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From The Dallas Morning News, a story about McCain’s response to Obama’s Tax Plan.

The article is funny on several levels (and no, it has nothing to do with a series of jokes traded between the two “main” candidates that continue to expose this campaign as a complete farce, while independent candidates who are speaking real talk about the issues continue to get ignored). First, McCain lashes out at Obama for trying to redistribute wealth under a more socialist model (which is true, as far as I can tell), and for disguising tax cuts as tax credits. Of course, the flash point for his whole argument is that money will be going from people who have it (rich taxpayers like himself) to people who don’t (I am assuming here that by McCain saying non-taxpayers, he actually means black people and illegal immigrants), which is, of course, false (generally… it is true in some cases, though). 

Then, the article happens to bring up What’sHisPlumberface, whom I assume you’ve heard about, with McCain trying to defend the poor man because he was critical of Obama on TV and is now being scrutinized by everbody, apparently forgetting the fact that he’s without a plumbing license, and that McCain himself used him not two days ago. Sorry, John, he gets his fifteen minutes, too. 

The article closes with appropriate hilarity as it highlights McCain’s new effort to distance himself from Bush (good luck with that, rich, white, conservative, politician), by, and get this, “chiding him for failing to buy into [McCain’s] idea of using $300 billion to buy troubled mortgages directly from homeowners, allowing them to refinance into smaller loans.” Aside from the economic idiocy of the whole thing, I’m pretty sure that the idea is a textbook definition of… (wait for it)… corporate socialism. 

Tangentially, I was pretty sure that the thing that separated newspapers from blogs was that newspapers have editors.