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Hot Seat: Joe the Plumber {Politics Daily}
Oct 17th 2008 3:03PM I predict that "Joe the Plumber" will eventually be exposed as a Republican plant, a new form of Swiftboating from the Rove school of dirty tricks. He IS closely related to the Keating family, and he asked a confrontational question with *just the right* mythical dollar numbers to make the whole thing stink. He ain't even a plumber, and it's doubtful he has the least inclination to live the entrepreneurial dream fantasy the Right is always holding out as synbolic. Symbols don't pay the mortgage, but that's just the sort of nonsense-myth that the Right has been deluding the ignorant with since 1980.
Some McCain operative probably came up with "Joe's" question and probably promised "Joe" a monetary kickback. With the long history of dishonorable dirty tricks by the Republican National Committee, it's kind of sad that so many dead-enders are shrieking in horror that this phony Everyman stands in for the American electorate when he's just a pawn in the culture war game.
The good news? Intelligent voters are not buying it; only those predisposed to consider Obama the Antichrist or a Marxist are howling, in unison with their talk-radio cheerleaders.. And yes, there are a lot of them out there. In a nation of 300 million plus that's split pretty evenly, those raised on the "Reagan Revolution" don't want to have to school themselves on reality when the myth they've been fed for so long is so comfotable.
Get used to a liberal ascendency; the Right has effed up the country so badly that truly nothing could be better than to start acting like civilized folk instead of easily-deluded adolescents.
Gadling's guide to getting betters seats: restrictions and openings {Gadling}
Jul 17th 2008 5:02PM As a former basketball player who's ONLY 6'6" tall, I can tell you that I see red whenever I've tried and tried to acquire an exit or bulkhead seat online and/or at the airport, only to find rows of short folks smugly settling into those seats because they've successfully gamed the system, probably using tricks from this website. Some airlines now have such bad coach legroom that I've stood in back for most of a flight. Listen folks, I can't WALK to Europe! If you really don't need the friggin' legroom, don't be a greedy pig. Get yourself a nice aisle seat somewhere else.
