What the hell is going on with this obama campaign?

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Gaffe-prone Joe Biden put his foot in his mouth again yesterday,
mistakenly excluding millions of Americans from his running mate's
tax-cut proposal.

The Delaware senator's latest blunder came while discussing Republican
tax policies during a television interview in his hometown of Scranton,
Pa.



"What we're saying is, that $87 billion tax break doesn't need to go to
people making an average of $1.4 million," Biden said.

"It should go to middle-class people, people who make $150,000 a year."

Actually, Barack Obama has promised to cut taxes on households earning
less than $200,000 a year while raising taxes on those who make more
than $250,000 annually.

John McCain quickly cashed in on the slip.

During a rally in Hershey, Pa., McCain told supporters the gaffe
revealed the Democrats' true tax-and-spend intentions.

"It's interesting how their definition of 'rich' has a way of creeping
down," McCain said.

"Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First, he said people making
less than $250,000 would benefit from his plan.

"Then, this weekend, he announced in an ad that if you're a family
making less than $200,000 you'll benefit - but yesterday right here in
Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to
'middle-class people' - people making under $150,000 a year.

"At this rate, it won't be long before Senator Obama is right back to
his vote that Americans making just $42,000 a year should get a tax
increase.

"We can't let that happen," McCain added.

The Republican nominee has pounded Obama on taxes recently as economic
woes have come to dominate the political debate.

Biden's tax faux pas provided a new distraction for Obama as he tried to
focus on broad, uplifting themes, like "change" and "hope," in the final
week of swing-state stumping.

Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor issued a statement that corrected
the vice-presidential candidate without explicitly saying so.

"No family making less than $250,000 will see their tax increases one
cent," Vietor said. "And if your family makes less than $200,000 - as 95
percent of workers and their families do - you'll get a tax cut."

Vietor went on to call McCain's attack on Biden "desperate."

"Maybe the McCain campaign keeps lying about Obama's tax plan because
with seven days left in this election, voters are rejecting McCain's
plan to give billions more in tax giveaways to big corporations and the
wealthiest Americans," he said.

Also during the stop in Hershey, McCain took a moment to shrug off
reports of discord between his campaign staff and his running mate,
Sarah Palin.

"By the way, when two mavericks join up, we don't agree on everything,"
McCain said. "But that's a lot of fun! It's wonderful to fool the
pundits." With Post Wire Services