Bizarre insult redux

 

"He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs".

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From SMH - Ah, McCain, you've done it again - now he's after the middle class

Mira Oberman in Durango, Colorado

JOHN McCAIN has cast himself as the defender of the middle class and the American value of rewarding hard work while warning voters of his rival's plans to "tax and spend".

With frontrunner Barack Obama off the campaign trail - on a mercy dash to his dying grandmother, who raised him - Senator McCain continued to try to tar the Democratic presidential hopeful as a secret socialist in a bid to sway voters 11 days before the November 4 election.

"He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs," he told a rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado. "Senator Obama may say he's trying to soak the rich, but it's the middle class who are going to get put through the wringer, because a lot of his promised tax increase misses the target."

But the gap has narrowed this week as Senator McCain hammered away at Senator Obama for telling an Ohio plumber - wary of the Democrats' tax plans - that everyone is better off when you "spread the wealth around".