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One of the minor missteps made by Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign was during a visit to Ohio, where he answered questions from a guy named Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, whose pseudo-profound grasp of politics and economics led him to conclude that Obama was a socialist.
That characterization greatly pleased John McCain, who immediately recruited Wurzelbacher as a campaign mascot of sorts and dubbed him Joe the Plumber. Before long, McCain was invoking Joe’s pearls of wisdom in his debates with Obama — but to no avail, in the final analysis. McCain lost to Obama in an electoral landslide, ...
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