John McCain Was Right

Jennifer Rubin makes some comparisons between the Barack Obama John McCain told us about and the real Barack Obama:

John McCain regularly accused then-candidate Barack Obama of being a tax-and-spend liberal, seeking to “spread the wealth” as Obama disclosed in a much regretted off-hand comment. Well, the spending promises were discarded instantaneously. He did not go “line-by-line” through the budget nor have we seen a net reduction in spending....

Obama ran as a fiscal moderate — swearing affection for markets and promising only to tax the “rich.” The reality, just as McCain predicted, is quite different. The question remains whether the voters will notice and object to having been so blatantly deceived.

Turns out the real Barack Obama IS the guy John McCain told us about. The media was dismissive of his accusations, and even tried to destroy Joe the Plumber who extracted the "spread the wealth" comment from Obama, but McCain was right the whole time.

There was a time when I wasn't sure that a President McCain would be all that different than a President Obama.

I'm over that now.