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Thread #115363 Message #2473824
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
23-Oct-08 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Joe the Plumber
Subject: RE: BS: Joe the Plumber
Riginslinger alleged:
'"Joe" misrepresented himself to Obama--and the country.'
No he didn't. The news media tried to make it sound like something it wasn't, but Joe was pretty straight forward.
I think he's confused about the difference between gross and net profit, but he was just asking questions of Obama.
Think again, Riginslinger. He first represented that he was "preparing to buy" a plumbing business making a certain amount of money. Forget "gross" or "net"; it's false either way.
Then he upped the ante: He said he was buying (currently, by his words), such a business.
That last is clearly false, and the first one can only be saved from clear falsity by an extreme stretch of the word "preparing".
It's come out since, from the business's owner, that when he was hired there was some discussion that he might at some point be able to buy the business. Given his $40,000 income and his tax debt, "preparing" sounds to me like prevarication, and since good ole Joe has subsequently admitted that there is no current ability or likelihood or arrangement to buy the business, and since the owner denies such an arrangement, the second statement is an outright lie.
Now those misrepresentations are so blatant that they cannot even be glossed as slips of the tongue or inadvertent misstatements. He was making himself into a false hypothetical in order to discomfit Obama.
He deserves what he gets in public obloquy.
Dave Oesterreich