I Talked To Joe the Plumber...

Hey Ryan,

Dateline: Holland, Ohio

Spoke to Joe the Plumber this morning and found out he's an idiot (and somewhat of a fraud), too.


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So, let me get this straight...

Obama says he will cut taxes on people making less than $250,000, and Joe can't vote for him, because he wonders...stay with me...when Obama will change his mind and lower the boundary to $100,000. Huh? Nice argument, Joe. 

And by the way, you really ran Obama down and cornered him with your question:

So, you ask a candidate a question and he answers truthfully and then you say he "tap dances like Sammy Davis, Jr."?

It's not your fault, Joe. You're just like every other complete idiot walking the streets who thinks he has some sort of hayseed wisdom all locked up in his pee-sized brain because (sniff, sniff) he can't speak as well as Obama. So, of course, you don't trust the articulate candidate whose policies would, I don't know, help you!

Sorry for the acid here, but I'm sick and tired of hearing "I just don't know where Obama stands". That might have flown twenty months ago...or even six months ago...but it doesn't work anymore. Republican voters always chant that mantra because they are making excuses for their own ignorance and hypocrisy. "Nossir, it couldn't be ME who's wrong here. Obama just needs to speak clearer and a little louder because, well, I just can't quite hear him over the color of his skin."

I guess the basic attitudinal problem is this: Guys like Joe always talk about "manning up" and "knowing where someone stands" on the issues, but they're not willing to take a long hard look in the mirror and see where they stand, to see if they have the stones to truly sacrifice.

They don't want to give away their tax dollars to help out the old or the less fortunate:



And why are guys like Joe this way? Because, as much as they bitch about the greed on Wall Street, they wear it like a badge of principle on Main Street. They can wrap it in the flag or hide it behind the American Dream, but it's still just plain old greed. "What about my American Dream?"

Well, a lot of us know that the American Dream isn't a selfish one. It's a collective one. We care about what happens to the waitress, because if she's doing well, then it means other less-fortunate people are doing well and our country will be stronger than it has been under the Bush Regime. When the whole country is doing well financially and the education system is fully funded and providing quality service, crime and suffering go down. And that's what the American Dream is: To have a safe and prosperous place to live.

But guys like Ol' Joe and John McCain can't understand that you have to give some to get some. It's beyond their comprehension because they lack vision.

And that's sad, because all Joe would have to do is take a look at his truck bumper to find out that "Freedom Ain't Free".

Hey Joe, maybe you should try living by that slogan, instead of hiding behind it.

Charles