Comments on: John McCain's Army Of Joes

National Review Online: Republican Candidate's "Regular Joe" Supporters Are Angry At The Media Treatment Of Joe The Plumber

[markangeloo]

Workers Of The World Unite
The day of the international union is upon us.
U the laborer will be able to set your wage
& the big elephant wearing the white collar
will be working for U.
Marx gave Amerika a rope & & they hung themselves.

It is actually greedy & lazy people,
mostly republican bankers, real estate loan brokers & all,
who think they work but sit around all day pushing paper;
ultimately stealing from real workers, tradespeople. etc.

As U probably guessed that includes U.
Yes writers write what others actually do.
The Hero is not the writer they are only
jealous inactive bystanders.

U just have a hobby.
Anything I can do while I am working
is not work.
In other words I could do your so called work
at my occupation but U could not do mine.
I paint houses.

Now how is it that U have all that money again??
Is it even your wealth ??

[kansas1946]

Everybody was playing on the Joe-the-Plumber theme. McCain spent a lot of time on it in his stump speech, using the now-famous Joe Wurzelbacher of Toledo, Ohio, as a stand-in for %u201Csmall businessmen and women all over America [who] want to keep their earnings and not give it to the government.%u201D

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LOL. Well if John McCain really wants "an army of Joes" then our deficit will be worse than it is, since it seems that Joe the (non)plumber chooses not to pay his taxes. Great. I think I will just choose not to pay my taxes so I can be a right-wing hero like Joe the (non)plumber.
I will be pretty hard to pay down King George''s deficit with a buch of Joe the plumbers.

[nojoy01]

Self righteousness and belligerance.
Are we ever going to see anything else from these people?
Is this all they have left?

Posted by ainttaken at 07:46 PM : Oct 20, 2008

When I first read this post, before I read the rest of your posts, I thought you were commenting on most of the people posting about this story who seem to be wishing bodily harm to other human beings & appear to be wrapped in their self righteousnes as if in a cloak of armor. My misunderstanding. After I read the rest of your posts I realized you ARE one of the self righteous, belligerent, and out of touch with reality posters.

[cattlekate]

FAUX News repeated this meme all weekend - they were killing the "liberal" messengers who were curious to investigate if Joe was a plant. When they found out that he was, FAUX chose not to state that, but to kill the messenger.

Just like they are doing to Colin Powell right now.

FAUX should not be bundled as "news" and should not be in basic-cable packages. They are part of the destruction of our democracy, and The Fourth Estate.

[dmgenet]

Bush has set a huge precedent with his body of lies. He is not the first president to do so on either side of the aisle. Along with corruption, abuse/use of the evangelical Christians, almost constant scare ,an attemtpt to elevate the presidency to imperial status, and just the pure nastiness exuded from the White House has turned Republicans and Democrats away from the fascist-like, power hungry, ''experienced'', Bush team. In short. They blew it. Even the so-called genius of Karl Rove will be hard put to turn this around.

[dmgenet]

NRO again, makes a mountain out of a mole hill. The only people who WON''T get hurt by McCain''s economic thinking is the top 3% of the heap. Not Joe whomever. I love how the right loves to get the working guy and gal on their side. Obviously those workers still believe in the trickle-down theory of economics. This is akin in scope to the let-theme-eat-cake theory of economics. Here you go you can have the scraps...

[rayuk-2009]

The rednecks lost the Civil War, they lost the Civil Rights fight. Now they fear gun control of any kind and hate the thought of a Black President who is also a White President.

One thing wrong with Republican politicans over the last fourty years has been their very low brain power. Dole, Ford, Reagan, Bush and now McCain are good examples of people that are just too dumb to lead.

[nativewoman]

The truth that everyone seems to overlook is that government has to be financed somehow.

No matter who is in power, that cost will always be trickled down to the masses whether it is through taxes or taxes in disguise such as impact fees, usage fees, etc.

Shifting the tax burden away from business to the masses or from the masses to business does not lessen the overall financial burden required to run the government.

And in the end, the masses are always going to carry the financial burden either through direct taxation or increased prices for goods and services because business will always trickle the tax burden down to the masses.

If you''re going to dance the piper must be paid. The bill can be paid by the current dancers or it can be shoved off to future generations of dancers.

But the bill must always be paid.

[bobnjersey]

[Working men and women in America can read the writing on the wall - the Democrats and the Liberal Media are performing character assasinations to anyone who questions Barack Obama.]
[Posted by OneAmerican7 at 04:23 PM : Oct 20, 2008]

not quite ... idiot joe thought he had obama with a ''gothca moment'' ... and it all backfired on him because his intentions were simply to forward his agenda and throw whatever in obama''s face.

i''m hoping to win the lottery some day ... and i''m concerned that my taxes might go up ... is any candidates tax plan going to penalize me?

(only a fool would think their taxes would not be higher when you move to a higher bracket ... and as mccain has proven ... there are plenty of fools ... and they''re following behind mccain)

[skysoldier75]

Anybody who STILL can''t see for themselves, after 8 disastrous years of GOP administration, that the GOP is "what''s wrong with America" and is the reason that more than 90% of the country believes "this country is going in the wrong direction", is truly blind.

The Democrats have NEVER created a disaster like the one we''re living through right now.

It took the GOP to create a mess of this enormous magnitude.

Don''t be a fool. If you truly care about saving America, then vote Obama.

Under McCain things will only go from "incredibly bad" to "even worse".

[stopkidding]

Obama more scrutinized by the media than any candidate in history. Black voters go with the Democrat 90 of the time when the candidate is white. McCain is losing (badly) and no one is really paying attention to Joe the Plumber. Other than that and about fifty other things, great article.

[quatermass2]

So - the Republicans are going back (again) to the "base" - the under-educated (and damned proud of it), the same people who rage that there even IS a candidate like Obama, who all seem to feel that they are "victims" of some grand scheme to......what? Take away their guns? Force them into some undefined-but-inevitable Marxist economic system and marry a gay person? These are the same jackasses who voted for Bush on the basis of him seeming more like someone they''d to have a beer with, and now their 401Ks are in the toilet, the country is engaged in TWO endless wars, and they''re upset that some clueless, no-license clown who can''t pay his taxes has ALSO been "thrown under" some imaginary "bus"? Hah - they weren''t going to vote for Obama anyway - why try to use their most-hated weapons against them: REASON and FACTS.

[ubrew12]

NRO: "They know [Joe the plumber] doesn%u2019t make that much, and they know they don%u2019t make that much. And they%u2019re not suspicious because they believe that someday they will make $250,000, and thus face higher taxes."

The days when the Republicans could win populist votes by putting their tax cuts ''on the tab'' are over. The music has stopped and its time for the little people to play for the Reagan administration, and then pay for the Bush administration. If McCain is elected, we''ll be asked to pay for the McCain administration as well. Repubs may not raise taxes, they may cut them, but they NEVER cut spending to match, and the result is a $10 trillion debt. Why not ask America to pay down even just $1 trillion of that debt? Because, if Repubs ever did, the American people would never believe their lies again. So, thanx to Repubs, the debt just goes up, and up, and up...

[trillion1]

I am a blue collar worker and don''t know a single blue collar worker that supports mccain. When his name is mentioned most just laugh.

[Razzl]

Joe the Plumber was a not very bright guy who got bitten by circumstances because he tried to embarass a candidate before having his facts straight. All the other Joe''s at the McCain rally also don''t have their facts straight, but to NRO that''s okay because it''s only their "feelings" that matter. Teaching people that they have their facts wrong and how to get them right is the thing that conservative hypocrites use as a symbol of "elitism" when educated Democrats do it, but is perfectly okay for Republicans to do by passing laws against everything THEY don''t like that not-bright people might do. It''s why NRO is propaganda rather than discourse; their baloney is so thick you can cut it with a knife...

[irmcvet97]

Why are McSame and his Supporters always "ANGRY" at someone or something?? "Joe the Plumber" was, like the candidate, a FRAUD! He was a LIAR and a radical, far removed from the "Average Joe" out here. Good Grief!!

[noloyalisti]

These are the average joes who don''t mind being lied to, don''t mind sending their sons to kill civilians for oil, and don''t care about spying and torture as long as it is happening to someone else. In short the trailer trash of America with less than a whole brain between the lot of them. God save America from the war-monger Cons.

[oscarez]

I think "Joe the Plumber" was a McCain plant to be used any way he sees fit. Joe will be paid well for his work.

[idnnsg]

I am so glad that the media gave Joe the Plumber his 15 minutes of fame for being a dishonest and rather stu.pid media hog. Our nation has a stu.pidity problem because the opportunities that are available for the common man to achieve notoriety through lying are so great... it''s the American Dream!

What a vitriolic attack on plumber Joe, just because he isn''t a licensed plumber, he had no actual plan to buy his boss''s business, a business which would pay LESS taxes under Obama''s plan, not more as he claimed, and because he was a relative of Charles Keating, reminding us all about McCain''s participation in the Keating 5 swindle of US citizens, and because Joe the not-a-plumber also would pay LESS taxes under Obama''s plan, not more as he claimed-- that is, IF he paid his taxes, which he hasn''t!

FYI, all you idiot Joes: Unless you are in the top 5% earnings of this country, you will all pay LESS taxes under Obama''s plans than you will under McCain''s!! But, go ahead and vote for McCain if you''re really as stu.pid as you look!

[dubya_luvr]

Joe needs to ask McSame why he wants to give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and corporations who ship our jobs overseas.

True socialism is giving my tax dollars to corrupt CEO''s.

True radicalism is calling 52% of America "anti-American"

McSame and Caribou Barbie: so bigoted and divisive they can''t help themselves from attacking their own country.