Oh, You've Got to be Kidding Me

Everyone's heard of Joe, the plumbing company owner-to-be who stood up to Barack Obama and told him that his tax policies would destroy his American Dream. The most stunning thing here is Obama's response. Obama said he didn't want to "punish" Joe, but instead "spread the wealth around...", which totally exposed his Marxism for all the world to see.

Joe was hailed as a hero, a symbol of the everyman who suffers under government. Once Joe was mentioned over 20 times in the last Presidential debate, I could tell that this was an October surprise worthy of George W. Bush.

Now, though, the media has sabotaged everything.

Even though he's not a politician, the media decided to "vet" him anyway, much like they did with Sarah Palin. Heh.

Now you've got hit pieces on Joe like this one, it seems as if things aren't going well for our homegrown hero. Already, prominent Democrat politicians have come out attacking Joe, some more well-known than others.

Let's dissect the posting above. It's written by Bonnie Erbe, "openly-crass liberal", as the American Spectator describes her. She starts by informing us who she is. He's simply "the plumber so often referred to by Sen. John McCain in the third and final debate." Nothing about Obama's response to his question that made him so famous in the first place. Very objective reporting.

Erbe goes into a reckless rant, starting by telling Joe that he "had better learn to shut his mouth. The more he speaks publicly, the more he looks like the GOP plant," awfully harsh criticism toward a citizen who's been rounding the talk shows, lately. There's not anything wrong with what he's saying, by the way, but it's enough to make him look like a "plant" to Erbe. This whole conspiracy theory just isn't possible. Obama descended on Joe's own neighborhood without informing anyone he was going to be there. Joe can't have been planted in his own neighborhood. Besides, there's not any evidence to suggest he's been corroborating with the McCain campaign, anyway. The fact that McCain brought him up in the debates and that GOP ads have used his and Obama's discussion as political ammo simply justifies my point; any connection between McCain and Joe was all post-Obama's-freudian-slip.

It's wishful thinking to claim he was a plant.

She accuses him of being misanthropic when she declares:

Watch him calling Social Security a "joke" on YouTube:

I'm no fan of tax hikes, but even I recognize Social Security is no "joke." It has single-handedly lifted millions of elderly and disabled Americans out of poverty and turned America's elderly from the most impoverished age demographic to one with an income more in line with that of working families.

Yes, watch him do it, he's such a naive plebian! Hah!

I'm sure that most of America knows the sorry state that social security is in... currently. It hasn't always been a joke; nobody's saying that, not even Joe. FDR advanced the well-being of Americans for years and years with this policy. What Joe (and conservatives) mean when they say that SS is a "joke" is referring to how it's so unprepared to face the gigantic influx of new users in a few years. Not only that, but the system's so fragile it appears that it could collapse at any time. It's not a "funny ha-ha" joke, it's pathetic in its current state.

But by no means has it "single-handedly" done so. Expansion of private investements have done wonders for the retired. You really shouldn't assert like that, Mrs. Erbe.

Erbe goes on to list a couple of liberal-blogger conspiracy theories, which, of course, she doesn't provide essential information to correctly assess these rumors, much like the AP always does when mentioning anything having to do with an Obama rumor, or an accusation that McCain makes against him. The reason is simple: she wants you to believe them, to damage Joe's credibility.

Now, here's the kicker; she ends with,

Keep watching this story because if it proves true that "Joe the Plumber" is the wealthy, Republican regular the liberal blogs are claiming he is, the McCain campaign could go down as the most corrupt and inept in history.

WHAT!? This is what she's saying. If Joe turns out to be a stereotypical wealthy Republican, then McCain's campaign is uber-corrupt and inept.

1. That doesn't make any logical sense, as he's not even affiliated with the McCain campaign.
2. Corrupt? For what? Bringing him up in a debate? Is that really corrupt at all? Of course not. Then that must mean that the civilian Joe Stanko (or Stanek or whoever) that Biden brought up in the last VP debate is obviously an evil partisan and has corrupted the Obama-Biden campaign, making it the most inept in history.

(of course, further investigation revealed that Stanko is a lobbyist, the type of person that pure reformers like Obama hate...go figure)
3. Inept? How so? The man made Obama give about the most vital Freudian slip that anyone's made yet. That's not ineptitude from Joe or McCain, that was all Obama, baby.

Of course, these pointless, bloviating attacks on Joe are all too prevalent these days. What's more disturbing is how the Obamamedia smeared Joe intensely for embarrassing their messiah. Perhaps in an Obama administration, we'll all get to deal with a thugocracy. The dissent will be silenced, much like they're trying to silence Joe by talking over him with their shrill, leftist voices.