And Now a Word from Barack the Magnificent, the Erudite, the Eloquent One: "Look,..."

Obama showed his true (or maybe false) colors last night in the third and final presidential debate.  He was defensive, arrogant, evasive, prevaricating, dishonest, vapid and magisterial, all at the same time.  In short, he was being himself.

But focusing on what he said rather than how he said it, Barack is still an ideological Marxist.  His plans to raise taxes on the "wealthy"--people like aspiring businessman, Joe the plumber of Holland, Ohio.  (Heaven help Joe if he should have not only the misfortune of buying the plumbing business he works for, but also the audacity of prospering at it).  The language of Barack is class-warfare and anti-capitalist rhetoric, pure and simple.

McCain rightly confronted him on several fronts, like William Ayers, ACORN, taxes and the economy, etc..  Barack clumsily slithered out of McCain's grasp each time, either outright lying or simply using his Chicago thug-lawyering tactics to weasel out of the controversies.  It was certainly not Barack's best performance.   To his credit, McCain kept trying to play hardball, and Barack kept trying to unlevel the playing field.

One thing we can be sure of now that there are no more staged, filtered, dog-and-pony shows for the candidates to strut their stuff in.  Barack has shown he is not invincible.  He is not infallible.  He is not unfathomable.  He is incorrigible.  And he most certainly is incredible (by the dictionary's definition).

With all the questions and controversies swirling around him--like the dust cloud perpetually swirling around Pig Pen in the old Peanuts comics--he tries hard to be a "teflon" candidate.  But by the time all is said and done, he will prove to be a "velcro" one, and a very prickly one at that.