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I Am Spartacus!

David Corn of Mother Jones meets the "working class" and downtrodden he says he supports and the ungrateful bastards give him an earful:

snip:

"The scene turned into a mini-fracas when David Corn, of Mother Jones, defended press coverage. Munoz was having none of it. Why, he asked, would the press whack Joe the Plumber when it didn't want to report on Obama's relationship with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber? "How come that's not in the news all the time?" Munoz said. "How come Joe the Plumber is every second? I'm talking about NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN." A black woman with a strong Caribbean accent jumped in the fray. "Tell me," she said to Corn, "why is it you can go and find out about Joe the Plumber's tax lien and when he divorced his wife and you can't tell me when Barack Obama met with William Ayers? Why? Why could you not tell us that? Joe the Plumber is me!"
"I am Joe the Plumber!" Munoz chimed in. "You're attacking me"

end snip.

I ask you dear reader, which side of the microphone would you like to be on at that particular moment? Poor David, he has no idea where these folks are coming from.

"I am Joe The Plumber!" Thats a ralling cry thats on a par with "I AM Spartacus!".

I can't overlook the irony of a left wing, "supporter of the working class" and the lowly downtrodden getting his lily white ass handed back to him by the very same working class and downtrodden he says he is so interested in helping. I wonder if he will change his mind now that he's actually met them face to face? ( the ungrateful wretches simply dont know what's good for them!)

I'm also reminded that in all my life, one that is straight out of the working class, with time spent working on swing shifts and graveshifts in real life working class factory jobs (just like they show in hollywood), working in plastic factories and working as a landscaper, I never once met a communist or a socialist until I went to college, not one. They were always easy to find in college there because they were always whining about everything under the sun while driving the very newest sportscars and living in apartments paid for by their mommies and daddies. They went to rallys against Nuclear power while I worked at pizza restaurants, ate pallets of top ramen and walked or rode a bike until I graduated. Did I whine or complain about the "unfairness" of it all? Hell no. I enjoyed every minute of it and was grateful for the chance to do what I do. I know what a great and wonderful thing this country is because I've seen the faces of people who didnt get that chance. I known people who came here from Vietnam, unable to speak the language, with literally nothing and go on to achieve great things. I've worked with men who crawled here across deserts I wouldnt drive through and I know what life in this country really means because they have risked it all to come here. I've known people who came here from Afghanistan who know what freedom really means. I know people who lost it all in the dust bowl in Oklahoma in the 1930s who later went on to own their own home construction companies and live a life of comfort in their old age.

They all had hope for the future and they knew where to get it. Not in Europe which wouldnt have them, not in Cuba which would kill them or in Vietnam which would force them into reeducation camps for the crime of simply being catholic or some other socialist paradise set to destroy their souls before they feed their bellys, but here where a man could start with nothing and go on to make a life for himself. For the freedom, for the liberty to live their lives, they have sacrificed it all. They know where home is, they know where their heart is and it is here.

They Are And I Am - Joe the Plumber!

Posted @ October 20, 2008 01:02 PM | Current Affairs

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Posted by: Vootie at October 22, 2008 10:47 PM