Joe the Plumber
Joe Wurzelbacher
As we struggle to make sense of this year’s election, Joe the Plumber takes center stage, being mentioned 21 times in the last debate, while the old buzz word “change” was only mentioned once. I think that we are really lost in lies and minutia. I know you have read it all, but what bugs me is how a guy making $40,000 a year with an existing tax lien of $1,100 can make a legitimate argument about how the impact of a tax proposal on people earning over $250,000 a year would have on him. Even worse is that it was brought to everyones attention without being verified as factual.
At the end of this CBS News media interview Joe said, “I just hope I’m not making too much of a fool of myself.” My take is that he already knows what he is; now we all do. The real fools here are the politicians that have elected to make Joe an issue in a national debate for the presidency of the United States of America. The rest of the world must be holding their ribs in laughter.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
While Ron makes light of Joe the Plumber, I can relate to the dude very well. He represents the mainstream of America; people that cannot pay their bills, people that need someone like John McCain to look out for them.
Joe speaks for all of us when he say’s, “Don’t raise my taxes.” I believe in Joe.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
At last a visual of Reality Check. I have no doubt that you can relate to Joe, he is surely an idiot. The poor SOB doesn’t know that Obama would be lowering his taxes. And who knows, maybe he would even be able to pay them.
I read the whole article; the real truth is in the last part, but it might require some intellect to get that far, that’s where Reality Check and Joe (let’s call him JTP) are missing out.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am
People wake up!!! Obama is not going to lower taxes! He says he is going to let the Bush tax cuts expire… which will raise everyones taxes… then he promises to raise taxes even more on the “wealthy” and give some of back to “middle class”… the net effect on everyone is higher taxes. Hows is that going to help our economy?
October 18th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Everyone is right; right?
There are ONLY two things that really matter, all else we can live with.
1. Get the hell out of Iraq at any cost. The bloodshed isn’t worth it. Bush and the McCain clad have KILLED more than 4,000 American boys and countless innocent others, all over greed, stupidity and oil. Taxes; up or down are small potatoes compared to the blood.
2. Keep that crazy woman from Alaska in Alaska. I am afraid that a vote for McCain is a vote for her. He doesn’t have it in him to go 4 years in that job, and she is a brainless, blood loving idiot.
Obama is the ONLY way to achieve both numbers 1 and 2, and the rest of all the crap you are talking about just doesn’t matter if 1 and or 2 don’t happen.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:35 am
A vote for Obama is a vote for the likes of Bill Ayers, Rev Wright, Tony Rezko, and ACORN… and its a vote for Socialized America. And you call Palin the crazy one?
Do they teach US History and the Constitution at UH?
October 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
I like Obama’s “restore credibility and image”, line. Will he do that by hanging out with America-hating radicals and domestic terrorists, as he’s been doing for most of his life? And will he keep America safe by cutting off the military’s research and development programs and slashing their budgets by 10’s of billions of dollars? Obama’s policies are older than Bush’s or McCain’s…they go all the way back to Jimmy Carter, 30 years ago!
October 19th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I’m starting to feel a bit sorry for that Maui boy; Jeff. Oh yes, they do teach history at UH, but they also teach the present, and that things have changed. We no longer have the segregation we had at that time, or many other things that have come about as a part of evolution.
We no longer (most of us) need to hunt and kill animals for our food or shoot helpless wolves for our clothing. Talk about waking up; this is 2008!
We also learn compassion and love, and how crazy killing each other over things like oil is.
I hope that you go see the movie, “W”. It clears up a lot of confusion as to how we got into this war. I thought it was all about oil, but no; it was more a matter of some spoiled idiot kid with a father complex and brother jealousy. I’m glad that it showed him having trouble sleeping. Many parents with maimed or dead kids do too.
Barack Obama is the only one of the three running that had the wisdom to know we shouldn’t go to war. He’s also the one to get us out of there the quickest, and that’s most important; regardless of the other stupid outdated and prejudice stuff you talk about is.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:17 am
This just in… Obama wasn’t even a Senator when the war was voted on… he was neither for or against!
How convienent to now say he was against the war… he has flip-flopped on the war, off shore drilling, taxes, national health care, gun control, and even on his “spiritual mentor” Rev Wright.
give me a break
BTW … I have never owned a gun… but I still believe in OUR 2nd Amendment Rights!
October 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Let’s for a moment assume that all you say about Barrack is true. Then ask, “What does that say about the choice put up by the GOP?” The vast majority of the American people have “had it” with the likes of Bush, McCain and oh yes “The wolf shooter” from Alaska. That pick showed how stupid McCain is and we all recognize it. Compare her to Colin Powell for just a moment. He endorsed Barrack, and lists her among his reasons. Was it you that said somewhere that you would vote for him in a minute? If so, listen to his wisdom and wise up.
In America it comes down to the people deciding, and I am afraid that just about anyone would look better than those two bozos! Look for the biggest landslide in history, and the more panicked they get the worse they look.
WE would still vote for Barrack if all of the distortions you have bought were actually true. Get over it; it’s over. Cast you measly vote and go surfing.
Watch this IF you have the COURAGE!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4531411n
October 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Powell endorsed Obama for one reason, and one reason only… color! Just look at his track record… when has he ever support an inexperienced left-wing extremist??? NEVER!… hmmmmm…
and now Barack Husien Obama is quoted as saying…
“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
That is Socialism!!!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am
This stupidity really doesn’t deserve a response, BUT, I must point out to any other fools out there that Colin Powell is neither a liar nor a racist. If he was in this for color we would have known it long before now. Listen to his comments before talking. He’s a credible guy and he gave McCain the opportunity to show himself, and in the end made the decision that he considers in the best interest of America. You might want to consider doing the same and get off of the racist side.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
The farce continues. I wonder what we would be seeing as VP? Fortunately it won’t happen. President of the PTA was a much more appropriate position for this unethical person.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/21/politics/main4537742.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4537742
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
Joe the Plumber has struck a chord because he reminds us (and should remind politicians in Washington) that government, no matter how well intentioned, has to be paid for and that money comes from guys like Joe. Politicians can either bleed him dry to fund their programs, or they can encourage Americans to create more jobs and more wealth — and keep government limited and effective.
But in a one-party Washington, completely controlled by Harry Reid with a veto-proof Democratic majority in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi with an expanded Democratic majority in the House, and Barack Obama in the White House, the liberal politicians’ impulse to take your money and use it as they see fit will be unrestrained and unrestrainable.
In such a Washington there will be no one to remove (as House Republicans did) the ACORN slush fund inserted into the Paulson bailout plan that would have diverted 20 percent of the proceeds from the sale of government-bought securities to radical leftwing groups like ACORN.
In such a Washington, there will be no filibuster threat in the Senate to stop legislation passed in the House that will take away Americans workers’ right to a secret ballot.
In such a Washington, there will be no one standing in between the American people and liberal plans for higher income, capital gains and dividend taxes, the “harsh measures” House Speaker Pelosi has promised, and confiscatory taxes imposed through regulation by the federal bureaucracy.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
Just one more stab at this Colin Powell endorsement. I’m not calling him a racist. I’m saying he’s disingenuous. It’s not about racism. It’s about his lack of candor. He can’t admit what’s obvious. Race plays a huge role. The whole campaign is about race. It’s “historic.” Why is it historic? There’s only one thing that makes it historic, and that’s the race of the Democrat nominee.
It’s certainly not his issues, not his policies. He’s not The Messiah. He didn’t come from a virgin birth. There’s nothing out there that makes this historic other than his color. Why can’t you Democrats acknowledge this? What’s so hard about it? Just say it! Be proud of it! It would have been refreshing if Secretary Powell had stated the obvious, not danced around it. But, see, if he’d admitted it was about race it wouldn’t have helped him with the media.
If Hillary would have won the nomination… it would have been “Historic” because of her gender… is that so hard to grasp?
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
“About Race” - “Racist” - “Racism” - “Racial” It’s all semantics and it all adds up to discrimination over color. I cannot accept that Colin Powell would ever stoop to that level as some of those commenting in this blog are.
Barrack Obama, unlike Sarah Powell was well vetted, and passed the most intense scrutiny one could imagine to get to this point. If there was anything out there that would make him dishonorable, he wouldn’t be so far ahead in the polls, they would have strung him up by now.
The racists need to get over it; we are about to have a white, Hawaiian, black president. And, maybe someday we;ll be ready for a woman as well, all it will take if for the best person running to be female. There is no doubt, given the choices we have, that Barrack is the best one running. If he’s a bad guy, then the Republican party really looks bad for putting someone up there that is worse. In this country the majority rules; it’s the way it is. GET OVER IT; you are running a lying, racist, negative old man and a sleasy woman, and that’s the reason you are losing so badly.
And Ron, I appeal to you to yank this post as you did one a while ago when the racists started ranting.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Ron Here:
I hear you; I am not going to “yank” this thread as I do believe in freedom of speech, however I agree with you that the tone is getting a bit (very) vicious, just as the election is, so I will declare this topic “closed” and will not accept any more comments on this posting.
I am 67 yers old, have seen a lot of elections, but I must say, “I have never seen anything like this before. And, I hope that when it’s over it will be over, so that the people of America can regain their respect in the world, and focus on greatness.”