PLUMMING THE DEPTHS OF POLITICS

First we'll let Joe The Plumber, McCains newest Weapon of Mass Misdirection, speak for himself.
"You know I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question for once," he said, "instead of tap dancing around it and unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance. Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr."

Obama actually spent five minutes tap dancing for this fraud. He received a real answer, he just never asked a real question. He pretended he wanted to buy a business for $250,ooo to $280,000. This wasn't the "American dream" he spoke of, this was, and is, a pipe dream. Joe owed back taxes, wasn't really a plumber-just worked illegally as one for over a decade-and would actually benefit from the tax plan that Baraca very patiently laid out for him. These five minutes would've quickly faded if Obama hadn't in the course of those five minutes stated he wanted to "spread the wealth." Starting with the third debate McCain has used that sound bit-it's too small to be called a bite-to tie Obama to socialism. Smear campaigns are used by those without the intellectual heft to actually compete . Smear campaigns worked for Bush, hopefully they won't work for McCain.

Joe The Plumber is McCains new war cry. You can see his face light up with glee when he says it. This guy is a McCain-Rove invention.He's not Joe, He's Samuel Joseph Wurzelberger-but Sam The Plumber doesn't doesn't have that everyman ring to it. and besides this has nothing to do with Joe or Sam, it has to do with McCain unable to climb out of the mudhole that's become his Campaign Headquarters.

I smell a rat. This Joe The Plumber who voted for McCain in the primary, confronts Obama with a total fabrication of his situation-for what reason? He obviously wasn't looking for an honest answer, the answer was immaterial to him. And McCain has invited Joe (or Sam) to attend the coming rallies. Was it a setup? Is McCain using volunteer constituents to ask Obama leading questions in the hope that in the course of answering Obama will honestly say something that McCain can regurgitate as duplicitous misdirection. McCain is not Bush. McCain is turning into Nixon.