One constant in American politics is that Democrats call Republicans fascists while they are the ones who act as fascists. Joe the plumber reveals this. Ohio officials are checking into Joe because he asked Obama a question that elicited an inconvenient honest answer. (This was a classic gaffe, meaning an incident in which a politician inadvertently says what he really believes.) Obama and the Democrats launch investigations into people who embarrass them. Obama kicks reporters from newspapers that don't endorse him off of the campaign plane. Democrats threaten the license of TV stations that run advertisements critical of them. Bill Clinton had people who made obscene gestures at him detained by the secret service. (The first President Bush laughed about people who made obscene gestures at him and said, see, they're saying we're number one.) The Democrats accused the current President Bush of being a fascist and of shredding the Constitution because he monitored phone calls of suspected terrorists, though, as far as I know, no one but actual terrorists were ever affected by this. (Some newspaper reporters claimed they were damaged because their terorist contacts would no longer speak to them. Poor babies. If the reporters are loyal Americans, why are they talking to terrorists thereby aiding and abetting enemies of the country?)