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Joe the Plumber by Samuel Wurzelbacher & Thomas Tabback

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“Freedom Isn’t Free! It Costs At Least $24.95”

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Wurzelbacher was just your average middle-class Ohio plumber who, in the words of Dennis Leary, probably liked “football and porno and books about war.”

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makes zeros into heroes

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At least Wurzelbacher can be comforted by the notion that he is not the only unscrupulous person or publisher in America to abuse his or her status for material gain – this is a path that has been well-established in the US.

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“an American folk hero and the ultimate icon of the working class.” Woody Guthrie is probably rolling in his grave.

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he has a very specific, very narrow point of view of American politics that can only be shared by one demographic at the intersections of race (Caucasian), gender (male) and location (Midwest).

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“God is in jeopardy of being ousted from the United States of America, if He doesn’t decide to leave us beforehand. Okay, maybe it’s just the Christian God, but how in the world does a country of nearly 80% Christians allow that to happen?”

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If Joe the Plumber is indeed the future face of America, than echoing Wurzelbacher, God help us all.

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