Et Tu, Joe the Plumber?

Weazlebacher… is the worst side of what got us George W. Bush
and he really shouldn’t think he “knows” more about politics…
he was an idiot when he asked the question…
and now we learn not only is he an idiot…but he has no character to boot.
a guy making a buck on something he shouldn’t… a really small brain.

Go away “Joe”,
Your fifteen minutes of fame are over. Yeah, you pride youself with asking “incisive” questions. You like to think you’re more educated. Yes, you like to “think”. You also like throwing around terms like “Socialism” and Marxism when it’s pretty obvious you have never read Das Kapital nor do you really understand the tenets of socialism for the sake of fear-mongering. I wonder why if Obama is so frightening Obama won even more of the white vote then Kerry, and also managed to win men.
Go away Joe, you are not fighting for the American Dream. Our soon-to-be 44th President whom you describe as frightening is the one doing that. Even McCain who has seemed to have gone back to his old self after the campaign will be passing laws and doing more useful things then you are.

Apparently, from another article, Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber liked Sarah Palin the best of all. What does this say?
Many Republicans were frightened by Palin and her anti-intellectualism (and her inability to talk in complete sentences/sound coherent/not beat around the forest). Joe the Plumber, however, seems to like those qualities and felt that she was the one who wanted to serve America. Whatever. 150k wardrobe, anyone? Her per diems? It says all about the kind of person Joe is.
Hey Joe, go read Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto first, then you can debate it with President Obama, kay? Otherwise, please go back into hiding.

I can’t believe anyone is still giving this guy any air time. Who cares what he thinks? He liked Mc Cain when he put him before the public and now he is critizing him. He is a joke. What makes him think anyone wants or cares about his opinion. Even though I did not vote for Mc Cain…I think he deserves better from this guy. The fact that he thinks Palin is the real deal….we’ll see when her book comes out.

I wouldn’t waste a dime on Joe the “Fraud”‘s book. What possibly could he say that I don’t already know that he would say. Folks like this are so predictable.
Let the Republicans have this fool all to themselves. Joe the “Fraud” and Sarah “Sparkle Pony” what a pair. LOL

it was the joe “the opportunist” who put geo. bush into office-wanting to drink beer with the alcoholic. and not caring if the man showed any signs of common sense.
and this also shows just what type of news outlets we have not.
joe the plumber would have had two seconds on walter C. news program,as the little light hearted moment in the campaign.
today-joe the plumber can BECOME THE NEWS STORY.AND GRAB THE HEADLINES
sad

Why are they still calling this man a plumber when he is not one? It takes an education and hard work to become a plumber, attributes he apparently does not have. I have friends that are plumbers and the test to become a licensed plumber is very hard. Anyone that would spend hard earned money on a book by “Joe not a Plumber” needs to get their head checked.

No matter your affiliation or political party/leanings, no one should buy this book and allow “Joe” to make any more money!

Why are they still calling this man a plumber when he is not one? It takes an education and hard work to become a plumber, attributes he apparently does not have. I have friends that are plumbers and the test to become a licensed plumber is very hard. Anyone that would spend hard earned money on a book by “Joe not a Plumber” needs to get their head checked.

Hey Grey Matter, I don’t know why people like you like to hang on the 150K wardrobe issue with Palin. What about the $8,000 pant suits Hillary wore (many of them). I don’t care if Hillary wore these $8k suits or what Palin wore. It is the cost of running a campaign, that’s life. Get over it.

Sure Obama scares Joe, he’s black. Sure Joe likes Palin, she’s hot. Who cares what this guy thinks anyways ??????

Joe Wurzelbacher is absolutely correct. John McCain lost the election the moment he bought into the Wall Street bailout.
If McCain had stood against the Bailout, he would have clearly distinguished himself from Obama and the Congressional Democrats as well as Bush who was their ally on this socialist fiasco.
Now with Obama headed to the White House, they are are socializing the auto industry and no-telling what else. Soon we’ll have Soviet-style “Five Year Plans” to completely destroy our freedom.
Since Socialism has never worked anywhere, a backlash will inevitably come. Wurzelbacher will make a great congressman when it does!

Oh shut up everyone. If you were in his shoes, you’d be doing the same trying to milk every penny out of this.

ACTUALLY,
I would vote for Joe the Plumber over either Obama or McCain today.
He has no confusion with foreign birth certificates floating around, and he is upset with the bailout just like the rest of us.

In America, if I say the sun is literally a tiger that jumps through my window and lunges about warming things up, that is OK because it is my opinion and free speech honors my opinion. But free speech does not honor my opinion to be equal to another’s statement of fact. I can express my opinion and that is it. Anti-intellectuals like Joe, evangelicals, and radical conservatives cling to the hope that freedom of speech will allow their opinions to be not only heard but respected. I can casually hold up my hand, “No, the sun is demonstrably not a tiger. No, although the Bible literally states there is a firmament above us and there is none. The Bible is not literally true. No, the Bible had the opportunity to make a statement about abortion and there is none in it. The right to life movement stands on invented morality. No, the Bible does not weigh in on abortion or even infanticide, both of which were commonly practiced at the time the biblical authors wrote. No, Joe the plumber does not have anything of value to add to our nation’s political discourse. No, Sarah Palin is not competent. No, not all small time mayors could also successfully manage a Burger King franchise. Lots of people are idiots and some even have higher ranking jobs than mayor or manager. On the other hand, lots of mayors and managers are smart. No, most of the comments on any internet blog are not based on facts and lots of opinion does not counterbalance a small fact. No, prayer does not work. For example, if your car does not start and you pray, seemingly by chance a person might happen by and offer you a ride, but prayer does not get an automobile started. No, snakes don’t talk and none ever have. No, women do not have menstrual cycles because God is punishing them. No, the Earth is not experiencing natural weather cycles. Blah, blah, blah. There are facts and they matter. Lots of people have no power, like Joe, for example, they have no power because they are dumb and uneducated and do not know how to wield facts effectively. It has always been that way.

This guy’s an idiot. Why is he still talking?

Ah, Joe the Plumber, McCain’s buddy, is appalled by McCain. What a terrific buddy to have!! Watch out McCain, you were drawn to a vicious rattlesnake, the only difference is the rattlesnake does NOT pretend to be your buddy!! Palin’s lack of intellectual intelligence matches Joe’s so it is no wonder he thinks she is “the real thing”; I suppose he believes he, himself, is “the real thing” as well! What he presented to then candidate Obama was based on lies, he did not have the money to buy the plumbing business, did not have a plumbing license, and owed back taxes; yet he made it sound like he was ready to buy the business “real soon”. What a fraud!! Maybe Sarah Palin can get him a job in her governor’s office, afterall, she does NOT require “knowhow”, just “buddies” to cover for her!!

Thoren, please read the Bible before you make comments on it. It is also a historical record of the people of the time. Because they did things that are against God’s word, does not mean God condones it. Sure they had adultery, murder, deceit, and dishonesty, they very things we do now. Don’t imply it is OK because it is documented in the Bible. Read it.

“This was just a man that had a dream and was asked a question.”
He lied about the circumstances of the question and did so knowingly.
And apparently he has learned the fleece the right wing nuts game pretty well.

What’s “frightening” is the complete free ride given to Barack Obama throughout the entire election process by our mainstream media, who in unison, sold their soul to insure his election. Joe Wurzelbacher was more thoroughly vetted than Barack Obama.
whats also frightening is that thanks to the internet, morons like you get to infect everybody else with your nonsense. if you paid any attention at all to the campaign you would have seen that the media didnt care about obama until he started pulling away from clinton in the primaries. it was all about hillary in the beginning. and maybe mccain would have gotten a free ride instead if he didnt do politically stupid things like pretend a complete moron like sam the plumber or sarah “man-chin” palin had a clue about anything.

Joe is one small grain of sand that happened to wash ashore to the doorsteps of the media. Please let him wash back out to sea and vanish along the beach. At this point he’s just milking the media for more attention and personal gain/ego.

I’m sure Mr. Wurzelbalcher’s book is eloquently written and destined to become a best seller. Though I think the front cover could have been better – since he’s “fighting for the American dream” in the title, he should have been shown wielding a toilet plunger.

woops, I meant Palin/Wurzelbacher ’12.
Though one thing I’ll have to say is that Blagojevich may now have the claim to most embarrassing governor, at least in the lower 48.

Good heavens! Joe the “flip flop” plumber needs to just go away! Along with Palin and McCain – at least till the next election era…
Give it a rest Jake…Don’t sink this low again to bring dah/duh plumber up again!

His real first name is Sam and he’s not a plumber. I refer to him as Sam the Sham and now it looks like he’s trying to make a book scam. What happened to the music contracts in Nashville? It will be interesting to see if he follows through on his previously announced plan of running for Congress from Ohio.

This plumber’s crack, which has been stuck in our faces for far more than the normally-allotted fifteen minutes (even for scammers and phonies and imbeciles) has now apparently migrated upward to his head; and what’s coming out is almost as scary as what went in. He is truly the poster-child for today’s opportunistic leech. Send him to Darfur (Sarah knows where that is) or Zimbabwe (ditto) where even a journeyman non-plumber can do some good.

What welfare??? He wasn’t on “welfare”!
Speaking of ignorance!
What is wrong with our society that people take sound bites here and there and form opinions and eventually belief systems around them???
Also, where do you get he is “money hungry”?? He just wants to make a living and be successful like everyone ELSE in the world. We all want an opportunity to better our lives. What is wrong with that???

just the facts, maam! Walk away from FOX News or rightwing radio and check out reality, not interpretation of them.
Actually, we applaud Joe The Talker and Sarah The Shopper for getting Obama elected. You have such great spokespeople in recent memory (i.e., Linda Tripp, Ken Starr, Newtie Gingrich, Dan Burton, Tom Delay, Bob Barr, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity….

Can you imagine if every political plant got a book deal?
Oh wait, Sarah’s getting one too.

Real Republicans weren’t frightened by Sarah Palin. Only faux Republicans in blue states who had no clue about her real record were.
And it’s hilarious watching people who clearly don’t have a clue about her record talk about how stupid she is. Yeah, she’s so stupid she managed to unseat a sitting governor in her own party in a primary and defeat two other candidates for the job (including a guy who is apparently a walking encyclopedia), had major bipartisan achievements (including both a gas pipeline and oil revenue restructuring that were opposed by the oil companies in Alaska), enjoyed an approval rating as high as 89%, and documentary maker Elan Frank followed her around for three days and she never asked him to turn off the camera. Oh, and she was cleared on the ethics charges that were supposed to bring her down because there was never anything there.
So we’re supposed to believe that any twit of a beauty queen can defeat an incumbant governor with 24 years of political experience, pass legislation opposed by the oil industry, talk with T. Boone Pickens (in his words) “like two oil and gas professionals”, and enjoy an 80%+ approval rating as governor, right? In your fantasies, maybe. And, yeah, she’s so “intolerant” that she vetoed a bill that would have denied gays and lesbians health benefits from the state when she was told it would be unconstitutional by her legal experts.

“It’s telling that so many of Joe’s critics are upset that his use of the term “Marxist” isn’t technically accurate enough.”
I can’t speak for others.
But I find that a guy who lies about his position:
1) He claimed he was about to buy a business that made a certain amount of money. He was not about to buy a business and the business did not earn nearly that much.
2) and is hypocritical in being highly critical of something while he benefited it:
Joe doesn’t like welfare and redistribution of wealth when he in fact collected it.
That this fraud became a hero to right wingers is quite telling.

“I say, McCain, what’s that I see on your back”
“why, that would be a plumber’s knife, silly!”
“But what’s a plumber doing with a knife?”
“why, I gave it to him, silly! you and your gotcha questions.”

Joe the Plumber NOT was nothing but a political plant. The entire thing was a ploy and scripted from the beginning. To believe he came out of nowhere coincidentally running into Senator Obama is just ignorant. Just another Pub stunt that failed just like the two jokes they ran for the Presidency.
Go away Joe the Loser. I heard they had an open plumber position in Alaska for you. You’ll be in good company there with someone else of little signifigance…

who is the shadow writer?

Watching FOX News or listening to rightwing nut radio does not make someone “educated in politics” as Joe claims. I dare say it proves how ignorant and uninformed you are. Get a life, take care of your responsibilities and form your own opinions, not ditto, ditto, ditto….

This dude had been a regular caller on rightwing radio circuit for some time. We’re to believe he just “happened” to be where Obama was when he asked him those idiotic questions? Dittoheads unite! Of course, what more would you expect from someone who thinks Rush Limbaugh is a true American patriot. Pass me the donuts and drugs please!