Penn & Teller on the Obama Tax Plan

Penn & Teller, the famously quirky Las Vegas magic act, opine on the presidential election by evaluating Barack Obama's tax plan. Hey, even professional, talented magicians can't make Obama's socialism disappear!

WARNING: This clip contains mild profanity. Viewer discretion is therefore advised.

A Tale of Two Joes

Is it just me, or has this election cycle been about 20 years long? Seriously. I'm not sure I can remember a time when Obama and McCain weren't running for President. We have been subjected to every manner of lie, distortion, exaggeration, misstatement, fabrication and wishful thinking known to man in the last two years.....and it took a pair of Joes to cut to the chase and reveal the truth.

First, of course, came Joe the Plumber. God bless Joe! He had the presence of mind and the chutzpa to ask an impertinent question on the spur of the moment, thereby eliciting a rare, straight answer from Candidate Obama. 'Won't your tax plan raise taxes on the small business I hope to own?', Joe asked. 'Yes,' Obama answered, 'because it's good to spread the wealth around.' Bingo! Obama willl take what you earn and give it to 'those behind you', because at his core, he's a committed Marxist. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Karl would be so proud!

Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copeland

Next came Joe 'open mouth, insert foot, chew vigoriously' Biden, who promised not one but two groups of donors that electing Obama would guarantee an international incident designed to test the inexperienced younger Senator.

"Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." Biden warned.

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

So. Obama is young, inexperienced and perceived as weak by our enemies, a situation they will exploit by generating an international crisis. Obama will then respond in a way that calls his judgment into question and leaves Americans doubting him....his Vice Presidential nominee guarantees it. Swell. Thanks for the heads up, Joe!

It is said that the truth will always come out - eventually. Perhaps it isn't ironic then that a couple of Joes have exposed the truth and laid it bare for all who are willing to see.

Obama's Speech Police in the New Amerika

Ordinary members of the proletariat cannot question the Dear Leader in Amerika in 2008. That is the new political reality, as Joe Wurzelbacher has learned the hard way.

The now-infamous 'Joe the Plumber' has had his entire life subjected to a proctology exam simply because he dared to ask The One, the 'messiah' Barack Obama, about taxation of small businesses under an Obama administration.

We have been told that Joe does not have a plumbers' license. Well, he doesn't...but in Ohio, only the company must be licensed. In fact, Ohio law requires applicants for a license to have "...been a tradesperson in the type of licensed trade for which the application is filed for not less than five years immediately prior to the date the application is filed... ".

The media is also gleefully reporting that Joe owes $1200 in back taxes. Apparently he does, but how is this fact relevant? It isn't, and neither is the issue of the license. What we are witnessing here is a full frontal assault on an average, innocent American who dared to broach an inconvenient subject with the annointed Great Leader.

If it makes you feel any better, Joe, you have company. Meet Jessica Hughes of Lufkin, Texas. The Lufkin Daily News reports that on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, Mrs. Hughes received a call on her cell phone from the Obama Volunteers of Texarkana.

"She asked if I was an Obama supporter, to which I replied, 'No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think you should find something better to do with your time.' (And then) I hung up," Mrs. Hughes recalled.

On Thursday, October 2, two Secret Service agents appeared at the Hughes' home, acting on a "death threat" reported by the Obama caller. They asked her if she said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor." She denied the allegation and it appears the matter is closed, but Jessica Hughes is still upset and may file a formal complaint against the volunteer. "I find that repugnant and violating — that some person got her undies in a bundle because she didn't like what I had to say," she said.

Every American ought to find suppression of free speech repugnant. That some of us not only don't but actively seek to benefit from it is very frightening indeed.