Barack the Builder vs. Joe the Plumber: Battle of the Cartoon Stars!

Joe the Plumber is a cartoon character, invented by the RNC-sponsored production team of Dewey Cheatham and Howe. If it's a cartoon war you want, Sen. McCain, then a cartoon war you shall have! Whatever "real person" exists behind the Joe the Plumber simulacrum is of little relevance. What matters is that he has been spun into a fictional confection, an angry dude so momentarily compelling that we have no choice but to play the Barack the Builder Card!

In this corner: Barack the Builder. He wants to fix the broken White House and bring some renovation to the nation.

And in this corner: Joe the Plumber. He doesn't want to pay taxes or be made to provide health care for his potential future employees.

Barack the Builder knows that really building something takes money. Money that can be raised by asking extremely wealthy people to pay their fair share after years of tax cuts that didn't trickle where they were supposed to.

Joe the Plumber is against paying taxes, because he believes that's socialism. That's why he owes the government money.

Barack has been a builder all his grown life, and he's hoping to move on to his toughest building job yet real soon!

Joe the Plumber isn't really a plumber, but he plays one in the 2008 Presidential Campaign.

Barack the Builder wants to give Joe the Plumber a tax cut. Joe the Plumber would rather vote for John McCain, because he favors "small government" (i.e., he wants to enjoy all the benefits of society like roads, police, schools, and hospitals -- but without paying for them). Joe the Plumber doesn't realize that John McCain is not really going to help him much, because he makes under $250,000 a year. But that's OK, because Joe the Plumber actually doesn't appear to be registered to vote. With or without Joe's vote, Barack the Builder is hoping to make life better for his nemesis, Joe the Plumber, starting in January 2009.

Joe the Plumber says: "He was tap dancin' like Sammy Davis, Jr."

Barack the Builder says: "Can we fix it? YES WE CAN!"

Note: It's possible that Barack the Builder is available on T-shirts, with 15 percent of profits donated to a certain presidential campaign. All will be revealed at www.ifkidscouldvote.com

Comments

[XME]

I love the Barack the Builder graphic...those his ears need to be much larger! = )

[Pete Cenedella - Huffpost Blogger]

Good one!

[OutsiderSA]

[quote]Joe the Plumber isn't really a plumber, but he plays one in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. (He's also related to Charles Keating -- neato!)[/quote]

I would make this sentence alleged - seems this may not be true (yet)

[vegas9999]

You call Joe a cartoon character and I call you an elitist an guess what? Thet print you, not me.

[Pete Cenedella - Huffpost Blogger]

You totally missed my point. As I said, the real person behind this scam is not the issue. It's the whole fabrication. The biggest elitists are those in the RNC who would invent such a character so as to make themselves look like Joe The Six Pack Plumber, and try and persuade all us real Joes that it's the Republicans who are on our side. Listen to this drivel, man: Joe Six Pack, Hockey Moms, Joe the Plumber, MOose hunting Mamas -- don't you think there are a fair number of working class Americans who are wise to the way they're being pandered -- and lied -- to? IF your assumption is that the plumbers and teachers and bus drivers and contractors and nurses of the world can't see through this whole embarrassing panderfest, then I would say you're more the elitist than I am.

[NotMcCain]

I saw McCain's protesters at Obama's rally in Virginia. They were carrying plungers.

Seemed like the perfect image for McCain-Palin and their new campaign slogan, "Take America's Future ..Down the Drain with McCain!"

I like Barack the Builder. Cute. And true.

[Pete Cenedella - Huffpost Blogger]

If you lived through the Abner Louima incident in New York City, as I did, then the sight of a mob protesting Obama with plungers has an unintended (admittedly) double edge to it that is extremely unpleasant.

[Hipployta]

Oh my...that's terrible LOL...I didn't realize there were protests over that WITH plungers

Go Barack the Builder...BUILD AWAY

[sociocanuck]

Where is/who is Postman Pat?

[kylennblack]

All they need to do is find the Star Wars Kid and then...DANCE OFF!!

[ehr]

nice.

[4cats4]

Excellent post, Pete! It made me smile. Your parents would be so proud of you!
YES WE CAN!!!!!!!

[Indedave]

This is such a simple and straightforward story that even the Palinettes might be able to follow it. Well done! As for Barack The Builder's first job, I see a crack that could stand a little spackling.