Are You a 'Joe the Plumber?'

I found this link to be quite convincing.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/i-am-joe.html

this joe the plumber is the stupidest campaign slogan i ever heard poor mccain has nothing to offer us then joe the plumber who isnt joe and isnt a plumber

It just doesn't matter who Joe the Plumber is. It doesn't matter if he goes by his middle name or is behind in his taxes. It doesn't matter that what he makes or if he ever will make $250K. Only two things matter in this ongoing saga.

1. WHAT THE BIG O SAID! It doesn't matter who posed the question or the characteristics of that person. It doesn't matter even if he was a plant. The exposure and clarification of the makeup and ideology of The Big O is the only piece of info that matters here. Even if the media totally discredits Joe, it will not change what The Big O said, what he meant or what he stands for.

2. The liberal media is willing to attack and destroy yet another member of their voting constituency. Is there no one unworthy of a target on their back in order to get The Big O elected? From the attacks on Palin, pre-convention speech, to the attacks on Joe, the liberal press continues to upset their own apple cart: the elderly, parents of pregnant teens, special needs families, single moms, career women who CAN TOO juggle both and more, any parent who did their best and still had a child go astray, etc etc etc.

Now Joe is appearing on news shows and with Big Mac on the trail. The Big O would have been better off if the press had left this one well enough alone. Joe looks mean. Why would they deliberately piss him off?

With the race tightening up as pollsters start to concern themselves more with credibility and less with shaping public opinion, one would think that the media (and Biden and Carville) would just focus on the positive.

Just what about this plumber scares the libs so much that they have revealed more to us about him then they have their own candidate? Could it be that Joe has come closest to revealing their own candidate to us? In a campaign as poorly run as Big Mac's The Big O should be so much further ahead. The shroud of mystery is unraveling and soon it may be beyond the power of the pollsters to justify calling this race even.

It is one thing if the McCain camp says look at who this guy is so late in the race and behind in the polls. It is another if an ordinary citizen does it. And if he doesn't stand a chance of making $250K it is even worse for The Big O; it is representative of a glitch in the liberal system that counts on its follower's selfish nature to supersede the impact that their selfishness will have on our country as a whole.

All you McCainites are really going psycho. President Obama will have a good mental health plan for you. You are like the McCain campaign, dysfunctionable and falling apart. You and McCain can not get over the fact that the majority of Americans do not want him as president. They did not want him in 2000 and they do not want him now. Obama is beating him in 2008 like Bush beat him in 2000. You and McCain just can not understand it.

When he brought Sarah Palin into his campaign that started his downfall. Palin reminds people of the Moonies that use to beg for money for Rev Moon. She makes dumb statements and is the poster-child for wrongdoing. McCain is an imitation George Bush and he does not realize it. McCain has poor judgment and he does not see it.

R.I.P.

Nice to see McCain/Palin using this man's life for political gain. But when you are the party out of favor with the public and have no new ideas, I guess you do what you have to.
Am I really supposed to believe any politician - and especially McCain - who is married to a woman with a $100 million fortune and lives like royalty - understands what it is like to work hard every day of your life and struggle to pay bills? The honest answer would be no.

We can always tell when Obama and his supporters feel threatened by someone. They instantly seek to destroy them with a smear campaign. Chicago style politics rule the day once more. Obama is a socialist, but he doesn't want us to know it. I don't have to be "Joe the Plumber" to see this.

McCain/Palin are pulling this... and good old Joe, as well as posters like the above, are blaming Obama or the media for the 'invasion of privacy'???

Wonder if they will bother vetting any of these. Well, since vetting your VP selection is, apparently, not worth the trouble; doubt it.

Rias, with the millions and millions Obama is spending, why is he only up by 5%? Why is he not gaining any ground, especially when this was the year to defeat the republicans. By this time, he should be up by 15%.

Palin is his downfall and is making stupid statements? I know you've heard all of Biden's gaffes, especially the most recent when he states that Obama's administration will be tested in a crisis within six months of his presidency. Biden was also found to have made 14 misstatements in his debate with Palin. Count them...14!

Rias, if I were you, I'd be very, very worried about the silent majority who will be coming out of the woodwork on Nov. 4.

I am definitely a "Joe the Plumber". I cleaned condos for 14 years and then worked in other's offices until I could open my own company. No one paid me extra when I worked 80 hour weeks - it's down to 60 now! No one gave me any assurances when I mortgaged my home to get start-up money. Now, that I am finally getting to the point where my efforts have begun to pay off - along comes Obama with his hand out. Well, I am sorry, but I try to give jobs to people to earn an income and it is difficult because all the "possible" workers are sitting at home getting a welfare check. Now you want me to give them my money when they won't even accept a job to help pay their own way. NO WAY - VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN to keep America the way our forefathers meant it to be. If you don't work - you don't eat!!!!!

Joe the plumber is not someone that McCain is going to help that is why it is so ridiculous - he/Joe made $40k and owes taxes and under Obama's tax plan this guy will pay less taxes. McCain and Palin have been misleading the American people and it is WRONG! And I predict will come back to bite them both in the B___!!

Desperation breeds deperate acts....to quote Joe the Plumber..."It ain't gonna matter none". "It's all over but the shoutin'. Come on November Obama/Biden '08

Ruby you need to get informed and stop watching Fox!

lulu - it is the silent majority and people like you that we should be very afraid of - Palin is a liar and an actress - she gives a good stump speech but can't even answer questions in an interview - think about it her possibly being our President she should go for an acting career. I have made calls for the Obama campaign and you should be very afraid - each and every person I spoke to is supporting Obama and the unheard numbers at this point are the young college students that are voting for Obama that is when your landslide will happen. GET INFORMED!!

We are ALL Joe the plumber! America is the country that allows us to dream. From the 711's to the Korean grocery store owner - to the Real Estate Investor- to the wanna be movie star .... In America, if you are creative enough, talented enough, lucky enough, you too can rise and live the life of your dreams.
Under Obama, all your hard work and drive will be "punished". You will give your hard earned profits to the Government who will decide how much success you can keep. The Government will then "redistribute your hard earned wealth" to it's cronies and leaders so they can live the good life! Remember Michelle at the Lux hotel in GB yesterday ordering lobster and champagne from room service? Well, all your money (if you "make it"), will go the leaders and cronies.
Sound familiar? Think Russia, China and all the Soviets thugs.
JUST SAY NO. Socialism does not work!!

Kathy - you are completely bull of Merde - get informed! If we don't help the middle class - what then? I mean take that gray matter between your ears - study the population and get an understanding of our economy - I mean a real understanding and then see if you THINK the same.

You liberals laugh at Joe the Plumber and the other small businesses, while Michelle dines on lobster and caviar? You are pushing us to what Soviet Russia had in the way of craft. Painting a wall from bottom to top. Bathroom resembling a plumber's nightmare.

Nancy2:41PMOct 20th 2008

lulu - it is the silent majority and people like you that we should be very afraid of - Palin is a liar and an actress - she gives a good stump speech but can't even answer questions in an interview - think about it her possibly being our President she should go for an acting career. I have made calls for the Obama campaign and you should be very afraid - each and every person I spoke to is supporting Obama and the unheard numbers at this point are the young college students that are voting for Obama that is when your landslide will happen. GET INFORMED
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Nancy ... You need to understand how people with good moral character think!
Palin is awesome because she FOUGHT corrupt politicans from both sides of the aisle and won. Alaska is better off for it.
Obama ENDORSED corrupt politicans (too many to count)
Palin makes 100's of executive decisions every day. Obama votes "present". He is a weak, wimpy, self serving candidate that I wouldn't trust to water my plants.
It goes to character, Nancy. Obama has shown bad judgement so many times (Ayers, Resko, Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, etc). And he won't EVEN produce a valid copy of his birth certificate!
Obama is so ridiculous I can't imagine anyone who who has an ounce of good character would vote for this sham of a politican!
My son is a college student. He thinks Obama will pay for his college education. Another irresponsible promise made by Obama. These students need to take responsibility for their lives. If everyone lines up at the trough to collect on Obama's promises, we'll have a bankrupt country in no time.
Trickle up poverty - no thanks.

The thing about "joe the plumber" that you dont get is...He asked a question and Obama is persicuting him on tv because he made the mistake of telling people what he is going to do.That is, take hard working peoples money and give it to people that are a drain on society as wellfare!If you become sucessful should he take your money and give it to somebody that has never had a job,like a drug dealer?If you dont work and only file taxes to get the "credits",Youll get a bunch of them from somebody that does work for a living...not just "rich" people!

Nancy it is obvious. You are one of the less productive members of society who would like to mooch off of us Joe's. Yes, we are the ones who work ridiculous hours and take all the risks and responsibility. All the while people like you screw up your job assignments then whine and complain about your job, rather than appreciate it. Your job will be the first to go under Obamas new world. Pray for McCain. Take your words and go look in the mirror. Your ignorance is astounding.