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October 16, 2008
Harvey The Plumber
A note on tonight's Weinstein/Wintour/Sykes-hosted Springsteen/Joel concert in NY tonight.
It will be a major political event as well, with Caroline Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Senator Claire McCaskill, and The Obamas appearing and, it seems, speaking.
Rock on.
Posted by dpoland at October 16, 2008 10:36 AM
Comments
Yeah, love the whole "Man of the Middle Class" image that Obama is projecting. Only $10,000 a ticket.
And I'm supporting the guy.
America = screwed.
Posted by: MarkVH ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 16, 2008 02:40 PM
There are $500 tickets... but still, point taken. And fundraisers are fundraisers.
Are the $10,000 a plate Palin fundraisers for Joe Sixpack?
Posted by: David Poland at October 16, 2008 02:47 PM
America is screwed? Seriously? These are fundraisers. The brother needs the cash for the next three weeks of TV spots. This is how our system works.
If you got a problem with a guy who has suffered financially in his life, having a 10000 fundraiser, that's on you. It does not change the fact that Barack Obama knows broke better than any other presidential candidate since the 19th century.
Posted by: IOIOIOI at October 16, 2008 04:48 PM
Joe the Plumber doesn't pay his taxes, does not make enough a year to buy his boss' business, and is nothing more than a figment of Republican imaginations. Again... these people... are WHACKY!
Posted by: IOIOIOI at October 16, 2008 05:13 PM
And he's apparently a son-in-law of none other than Charles Keating! Funny how that didn't come out until after the debate.
Posted by: Cadavra at October 16, 2008 05:27 PM
How soon we forget the last President brought up dirt-poor by a single mother, a mere 8 years later.
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 16, 2008 08:05 PM
If this screws America then I hate to think what all that money wasted during the primaries did. Maybe that's why the economy is so shit?
Posted by: KamikazeCamelV2.0 at October 17, 2008 04:09 AM
The primaries have the effect (re: that other thread on this site) of distributing money from the partisan elite (i.e., rich people with money to donate) to middle-class workers (the people who make television commercials for the campaigns, stagehands, pollsters) and a bunch of pundits like Plouffe and Rick whatshisname. In other words, it's not money just going into a rat hole.
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 17, 2008 04:19 AM
plouffe - oh dear, that was good for a laugh.
ok, back to the seriousness of the build-up to the election of the next leader of the free world (so long as it's the dude from my old stomping ground and not the other gary-oldman-as-gross-dracula-creepy-looking guy)
Posted by: leahnz at October 17, 2008 05:01 AM
What the fucky ever Jeffrey. There's two kinds of broke, and Obama had the worst kind. Seriously... take it outside.
Posted by: IOIOIOI at October 17, 2008 08:27 AM
Huh?
Posted by: jeffmcm at October 17, 2008 01:07 PM
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