence that Obama is out of touch with the world. $25.00 could be the diference of milk and bread on the table of some of his constituants.”
Ya! Don’t take away my dinner-and-a-movie holiday!
“We had the race issue behind us or at least to the point it was dying out , I really enjoyed being able to converse with my black neighbors with out fear of being tabbed a racist ,and now we are back to square one with Wright and his wonderful speeches he gave and the fact that Obama has sat there over twenty years and claims he never heard those words and then he said he did and now he didn’t again .”
Man, Obama, you had to pick the ONE black person in America who didn’t put that old “race issue” behind him to be your preacher. Pick up the next issue of Vibe and get with the times. We were all McMaster and James, McNulty and Bunk, Riggs and Murtaugh - until you got here.
“However, his comments in San Francisco, the Wright issue, and now this are a clarion call to most Americans that this man is big government socialist - or perhaps even - dare I say it - a COMMUNIST. My parents lived in a communist country and that is precisely what they call Obama.”
Clearly, the Reds have infiltrated Chicago, with Barack Obama’s first major acts of rabid socialism perpetrated through his work as a “community organizer”. COMMunity? COMMie traitor?
“Osamabama and his racially motivated spouse has no true interest in this Nation or its people. He is just another of the domestic terrorist occupying a seat in the U.S. Congress and his true agenda for this Nation, should he get the nomination and the Presidency, is his own private corner of the coming Islamic take over of the entire world. they had the bulk of the known world at one time, now their, and his agenda is the entire world and future plans to encompass the universe in the name of Allah, the false representation of The God of Abraham by Mohammed the Prince of Darkness and Deceit.
Be wary of one who speaks with no passion and smiles like a cheshire cat, they are most often the worst nightmare you will ever have to deal with, due to the ulterior motives behind the smile and the gift of oratory.”
“Obama Hussein Mohammed Barack: you can have my $30 if it will help take you far far away from the U.S., where you might find folks who agree with your and your wife’s anti-Middle America mentality.”
Indeed. Watch out for that man who, with his words, can summon the hope of a nation to improve healthcare and conditions for the poor. He’s probably a knight of evil, bent on world domination and the skewering of infidel skulls.
“While the Dems moan and complain about ‘excess’ profits made by oil companies, the real winner is the government. Oil companies may have profited by $600-billion in the past few years but government has raked in $1.3-trillion and it has not only failed to produce a drop of oil, it actively thwarts the effots of others to do so.”
Yeah – the government’s raking it in for these “social services”, none of which help me at the pump. Either stick a high school on an off-shore rig, or I don’t want my kids learning, you hear me?! At least the oil companies, taking a *pffth* paltry sum of just $600 billion, got me from A to B, you fossil fools.
“The arrogant elitism of this man is mind-boggling….
and yet he is still harping on how hard he had it as a child…and that Clinton and McCain had more privileges than he did….cause his Mama was on food stamps…yada, yada, yada
Spare me….elitism is a State of Mind….and you Mr.Obama have chosen to be a SNOB!”
“Poor, downtrodden Barak and Michelle Obama. They can’t afford a Caribbean Vacation on the rebate of 18½ cents per gallon on fuel. What a rough life they lead, with an annual income of roughly ½ million dollars per year. Boo-hoo-hoo.”
At least Bush spent the majority of his record-breaking number of vacation days on a good ol’ American ranch. Clearly, Obama’s an order of snob chicken with elite sauce.
Edit: Just to be clear, to call Obama elitist over the $30 is nuts, as far as I’m concerned. Above is a listing and mockery of some shocking Republican reactions to his actually honest and reasonable position, to expose some of the worst of how people are discussing this issue. Hope the humour came across, and wasn’t misinterpreted (which would make me sound, well, nuts)
