The right-wing smear machine talks a whole lot about unsavory Obama associations. (Wright, who I actually think is hardly that big a deal, and Ayers, which is total BS association.) But we never hear about McCain's "October Surprise".

Here's just a few WMDs Senator Obama could lob right before the election.

G. Gordon Liddy

Along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy masterminded the first break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building in 1972. The subsequent cover-up of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's resignation in 1974; Liddy served four and a half years in prison for his role in the burglary. He later became a radio talk show host. On August 26, 1994, Liddy told the violent Branch Dividian cult, "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests." ... "They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches." And he's best friends with John McCain.

Good counter to: William Ayers ads.

Campaign Manager Rick Davis

Lobbied on behalf of Victor Yanukovich, the Kremlin-backed candidate in Ukraine's 2006 election suspected of widespread ballot-box stuffing, violent vote suppression, and accused of plotting the poisoning and consequent facial paralysis of his Western-backed opponent, Victor Yuschenko.

Power shot: John McCain says Barack Obama is 'oddly in sync with the Kremlin'. Nope, sorry, that would be John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis.

Chief Economic Advisor Phil Gramm

Passed into law the Enron loophole while his wife was on Enron's board, allowing speculators to drive up gas prices. Retired and then lobbied on behalf of UBS, who's leadership are under FBI investigation for marketing illegal tax evasion schemes to customers. (Go to wikipedia, there are all kinds of illegal dealing this company is under investigation for.) Said America has become "a nation of whiners" who are in "a mental recession".

Power shot: John McCain forgot how many homes he owns. He thinks $4 million makes you rich. The man who wrote his economic policy says we're "a nation of whiners", "in a mental recession", even after passing the Enron loophole to allow speculators to drive up gas prices. Tell John McCain to fire Phil Gramm. Tell John McCain to rewrite his plan for the economy with someone who doesn't think we're whiners.

Chief Foreign Policy Advisor Charlie Black

Black is Washington's most powerful lobbyist, a top hand in Reagan's campaigns and the one who first recruited Lee Atwater into the ranks. Nothing would be more a coup-de-tat for the Campaign For Change than a full-out assault on the lobbyist of lobbyists, the King of Scumbags, Mr. Charlie Black. His clients include such unsavory figures as Jonas Sevimby, Ferdinand Marcos,  Mobuto Sese Seko, and many others. None of these, however, are more unsavory than the recently revealed fact that Charlie Black lobbied on behalf of the murderous military junta of Burma. A close second and third are Black's lobbying work for informer-turned-Iranian spy Achmed "Curveball" Chalabi as well as the scandal-plagued Blackwater contractors.

Power shot: There's oh so many ways to play this. Black is a goldmaine of scary associations. But here's a really nasty ad Obama could run on the eve of the election.--Meet Charlie Black, John McCain's Chief Foreign Policy Advisor. Charlie Black is a long-time friend of John McCain. Charlie Black has also been a lobbyist for the murderous regimes of Jonas Sevimby and Mobuto Sese Seko,<show threatening pictures in military uniforms> as well as the murderous military junta of Burma. Here's a visual aid. <Youtube clip of woman getting gunned down in streets of Burma> <now assemble all the scary pictures of Black clients all together> Tell John McCain to fire Charlie Black and hire a Chief Foreign Policy Advisor who will put America first.

That's a real eye-opener!

Foreign Policy Advisor Randy Scheunemann

Lobbies on behalf of Georgia. (Nothing doing.) Lobbied on behalf of Achmed Chalabi. (Bingo!)

Power shot(this is killer): Six years ago, an Iraqi national named Achmed Chalabi was paid by the Bush administration to give pages of evidence to U.S. intelligence showing Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Only one problem. . . <portrait flashes black and white, crooked> Almost all of it was a lie. And who first supported paying Chalabi to lie to the American people? John McCain. <heading, "John McCain co-sponsors Iraq Liberation Act in 1999"> He called Chalabi "a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart.” And even though Chalabi is now suspected of spying on behalf of Iran, both of John McCain's top foreign policy advisors<portraits of Scheunemann and Black> went to lobby for him. John McCain aided and abetted a liar and a traitor. America paid the price. <ring up cost of the war>