Poor Poor Joe the Plumber - NOT!
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| Wed, 10-29-2008 - 4:53pm |
So this poor poor man that is so put upon because he 'dared to ask a question' is now writing a book???? Honestly what can he possibly have to say that anyone wants to read???
So we are supposed to believe he is such a victim?? I don't think so!!!
"Joe the Plumber' says he'll 'keep speaking for middle-class America'
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And he might do some singing as well.
As we wrote in this post earlier, "Joe the Plumber" -- Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher of Holland, Ohio, the man who has become a favorite symbol of "real America" for Republican presidential nominee John McCain -- has moved up another notch in the celebrity spectrum. He now has a publicist.
Actually, as we've since found out, he now has a team of folks backing him up. There's country singer Aaron Tippin. Music industry manager Bobby Roberts. And there's Nashville publicist Jim Della Croce.
More on how they got involved in just a bit. First, here's the audio of a phone conversation we had with Joe a short time ago:
Among the highlights of what Joe had to say:
• He plans to "keep speaking for middle-class America."
• "I do have a book that is going to be coming out shortly ... couple of weeks." It will be "dignified."
Sarah_and_joe • Why should people listen to him? "I speak straight. I'm not going to tap dance around anything."
• On Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who he met today at a campaign rally in Bowling Green, Ohio: "She'll really serve America. ... She doesn't see it as her due. She sees is as a privilege to serve the American people." (Photo by Amy Sancetta of the AP.)
• On whether he views the Democratic ticket as "a danger" to the nation: "Yeah, I do. ... I think it is dangerous, I've got no problem saying that."
• Does he have a political future? "That's a huge commitment and I'd have to learn a lot."
• Perhaps a singing career, since he's become buddies with Tippin? "They talked about possibly throwing me into the studio. I think we're going to have a good laugh" and that will be it. "I never ever have entertained the notion."
• But will he keep plumbing? "I'm not going to rule it out." It's a career you can "always fall back on."
• Isn't he just trying to make a quick buck of his sudden fame? "People are going to have to decide for themselves."
So how did Joe get connected with Tippin, Roberts and Della Croce? According to Della Croce and Tippin:
It was Tippin who first came up with the idea, after he met Joe on the set of Mike Huckabee's Fox News Channel program.
"There's something in that guy's voice. They're something magnetic about Joe the Plumber," Tippin said by phone, also from Bowling Green. "He is real America and I've fallen in love with the guy."
Della Croce says he sees a couple different ways Joe's new "career" could go. He might hit the speaking circuit. There's the book. Maybe singing.
And for now, Della Croce says, he and his partners Tippin and Roberts are providing their help to Joe for free. "No money will change hands in any way shape or form until we get beyond" next week's election, he says.
Our original post, " 'Joe the Plumber' has a publicist:' "
As Calvin Gilbert at CMT.com says this morning, "it was inevitable."
"Joe the Plumber" has a publicist.
Nashville-based Jim Della Croce, who runs a public relations company called The Press Office, has signed on to handle media relations for Joe Wurzelbacher.
In case you've been in a cone of silence the past couple of weeks, Joe is the Ohio man who has become one of Republican presidential nominee John McCain's favorite symbols of "real America" since he asked Democrat Barack Obama about taxes and Obama replied that it's a good idea to "spread" some of the nation's wealth around to those in the lower and middle classes.
Della Croce's office confirmed the CMT.com report for us this morning. One of his staff, Meredith Carr, said Della Croce was with Joe the Plumber and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and would have to get back to us later.
Della Croce's clients -- mostly in the country music business -- have a varied political background. They include the usually reliably Republican Gatlin Brothers and the Vietnam-era draft resister Jesse Winchester, who spent more than a decade living in Canada.
Posted by Mark Memmott at 11:59 AM/ET, October 29, 2008 in People in politics, Presidential race, 2008,"


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Sure, but if you think about it, this election should be the time for the Democrats. Obama hasn't really been able to close the deal.
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Funny, very funny. What I see, very sour grapes.
McCain supporters are enraged that a guy no one ever heard of 5 years ago are beating their guy. Their lifetime senator, who always loved getting attention from the media, the so-called maverick. More like, opportunist. It's not Obama that needs to close anything, he's the one who's had everything to prove and McCain comes in with a sense of entitlement that made him feel as if he had nothing to prove.
Obama's got the goods, McCain does not. This campaign has shown us that, the experience argument falls flat.
Obama is commanding an army of 70 million people, where 10's of thousands mob to hear him say the same things they've read or heard him say a gazillion times already. I've seen him draw more people in downtown Kansas City than a Van Halen concert offering free beer.
McCain draws nothing more than the partisans and all ya gotta do is listen to him on the stump, every single talking point begins with the same two words: Senator Obama....
Completely hallow.
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Reward Republicans for 8 years of failure? No way, No how, No McCain!
maybe Palin's crew is taking some time off to work with Joe.
They might as well. . .unless/until HE starts acting like a 'whackjob'.
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