The gas tax holiday which many experts and politicians say is an ineffective idea and could make things worse is now forefront in the battle between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for votes in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Clinton calls for it. Obama opposes it.
Hillary Clinton’s new ad attacks Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF48jPeZDsQ&eurl=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/dueling_obama_clinton_gas_tax.html
Here’s Obama’s response ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TPIFxxR6o
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.