Anger at a McCain rally.

Aimed not at Obama, at the press.

York approached Tito Munoz, a small construction business owner, who was complaining about the press treatment of Joe. Tito assumed York was just another reporter there to give him the "business".

“Yeah, I have my papers right here,” he said. “I’m an American citizen. Right here, right here.” With that, he produced a U.S. passport, turned it to the page with his picture on it, and thrust it about an inch from my nose. “Right here,” he said. “In your face.”

Munoz said he owned a small construction business. “I have a license, if you guys want to check,” he said.

Someone asked why Munoz had come to the rally. “I support McCain, but I’ve come to face you guys because I’m disgusted with you guys,” he said. “Why the hell are you going after Joe the Plumber? Joe the Plumber has an idea. He has a future. He wants to be something else. Why is that wrong? Everything is possible in America. I made it. Joe the Plumber could make it even better than me. . . . I was born in Colombia, but I was made in the U.S.A.”

Mother Jones tool David Corn thought this would be a good time to defend the press coverage, including the brilliant suggestion to a black woman that she is better than Joe because she pays her taxes.

Good move Dave.

It's been said many times (so I'll say it again, cause I'm just a moron), most Americans are fair-minded people. They know when someone who doesn't deserve it is viciously attacked by a media bent on defending The Precious from his own big dumb mouth. And they don't like it a lot.

“I am Joe the Plumber!” Munoz chimed in. “You’re attacking me.”

Yes, they are. And they're being called on it too.

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Treacher has a good reminder: the media furor over Joe the Plumber isn't about Joe the Plumber. It's about making people forget that Barack Obama said this:

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Broken eggs and omelets. By any means necessary. That's the Obama way.

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You're all okay with this right?

After all, we're not CEOs. We're perfectly safe.

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Forget about it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Barack Obama is the Chinatown candidate.

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Even if you haven't played a video game since Pong, this should piss you off.

See you next Open Blog.

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Apologies.

Interestingly, it was scheduled to be demolished, but that's been delayed as groups try to have it declared a historic landmark.

I support that effort. I want every child in the future to be able to visit the place where The Messiah worked under his mentor, The Terrorist, 40 hours a week.

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And God bless 'im, as Joe "Scranton Racist" Biden might say.

Is Barack Obama ready to be president?

It depends on the meaning of the word "ready.

Bill Clinton regrets some things he said - and didn't say - on the campaign trail. But one thing he still can't bring himself to utter: Barack Obama is ready to be President.

"You can argue that nobody is ready to be President, the former President told ABC.

"I certainly learned a lot about the job in the first year," Clinton said from Rwanda. "You can argue that even if you've been vice president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office."

That's probably not what the Obama campaign wanted to hear from the former commander in chief, whose role in Obama's election push and at the Democratic National Convention remains to be worked out.

It also could aggravate Obama supporters who were annoyed that Bill Clinton took what seemed to them too long to even have a conversation with the Illinois senator after he knocked Hillary Clinton from the race.

Look, I understand the position Bill Clinton is in. But it's kinda obvious to everyone he doesn't support Obama. Why not just say so, Bill? You're not exactly hiding your feelings on this matter. Why be cagey?

I mean, it's become a late-night joke. more...

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I've been meaning to write about the California ballot propositions (for our California readers and anyone else who may care) since September and never got around to it. There are twelve this year, including a farm animal prop, an abortion prop, and the big one: gay marriage.

The first chance I had to sit down and consider them was when I was filling out my mail-in ballot. So it's not an epic length discussion of their pros and cons like I really would have wanted. Instead, here's what my first and only thoughts were: more...

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If this report is accurate, it seems pretty likely.

Our phone rang a little before 9PM last night and the caller, a woman with a very pleasant voice, asked to speak with either one of two of my two older (adult) children, whom she asked for by first name. I asked who was calling and she gave her name, which matched the caller ID, and said she was a teacher in the area and was calling on behalf of the Obama campaign, along with some of her colleagues.

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After I hung up, I thought how odd it was that she called and specifically asked to speak to two of the "kids" in the house and not to my wife or me. Then it dawned on me...where might a group of local teachers get a list of young adults of voting age, along with their phone numbers? School records. Possibly older ones, because my youngest is also now old enough and registered to vote.

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