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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Oliver Burkeman

Next he'll be part-nationalising the banks, or something equally ridiculous

Oh no! It looks like Barack Obama has made a TERRIBLY HUMILIATING GAFFE: yesterday on the campaign trail he told a plumber that he believed it was best to "spread the wealth around", causing a number of commentators, including the noted musical theatre expert Mark Steyn, to claim that he had revealed his nakedly Communist agenda, and prompting the calm and coherent Michelle Malkin to publish a graphic of a socialist shooting someone in the head with a gun. The McCain campaign is being urged to seize on the quotation to show the dangers of an Obama presidency, since if there's one thing America won't stand for these days, it's socialist economic notions. "If McCain can't get traction from it, he's Bob Dole and that's that," Steyn grumbles briefly, then abruptly ends his blog post, presumably because he's running late for the premiere of a new anti-Muslim remake of 42nd Street.

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