A new ad unveiled by the Obama campaign criticizes Sen. Hillary Clinton’s gas tax holiday plan by using a quoute from a NYT column critcizing Sen. John McCain’s plan.

The quote in the ad says of Clinton’s gas tax vacation proposal, “experts say it will boost oil industry profits,” and it cites the New York Times on April 28, referring to a column by Paul Krugman — generally a columnist supportive of Senator Clinton’s plans.

But the column in question — and the quote — have nothing to do with Clinton. They have to do with Sen. John McCain’s gas tax holiday proposal — which Krugman refers to as “a measure that would, in fact, do little to help consumers, although it would boost oil industry profits.”

In fact, Clinton’s name doesn’t appear in the column even once.

You would think that if you are going to criticize your opponent you would use something that actually mentions them by name.  Looks like someone in the Obama camp was a little too quick to go on the attack and never read the column in question in its entirety.

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