Joe The Plumber - Just Another Distraction - UPDATED

Here's what we've learned about Joe the plumber in the past 12 hours:

- He thinks social security is "a joke."

- He thinks going into Iraq was the right thing to do, "WMD's or not."

- He's undecided between Obama and McCain but it doesn't matter because he's not registered to vote!

- According to NPR, it is comfirmed that he does not make more than $250,000 per year. I'm still looking for documentation on that one.

More to come, with video of Joe's impromptu press conference in his driveway today.

*On a side note, Tucker Bounds is on MSNBC now. What a douhe - and can I say that I hate Alix Witt? She is a complete tool, has no facts in front of her to debate the typical talking points, and on a frivilous note, someone has to do something about the lion's mane she calls hair.

UPDATE (12:35pm):

My video software is out of whack, but here's Think Progress' video (about half of the interview).



And here's a bit from Buck Naked Politics:

I can't work out why ol' Joe thinks he is rich enough to be disadvantaged by Obama's tax plan or rich enough to afford McCain's. What part of "middle class tax breaks" does he find unappealing? Ah ha! Here you go:

Like everyone else in America, he talks like a pundit.

"McCain was solid in his performance," he says. "I still don't know where he stands," he says of Obama. "I'm middle class. I can't have my taxes raised any more."

He also says he actually isn't in the bracket where Obama would raise his taxes -- but he's worried that Obama will shift the bracket
down.

He also said that, in his encounter with Obama, the Illinois Senator "a tap dance...almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr."
(Ben Smith)

I see: he's a member of the demographic group who feel more secure with a guy who is promising NOT to give them any tax breaks than with a guy who promises to give them tax breaks and tax only those with income of a quarter of a million. Huh. Say it ain't so, Joe!