{"id":3128,"date":"2008-10-17T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/17\/knocking-joe-out-with-a-wrench\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T15:35:23","slug":"knocking-joe-out-with-a-wrench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/10\/17\/knocking-joe-out-with-a-wrench\/","title":{"rendered":"Knocking Joe out with a Wrench"},"content":{"rendered":"

The debate swerved into the surreal as John McCain introduced the world to … what was his name again?\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the debate was addressed to nobody else except this guy — the other quarter billion Americans may as well have just turned it off (which, I guess, would make it a win for Obama — Great Strategy there, McCain!\u00c2\u00a0 Though, too many of these<\/a>(*) and maybe you want everyone but Joe to turn the tv off.).\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently he was a republican blogger celebrity for speaking his mind to Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 Fair enough, but it\u00c2\u00a0is ridiculous that he becomes the focal point of McCain’s campaign — a strange inversion of the old tact of lining up personal anecdotes of hard scrabbled people met during the campaign with the candidate’s policies meant to alleviate just that problem.\u00c2\u00a0 I was hoping Obama would, about two thirds through the debate, just come out and say it “Screw it!\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what I am going to do:\u00c2\u00a0 as president, I will confiscate ALL of Joe’s money and throw him into the poor house.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I will take away all of his guns away, just for kicks.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, I will make Joe the Plumber the National Scape-Goat.\u00c2\u00a0 All your problems are the fault of Joe the Plumber.”\u00c2\u00a0 But that wasn’t going to happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe someone at the third party debate could do just that.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, Bob Barr has taken up the cause of Joe the Plumber, so I guess all is lost.<\/p>\n

I think it is time to unveil a full blasted attack ad on Joe the Plumber.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, did you know his real name was Sam?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Bob the Plumber ought to get right on that.<\/p>\n

(*) No.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.\u00c2\u00a0 What is that?\u00c2\u00a0 Can I get video of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it’d make sense in context.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00c2\u00a0 I had to edit this blog post because I am a bone-head who mis-spelled “plumber” to “plummer”.\u00c2\u00a0 This may or may not be fine, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debate swerved into the surreal as John McCain introduced the world to … what was his name again?\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the debate was addressed to nobody else except this guy — the other quarter billion Americans may as well have just turned it off (which, I guess, would make it a win for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}