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Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:29 AM

A Barrel of Laughs

Andrew Romano

With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fighting each other to a draw over the last few weeks in the riveting battle for blue-collar ordinariness--Clinton: Crown Royal, Mauser rifles, red pick up trucks, NASCAR; Obama: Budweiser, apple pie, P-I-G, hay bales--Stumper hereby proposes a new way for the good people of Indiana and North Carolina to decide which candidate they prefer:

Who delivers a funnier Top Ten list?

Last night, the former First Lady appeared on the David Letterman Show via satellite to rattle off her "Top Ten Reasons Hillary Clinton Loves America." Watch it and weep:

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Incidentally, Clinton's appearance came a little more than three months after her rival gave Letterman his "Top Ten Barack Obama Campaign Promises." Get it while it's hot:

Who's funnier? We'll let the Tar Heels and Hoosiers decide. But it's at least as relevant as who can down a boilermaker with the most gusto.

By the way, our pick for funniest Top Ten list: Mitt Romney. Here he is last week at D.C.'s Radio Correspondents Dinner with the "Top Ten Reasons I Decided to Get Out of the Race":

Mitt Romney? Funny? We never thought we'd say those words in the same sentence. But with Obama and Clinton as the competition, "I took a bad fall... and broke my hair" might actually take the cake.  

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Posted By: powin (May 6, 2008 at 5:04 PM)

Not one of the 230 economists opposing the temporary tax break has an answer to the problem of soaring gas prices.  The predicates for their arguments are so nebulous that rationalizing their repudiation is pure politicization.   Recently, Obama rallied the fear of "thousands of job losses" occurring as a result of the temporary tax break.  So, antithetically, employment should remain steady if the price of gas maintains equilibrium.  One fervent Obama supporter denounced Senator Clinton and claimed that 300,000 jobs would be lost if the tax holiday passed.  Again, one can then argue that gasoline tax preserves jobs; if the price of gasoline declined then the number of jobs in America would also wane.  I take a train to work so where does factor in this conundrum?

I found another zealot. Please peruse his fallacies.

Posted By: NEW AMERICA @ 05/06/2008 2:00:12 PM

Comment: Are you willing to take a life to save $0.33, or $0.66 a day.

You who think this "GAS TAX HOLIDAY" is the right way to go, are doing just that.

If three months of tax free gas = a $30.00 savings.

You save about .33 cents a day.

If three months of tax free gas = a $60.00 savings.

You save about .66 cents a day.

At the cost of OVER 300,000 jobs. Is this worth that savings?

At the cost of unsafe roads. Where the pot holes will not be repaired because the funds needed for repair are given to you so you can save money everyday. At the cost of lives when a driver loses control of their car because they hit a pot hole and blew a tire, and runs in front of a school bus causing a school bus full of children to go off a cliff, or roll over and burn. But you get your daily savings.