Comments on: Pawlenty Rips McCain’s Use Of Joe The Plumber: ‘Throwing Out A Symbol Is Not Enough’

By: slappy magoo

slappy magoo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:27:53 +0000

(Sam)Joe the (Notta) Plumber did, indeed, speak for a lot of people. Thank goodness not a majority of American voters, but a lot of people. Those would be the people who could admit, in public, that Obama’s policies would more directly benefit them, but still were too stupid to pull the level on the Democrat. It’s the equivalent of smoking – it’s written right on the pack what the tobacco will do to your lungs and heart and life, and there’s plenty of proof as to how your health will improve if you stop smoking, and yet smokers keep right on smoking. Same with Republicans. They just can’t stop voting for Republicans and don’t like being reminded that it’s stupid to vote for Republicans.

Let us continue to remember history, so that we don’t dare repeat it.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:47 +0000

I just watched Tito the Builder for the first time on U-Tube.
Pretty funny. At least Tito had the sense to wear dark glasses, something Joe never thought about.
In a previous era, give Tito a cigar, a cap with a red star on the front and he’d make a good comrade.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:23:44 +0000

alphainfinityomega Says:

“… has Joe the (so called) Plumber been added to John McCain’s Cabinet yet?”

He’s still working underneath the sink.

By: hussein toasterhead

hussein toasterhead — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:11:23 +0000

Tarazan Says:

Pawlenty seems not to like this style of campaigning,but Sarah loves it.
Sarah in fact is still dwelling on Bill Ayers story.

November 14th, 2008 at 8:08 am
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Perhaps she’ll want to listen to Democracy Now today – Amy Goodman is interviewing Bill Ayers, so we can finally hear the REAL story about this “terrorist.”

By: Angry McAngus

Angry McAngus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:10:53 +0000

Joe who?

By: tarazan

tarazan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:08:33 +0000

Looks like the GOP Primary already started for 2012 race between Sarah and Pawlenty…
Pawlenty seems to be a realist questioning Joe the Plumber story, but Joe the Plumber story is more liked by a propagandist like Sarah Palin.
Joe does not have and probably never had 2 million dollars to buy a plumbing business that give him a 1/4 million profit,but Sarah wants to milk the story to the last drop.

Pawlenty stopped short of calling the whole thing is a lie,he said ‘Throwing out a symbol is not enough’.

Pawlenty seems not to like this style of campaigning,but Sarah loves it.
Sarah in fact is still dwelling on Bill Ayers story.

My own guess is Sarah will not make it thru the first 3 primaries on her own in 2012 race,because next time around the room will be crowded with many GOP President hopefuls and wannabees.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:01:53 +0000

jurassicpork Says: “Sounds like a movie that Larry Flynt would make.”

I’m already hearing a car dealer radio ad using Palin’s voice; doncha know, buy heck and buy golly….

By: celtic cynic

celtic cynic — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:42:34 +0000

“symbol” with no sustance behind it

That’s the American way – bright, shiny, new objects of no lasting value, having no importance other than amusement and distraction and supposed instant gratification.

By: Greytdog

Greytdog — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:30:40 +0000

Joe the Plumber was no plumber. Joe the Plumber is a con man. Joe the Plumber is no more a symbol of middle class America than James Dobson is a representative of ecumenical faith.

By: jurassicpork

jurassicpork — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:28:39 +0000

Joe the Plumber. Sounds like a movie that Larry Flynt would make.

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:22:50 +0000

>The audience doesn’t want to
> hear Obama made fun of

No, thats not really it, so much as there is much, much less mockable about obama than there is about mouthbreathing white-trash like palin and faux white-trash anti-intellectuals like bush….lets face it, its hard to listen to these people speak for more than 5 minutes without the objective mind questioning whether these people have a 3 digit IQ. McCain is old and spaced out, mentally about the same level as Palin or Bush. Dick Cheney, while likely substantially smarter, is uber-creepy, says incredibly deluded things (”last throes”, “greeted with flowers”, etc and doesnt seem like the type of person you’d want to leave your children alone with. Baraks so used to having his every word scrutizized and put under a microscrope that he chooses his words very carefully. And he’s got the brainpower to choose his words (and actions) very carefully as well.

If you have some ideas about good jokes to make about Obama, please, do share them with us…its not we dont want to hear jokes about him, its just that hes not nearly as comical, or comically sinister, as the cast of characters who used to be running the show.. heck, even dick cheneys wife ran with the “cheney =evil overlord” joke by giving stewart a figure of darth vader when he was interviewing her..

By: Bozo The Neoclown

Bozo The Neoclown — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:48:17 +0000

“Palin then also reminisced about Tito the Builder.”
Due to the lack of need for cheap labor in the building market caused by disasterous republican economic policies, Tito the builder has been deported.

By: alphainfinityomega

alphainfinityomega — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:44:50 +0000

Perry logan Says:
I weep for the poor bastards.

I don’t.

AIO

By: Perry logan

Perry logan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:18 +0000

As we all know, the Right suffer from the delusion that they are the “real” Americans…when in fact they are a creepy minority with an agenda alien to that of normal citizens.

Bogus though he may be, Joe the Plumber is clearly an important part of this desperate fantasy. Humiliated in another election, the Right are withdrawing deeper into their delusional Bizarro World. I weep for the poor bastards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypMFARJW84

By: alphainfinityomega

alphainfinityomega — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:22:08 +0000

;)

AIO

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:17:09 +0000

AIO, you need to look through TP’s older entries. You’ll be surprized.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:08:38 +0000

republicanSScareme, Joe the Plumber earned $40,000 a year. He claimed that in the near future he hoped to own a business making over $250,000 per year profit. It was BullShit.

By: alphainfinityomega

alphainfinityomega — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:07:49 +0000

I’ve been asleep for the last two weeks, has Joe the (so called) Plumber been added to John McCain’s Cabinet yet? LOL

AIO

By: republicanSScareme

republicanSScareme — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:32:12 +0000

Eh, excuse me, but I don’t think a guy who says he makes $250,000 a year can present himself as an “Joe Six-Pack Plumber.” That’s three to four times what the average family makes, not the Average Joe.

I think that foolish “life is tough” sthick from a guy making $250k a year backfired. What was Joe whining about? I think he looked pathetic and was willingly and cheerfully/glumfully used (paid, I’m sure) by the McCain campaign.

Joe the Plumber? He looked more like Joe the long-range, improved MLISS-Anti Missle system salesman from Raytheon.

By: Game of Life

Game of Life — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:58:50 +0000

Who is naive enough to believe President Obama can reverse 30 years of repugs’ rule in four years?

All I know is, that the US will be a much much better in four years.

President Obama emphasized that it will take all of us to turn this around. I don’t expect to fail.

Do you?