On Behalf of Our National Joes

Plumbers disavow Joe
Boston Globe - 1 hour ago
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff Real plumbers don’t like Joe. Or at least the ones supporting Democrat Barack Obama. About 100 union plumbers from a Boston-based local plan to knock on union members’ doors Saturday in Portsmouth, NH, …

It ain’t easy being a Joe.

Names are important, and some names can be murder:

And he said: “Son, this world is rough
And if a man’s gonna make it, he’s gotta be tough
And I knew I wouldn’t be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said goodbye
I knew you’d have to get tough or die
And it’s the name that helped to make you strong.”