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I'll take your Joe the plumber and raise Al Bundy the shoe salesman
Boston Globe ^ | 102108 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 10/21/2008 5:55:57 PM PDT by Fred

Barack Obama's campaign has come up with a humorous comeback to Joe the plumber.

At every campaign stop, Republican rival John McCain mentions Joe Wurzelbacher, who complained to Obama that his tax cut proposal would penalize small businesses.

In a new video today, Al the shoe salesman computes the tax cut he would get under the two candidates, using the Obama camp's trusty tax calculator.

Al is Al Bundy (played by actor Ed O'Neill), the aggrieved husband in the comedy hit "Married with Children," which aired during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Al makes $20,000 a year and has kids. "I saved $1,000" under Obama's plan, he figures out. But he would save nothing under McCain's.

Al Bundy Running Obama's lame tax calculator

The video ends with Al chanting, "Obama! Obama!"

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; albundy; biden; hannity; joetheplumber; mccain; noobamatour; obamatruthsquad; palin
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Oh yeah, baby, lets rock...Is Al bundy a socialist????
1 posted on 10/21/2008 5:55:58 PM PDT by Fred
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To: Fred
...Is Al bundy a socialist????

Can't say for sure but we do know he is a fool.

2 posted on 10/21/2008 5:57:12 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Fred

Al Bundy is a flippin moron. I’ll take Joe the Plumber any day.


3 posted on 10/21/2008 5:58:25 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Parley Baer
Does anyone think that the founder of No Ma'am would be a socialist???


4 posted on 10/21/2008 5:58:26 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: Fred

Ed O’neill , who portrays Al Bundy, is a socialist.

The character sure isn’t.


5 posted on 10/21/2008 6:00:20 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: Parley Baer

If Al Bundy collected wellfare instead of selling shoes, he would make more money and receive taxes instead of paying them.


6 posted on 10/21/2008 6:02:47 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Fred
Who's married with 2 kids working in a dead end job for $20,000 for 25 years? At is $9.61 an hour he's barely making the new minimum wage.

PS Al Bundy is a fictional character. As is the Democrats' robocaller "Joe the plumber". They jumped the shark on this one.

7 posted on 10/21/2008 6:02:50 PM PDT by weegee (In honor of Joe the Plumber, at noon, we should all lower our trousers to half mast.)
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To: Fred

Joe = Hard worker seeking the American dream
Al = Loser, complacent in a crappy job


8 posted on 10/21/2008 6:03:38 PM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)
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To: Fred

Wow. That’s a really dumb response. Why can’t they find a regular Joe of their own to stick up for Barack?


9 posted on 10/21/2008 6:03:44 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: PA-RIVER

BUMP. Run the numbers for how much Peggy could take in with 2 (or 3, remember the “cute” kid they added in one of the later seasons) kids and an absent father.


10 posted on 10/21/2008 6:04:38 PM PDT by weegee (In honor of Joe the Plumber, at noon, we should all lower our trousers to half mast.)
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To: Fred

So the Democrat Party is the party of losers? Who’d a thought it(!)


11 posted on 10/21/2008 6:09:44 PM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: Fred

Al doesn’t pay income taxes in the first place.


12 posted on 10/21/2008 6:10:34 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Obama's Grandmother will be just fine. Obama is an expert on health care.)
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Al makes $20,000 a year and has kids.

NO, Al made $20,000 a year 15 years ago. And his kids are grown up and presumably moved out unless he's a wimp. I would say that Al is making about $35,000 per year as a shoe salesman now, unless he's working part-time in which case he probably either has two jobs or is incredibly stupid.

Judging from my review of "Married with Children" episodes, Al only plays stupid on TV.

13 posted on 10/21/2008 6:11:01 PM PDT by meyer (We are all Joe the Plumber)
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To: Fred

Americans are sure going to want to identify themselves with Al Bundy alright! /S


14 posted on 10/21/2008 6:16:23 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (`Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: Fred

Sorry, Obambi, but the character in the TV programme had a loathing for lying politicians and lazy bureaucrats. Al’s only vote was to oppose a tax increase on beer.


15 posted on 10/21/2008 6:17:20 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Fred

So to counter-react Joe the Plumber, a real American with real dreams and aspirations, Obama can’t find one real American and has to find a Hollywood actor who plays one who is in a dead end job with no dreams or aspirations on TV...and a selfish one to boot, as he does not ask where the $1,000 will come from (from a productive American).

And Obama thinks he’s so smart! I think their ad can be used by McCain to show the condesention of Obama and how he sees his Constituents (as people who are incapable of upward mobility, who need to be “taken care of” by Obama!).


16 posted on 10/21/2008 6:19:11 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: Fred

He wouldn’t actually save it, it would be money from the wealth redistribution.


17 posted on 10/21/2008 6:20:01 PM PDT by MarkeyD (THE DEMOCRATS LIED, THE ECONOMY DIED.)
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To: winner3000

oh, snap!!! that rocks...


18 posted on 10/21/2008 6:22:23 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: Fred

This is Obama’s arrogant elitism. His answer to Joe is a fictional buffoon. Probably because Al Bundy is his reference point for the average Joe. This is the way he sees people like Joe.


19 posted on 10/21/2008 6:23:44 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (The heels are on, the gloves are off.~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Fred
"I saved $1,000"

To the nudie bar!
/Al Bundy
20 posted on 10/21/2008 6:23:46 PM PDT by philman_36
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