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Joe the Plumber signs book deal
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Posted on 11/20/2008 10:25:19 AM PST by worst-case scenario

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1 posted on 11/20/2008 10:25:20 AM PST by worst-case scenario
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How can he have a book out so quickly? It was only a few months...


2 posted on 11/20/2008 10:26:13 AM PST by scfischer7
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Under my Christmas Tree. Just for supporting Joe alone...


3 posted on 11/20/2008 10:26:35 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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The press will be more interested in determining if Joe has a ghost writer than they ever cared about whether Barack Obama had one on his books, which is odd because those books and running for President are the sum total of Barack’s “experience” that people said made him a good candidate for the White House.


4 posted on 11/20/2008 10:27:22 AM PST by weegee (Global Warming Change? Fight Global Socialist CHANGE.)
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He’s been working on it since the offer came. He made it clear that he had to reject some of the offers. Some wanted him to be a “joke” (like a page a gag kind of thing).


5 posted on 11/20/2008 10:30:43 AM PST by weegee (Global Warming Change? Fight Global Socialist CHANGE.)
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No one could publish a book this quickly. He would have to have a ghost writer and an excellent editor who can work under the most stressful of conditions. I personally think this is ridiculous. Not that Joe would write a book—he’s a lot more intelligent than a lot of politicians—but that he would publish it so quickly, regardless of Christmas...


6 posted on 11/20/2008 10:34:22 AM PST by twigs
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If I were him, I would arrange to be paid $249,999.99/year.


7 posted on 11/20/2008 10:53:38 AM PST by fortunate sun (Proud Palinista!)
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but that he would publish it so quickly, regardless of Christmas...

On January 20, the IRS, FBI, and who knows what other agencies will be on Joe's trail. He'd better make as much as he can soon.

8 posted on 11/20/2008 10:53:58 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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Write a book in only a few weeks? Well he has to have a great ghost-writer and editor who can work round-the-clock with great ouput..... but it will still be more credible than either of Obambi’s “memoirs”......


9 posted on 11/20/2008 10:56:31 AM PST by Enchante (Thanks, Mediascum, you "elected" your candidate and now the country will pay....)
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Good for Joe. I will buy his book.


10 posted on 11/20/2008 10:57:22 AM PST by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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I doubt I would even read it, much less buy it.


11 posted on 11/20/2008 11:06:58 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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Maybe it was planned?


12 posted on 11/20/2008 11:07:53 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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Yes it was planned 10 years ago that Joe would be living in the neighborhood that Obama would be campaigning in

(/RMFE)


13 posted on 11/20/2008 11:09:20 AM PST by NeoCaveman (just one of the bitter clingers)
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I think Joe the Plumber missed his calling. He should have been a reporter. He was the only in the campaign to ask BHO a tough question.


14 posted on 11/20/2008 11:16:37 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
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I think Joe has just about used up his 15 minutes.


15 posted on 11/20/2008 11:18:20 AM PST by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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I have no problem with him making as much money as he can. I think he deserves it. But I’m talking about the quality of this book. It just can’t be there under this deadline.


16 posted on 11/20/2008 11:19:31 AM PST by twigs
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Nowadays, ya just never know...


17 posted on 11/20/2008 11:19:55 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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Poor Joe the Writer. Taxes will eat him alive.


18 posted on 11/20/2008 11:23:39 AM PST by RightWhale (Exxon Suxx)
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Nowadays, ya just never know...

Well let me help you.

It makes great hats.

19 posted on 11/20/2008 11:24:26 AM PST by NeoCaveman (just one of the bitter clingers)
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To: twigs
Probably a rehash of the entire story culled from the media, along with a sprinkling of Joe's thoughts.

There are publishers who churn these books out in very short time frames. I remember my wife reading a Scott Peterson book four years ago that was released no more than two weeks after he was found guilty.

20 posted on 11/20/2008 11:24:46 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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