Move Over, Joe the Plumber!

Meet Julio the Fast Food Worker. This man made his mark during one of President Obama's visits to Ft. Myers. His real name is Julio Osegueda and he's been working in McDonald's for four years while he has been majoring in communications in college.

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Joe the Plumber got gigs as an economist, war correspondent, and Republican political consultant as a result of his showing up at an Obama rally last fall and getting noticed by John McCain even though he isn't a licensed plumber and he isn't trained in the other fields that he's worked in. At least Julio Osegueda is actually studying communications and he has gotten internship offers in his major as a result of his question to President Obama. Hopefully he'll turn out better than Joe the Plumber has.

Joe the Plumber is Back (Yet Again!)

Maybe we should all just drop "the Plumber" from his name and just refer him as plan old "Joe" (especially since he has never actually gotten his plumbing license in the first place). After his recent jaw-dropping foray as a war correspondent in Israel (while making public statements on how there shouldn't be correspondents covering wars), now he's serving as both an an economist and a consultant to the Republican Party. So I guess you can him "Joe the Plumber Turned War Correspondent Turned Economist Turned Republican Party Consultant".

This quote on whether he thinks he has a career in politics is especially good: "I don't know if the American public deserve me, but my son definitely deserves my time now."

You know, I totally agree one hundred percent with Joe on that statement. The American public doesn't deserve him. The American public deserves someone better than him--especially someone who isn't a media whore like good old Joe. I also agree that his son deserves to spend time with him right now. In fact, he could do everyone a favor and just get out of the public eye and spend all of his time with his son.

Remembering the 2008 Elections: The Last Word

A Newly-Minted Celebrity Whose 15 Minutes of Fame Should End Now That the Elections are Over

Joe Wurzelbacher a.k.a. Joe the Plumber

Best Response to Sarah Palin Giving Simultaneous Interviews to the Television Networks One Week After the Elections Ended

This online petition calling on Sarah Palin to STFU and go back to Alaska.

On that note, I like to say that I'm going to take a several weeks off from this blog. This Tuesday (November 18, 2008) I'm undergoing a hip replacement and I have a few weeks of rehab ahead of me. I will probably return sometime in January just in time for the Inauguration.

Remembering the 2008 Elections

John McCain's Greatest Missteps

John McCain sings The Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" using the lyrics "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran".

John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he owns.

During the last presidential debate, John McCain kept on bringing up Joe the Plumber, a man who encountered Barack Obama during one of his campaign stops expressing his concern that Barack Obama's plan for taxing people making over $250,000 a year would hinder his efforts to purchase the company where he currently worked as a plumber.

McCain's frequent references made Joe Wurzelbacher into an instant celebrity until the media did some digging and found that Wurzelbacher didn't have a plumbing license, was nowhere near purchasing any plumbing business, may not have paid some of his taxes, and he may have even spent some time on welfare in the past despite the fact that he said that he didn't like the government providing money to people without working for it.