Campaigning in Ohio, Senator John McCain lashed out at Senator Barack Obama over the latter’s tax and economic plans. McCain used the recently published recording of an interview with Obama on a Chicago radio show, recorded in 2001.

“It’s amazing,” McCain said, “that even at this late hour we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his agenda. As he told ‘Joe the Plumber’ here in Ohio, he wants to, quote, ’spread the wealth around’.”

“You know,” the Maverick went on to say, “it is always more interesting to hear what people have to say in these unscripted moments.

“And today, we heard another moment like this from Senator Obama. In a radio interview that was revealed today,” McCain, the senator for Arizona, went on to say, “he said that one of the, quote, ‘tragedies’ of the civil rights movement is that it didn’t bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society.”

The crowd, booing and shouting, made clear it wouldn’t have anything to do with such plans.

“He said, and I quote,” McCain continued, “one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused that I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change’.”

“Redistributive change. That’s what change means for the Obama administration. They’re a redistributor,” McCain said to an increasingly anti-Obama crowd. “It means taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.”

McCain then said: “He said that even though lower taxes on investments grow our economy, even though it helps that, he favors higher taxes on investment for, quote, ‘fairness’.”

“My friends there is nothing fair about driving our economy into the ground. We all suffer when that happens,” he told a now cheering crowd.

“And that’s the problem with Senator Obama’s approach to our economy. He’s more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it; in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I’m going to create wealth for all Americans by creating opportunity for all Americans.”

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It took John McCain a very long time, but he has finally found a line of attack against Obama that may actually stick, and that allows him to talk about the number one issue, the economy. For weeks, the McCain campaign feared that talking about the economy would hurt their candidate. As a result, they tried to avoid the subject as much as possible, which resulted in Obama dominating it. Now, however, the McCain campaign has finally realized that in order to win this year, you have to take this matter serious and offer Americans an alternative. What is more, they seem to realize that the economy does not have to be Obama’s main strength, considering his views on redistributing wealth and ‘fairness.’