Mitch Albom: Average Joe can't fix America's pipes

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http://www.freep.com/article/20081019/COL01/810190417/?imw=Y

October 19, 2008

Average Joe can't fix America's pipes

BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Until last week, the most common axiom about plumbers was that when they bent over to fix a pipe, you could see the crack of their butts.

Not anymore.

Thanks to Joe Wurzelbacher, we can now go to plumbers for our political future.

Wurzelbacher was mentioned about two dozen times in the debate between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain this past week. They called him Joe the Plumber, an average Ohio guy who had told Obama during a campaign swing that he was planning on buying a business that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year. He then asked the candidate, "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?"

The exchange was caught on tape (what isn't these days?). And from there, the pipe hit the fan. McCain held up Joe as an average American businessman who would suffer from Obama's plan to spread the wealth around.

McCain said that with Obama in charge, guys like Joe would "not be able to realize the American dream of owning their own business."

Jackpot! Joe the Plumber, to Republicans, was instantly a working-class hero, a good, honest family man who just wanted to start a company and was gonna get socked by Obama's socialist ideas.

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[underpants]

1. Mitch rocks

rec'd

[givemebackmycountry]

2. I like him on the sports reporters every Sunday...

I don't know what it is about the guy, but you just want to hug him.

Does anyone remember his short lived MSNBC show in the afternoons?

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. You see... The Economy is a Series of Tubes...

So we must need a plumber.