The World according to Joe the Plumber
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- If Joe the Plumber wrote a book, would you read it?
It’s a question you may, or may not, need to think deeply about. Because it seems he’s about to give Americans the benefit of his wisdom.
Or maybe he already has.
Joe the P is, you’ll recall, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an Ohio heating and plumbing contractor used by both John McCain and Barack Obama as a foil during the run-up to the presidential election.
He was supposed to epitomise the Middle America.
Now, he’s “out with a book this month,” says Timothy Egan in the New York Times, going on Joe was, “no good as a citizen, having failed to pay his full share of taxes, no good as a plumber, not being fully credentialed, and not even any good as a faux American icon. Who could forget poor John McCain at his most befuddled, calling out for his working-class surrogate on a day when Joe stiffed him.”
With a, “résumé full of failure, he now thinks he can join the profession of Mark Twain, George Orwell and Joan Didion,” says the article.
Joe may blow, but he’s not alone. At least, not in Egan’s opinion.
Enter Sarah Palin, “said to be worth nearly $7 million if she can place her thoughts between covers,” he says, using her response to NBC’s Matt Lauer as an illustration.
Lauer asked her when she knew the election was lost.
She replied, “I had great faith that, you know, perhaps when that voter entered that voting booth and closed that curtain that what would kick in for them was, perhaps, a bold step that would have to be taken in casting a vote for us, but having to put a lot of faith in that commitment we tried to articulate that we were the true change agent that would progress this nation.”
But not all is lost.
Obama is a writer, “which may do something to elevate standards in the book industry,” says the NYT post, adding,
“For the others — you friends of celebrities penning cookbooks, you train wrecks just out of rehab, you politicians with an agent but no talent — stop soaking up precious advance money.”
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New York Times – Typing Without a Clue, December 6, 2008
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December 9th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
He owed back taxes, wasn’t properly certified, and said all kinds of blatantly incorrect things whenever he was interviewed. When questioned on his comments all he would say is, “Well you can look it up yourself, brother.”
This guy was a class A idiot and has been on my personal death list for months now.