Everybody thanks, well, Jesus that we read Jesus' General.
It is because of The General's website; because of the fine work the General has been doing now for years, that as soon as McSame made the first of his 25 references to "Joe the Plumber" (getting his last name wrong but what the hell he's old and all) what seemed to be to be 10-12 seconds into the third and final Presidential Debate Wednesday night we knew exactly who Grandpa was talking about.
I figured I might be one of maybe 100 people in the country who did.
It was all because of a post The General had put on his site a few scant hours before the debate.
The title: Obama Frightens Plumbers. It was about "Joe the Plumber." I had already posted a comment on the The General's site about it an hour or so before the debate began.
So, when McSame brought him up, it was all, like, "OMFG, I know who he's talking about!"
Here's the man --not a world leader or an intellectual or American Hero even -- but rather a plumber from Toledo, Ohio who, with the election on the line and the leadership of the Free World hanging in the balance, McSame chose to hang his hat upon. (Sort of like picking the Mayor of Wasilla, AK to be your running mate, when one thinks about it.)
Now, if it were me and I got to spend three minutes of face time with one of two men who will be the President-Elect of the United States in three weeks, I might find myself inclined to show that man some respect. Not Joe, so much. He's not quite that bright. The enormity of it all failed to register. It happens when you are not that bright. It might have been interesting to hear the full exchange, but you know Faux News. They covered whatever it was that Obama was telling Joe because, obviously, what Joe had to say to them on the phone clearly was of much greater importance. Nice interrogation by Cavuto, though. He actually posed, as question, "What's the deal?" I don't watch Faux News. Is the questioning always this insightful?
As I saw it, the debate ended in that same first minute which saw Old Man McCain bring up plumber Joe as he sneered his ugly sneer at Obama and said:
...You told him you wanted to spread the wealth around. The whole premise behind Sen. Obama's plans are class warfare, let's spread the wealth around.
You know, that whole "spread the wealth around" thing? With the top 1% (Cindy and Johnny McCain in that group? 'Ya think?) controlling 40-50% of the income and the wealth in this country, "spreading the wealth around" doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me. In fact, I think it sounds downright American. Maybe more people think as I do than think like McSame does, and maybe that's why, in 19 days, we are going to change the world!
Good night, God bless, and thank you General, sir!
3 comments:
Richard,
I had the same exact reaction to hearing the name "Joe the Plumber" invoked.
Thank God, for General J.C.Christian, 11 on the scale of general manliness.
Richard:
There's buzz that this guy is related to a former Keating Five figure with the same last name.
Ah to hell with all of this, the Diggers were right in their approach to class warfare.
"The work we are going about is this, To dig up Georges Hill and the waste Ground thereabouts, and to Sow Corn, and to eat our bread together by the sweat of our brows. And the First Reason is this, That we may work in righteousness, and lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All, both Rich and Poor, That every one that is born in the Land, may be fed by the Earth his Mother that brought him forth, according to the Reason that rules in the Creation. Not Inclosing any part into any particular hand, but all as one man, working together, and feeding together as Sons of one Father, members of one Family; not one Lording over another, but all looking upon each other, as equals in the Creation; so that our Maker may be glorified in the work of his own hands, and that every one may see, he is no respecter of Persons, but equally loves his whole Creation, and hates nothing but the Serpent, which is Covetousness, branching forth into selfish Imagination, Pride, Envie, Hypocrisie, Uncleanness; all seeking the ease and honor of flesh, and fighting against the Spirit Reason that made the Creation; for that is the Corruption, the Curse, the Devil, the Father of Lies; Death and Bondage that Serpent and Dragon that the Creation is to be delivered from."
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