The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly.

And the candidates performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their arguments than on their presentation, body language, facial tics, unguarded sighs, smiles, sneers, and inadvertent eye rolling.

But bankers political tin ear in the aftermath of the crisis first taking public bailouts and then paying themselves huge bonuses as if nothing had changed ensured that they got the lion s share of the blame, with everyone else willing to pose as their unwitting victims.