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Well, finally, John McCain says something that isn't as sugar-coated as usual about his young, inexperienced colleague in the Senate. We knew from looking under The Bus™ that it's never safe to be an associate of Obama's and get in the way of political expediency; now his once-firmed positions on such political staples like NAFTA and Campaign Finance (public or private? Welcome, Uncle George Soros, back to funding Democratic leftism!) and seeing Obama's changey mind on the 2nd Amendment (after the shellacking the leftists took in 2000 with Al Gore's defeat, then underscored last week with the Heller vs. Washington D.C. win, most Leftists are leaving that one off the table...for now...) are but speed bumps on his Highway to Hopey-Dopey Changeyness.

McCain says no, I'm finally calling you on this...

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain, in his sharpest attack yet against rival Barack Obama, said the Democratic presidential candidate's word ``cannot be trusted.''

``This election is about trust -- trust in people's word,'' McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told several hundred donors at a $2 million GOP fundraiser in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday. ``And unfortunately, apparently on several items, Senator Obama's word cannot be trusted.''

John McCain has changed his mind on issues that have changed over time and require re-evaluation...namely, the offshore drilling we so desperately need to stabilize these rising Oil prices. Obama would have us suffer these economy-destroying prices (with Al Gore's approval, because, under their cloak of populism, these leftist Democrats actually despise all things capitalist and these pesky free-markets and our greedy economic superiority over the rest of the world just isn't fair) as an expediency to his push for Socialism as America's future political system.

An interesting Gallup Poll points out that most Americans do not favor wealth redistribution to 'fix' the economy...

"While, in the abstract, many Americans believe that the wealthy do not pay enough taxes, the forced-choice question reported on here shows that there is a strong feeling that taxing one group to give the money to another is not the favored approach to fixing the economy."

"In sum, free-market advocates can take considerable solace in Americans' overwhelming belief that the government should not focus on redistributing income and wealth, but on improving the overall economy. And, to a lesser degree, Americans also believe government continues to do too much -- not too little -- to solve the nation's problems."

Those poll numbers are fascinating, but as you see from the one graph I imported, damning to the Democrats. Nealy 20% of Democrats favor Wealth Distribution (unfair taxation of the wealthy) in order to fund their New America based on socialism. The Dean legacy lives on.