Posted on 05/05/2008 5:23:14 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.—Archilochus (7th-century BC)
Mark Penn might not be appearing before the cameras on Hillary's behalf nowadays, but bet that he is beavering away behind the scenes on his polling. And judging from Hillary's dogged [to mix an animal metaphor] performance on this morning's Today, it's obvious that Penn's turned up one big thing: Dem primary voters hate oil companies.
Meredith Vieira gamely tried to get Clinton onto other subjects during her interview. But no matter the question, the answer was almost invariably the same: I Hate Big Oil. Since the questions were irrelevant, let's dispense with them and simply count the ways in which Hillary expressed her wrath at those evil purveyors of oil.
View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Hedgehog Hillary ping to Today show list.
Burn food, not oil!
Hillary's been attracting huge enthusiastic crowds because she's been talking like this...When she came to my area of PA, people turned out by the thousands...
Shamelessly stolen from another FReeper.
If our good friends, the Saudis, are selling oil for $125/ barrel, our domestic sources should be selling their oil for half that. Right?
No new refineries since 1976. No significant new drilling.
That should tell Americans with brains why the oil companies have decided not to put themselves out of business. President Hillary will do it for them.
i tell liberals that i know who are angry at “big oill”
to buy some oil stock and enjoy the profits!
Milk costs more than gasoline and is not nearly as expensive to produce. Why aren’t the liberals mad at “Big Milk?” Because the price is determined and supported by the government, that’s why!.
At a campaign stop in NH before the primary, she promised that when she’s elected oil would got to $60-70 a barrel. She must be pressed on this campaign promise.
You can have oil companies and $4.00 a gallon gasoline, or you can have no oil companies and no gasoline.
Stop being so darn logical. We’ll bash oil companies now, and worry about actually solving problems later. We’ve got an election to win!
Gasoline is still cheap. I checked this morning on my way into work.
This from some elitest who has spent her entire life in the public sector yet still managed to become a multi-multi-millionaire. She doesn't have any idea what goes on in normal people's lives..... nor does she care!
Hillary's fans can't comprehend what you're saying...
When peoples 401k’s and IRA’s stop growing because all the “excess profits” from companies are sucked into the governments maw, do you think they’ll get a clue? Or will the Dem’s use that for an entirely new attack on capitalism?
After she has sucked all the money out of oil companies.
She will come after 401’s,Roths and money markets
We have people here that villify oil companies.
Hillary Clinton is either
(1) a psychotic moron
or,
(2) one of the worst dishonest, pandering, cynical bozos we have ever had in politics, who truly does believe that “there’s a sucker born every minute.”
Take your pick. I’m tempted to say “all of the above” but I’ll settle for (2).
Thanks for watching/reporting, Mark.
We need a Windbag Profits Tax. Anytime any windbag politician/socialist attacks any legitimate corporation they should have to resign their position and go to work sweeping floors at said corporation. Get some useful work from these idiots.
Yes, big oil is just horrified at the cost of petroleum to Americans. Why, they are constantly on their soapboxes villifying American politicians for not calling for more refinereys, drilling and nuclear power plants, even though they are the target of us unwashed as evil.
(in reality I don't think they have a problem being labeled 'evil' and are just as fine with the status quo. Please, no lectures on capitalism and economics---heard it all before.)
Lecture you? Why do that? My kook, conspriacy theorist uncle believes it too. I don’t try to lecture him either.
She sees it as a two-fer ... she can bash the oil companies and Bush/Cheney at the same time
Yeah, what I can’t figure out is how a windfall profits tax would lower the price of gasoline.
What year Hillary? Certainly not with this President or most of Congress not willing to take up the issue! Why won't the voters wake up to this fraud?
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