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Fact Check: Has the Obama campaign launched 'political attacks'

 
The Statement: Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, speaking at a rally in St. Charles, Missouri, on Monday, October 20, said "Joe the Plumber," an Ohioan who has become a central figure on the campaign trail, "didn't ask for the political attacks on him from the Obama campaign." Get the facts! The Facts: Sen. Barack Obama and [...] (link)

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