Nobody is trying to "destroy" Joe the "plumber." By his own admission, he wanted to confront Obama and "catch him off guard." The ploy failed when Obama gave him—and the whole country—a straight and reasonable answer to the question he posed.

What is really at issue here is that McCain is lying through his pearly-white dentures about what Obama actually said. He's telling the Big Lie, and knowingly misrepresenting Obama's tax policy in a desparate effort to deceive the voters.

And does the self-proclaimed "maverick" really want to see change in Washington. D. C.? Well, I think he showed his true colors with his harping on the Joe the plumber gimmick and endlessly repeating the same lie. Trying to deceive the voters has been the main focus of the Bush administration for the past eight years. McCain's just more of the same.

But then, it's beginning to look like that's all he's got.

That is what's going on here!

Let's just hope that Joe, the real plumber, is too smart to fall for this.

Don Firth

P. S. I don't see how one can say that Joe the unlicensed plumber is being "destroyed" if some people are asking him (God help us!!) to run for political office.