Joe Cool
Michelle Malkin, if I may ask you a personal question: Are you dating Joe the Plumber? If not, is he your stepbrother, father, cousin, or brother-in-law? If not, then why are you so obsessed with him? If you need to know why poor, poor “Joe” is being poked and prodded by the media and why people are digging up stuff about him, um, you should know: he did it to himself. He asked Barack Obama a question and promptly called Fox News for some face time. After that, the tabloid media starts foaming up he waters and he gets sucked under. Problem is, Joe the Plumber does not exist. He is a symbolic “everyman” created by the Republican machine to try to take down the Democrats. Joe’s name is not Joe (it is Samuel Wurzelbacher) he wasn’t a businessman, as you refer to him, and he wasn’t a Plumber (until recently when he finally got his license). As I’ve said before, I can’t fault a man or a woman working with their hands, trying to get paid (I was an electrician’s helper and housepainter with not a license twain the two). But nowadays, “Joe” is about as regular as you, Madam Malkin. He has a book deal, agent, publicist and is thinking about running for the Senate. The most telling thing about “Joey-Joe,” however, is that he admitted he had not the means nor the inclination to buy his boss’s business and, in reality (where the rest of us sadly live) Barack Obama’s tax plan would’ve benefitted him greatly. Of course, now he has his brand to worry about (can’t you just see the “Joe’s” coffee shops and diners lining the country’s interstates?). Just as an endnote, Sarah Palin used to brag about how Alaska was known as the Socialist state for its ability to get money from the oil companies up there and “spread the wealth” to her constituancy. True story.
Here is some of Malkin’s Crazy:
“Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s number one Ordinary Joe, had no choice. Obama-Biden simply can’t tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.
The Left’s political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life, and predictably wielding the race card once again. It’s standard operating procedure for the Obama thug machine.
Wurzelbacher, in case you’ve been in hibernation, is the small businessman from Ohio who questioned Obama this weekend about his tax plan during a Toledo campaign swing. The revealing exchange was caught on tape and broadcast widely across the Internet and TV airwaves. In response to Joe’s question about why he should be “taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream,” Obama sermonized that Wurzelbacher needed to “spread the wealth around” because “it’s good for everybody.”
Maybe He’s A Little Confused…
Or maybe Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is the erratic one.
“(CNN)Despite his felony conviction this week for filing false U.S. Senate financial disclosure forms, Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska insisted he was innocent and vowed not to step down.
“I have not been convicted of anything,” he maintained during a Thursday night debate in Anchorage, only days before Tuesday’s election.”
So, to sum up, despite his felony conviction, Senator Stevens maintains he has not been convicted of anything. No punchline, why do I need a punchline?
Why Pakistan?
Good question. Why is Pakistan an angry Islamist state? Because they were made to be just that. Not long ago, only 61 years ago, to be precise, Pakistan was created during a period of transition called the “Partition.” Great Britain could no longer control their colonies because they were spread too thin so on August 15, 1947 they granted independence to India and in the process created a Muslim state called Pakistan (to promote order, I think). In the process, 3.4 million people just disappeared. In one of history’s greatest exoduses, more than 3 million people vanished, the majority on their way to a new life in Pakistan. I’d be pissed too. From Wikipedia:
“The Partition of India was the partition of the British Indian Empire which led to the creation, on August 14, 1947 and August 15, 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (later Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People’s Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India (later Republic of India). “Partition” here refers not only to the division of the Bengal province of British India into East Pakistan and West Bengal (India), and the similar partition of the Punjab province into Punjab (West Pakistan) and Punjab (India), but also to the respective divisions of other assets, including the British Indian Army, the Indian Civil Service and other administrative services, the railways, and the central treasury.
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Partition was accompanied by the largest and most rapid population transfer in history, with 17.9 million people leaving their homes. Of these, only 14.5 million arrived, suggesting that 3.4 million went “missing”"
Just A Few Quick Nibbles
First, to all the children who are into politics: happy halloween (and go play football, or something. Politics is for old people with ulcers, like me). Second, happy birthday to the king, Adrock, and to Michael Kiriakos Delaouglou, better known as Mikkey Dee (drummer/songwriter for Motorhead (Ace Of Spades!!!!)). And last, but certainly not least, congratulations to Peter Frampton for becoming involved in participitory democracy. I get my signs for free, how much do your’s cost? From the Bay Area Insider, Mobile Edition:
“SHOW ME THE WAY TO CATCH THESE SIGN STEALERS: Rocker Peter Frampton, who became a U.S. citizen so he could vote, is tired of having his Barack Obama yard signs pinched from his yard.
The British-born Grammy winner lives in an upscale, predominantly Republican Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill. Apparently, he repeatedly has posted signs supporting the Democratic presidential candidate, and those signs repeatedly have been stolen.
He was sufficiently peeved that he called the Cincinnati Enquirer to say the persistent thievery “bugs” him. He also doesn’t understand why the Bengals’ Chad Johnson thinks “Ocho Cinco” is Spanish for 85.
Frampton, 58, said he has installed a video camera to catch the thieves. Perhaps if he found a way to use his “talking guitar” to startle the miscreants, he might really halt them in their tracks.”
This Is Bipartisanship
A lot of lip service has been paid to “reaching across the aisle” and “working together” and “bipartisanship.” What the hell does that mean, anyway. I’ll tell you: it is being a Republican or Democrat or Green Party or Independence Party and instead of voting the party line… You Vote Your Conscious! Forget what it means to be Republican. Forget what it means to be Democrat(ic). Forget what it means to be Green (wait, what is their platform, anyway?). No, search your heart and vote for what you know is right. Florida looks like a perfect example this year. Here are two early voters voting with their hearts and not their parties. CNN:
“Dixie Cromwell, a 36-year-old cosmetologist from Shelby, N.C., who is a Republican, said in a follow-up interview that she had already voted for Mr. Obama.
“I come from a family of Republicans and I generally vote Republican, but this year I voted Democrat,” she said. “I just don’t feel we can go through any more of the same old thing that we’ve been going through with the Republican party.”
Hope Smith, 68 (!), a Republican from Davie, Fla., said in a follow-up interview that she planned to cross over this year and vote for a Democrat for the first time.
“Palin is just not prepared, and also I like Joe Biden,” said Mrs. Smith, a retired clerical worker. “I think he has a lot of experience and will work well with Obama. If McCain is elected we’ll have four more years of the same policies as Bush.”"
The exclamation point next to the dear Hope Smith’s age is mine. She is truth that it is never too late and not all people are too “set in their ways.” Thank you Ms. Smith. I’m almost sure I’ll be having the chicken come next Tuesday (see earlier post).
