And they wonder why Obama is so far ahead?

[EffieBlack]

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain took their competing economic messages to two of the country's biggest electoral prizes on Tuesday, with McCain accusing Obama across Pennsylvania of wanting to raise taxes and Obama attending a jobs "summit" with supporters in Florida, a battleground state struck hard by the economic downturn . . . In his each of his appearances, McCain accused Obama of wanting to "spread the wealth," as the Democrat put it in a conversation last week with "Joe the Plumber," the tradesman who has become a staple of his speeches. McCain drew a roar from some 2,000 supporters in Harrisburg when he said Obama "believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs and opportunities for all Americans."

McCain also sharpened his latest line of attack on Obama: that the first-term senator would be a novice when it comes to international affairs. McCain revived the argument following comments from Obama's running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., that Obama might be tested early on in his administration, much as President John F. Kennedy was during the Cuban missile crisis.

"My friends, I have a little personal experience in that," McCain, a former Navy pilot, told the Harrisburg audience. "I was onboard the USS Enterprise. I sat in a cockpit on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise . . . off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, do you know how close we came to a nuclear war?"

"America will not have a president who needs to be tested," McCain added to cheers. "I've been tested, my friends, and Senator Obama hasn't."

Now, let's compare that to this:

In Lake Worth, Fla., Obama gathered in a hot gymnasium for a jobs summit featuring former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, local small-business owners and four supportive Democratic governors from battleground states. The tone was immediately set when some supporters tried to work up a chant when Obama took the stage, only to be reprimanded by the Democrat.

"No cheerleading," he commanded. "We've got serious work to be done."

The crowd settled down on hard wooden bleachers for more than an hour and a half of sober talk about stimulus plans, rebuilding the nation's electric grid and creating a new "architecture" of jobs based on renewable energy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102608_pf.html

[VWolf]

1. As far as I am concerned,

Obama's already our acting president.