McCain Tries To Build a Bigger Joe The Plumber Narrative--By Using Multi-Million Dollar Earning CEOs
By Nicole Belle Saturday Oct 25, 2008 4:00pm
Ever since John McCain discovered "Joe the Plumber," he has exalted "small business" owners -- inviting them to announce their professions on signs at rallies -- as the country's only virtuous economic movers.
But now McCain has begun to define the term upward, leaving no mogul or tycoon behind.
On Thursday in Sarasota, Governor Charlie Crist introduced J. Robert Long, the CEO of Marine Concepts as a "small businessman." The man McCain dubbed "Bob the Boat Builder" spent, as Crist noted, most of his career at Wellcraft Marine, which reported revenues of $67 million last year, according to Yahoo! Finance.
At another campaign stop, McCain proxy Lindsay Graham described Cindy McCain as a "small businesswoman," even though Hensley & Co. -- the third largest beer distributorship in the country, is worth some $200 million.
What's next? Bill Gates, the tech guy? Donald Trump, the real estate agent? Jack Welch, the electrician? Rupert Murdoch, the newsboy?
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Will somebody please take this yellow-toothed, senile, numerically-challenged relic to a porch in a retirement community in Florida before he starts wearing his underwear over his pants?
ROFLMAO! Oh shit, that was funny! Thanks!
That why his fixation on clogged pipes.
LOL no you didn't! LOL
For someone who owns something like 8 houses and 13 cars, 67 million probably does seem like a small business.
McCain wants us to believe he understands the plight of Americans everywhere, but he's just another multi-millionaire who's doesn't care how many families are ruined, as long as his Big Business friends are happy.
John earned his wealthy by marrying it.
I don't have any friends that aren't millionaires so I renamed them the middle class.
Just Asking.
How about Curt the Chronic? Or change your name and be Tim the Toker.
Alliteration is more effective. If you took up crack, you could be Kurt the crackhead, and show up at his rallies. (Taking up crack might be a tad severe to make your point???)
I am Ted, and I can be Ted the Toker.
(*this is in no way admitting to -cough; eye toke- inhaling anything I'm not supposed to.)
Mike the meth head
Karl the KKK bloke
Beth the bible hugger
Pete the paintball nut
Ashley the attention seeker
Cletus the crayon user
William the wolf killer
Pete the polar bear skinner
Oliver the oilman
and smiling down from a cloud, like a C4 wielding Jedi
Vogel the AIP domestic terrorist
Joe the Plumber, Ivan the Russian and Sarah the Failin' Palin equals "John the Liar".
He'll never, ever lose that moniker, the same way that Cruise and Travolta are crazy over that scam Scientology.
John the Liar
All I know is that Ann the Voter isn't voting for McCain/Palin the Losers.
Anybody else see this leaked 527 spot?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Leaked_Pro_...
Aerial Moose Hunters for Truth!
Is that yours? It's brilliant
Wow, then I'm afraid to find out what big businesses are.
Maybe he's trying to upstage Sarah the rogue; going it alone for 2012; that maverick. See headlines everywhere. (signed Hazel the hooker)
This whole Joe the plumber thing makes Amerikka look so terribly hurtin'. Honestly,
People worldwide, watching a world financial meltdown, scratch their heads as this stooge goes into his second childhood, and people turn up to celebrate it.
In contrast, the people in Iceland are marching with signs that read, "Off with their heads." Notice any differnce? A sign of things to come?
omg, he really used Bob the Builder......doesn't he realize colbert was making fun of him?
67 million....man what a chump, is he on welfare yet.....McCain isn't at all out of touch.
$700 billion and counting and counting, trillion plus by now welfare for the corporate skivers.
I am going to give McCain a free pass on this one about Bob the Bldger. After all he is 70 yrs old and maybe he doesn't have grandkids who watch the show. Yesterday my husband and I took our grandchild and bought her a couple of pairs of sneakers. My son was so excited because we got one pair that were sneakers for skateboarders or something like that. My grandchild is only 2 yrs old and I thought the shoe was cute. But according to my son they are the in thing in shoes. Who new. Am 60 and I try to keep up with what the kids are into these days but I do miss sometimes.
This is an insult to licensed plumbers everywhere.
How could he possibly think this was a good idea?
"More Cow Bell !"
"More Cow Bell !"
John the grouchy retired guy;
or Sarah the prom queen.
probably a mistake for McCain to stage photo ops with people who are apparently alive and vigorous. Mr Long looks like he's posing at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
He should try posing with Ramses, or his old pal Otzi. Better yet, he could pose with the Inca Ice Maiden in an attempt to appeal to young voters.
The McCain campaign is getting more silly with each passing day. I think they know the jig is up and are now playing it for laughs.
updated 2 hours, 19 minutes ago
Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
Bwahahaha!
I am a small businesswoman. I am making a slight change in my business. Whereas I used to build doors and windows, I am now in the process of detailing my plans to bring back the guillotine.
France shouldn't be the only country to have all the fun.
Maybe I will ask them if they have any spares I can use as a pattern.
In their honor, I will use it at the feet of the Statue of Liberty.
If that business has under 500 employees, then yes, it is a small business. It's not about how much you make.
goddammit!
No more "small business" loans to millionaires.
there's always grants.
Nicole,you took my best jokes!....lol...but there is: John the typewriter guy, Sara the kid namer,piper,trigger and zamboni? My brother was a LICENCED plumber,if he were alive today,he would give mc same a free snake,and tell him just where to put it. Wisedup,the bong tester.
Now that John McCain has chosen someone other than Charlie Christ to be his VP nominee, does that mean that Christ can go back to leading a "celibate" and Christ-like life again? That poor poor woman!
one of the shame Republican log cabin affairs !?
Yeah, how are those wedding plans a comin'
Its really shameful that people feel they have to hide their orientation. If people in general live at let live it would be a better world. We only have one life to live and I say let the man live his life. It has nothing to do with his job.
So its 10 days before the election and he has finally found his message! Too funny.
I don't know if it's just Republicans, but I've long noticed a tendency among upper middle class and wealthier Americans to claim that they aren't well off: "No, I'm not rich! I only made a million last year, and I only drive a BMW 5-series!" It's like they think that as long as they know of people who have more than they do, or as long as they don't have absolutely every last thing that they want, they'll claim that they aren't wealthy. It's the rhetoric of the terminally greedy.
Poor people lynching them in the streets.
But its not moral or lawful, so not an option.
A fair tax system, a NHS, a proper social security safety net, and equal rights and justice for everybody.
Maybe a few, strategically placed public lynchings of some rich, greedy, folks might serve useful deterrence. What the hay, we tried the deterrence effect thing for blacks and other minorities and even hung a few innocent ones just to ratchet up the fear factor (although I am not sure about the deterrence thing, especially when most killings are done by someone close to the victim and in the heat of passion).
But, I did say as an experiement and the rich mentality has done more harm to the U.S. system and many, many common folk.
And, they are the "biggest" minority interest being protected by a damaged Constitution nowadays!
Meanwhile Sherman the shoemaker says to his apprentice son. "Son, someday this awl will be yours".
I know some wealthy people and they are so unhappy. I remember once their daughter came over to our house crying how unhappy her family was and she wished she could live with our family. My dad was a retired service man and we had a large family. We did alot together as a family. We didn't have a lot of money. My memories of cooking together for the holidays, going places like the parks. She on the other hand travelled all over the world had her own car but she was on anti-depression medicines. I truly felt sorry for her. But I wouldn't of traded places with her for any amount of money because the one thing I had she didn't have was the attention and love of my parents and brothers and sisters. You have that and nothing else matters.
Now, finally, John McCain is sounding like a REAL Republican... a wealthy person who wants to boost opportunities for other wealthy people... by LYING to the poor people whose vote they need to stay in power.
Oh dear Gaawd. Do we have to go through the final days of this Nile-long campaign listening to this tired OLD man harping on his tired OLD schtick, the plumber guy? Does he really honestly believe that this will win him the election? Someone's being really stOOpid, and in this case, I don't think it's the voters.
The plumbing is where the shit goes. Republicans are finding themselves up to their knees in it.
McCain has said that he thought that middle class were people who made less than 5 million a year!
He married money, what the hell does he know?
By golly, John McCain's not going to just stand idly by and watch Joe Multimillionaire be left out of the American Dream. He's a man of the People. Somebody's got to stick up for the poor downtrodden John and Cindy Plutocrats of this nation.
Did I say John and Cindy? I meant Joe and Jane.
"What's next? Bill Gates, the tech guy? Donald Trump, the real estate agent? Jack Welch, the electrician? Rupert Murdoch, the newsboy?"
What about Warren [Buffet] the small business investor? Oooops!, no. Wrong candidate.
Bob Long is indeed a small business owner. He has nothing to do with Wellcraft Marine, other than working for them early in his career. He is the CEO and owner of Marine Concepts, a company that does design work and makes molds for many of the boat companies in this country, including the one I work for.
He is also a staunch republican who has seen his business drop about 50% under the current leadership, but can't bring himself to see why this has happened. I talked with Bob the day before this rally and we joked around about him introducing McCain (he knows I'm a Democrat). I told him he would be the new "Bob the Boatbuilder" after this and he just laughed. He tells his workforce that Obama will introduce a luxury tax on boats like in the 90's that crippled the boating industry.
Bob is a good man who employs a very diverse workforce. He is just a true believer in the republican party and can't accept his party as the cause of our finacial crisis.
Doesn't Mr. Long find it rather misleading when someone refers to him as a "small businessman"? I don't think anybody would criticize Bob's devotion to the Republican Party and he's obviously entitled to support whomever he pleases. The problem that I'm seeing is that many Republican loyalists are turning a blind eye to all the lying McCain and Palin are doing at these rallies. I was watching McCain at a rally just last night and couldn't believe my ears. Not one word that came out of this man's mouth was true. Just nasty, divisive politics as usual designed to scare people away from his opponent. The country is sick of it. Until decent Republicans like Bob Long realize that these campaign methods have been a cancer on their party, the GOP is going to lose its standing as a viable national political party.
Joe the CEO?
Aren't we all just dying to know how John McCain and Sarah Palin are going to handle their inevitable concession speeches on the night of November 4th. After two months of polarizing the country and attacking the character of their opponent, how could they possibly go out graciously with a unifying statement to the nation. And, more importantly, would any of the people whom they have riled up with their constant stream of divisive lies be interested in hearing, much less believe a call for patriotic support of the new President?
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