It's no secret by now that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, would rather destroy the Democratic Party than concede the nomination to Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, but when she contends that Mr. Obama is out of touch with ordinary Americans because he doesn't think that saving folks an average of $11 a month for gasoline is worth the trouble, Mrs. Clinton reveals her contempt for the working class.
According to the Department of Energy, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $3.60, which means that Mrs. Clinton's suggestion that a "holiday" for the Federal excise tax on gasoline would allow consumers to buy about three more gallons a month for the average vehicle.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign—and supporting 527s—are running TV ads in Indiana continuing with the mantra that Mr. Obama is out of touch with the average American.
This from the woman who once defiantly declared that her independence by saying she "could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas"—implying that was what the average married woman in America was doing—at a time when nearly two-thirds of American families had both parents working outside of the home and still hurting from the economic disaster of Reaganomics. This from the candidate who in 1999 was able to buy a $1.7 million house in Chappaqua, N.Y. with a loan guaranteed by someone else's collateral. How's that for being in touch with the American people?
Every aspect of Mrs. Clinton's attacks on Mr. Obama seem to come for the GOP play book, and yet she sees nothing disingenuous about suggesting that the media has treated her unfairly.
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