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HOLLAND, Ohio — Forget Joe Six-Pack. It's all about Joe the Plumber. The most talked about man in the U.S. presidential election is now a 34-year-old Ohio resident otherwise known as Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. He was referenced more than 20 times in Wednesday night's presidential debate, and ...
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Joe? Where did you go?
firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy DEFIANCE, Ohio -- "Where is Joe? Is Joe here with us today?" That's... the question John McCain asked roughly 6,000 people at Defiance Junior High School here this morning, But the correct answer was no -- Joe ... (more) Joe? Where did you go?
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The Meek Shall Not Inherit
The Republic of T. — ... de-emphasizes the problems Asian Americans continue to face from racial discrimination in all areas of public and private life. Second, by misrepresenting Asian American success as proof that the US provides equal opportunities for those who conform and work hard, it excuses US society from careful scrutiny on issues of race in general, and on the persistence of racism against Asian Americans in particular.” You can hear it in “Joe the Plumber’s” reaction to Obama’s explanation of his economic plan ...

Terrance Heath: The Meek Shall Not Inherit
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... it de-emphasizes the problems Asian Americans continue to face from racial discrimination in all areas of public and private life. Second, by misrepresenting Asian American success as proof that the US provides equal opportunities for those who conform and work hard, it excuses US society from careful scrutiny on issues of race in general, and on the persistence of racism against Asian Americans in particular." You can hear it in "Joe the Plumber's" reaction to Obama's explanation of his economic plan. In an ...

Concentrating the Wealth, Pt. 2
The Republic of T. — ... (That last sentence is strikingly similar to Obama’s answer to “Joe” the “Plumber,” about how Joe — in his businessman fantasy — would be “better off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you…”) ...

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