Crumbling Pedestal: Joe the Plumber Quacks Like a Duck

There's the real star of last nights debate according to John McCain (although MSNBC's focus group gave the topic of Wurzelbacher a resounding thumbs down), and by the end of the night everyone was saying his name. Yes this strapping, rugged, man with his head shaved to cover up his male pattern baldness ala Bruce Willis, was soon being interviewed by all the major media outlets. ("I think he should model!" intoned Joe Scarborough's airheaded co-host.) He claims to be undecided, but sounds very negative on Obama's tax plan because it will hurt his bid to buy his employer's plumbing business. My goodness! What a stroke of luck! John McCain, in the 11th hour found someone whom he could prop up as an example of the very person who would be hurt by Barack Obama's tax plan. (Being only 5% of the population and only 2% of small businesses, it's hard to find)

Sound a little too convenient?
Let's begin:

1)one is not taxed on the worth of one's company, but on their profit. It would take a herculean plumbing outfit to earn a quarter of a mil in Cincinatti. If Joe is pulling in 250k net, then I don't care if he's a plumber, an architect, or a stock broker, he can afford to pay a little more.


2) Joe is not a liscenced plumber and it is highly suspect that the outfit he works for would clear 100k, let alone 250k. So, Joe was lying... or misinformed... or one hell of an unliscenced plumber.


3) If Joe owed more taxes, he probably wouldn't pay them anyway. He has had a lien placed on his home for the $11oo he owes the government.


I don't know anything for certain, but


1) Wurzelbacher is improperly registered, but even if he wasn't he's registered as a REPUBLICAN, not as an Independant.


2) Wurzelbacher has said the following of Obama:

- "I asked the question but I still got a tap dance... Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr"
- That his tax plan is "kind of a socialist viewpoint"


On Iraq:
"I'm not sorry that we're in Iraq. . . . We liberated another country. I mean, freedom. Things that every one of you guys take for granted, everything that Americans take for granted, I mean these guys haven't had it. Now they've got it. I mean, that's an incredible thing. That's almost -- I don't know if you guys are Christians or not, but that's like somebody coming to Jesus and becoming saved. These guys have freedom."

On Social Security:
"Social Security is a joke. I have parents; I don't need another set of parents called the government. You know, let me take my money and invest it how I please. Social Security I've never believed in, don't like it. I hate that it's forced on me."

Now there's a nice moderate voice.

but the most troubling and suspicious thing is the simplest.


Look at the picture at the top of this article. It was taken on the night of the debate. When asked, he said he was "surprised" at being mentioned at the debate. Why then were there reporters there to take his picture? Why were there cameras around when he approached Obama? Why was he so eager to go on all of the news shows today? Why does he sound like a Republican plant sent by an increasingly desperate McCain campaign?





Look at this animal. It has feathers and can both fly and float in the water. When it walks it makes a slight waddling motion. It emits a sound one could onomatopeonically describe as "Quack." What pray tell could this animal be?