Hillary Clinton still believes a gas tax holiday is good way of easing American’s pain at the pump despite criticism leveled at the idea. Many believe the initiative comes down to political pandering and that the only beneficiaries of the proposed federal gas tax break would be politicians and oil companies.

According to the The Guardian newspaper: “The gasoline tax holiday has emerged as a policy distinction between the two candidates, and Clinton in recent days has promoted it in an effort to win over working-class voters hard hit by rising fuel prices. Obama dismisses the idea as an unworkable political pandering.”

Lost in the meaningless bickering among the presidential candidates over suspending the federal gasoline tax is some genuine news…

“Election 2008″ is an ongoing Money Morning series that looks for profit plays emanating from the presidential election campaign.

Democrats in Pennsylvania make their choice today between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Clinton is fighting for her political survival. She needs a big win to keep her White House hopes alive and Obama seems to have closed what was once nearly a 20-point deficit to single digits.

“Apparently, Democrats’ only political goal is to not allow anybody to get rich until the nation is free from poverty, a trip to the doctor is free, and every person (whether they are willing to work or not) makes the same middle-class income,” says Andrew Snyder in Today’s Financial News.

Say what you may, you certainly cannot accuse Hillary Clinton of inflexibility. Following the Democrat motto of “Do as I say, not as I do,” the Clinton campaign has become a living kamasutra of moral contortionists — a migrant carnival of double-jointed confidence artistes whose spectacular limberness would normally earn someone a place in Ripley’s Believe it or not!