March 28, 2009
Hard to believe…. “The public loves Joe the Plumber,” the spokesperson for the anti-EFCA group Americans for Prosperity, Mary Ellen Burke, claimed to me. “They see him as a role model.” Chicago Tribune's, looking-for-entertainment-in-news, reporter, Frank James, on Obama's "boring" presser…. This was just plain boring and too predictable. The same colleague says the problem [...]
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October 31, 2008
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher makes $40,000 a year working as an unlicensed plumber contractor guy around the Toledo, Ohio area. Mr. Wurzelbacher approached Barack Obama and asked him a question while Obama was working a ropeline after a campaign event in the Toledo area. The question "Joe the Plumber" asked concerned itself with Obama's clearly stated [...]
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