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• 21 Oct 08
  

  Clay Burell

  Remember how Bush beat Kerry by seizing on Kerry's use of the word "global" in the last debate? And how he distorted Kerry's use of the word - he meant it in the sense of "systematic" or "nuanced" - by claiming Kerry meant he wouldn't lead against the will of "global" opinion?
  
  I remember how aghast I was to see this obvious distortion grow legs in the last weeks of the election, when anybody with a vocabulary and the ability to read Kerry's sentence including the word could see that wasn't his meaning. And I remember how disappointed I was that the media didn't correct this obvious ploy at all.
  
  Below, we see McCain doing the same thing with Obama's comment that he wants to "spread the wealth around" by increasing taxes on the over a quarter million dollars a year set, so the other roughly 95 percent of us wouldn't carry as much of the tax burden.
  
  McCain and ex-Bush campaigner Rick Davis (JM's manager) have seized on it in a full-court press to label Obama a "Socialist."
  
  It's silly, and would be laughable, if only it weren't being repeated in headlines that don't laugh with us. Here we go again.

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  • "After months of campaign trail eloquence... we finally learned what Senator Obama's economic goal is. As he told Joe, he wants to 'spread the wealth around," McCain told a boisterous crowd gathered on a high school football field in Belton, Missouri.

    
    

    "If I'm elected president, I won't raise taxes on anyone, especially small businesses. Senator Obama will and that will force them to cut jobs."

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