McCain's smile is gone.

[trof]

I'm watching a scowling, angry man on CNN right now.
The weird rictus-like grin he has flashed, seemingly at random, during previous speeches is gone.

And now he looks around for Joe the Plumber.
"Isn't Joe with us today?"
Looks around...confused.
"I guess Joe isn't with us today. Well you're ALL Joe the Plumber."
Jezz, he doesn't know who is with him on the campaign trail this morning?
I think it's over.

[H2O Man]

1. Same with

his audience. An unhappy lot, they.

[yardwork]

16. To say the least. Snort. lol.

[WI_DEM]

2. Gawd! who would want to be "Joe the Tax cheat"???

[Schulzz]

3. I'm Joe the Plumber? Thanks, but no thanks!

:puke:

[Johonny]

I went to college for 4 years, graduate school for 5

and Joe the Plumber is all I can look forward to in McCain's economy;(

[Arugula Latte]

23. Say in Seinfeld voice: "But I don't wanna be Joe the Plumber!"

[nc4bo]

4. He is scowling and sneering. He sounds like he's sick and looks paler than usual.

Lying about Obama's tax plan again.

He's also stumbling his lines of attack.

All this "straight talk" while Exxon Mobil posts a profit of $14.8 billion.

[nc4bo]

5. Sitting in a cockpit waiting to take off. He's been tested dammit and knows how close

we went to nuclear war - TESTED!

[trof]

6. I wonder if last night's Obama special got to him.

His stump speech seems to be about 90% attack Obama and Biden and 10% what McCain will do.

[nc4bo]

11. He definitely looks like he woke up on the wrong side of his porta-bed this morning...

I think it must be really annoying when you can't counter that huge ad buy with some of your own LOL!

In other news, Palin is polluting the airwaves with lots of hot gas lies this a.m.

[bdamomma]

14. he would be lining the pockets of Exxon Mobil if he gets in.

[mwb970]

7. What an unappealing candidate McCain is!

Short-tempered, irascible, rude, whiny. Always complaining about something. Angry and bitter. And way, way over the hill.

[pdxmom]

8. He's screwing up all his lines, as well. Not having good morning. N/T

[Clio the Leo]

13. Yeah, even I cringed a little bit for him.

I certainly dont envy his position right now.

[Morning Dew]

9. Poor Cindy and her pasted on smile

nm

[H2O Man]

10. The Thrill is Gone

The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong baby
And you'll be sorry someday

The thrill is gone
It's gone away from me
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away from me
Although, I'll still live on
But so lonely I'll be

The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
The thrill is gone baby
It's gone away for good
Someday I know I'll be open armed baby
Just like I know a good man should

You know I'm free, free now baby
I'm free from your spell
Oh I'm free, free, free now
I'm free from your spell
And now that it's all over
All I can do is wish you well
-- Rick Darnell & Roy Hawkins
(recorded by B.B. King in 1969)

[trof]

12. But the agony lingers on.

;-)

[faithfulcitizen]

15. Thank God, I'll never eat corn again.

[Orsino]

17. Good. He was frightening the children. n/t

[otohara]

19. And Some Adults

it's fake and creepy.

[Alter Ego]

18. Hahaha fuck.

[mmonk]

20. What's the matter?

:rofl:

[nichomachus]

21. Worse than Bob Dole

Words I never thought I'd say

[racaulk]

22. Good. His Jack o' Lantern smile gave me the creeps anyway.

:)

[Gregorian]

24. Joe the Bummer.

Thank god! I had a conversation with a very high level friend today, and she isn't doing well. Without Pennsylvania we could be in trouble. And the swing voters are dingbats.


But the one thing she mentioned that has also reverberated in me is that McCain has had the same nonchalant air as did Bush even when he was not winning in 2000 and 2004. He knew the fix would kill the opposition.

So as long as the smile is gone, I can breath again.

What should be an extreme monster of a landslide, is turning out to be a nation relying on swing idiots.

[formercia]

25. Joe the Plumber is AWOL.

I guess the per-diem didn't cover his back parking fines.

[obiwan]

26. He's real good at pounding the podium, though.

Remember podium pounding?

"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

[bluedawg12]

27. Actually: Scowling, the puzzled silence from the audience

washes over him. He raises his arms robotically, a jerky impromptu movement fueled by his rage, fearing the worst has come to pass, that even his base might be deserting him. Et tu morans?

Then, a harsh voice emerges from his scrawny throat, his wife stands dutifully behind him, head darting right and left like a dazed bird alert for a hawk, the silence pushes him to speak, hoarsely he shouts into the lifeless microphone: "I guess Joe isn't with us today.

By royal fiat, in the twillight of his candidacy he be-knights his listless audience with the meangingless phrase, "Well you're ALL Joe the Plumber."

Political movements die with a whimper, not a bang.