Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Real Joe

From this morning's Daily Beast:

Election 2008 has a favorite everyman: "Joe the Plumber," whose name was mentioned 26 times in last night's debate. Joe, it turns out, is a real person—Joe Wurzelbacher, from Holland, Ohio, whose 6-minute conversation with Barack Obama about taxes was fodder for McCain's attacks. "It's pretty surreal, man, my name being mentioned in a presidential campaign," Wurzelbacher said. You're tellin' us. But Politico's Ben Smith suggests that after a night of the candidates competing for Joe's affections, it all may be for naught: Joe, apparently, isn't registered to vote.

Get it @ The Los Angeles Times

BWAH!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe, first name Sam, was a right wing radio darling, owes back taxes and is not licensed to plumb.

Way to vet, McCain! I sure want to give you authority to appoint people to important posts.

The Alfred Smith roasting freaked me out. Made me feel like these guys are actually all in secret, elite societies and we'll the sheeple. Seriously, SF. I ask you. Creeped me out totally to see one on each side of a freaking cardinal.

BLEH!

SheenaFury said...

This is why conspiracy theory - or what is called conspiracy theory - interests me so much. I don't understand how they can feast and laugh and drink and make SO much merry at this moment in history. We are definitely sheeple - but if Obama wins in a landslide, I will have renewed faith. The Cardinal thing - don't get me started on that. That's just...such a mockery.

Anonymous said...

Joe the Contractor is also according to his most recent tax return, $40,000 in income for '07, in no position to buy his boss's business, nor is the business for sale. The business in question earns less than 250 K a year, Thus under Obama's tax plan, Joe and his boss's company will get a tax cut!

As Democrats continue to work toward representing the middle class,the working class, Republicans continue to pitch for votes from ordinary Americans by resorting to the creation of myths and caricatures of ordinariness for the middle class to identify with, i.e. Joe the Plumber, Ronald Reagan the wood chopper, George W. the brush cutter, the Silent Majority, etc.

Let's all hope that the sensible tradition of the American electorate swinging to the Democratic Party during troubled economic times repeats in 2008.

Anonymous said...

Who the hell is Alfred Smith?

Now wait a minute...was it an entertaining roast, like those old ones from the 70's with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, etc where they'd insult each other, smoke, and drink a lot? LOVE THOSE!

I'll be glad to be rid of those nasty Republican snakes but I'm not really on the Obama love train. He's not liberal enough.

Reverend Wright for President!

SheenaFury said...

This is one of the reasons I love my Hey Hey so much. I can't find anything offensive in Wright's film clips. I agree with almost everything he says, does that make me a bad American? A potential TERRORIST? He criticizes the government about not doing their job the right and fair way and he's a radical? Aren't we supposed to find problems and fix them?

Remember when J. Moreland ran for president and got on the Jerry Springer show? BWAH! Bully for him!

SHEENA HUSSEIN FURY