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

tiny dancer wrote:
"Poe" <haunted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6mhcdjFgla5nU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.



I think it was 23 times. Obama left an opening, McCain took it. Just like Obama takes openings McCain leaves. What does that have to do with JtP's right to ask a question?
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