Not a smart move, though possibly an indication that Team Obama sees Joe the Plumber’s status as a threat. Joe represents quite an important voting block this year (blue-collar, small business owner) and I have an odd feeling that Biden’s attack might just backfire.
“I don’t have any ‘Joe the Plumbers’ in my neighborhood that make $250,000 a year,” Biden says. Except that Joe (not the VP candidate) doesn’t make that much money now as a plumber. He’s not talking about pulling in that much as a plumber. He wants to purchase and run a business that makes that much a year. If Biden doesn’t know any small business owners that pull in $250,000 a year, he needs to get out more.
17. October 2008 at 8:49 am
Michelle, You rock by the way! It infuriates me to see the MSM in action. They dig on JThePlumber yet Ayers lives ‘up the block’ from Obama and they can’t find him! The most disheartening part of this campaign has been to see the destruction of journalism as we know it. Thank you to you for always reporting the facts and recognizing the indignities of your peers. Shame on them!
17. October 2008 at 8:00 pm
Biden is such a hateful man. He’s always been haughty, but his nastiness is increasingly evidenced both verbally and physically. He sounds mean-spirited and he looks it. He has mortgaged his soul away.
Botox (aka Biden anti-smirk facial injections), can’t even help now. The smirk lines have erased any facial features that at one time, used to display kindness and goodness. Biden probably required his first anti-smirk facial treatments in kindergarten. I’m with Joe the Plumber not Joe Biden.
17. October 2008 at 9:55 pm
It blows my mind the way Obama’s team and his supporters have ‘vetted’ Joe the plumber on their own!!! They yell and whine about voter intimidation, yet they intimidate ‘middle class’ Americans (I thought that is who they represent?) from even asking a question?! My own step-mom (a Dem) gave me some cock a mamy story about how Joe was ‘planted’ there by McCain’s team. (Chris Matthews ‘broke’ this story) They even claim he was at all the debates!!! I remember when they broke the news that Obama decided on the ‘spur of the moment’ to go door to door. So I ask: exactly HOW did McCain ‘plant’ this man in HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD and conspire to have Obama visit that same neighborhood??!! Lastir I knew Obama wouldn’t listen to McCain or go along with any of his requests. Supposedly Matthews even showed pictures of some man with a moustache who ‘supposedly’ was Joe the plumber ‘in disguise’!! WHAT BS!!!! Why would he need to be disguised at the first debate?! IT IS NO WONDER PEOPLE BELIEVE OBAMA IS THE MESSIAH! The media keeps shoving these lies in their heads, and they are too brainwashed to see the truth as it is! WAKE UP, AMERICA, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!