Joe the, um, "Plumber"

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber" is not actually a plumber, just like Sarah Palin is not actually a good, honest Christian. He works for a plumbing company in Toledo, Ohio, a city in a state that holds a great deal of interest to both Democrats and Republicans.

I wonder if the "J" in his middle name actually stands for Joseph. It's probably James, or maybe Jacob. Jason perhaps?

From the NY Times:

"Thomas Joseph, the business manager of Local 50 of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics, based in Toledo, said Thursday that Mr. Wurzelbacher had never held a plumber’s license, which is required in Toledo and several surrounding municipalities. He also never completed an apprenticeship and does not belong to the plumber’s union, which has endorsed Mr. Obama. On Thursday, he acknowledged that he does plumbing work even though he does not have a license."

It's interesting how MaoCain keeps picking these people that are wholly unfit for anything to be his most important supporters, and the ones that are supposed to win your heart over. Okay, who doesn't feel for the "little guy" that is just trying to live the American Dream? Of course if the little guy hasn't even taken the time to do what is necessary to live the dream, like undergoing proper training, an apprenticeship, and status as a journeyman working towards being a master plumber, why should he just expect to be a business owner?

It's not Obama who's holding Joe the Six-Pack Plumber back, it's himself.

If McCain wants to celebrate that type of mediocrity he should do so somewhere else. In the current world, where kids in China are better at math than most college students here, we need to kick the mental pansies in the gonads and then make fun of them when they cry. The mediocre people McCain celebrates hold America back.

It should be no surprise to anyone that the US is no longer the industrial powerhouse it once was. Go around your house and try to find something that was made here. If you have any expensive furniture there's a possibility. For everything else the chances of finding a "Made in U.S.A." mark on would be up there with finding Dick Cheney's soul, or Jiffy Hoffa's body.

At the very least there are scores of decent, hard working, honest folk here in America that should be held to the highest esteem. It's the people that McPain and Painlin try to appeal to, but have no respect for. Why doesn't McCain truly acknowledge them, instead of phonies like Sarah Palin and Samuel J. Wurzelbacher?

Sarah so crudely defines real Americans as "Hockey Moms" and "Joe Six-Pack". She can pander to the proletariat with phony praise in perpetuity, but proper political performance has the prerequisite of psychological parity. McCain and Palin do not have that capacity.

If every mom and average Joe out there cares about seeing things get better for everyone, the choice is clear: Ron Paul, but since he's in the running like a horse in the stable it seems Obama is the clear choice. Hey, Gore lost because 97,000 some-odd people in Florida were fed up with our governmental system and they voted for Nader. We saw how that turned out. Let's not make the same mistake again.

Once this is all over maybe Sarah will give Trig back to his mother, Bristol.