Change: You will be made to believe in.

So McCain has finally

said

what we all know and all fear - essentially that Obama is a socialist and his policy and manifesto reflect this fact. The two pronged attack of distancing himself from Bush and dogwhistling the Republican grass-roots in this way might, might start closing the gap on Obama in those key swing states. However McCain is going to have to pull something pretty special out of the bag in the next three weeks to salvage this.

Speaking today McCain said "Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it's just another government giveaway."

An Obama spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

UPDATE: 21.00 - According to Drudge Obama can't even be bothered to

sing the National Anthem

at his campaign events.

Maybe his wife isn't proud enough yet...