{"id":5140,"date":"2008-10-22T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T02:07:56","slug":"praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammunition-i-am-joe-the-plumber-and-another-perfectly-good-election-year-is-ruined-by-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5140\/praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammunition-i-am-joe-the-plumber-and-another-perfectly-good-election-year-is-ruined-by-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise the lord and pass the ammunition; I am Joe the Plumber and another perfectly good election year is ruined by politics."},"content":{"rendered":"

My turn.<\/p>\n

I feel compelled to try to make some sense of politics in public. Am I not a blogger? And this being a big bad ass blog on which I can write anything that tickles my fancy, and yes my fancy got tickled by this election, I’m going to give it a shot.<\/p>\n

So okay then. Thanks for that.<\/p>\n

I’m looking back at the year. I love a good political year, and in January I figured this would be a damn good one. The Republican nomination was up for grabs, I love it when that happens, and the Democrats had some history making candidates, but most importantly, my kids were paying attention, and for that I thank Barack Obama. He wasn’t a grumpy old man, he was young and energetic and hopeful and he knew how to give a rousing speech. I think hope is good. I think eloquence is good. I think both together are very good.<\/p>\n

Then John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, and I thought it was interesting, if nothing else. History is being made and I’m living to see it. I was hopeful that Palin would bring something different to the table this time around. I had hope that this election, these candidates, this new media world, this go ’round, we might see an elevated campaign. A campaign that followed the high ground and brought the dignity and integrity that We the People deserve.<\/p>\n

Alas, and alack, it’s not to be.<\/p>\n

I’m uninspired by John McCain and anything I’ve heard him say. Palin is, ya know, Jane Six Pack. I worked with her, at least I think it was her, during elementary school PTO fundraisers, you betcha! She’s not without charm, and she’s a she, but mostly that ticket is kinda more of the same, only not, only yeah, it is the same.<\/p>\n

Biden. Well I must admit that he’s not let me down because Joe’s been Joe since I was a sprout, and he’s definitely Joe now, only he’s not a Joe the Plumber kind of Joe. No, Biden is a Joe the Politician kind of Joe. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And that remarkable Obama eloquence that was so uplifting in January, cuts deeply at this point, and I’m angry. I am a Midwesterner after all, and according to Obama, I “get bitter-(I) cling to guns or religion or antipathy”.<\/p>\n

Is it over yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,29],"tags":[255,256,254,257],"class_list":{"0":"post-5140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-dirty-laundry","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"tag-audacity","9":"tag-faith","10":"tag-hell","11":"tag-midwest","13":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17437,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17437\/overnight-news-ants-contain-grasshoppers-for-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":5140,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Ants contain Grasshoppers \u2013 for\u00a0now.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Silver linings stories abound, and they're not wrong: America caught a glimpse of Critical Theory Marxism and blanched in horror. 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