Mistaken identity: Joe the Plumber's bumpy 15 minutes

[struggle4progress]

BY BRIAN DICKERSON • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • October 19, 2008

... I could have warned McCain that Wurzelbacher would almost certainly turn out, upon closer inspection, to be someone utterly different than the one-dimensional specimen McCain introduced to his national TV audience ...

McCain, who'd spent the previous two debates pressing the dubious argument that his opponent's tax scheme would cripple small businesses (and thus stifle job growth), couldn't have been more excited if he'd discovered a video of Obama in a threesome with Bill Ayers and Angela Davis.

He'd been shopping the pilot for his new TV series ("Barack vs. the Blue-collar Heroes of Ohio") for weeks, and now he'd found his leading man -- a hardworking, straight-talking, beer-drinking guy named -- God be praised! -- Joe ...

Poor Samuel Joseph! ... "Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. What they don't tell you is that 12 of those minutes are a rectal exam."

http://www.freep.com/article/20081019/COL04/810190408/1007/NEWS

[depakid]

1. And he's about to lose his Ohio drivers' license

due to his having his prior license in Arizona suspended for not paying a traffic ticket and driving without insurance.

[katmondoo]

2. The McCain lovers will say your picking on him

you are sooooo mean to Joe

[Buenaventura]

3. what *is* this fascination that republicans have with plumbers?

it goes all the way back to watergate. my theory is that it's related to the way some plumbers expose their butt when they're leanin' over the sink, but i could be wrong ...