Re: OT / 'Joe the Plumber' talks about running for Congress


"Poe" <haunted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nancy Rudins wrote:
Poe wrote:
Bart Bailey wrote:
In Message-ID:<sSxMk.47266$IB6.22366@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted on
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:12:07 -0400, tiny dancer wrote: Begin
'Joe the Plumber' talks about running for Congress

With his displayed level of specious qualities, he'll likely run as a
Republican.


Because he asked a question based on a premise that IMO could very well
have been true?

I'm surprised by your reaction to this guy. I thought democrats were
"for the little guy" and all that, and I assume you're a democrat. Yet
with no evidence, you seem convinced he was a plant, he planned his
encounter with Obama (very unlikely since it was not a planned stop, why
on earth would anyone but the inside circle know it was coming?), you're
somehow sure he wasn't really planning to buy a small business (he never
said when, btw - he might have been thinking a while out, or a
partnership with someone else), etc.

To simply rely on dirt from one side, while completely ignoring that
there are two sides to every story (and we haven't hear Joe defend every
little charge against him), is just wrong. It is what wing-nuts do, and
it is why wing-nuts become *so* convinced of their side, because they
keep seeing evidence of their view when they ignore everything else.

I thought at one time you were more objective and logical than you've
been lately regarding events surrounding the election.

Really, is no one concerned about the mortgage implosion?

Nancy


I am, because that snowballed into the crisis that has diminished my
401(k) a LOT - but I am also concerned about the rights of a citizen to
ask questions of a politician. It is important to be able to question our
current and future leaders. Based on how JtP has been treated, other
people will certainly think twice about trying that again, which is too
bad.

It wasn't Barack Obama who brought up joe the plumber. It was McCain. He
brought him up, what was it, 30 some times in the debate. I can't recall
the exact number of times, but it was McCain who brought him up every time.
Obama finally responded in kind. But you could tell the first couple times,
Obama didn't even know WTF 'joe the plumber' was.


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