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Flopsweat Equity
The latest McCain ad of doom – “Sweat Equity.” I watched this and can’t figure out who on earth will buy this line of bull at this point, given how discredited Joe the Plumber is. BARACK OBAMA: I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody. WOMAN:…
Joe The Plumber’s Fake Small Business
Sarah Palin is on my TV advocating policies for people like Joe the Plumber “who are struggling to maintain a small business”. Joe the Plumber isn’t struggling to maintain a small business. He doesn’t have one. And he’s not actually struggling – he just wants to be sure that when…
10/15 Changed Everything
Michelle Malkin is excoriating “liberals” for attempting to destroy Joe the Plumber. It isn’t just the pot calling the kettle black, it’s the pot wandering into the pot store and declaring all other pots black-tinged traitors to our great nation, then offering to run the pot reeducation camp to bring…
McCain’s incredible ‘Joe the Plumber’ ad
This just landed in my inbox. I kid you not, even after the dumptruck of embarrassing news about “Joe” that is circulating (has no plumber’s license, is delinquent on taxes, is related to Charles Keating (?), and compares Obama to Sammy Davis, Jr.), the McCain team puts out this winner:…
Joe the Ingrate Plumber
When they got on the whole “Joe the Plumber” thing last night, I thought it was a hypothetical person, though I was impressed to see McCain show the first spark of compassion I’ve ever seen him show. So now we know his floor for empathy—if you make a quarter million…
Joe The Plumber
Is an idiot. To clarify: Joe uncritically accepts everything McCain tells him, but finds Barack Obama shifty and dancing and just generally Sammy Davis Jr.-like, because black people dance or somesuch thing. It’s like watching a pundit from six months ago tell you about Barack Obama’s challenges with the electorate.…
That debate wasn’t about Joe the Plumber
(BTW, Joe the Plumber isn’t registered to vote.) Despite being mentioned 27 times during Wednesday’s debate, Joe The Plumber Wurzelbacher wasn’t the big news of the head-to-head between Barack Obama and John McCain. IMHO, it was the final, no-mistakes-about-it repudiation of the presidency of George W. Bush by the man…
Tonight’s Loser
Poor little Trig Palin. He got totally fucked over by John McCain at the end. Also, Joe the Plumber went from a minor one-off blog story to snicker over to the defining character of this debate. And from what I can tell, Joe works longer hours than a new resident…
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