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Clinton and McCain are pleasing crowds all over by promising a break from the gas tax, while Obama is saying they’re just telling you what you want to hear. The news media has been batting the idea around without getting into the substance of it until now. Turns out, Obama is completely correct. The gas tax holiday will benefit the oil companies more than regular folks because they’re the ones who pay it, and they don’t have to pass the savings on to you. The gas tax holiday is just an even stupider version of Bush’s trickle-down economics. (”Don’t piss on my leg and call it trickle-down economics” - me.)

Obama needs to jump on this! He’s been saying for a while that his opponents will only tell you what you want to hear. Now he’s got rock-solid proof. McCain and Clinton have walked into a trap, and I don’t see an easy way out of it: A) just shut up about the gas tax; or B) deny the haters and keep preachin’ the gas tax gospel.

The best part is that it’s the first real issues-oriented mistake of the campaign. McCain and Clinton can fire back about Rev. Wright all they want, when the people see that Obama is talking about something real and important to them they’ll come around.

After the depressing defeat in Pennsylvania I can’t wait for Barack to drive this one home.