Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > Tonks:
> The poor man was just standing in his front yard playing 
> > ball with his kid when Obama was walking around the neighborhood. 
> So 
> > when Obama came by his house, Joe asked a question. Because those 
> in 
> > charge of damage control had to protect the candidate from 
himself, 
> > they investigated, humiliated and attempted in a small way to 
> > destroy Joe the plumber. The poor man is not even a politician. 
> 
> Magpie:
> So who's Joe being destroyed by? Didn't he come into the public eye 
> not when he asked a question (there must be hundreds who have asked 
> politicians questions when a politician is there) but when McCain 
> used that in the debate? Then the press checked him out and found 
out 
> he hadn't paid taxes, wasn't a plumber, etc. Last I saw him he had 
an 
> agent and a record deal and was on TV asking whether Obama was 
loyal 
> to his country.
> 
> I certainly wouldn't want to be dragged into a campaign, but wasn't 
> it the press who descended on this guy and not the candidates? 
> 
> -m
>


Uh, wasn't it John McCain who dragged Joe the Plumber into the public 
eye by bringing him up in the debate? And last time I heard he was 
trashing Obama and looking at a country music contract...how has he 
been destroyed?

Susan