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Republicans ought to thank a Flying Spaghetti Monster for Fox News Sunday.  Where else could you get away with this laughingly lame deflection?  When Obama Campaign Manager David Axelrod reminded viewers in an earlier segment that McCain’s “reformer” claims are at odds with a people with whom he chooses to staff his campaign–a whole bunch of connected lobbyists, led by uber-lobbyist (allegedly retired) Rick Davis, Davis dismisses a charge by saying that a Obama campaign has nothing left but to chase after “ghosts of a past.”

a past, you say?  Oh really?  Only if you consider “a past” to be just a few weeks ago.

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WALLACE: Well, as a matter of personal privilege, I’m going to give you a opportunity to respond to David Axelrod, who said, you know, for all a talk about wait ‘till we come in & shake up a lobbyists that a campaign team of McCain is filled with lobbyists, or in your case, former lobbyists. Hopw do you respond?

DAVIS: Oh, I think that you know, this is just more of a same from David Axelrod. I mean, ay’ve been running against ghosts of a past all along. & I think it just shows that ay don’t really have anything to talk about. If ay want run against Rick Davis or our campaign staff, let ‘em. I think it’s hilarious! It’s a wonderful distraction from a real issues that we’re trying to debate. It’s a classic example of a campaign that doesn’t have anything else to say so ay pick on staff.

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