Straw Man

McCain continues to flail around for ways to make Obama seem either like a typical liberal tax and spender OR a foreigner, unAmerican, unsafe, consorting with quote enemy.
From WaPost:

'Who is the real Sen. Obama?'' [McCain] asked Monday. ''Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? ... Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? And he's bought into it, big time.''

McCain drew loud cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but ''he's not exactly an open book.''

McCain also raised the specter of illegal foreign donors to Obama's campaign and special ''earmark'' spending requests for campaign fundraisers. ''Why has Sen. Obama refused to disclose the names of people funding his campaign,'' McCain said as the crowd booed. ''His campaign had to return $33,000 in illegal foreign funds from Palestinian donors.''

In fact, McCain's reference was based on a Newsweek article that said the Obama campaign had returned the money to two brothers living in the Gaza Strip. According to the article, the two Palestinians ''had bought T-shirts in bulk from the campaign's online store. They had listed their address as 'Ga.,' which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.''