As yet another sign of who exactly is winning the primary election. Republican conservatives are conceiting to their obligation to now support the man standing (McCain). However, the RNC knows that the lackluster support for McCain is just not enough get out the vote. In order to even attempt to rally the base they need to make the Democrat contender seem sufficiently horrible. Time to fire up the faux-grassroots mudslinger. Sure enough, right after super-Tuesday blog traffic aimed at painting Obama as a socialist increased many fold. Comically at the same time Hillary continues to rail on Obama for not being a socialist in terms of health care plan or economics.

Presently the biggest story on these sites is a new senate bill cosponsored by Obama, Global Poverty Act. which calls our government to monitor whether we honoring promises made by president Bush in 2005 to the international community. It also calls for the development of a national strategy to deal with world wide poverty. Of course, the republican blogs have done a little name spin – “Global Poverty Tax” – and misrepresented what was being said. Not surprisingly I have not seen even one of these sites actually link to the bill itself. I will, HERE it is. Funny that a call for accountability would get so much criticism, huh. The bill describes one of the key vehicles for action on global poverty:

Mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses, United States and international nongovernmental organizations, civil society, and public-private partnerships.

It also reiterates the US goal in regard to poverty reduction:

The official goal of United States foreign assistance is: `To help build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce widespread poverty and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system.’.

[sarcasm] Oh that sounds very out of line. [/sarcasm]