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Shock value

Is this story about ...

an underhanded ambush by a McCain bully ...

or a sneaky little Obama operative getting what he deserved?

My view: Rigging an electric current to a yard sign is stupid. Something could go wrong ... like shocking a kid.

And: The boy's parents are equally to blame. It seems that a family discussion gave him the idea that a McCain sign just wasn't acceptable in their neighborhood. And now the parents are telling the unbelievable story that their son was just trying to see how the McCain sign was constructed. Right. The evidence indicates he planned to replace it with an Obama sign.

This is the sort of thing we're teaching our kids about politics. Not shocking, just sad.

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an underhanded ambush by a McCain bully ...* Doug

Classical example of Joe the Retard Plumber leading Chaos and barbararism into the Political process by a McCain -Palin Village idiot.

Thank God! After tuesday, we will never hear of Joe the Pumber again except when he gets busted by Ohio authorities for past child support payments

tonymo [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Surely the inane comments by Connie Mack are joke, right? No one with even a single living brain cell could write something this ridiculous.

Ambush? I guess the owner of the sign put it there in hopes of catching an Obama retard stealing it so that he could zap the Obama retard? Did I miss something. And Joe, the plumber? I'm sure there is some relevance there but....?

To the average retard, protecting one's property makes one a "village idiot!" We're in bigger trouble than I thought.

tonymo said:
Surely the inane comments by Connie Mack are joke, right? No one with even a single living brain cell could write something this ridiculous.

Ambush? I guess the owner of the sign put it there in hopes of catching an Obama retard stealing it so that he could zap the Obama retard? Did I miss something. And Joe, the plumber? I'm sure there is some relevance there but....?

To the average retard, protecting one's property makes one a "village idiot!" We're in bigger trouble than I thought.

We had no idea that you were into the Joe the Plumber cult as a sane normal human being in the 21 st century of politics. Tell me Dude! Do you really believe Joe the Plumber finished community vocational college in Austrian Von Mises economics or simply drop out after the first test when he was not allowed to use a pocket calculator to compute the national debt to the Chinese in Gold Yens or Panda gold coins?

And what does private property has to do with Joe the Plumber when he owns nothing to start with? You do understand that Joe the Plumber is a invention or myth by the Republican party like Al Gore and Global warming.

J W Liles said:

Sounds like sarcasm to me-
Joe the plumber lives in the neighborhood where Obama was campaigning. Does anyone think he planned a big coup detat in advance of the door to door? I believe Obama made the "distribution" comment on his own. Kind of like the "my Muslim Faith" statement to Stephanopoulos. Sometimes the truth comes out no matter how deeply it is hidden.
Global warming? Still waiting fpr proof that it is primarily man made. Just not there.

J W Liles said:
Sounds like sarcasm to me-
Joe the plumber lives in the neighborhood where Obama was campaigning. Does anyone think he planned a big coup detat in advance of the door to door?


Naw! Joe the Plumber is on to bigger things after the election. He has hired a agent [ Country and Western Dudes]to promote his career as a political expert on everything in the Universe. Joe the Plumber just might be the next Republican Jesus who came back and found no supporters nor a Republican Paradise after the election.

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