Winning over Joe the Plumber
The third and final presidential debate of 2008 is over and the big winner is Joe the Plumber. This guy is moving up to a higher tax bracket because he's going to be making more money. He won't be fined if he doesn't provide health benefits to his employees. And he's now buddies with John McCain, a guy with plenty of plumbing in his seven houses, even though they've never met.
Aside from that, we saw another cool. controlled performance from Obama, and more crazy old guy stuff from McCain. Sorry, but the man simply was not professional tonight. He did hit Obama hard on equating him to Bush, but Obama knocked back on what's going on in Columbia and stated straight out the fine McCain keeps bringing up would be zero.
One puzzling theme McCain repeated was how Sarah Palin understands autism, yet he never mentioned Down's Syndrome, which is what her son has. I understand the situations are similar, but why specify a different ailment?
Anyway, nothing tonight is going to move many votes, so it comes down to the rest of the campaign.
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Winning over Joe the Plumber
posted by Sumocat at 10/15/2008 11:22:00 PM
2 Comments:
Hey I don't mind scanning through the political posts for inkblogging and tech stuff, but linking to a video that claims (maybe its not I don't know) to be from Al-Jazeera, that's getting a bit over the top.
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James A. Morman, at 10/16/2008 09:52:00 PM
I understand there's a lot of prejudice against Al-Jazeera, but it was founded by the Emir of Qatar, one of our allies in the Middle East; they broadcast via satellite in order to bypass state-sponsored censorship, you know, the kind we claim is bad; and prior to 9/11, it was lauded as the major source of uncensored information in the Middle East. It's not one of my news sources, but it's hardly the "terrorist news network" that many accuse it of being.
As for this particular video, it was shot in the States by American correspondents for Al-Jazeera and features actual Americans speaking their minds. Doesn't seem like anyone was coerced into speaking or were falsifying their views. Watch it or not, but it does convey some of that "unspoken fear" I personally heard, so it felt worth sharing.
BTW, I really did intend to cut down on the political stuff. It's gotten pretty heavy on me too. But it unfortunately got a lot more... interesting. Should hopefully be over soon.
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Sumocat, at 10/16/2008 10:20:00 PM
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