It appears that the ghost of Richard Nixon is alive and well and aiming for another term in the White House via the spirit of Barack Obama.

News of the no holds barred attack on "Joe the Plumber" are very creepy and Nixonesque indeed. All Joe did was ask a simple question and for that his private life was rummaged through more aggressively than a suspected terrorist.

Then Orlando news Anchor Barbara West and her station were given the "shutout" for the rest of the campaign because she too dared to ask a relevant question. It seems that softball questions and the CNN slant are welcome but any serious inquiries suddenly find nobody home.

It is also creepy that the bulk of the media is in the tank for Obama and make no bones about slanting their copy. The other day CNN carried the full delivery of an Obama speech and then cut away when John McCain began speaking. And where is the chase-down on the admitted Obama drug use story a la "didn’t inhale" Clinton and Bush the cocaine cowboy? Where are the interviews with the candidate’s college and law school classmates?

The lack of media scrutiny of some of the outlandish campaign promises circling about is also creepy. For instance, we keep hearing about proposals for Universal Health Care but no one seems to question the obvious drawback to putting 47 million more people on a health care plan. Questions like where are the doctors, nurses and hospitals to service another 47 million people going to come from? Who’s going to pay those bills? Why are illegal aliens included (you can’t get to 47 million without them)? Is the rest of the country willing to endure health care rationing due to the lack of doctors, nurses and hospitals?

What about the no tax increase for anyone making less than $250,000 which has gravitated all the way down to $100,000? Even at $100,000 it’s still a lie. Obama has promised to let the Bush tax cuts expire which means hefty tax increases for married couples making $42,000 and very hefty increases up from there.

Democrats have floated the concept of a 25 percent cut to the military. Why hasn’t the question been asked that if our military is overstaffed, why is the national guard in Iraq and Afghanistan? The truth is there isn’t 25 percent to cut and the expense for the war is done with borrowed money off the books which means ending the war will not free up any money for other things.

We hear a lot about the need for more financial regulations on Wall Street but the money vehicles on Wall Street that went south were secondary to the subprime mortgages. In other words the subprime mortgages were the causation and the Wall Street credit crisis was a result, not a cause of the overall problem. Wall Street credit default swaps tied to anything other than subprime mortgages are doing fine. Yet, while they wail about wanting to regulate investment vehicles that are as well regulated as they need to be, Democrats refuse to regulate hedge funds or treat their managers’ gains as income because several hedge fund managers are sugar-daddys to the democratic party.

Election day is upon us and regardless of the race, creed, color or ideology of the candidate, we need to know more than we know today about the person who wants to be president.