An article from Counter Punch about "Joe the Plummer" well, more like "Joe the (sort of) Plummer."
http://www.counterpunch.org/macaray10172008.html
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
U.S. Debates - The little I saw sure stunk.
I cannot get over what passes for debate in the U.S. elections. There on the television last night, Obama and McCain flung accusations and statistics like squirrels at a nut farm. They would say "it's no secret that nine out of ten Americans say your economic program doesn't work, that you supported exactly 73% of Bush's economic plan, that 100% of your adds are bogus" and the story went on and on.
There was McCain, as usual, trying to dumb down his audience with some asinine story about "Joe the plumber" (such an obvious line of bullshit--aren't all plumbers named "Joe") trying to make ends meet and worried that Obama's economic plan would be the death of him. And McCain goes on to say (for shame) that Obama actually promotes "sharing the wealth" of the nation, though for some reason, this sharing of wealth somehow involves poor people having to pony up for the rich guys. This from a guy who thinks, though is not sure, he owns 9 houses. God forbid the rich actually share wealth with the poor as American taxpayers are asked to "share" their wealth with Wall Street criminals in a trillion dollar bail out plan. Why didn't Obama jump all over that?
Why didn't Obama jump all over the common refrain of the Bush administration that Democrats "tax and spend" instead of cutting taxes and cutting spending. This following nine years of Bush's "borrow and spend" agenda, that involved huge tax cuts to major corporations while attempting to fund a trillion dollar war in Iraq. I don't get it.
The accusation portion was absolutely hilarious, with McCain almost in tears over Obama's attack adds linking some of his supporters to racist white southern hillbillies. It's the Republican Party for God's sake, there's a lot of racist white hillbillies in the fold because when you get the Christian Right on your side, all the wackos will follow. If this weren't ridiculous enough, McCain pleads for Obama to publicly repudiate the negative statements of his campaign adds then proceeds to launch a full frontal assault on Obama's association with some Weather Underground radical from the 1960s. Unbelievable: "Mr. Obama, you must stop these hurtful attack ads, oh and by the way, your pal is a known terrorist."
How can Obama sit there and not say "McCain, you're a putz."
And what's with McCains arms anyway, it's like he's holding a barrel. Was he forced to hold a barrel for weeks on end as a POW? Sorry for the attack ad, but at least he's constantly in hugging pose for world leaders when they come to visit. Should McCain croak in his presidency, you have Sarah Palin, the ultimate Dan Quayle ready to the take the reigns of the most powerful nation on Earth, a woman who cannot remember a Supreme Court case and cannot name a newspaper she reads, or as Matt Damon said in an interview "I want to know if she thinks the Earth is 4000 years old, because I think it's important that the person with the nuclear codes thinks the Earth is 4000 years old." She's the barometer of how low American politics has become, starting with Quayle, then George W. and now Sarah P., the dumbest politician ever to threaten to be President.
Ugh, it makes me sick to see this charade played out on American TV screens and then have pundits try to analyze who won. Nobody won, the American people lost, they always loose.
There was McCain, as usual, trying to dumb down his audience with some asinine story about "Joe the plumber" (such an obvious line of bullshit--aren't all plumbers named "Joe") trying to make ends meet and worried that Obama's economic plan would be the death of him. And McCain goes on to say (for shame) that Obama actually promotes "sharing the wealth" of the nation, though for some reason, this sharing of wealth somehow involves poor people having to pony up for the rich guys. This from a guy who thinks, though is not sure, he owns 9 houses. God forbid the rich actually share wealth with the poor as American taxpayers are asked to "share" their wealth with Wall Street criminals in a trillion dollar bail out plan. Why didn't Obama jump all over that?
Why didn't Obama jump all over the common refrain of the Bush administration that Democrats "tax and spend" instead of cutting taxes and cutting spending. This following nine years of Bush's "borrow and spend" agenda, that involved huge tax cuts to major corporations while attempting to fund a trillion dollar war in Iraq. I don't get it.
The accusation portion was absolutely hilarious, with McCain almost in tears over Obama's attack adds linking some of his supporters to racist white southern hillbillies. It's the Republican Party for God's sake, there's a lot of racist white hillbillies in the fold because when you get the Christian Right on your side, all the wackos will follow. If this weren't ridiculous enough, McCain pleads for Obama to publicly repudiate the negative statements of his campaign adds then proceeds to launch a full frontal assault on Obama's association with some Weather Underground radical from the 1960s. Unbelievable: "Mr. Obama, you must stop these hurtful attack ads, oh and by the way, your pal is a known terrorist."
How can Obama sit there and not say "McCain, you're a putz."
And what's with McCains arms anyway, it's like he's holding a barrel. Was he forced to hold a barrel for weeks on end as a POW? Sorry for the attack ad, but at least he's constantly in hugging pose for world leaders when they come to visit. Should McCain croak in his presidency, you have Sarah Palin, the ultimate Dan Quayle ready to the take the reigns of the most powerful nation on Earth, a woman who cannot remember a Supreme Court case and cannot name a newspaper she reads, or as Matt Damon said in an interview "I want to know if she thinks the Earth is 4000 years old, because I think it's important that the person with the nuclear codes thinks the Earth is 4000 years old." She's the barometer of how low American politics has become, starting with Quayle, then George W. and now Sarah P., the dumbest politician ever to threaten to be President.
Ugh, it makes me sick to see this charade played out on American TV screens and then have pundits try to analyze who won. Nobody won, the American people lost, they always loose.
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