There's no getting around it. Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is an idiot. At a McCain rally today, he agreed with a questioner who said this:
It's my belief that a vote for Obama is a vote for the death to Israel.
"I'm honestly scared for America," Joe said.
He later added, "I love America. I hope it remains a democracy, not a socialist society... If you look at spreading the wealth, that's honestly right out of Karl Marx's mouth. No one can debate that. That's not my opinion. That's fact."
Where to begin?
Oh, why bother?
You can read what we've written on Joe the Idiot Plumber here (J. Thomas Duffy), here (Mustang Bobby), and here (MJWS). He's obviously a partisan, obviously an extremist, obviously deeply stupid and profoundly ignorant. He's obviously wrong about Obama on both Israel (conducting diplomacy with Iran and refusing to send the country into war is not "death to Israel" -- in fact, an American is more engaged in and more widely respected around the world would only benefit Israel) and the economy (every civilized country redistributes wealth to some degree, and Obama's policies hardly make him some sort of anti-capitalist -- how is a middle class tax cut socialist?).
All Joe is doing is repeating the latest fearmongering talking points from the McCain campaign.
And proving himself to be a complete idiot in the process.
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