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Happiness is Just a Thing Called Josephine
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 41 times) Whodathunkit ! Plumbers are suddenly Page One News! No, not the cheery “Josephine” — so memorably embodied by the great Jane Withers [image] Rather a far less festive type named Joe. [image]“Perhaps even more than Senator Barack Obama’s night or Senator John McCain’s night, the last presidential debate turned out to be the night of “Joe the Plumber.” Repeatedly over the 90 minutes in which they sharply criticized each other, both candidates referred to Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber, as a kind of proxy for all of the country’s working people. How did that come about? Over the weekend, Mr. Obama was campaigning near Toledo when ...
Flashback: Howard Dean hobnobs with Euro-Socialists
Sister Toldjah —
I wrote about this briefly a couple of years ago (scroll here), but Gateway Pundit has an informative post from his archives that discusses more about DNC Chair Howie Dean’s chummy association with prominent European Socialists.
Oh no. Does this post mean I’m a racist?
Seriously, since Joe the plumber’s accurate characterization of Obama’s “tax plan” as socialism was heard/seen on video and reported on throughout the country, there’s been a bit of a debate brewing … mostly one-sided, of course, about what ...
Palin: Joe the Plumber Accomplished What No One Else Could
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Palin: Joe the Plumber Accomplished What No One Else Could Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) says Joe Wurzelbacher (aka "Joe the Plumber") of Toledo, Ohio did what no one else could in the 2008 presidential race: get Barack Obama to "state his intentions in plain language." Those intentions, according to Palin: redistribution of wealth. "I've really gotta hand it to Joe the Plumber over there in Toledo, Ohio," Palin said. "See, somehow Joe accomplished what the rest of us hve not been able to accomplish, even the media could not accomplish this, but Joe did: he got our opponent to finally state his intentions in plain language." "Senator Obama says that he wants to spread the ...
