For the past several days, at campaign rallies across the midwest and east, McCain has begun introducing his guy "Joe the Plumber" as an "American hero" and "role model".
WTF?
Real "American Heroes" are the tens of thousands of men and women like my (grand)nephew who are deployed around the world in our armed forces or who have died in the cause of this country. Too many of them killed, wounded, or (permanently) scarred mentally in that misbegotten foray into Iraq. Role models are good men and women like my late father: a hard-working, kind, and unselfish man (who also dedicated 20 years of his life to the U.S. Navy).
Tax evaders who aren't even licensed as plumbers and lie to us about the business they say they are going to buy don't qualify. "Joe the Plumber" isn't even a Joe (guess it sounds better to the unthinking masses than "Sam the Plumber').
This guy is neither hero nor role model. He is a liar and a fraud.
As are the candidates he supports, whose total mischaracterization of this clown I find to be nothing short of repulsive.
Well said. The thing that gets me is that McCain hadn't even met the dude when he first brought him up!
Thanks! That whole episode with Mr. Plumber has been silly, to say the least. Hopefully it will be a good day when it is all the votes are tallied!
His vetting of "Joe" is about as good as his vetting of "Sarah".
thanks the powers that be that we have a new president that can speak in intelligible sentences and hold a thought for more than a minute. refreshing.
Kevin,
I agree. I think McCain did his vetting for "Joe" as well as he did for "Sarah". I'm glad that his future vetting skills won't be apart of our presidency.
At last we have a President that can speak in full sentences, hold a thought for more than a minute and at least look intelligent, if not be so. Only a couple months to go...
I've never in my life seen such a complete comedy of errors - they were such total buffoons that at times I wondered if it was on purpose. That they received the amount of support that they did may be more frightening than W being "elected" twice.
At least for now it appears that the adults are going to be in charge (for a change).