No Problem...Let's Just Change Reality

Let's review some recent history. At the last debate, John McCain gave a shout-out to Joe the Plumber. Sounded good, except he just changed a little reality to the story. Joe the Plumber isn't a plumber. He isn't even named Joe. McCain said that Joe wanted to buy a plumbing business and that he'd be overly taxed under the Obama tax plan. Oh, one additional problem...the company that Joe (Sam) apparently works for isn't for sale, and if it was, it is well under the $250,000 profit threshold that would trigger an additional tax under the Obama plan.

To be fair, McCain and his team probably didn't even check into whether Joe the Plumber's story was accurate, but would that have mattered if he wished to make his point? I sincerely doubt it.

Let's face it...it's so easy to stretch the truth or even completely reassign how we normally characterize situations to fit with reality, but I'd rather stick with a candidate who lives within the real world and doesn't need to make things up to fit within his warped sense of what argument he's trying to make.

Compliments of Mark Gershenson, blogger, I bring you this excellent post. He called it: Comment: I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight???..

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic, different.'

* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, yours is a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first blackPresident of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive thatRegisters 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Lawprofessor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and HumanServices committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a stateof 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have anyreal leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as thegovernor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to becomethe country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a manin his eighth decade.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautifuldaughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then left your disfigured wifeand married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use ofbirth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sexeducation in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends uppregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigiousLaw firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up toraise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.

* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction andno college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was amember of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, yourfamily is extremely admirable.

OK, that makes it much more clearer now???