Can Joe save McCain?

Can Joe the Plumber save the McCain campaign? He certainly has injected the biggest boost since the announcement of Sarah Palin as running mate.

It has frustrated me for weeks that McCain couldn’t articulate the obvious deceit in Obama’s “tax cut for 95%” of families. Since about 40% of them already pay no income tax, this was never a tax cut, but a simple transfer of money from taxpayers to non-taxpayers. Calling it a tax cut does not change the fact that it is just a huge, new welfare program.

Finally McCain has picked up on the public response to Joe and is starting to hit this point in his speeches and commercials.

Obama’s portrayal of this income transfer as a tax cut shows his cynicism and contempt for the intelligence of the American electorate. (Unfortunately, this attitude is not entirely without basis.)

Did you ever see one editorial in the dominant, liberal Obamedia debunking this charade? What does it mean for the future of our Country when the overwhelming majority of the media is a branch of one political party? A fair and independent press has always been an essential ingredient of a functioning democracy. (Yes, I know, we’re technically a constitutional republic, not a democracy.)

The media have always leaned heavily portside, but this year they have abandoned any pretense of objectivity. They have become part of the Obama campaign. If he is elected, how can we expect fair and honest reporting on him and his administration?