When summer turned to fall and the polls began to tip in favor of Senator Obama and the McCain Palin campaign started the "character" argument and you had to wonder when was the other proverbial "shoe" going to drop. My said he was waiting for the media to provide the electorate with the "October Surprise" that McCain would hope turn Obama's campaign into quivering heep unable to respond. Use this link for those of you not familiar with the term; visit wikkipedia and enter in October Surprise. Well Michael Isikoff of Newsweek seems to have provided such an opening but at first glance its a distraction with the verifiable history. To date in spite of what other media outlets will say the official record will show that all of the known fraudulent contributions have been returned. I would have used the "Manchurian Candidate" reference but that applies to a US Senator who was brainwashed while in captivity of an enemy, ummmm, sound familiar, but Obama did not serve in the military. Anyway, given that this comes the day before a debate on the economy and the day the Stock market falls 500 points, the timing and release of the information which has been known for sometime is in fact very dubious sounds a lot like static, and does not pass the smell test. Such is life in the contact sport of American Politics which makes the combat between gladiators look quite civilized given that you new who and where your enemy was, right in front of you and that he intended to kill you. You can be sure the factless news channel that is fairly unbalanced will be ranting like a bipolar boxing heavyweight with no one to fight over this particular issue. The test of Obama will be in how he handles this "scandal", this late in the game with so much riding on the debate tomorrow and in the weeks to come.