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[16 Oct 2008 | No Comment | ]

Move over, Joe Six-pack! There’s a new political turn of phrase named Joe in town!
If you watched last night’s debate and wondered who Joe the Plumber is, he’s Joe Wurzelbacher from Toledo, Ohio, a man who’s been working 12-hour shifts for a while working toward the dream of buying a small plumbing business.
Of course, the twist is that buying said small plumbing business would put his income in excess of $250,000, at which point Obama’s proposed rich-guy alarm goes off and raises his taxes. Wurzelbacher asked Obama about …