For World Series Manager Maddon, 'Joe the Plumber' is family

(NY Times): "But he (Joe Maddon) does follow politics keenly, in particular the hullabaloo over Joe the Plumber and whom he is supposed to represent.....

• (Maddon, NYT): “Joe the Plumber is probably as American as you can possibly be,” he said. “I don’t think Dad (a lifelong plumber) would be offended by it, actually, at all. It would have piqued his interest a bit —

• he would have wondered what they were going to do for Joe the Plumber,

• or what was wrong with Joe the Plumber,

• or how people view Joe the Plumber. He would have been honored by it. He never read into things wrong.”He added: “But for me, to hear that phrase

does indicate hard-working. It indicates honest. It indicates respectful.

• It indicates job well done.”...

Maddon, a blue-collar Pennsylvanian now earning about mid-six-figures in Florida, doesn’t have his dad’s aversion to discussing politics. He is a registered Republican, he said, in large part because

• he believes in “not so much entitlement, but earning it.”"

(How mean-spirited--for a working person). sm (joke) photo by Europeon Pressphoto Agency

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