"Obama is Essentially Right"

Here's a crazy media moment. ABC News is reporting on the candidates' gas tax dispute and instead of just going with claim and counterclaim a reporter informs us that he spoke to several economists about the issue and they all agree that "Obama is essentially right" that what Clinton and McCain are proposing wouldn't accomplish anything: See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/-obama-is-essentially-right/44581/ Strange days.

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