Joe the plumber has faith

Posted by religion
on January 9, 2009M at 3:41 pm

Tjoetheplumber.jpghe man known to most Americans as “Joe The Plumber” recently talked to an Ohio radio station about his future plans.

Joe, whose last name is Wurzelbacher, made national news during the presidential election campaign when he met then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama who was out campaigning and took issue with Obama’s proposed tax plan. Eventually he became a household name after then-Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought him up during one of the presidential debates.

Wurzelbacher is back in the new. His recent comments were featured as the Religion News Services’s “Quote of the Day” on Thursday.

“Being a Christian, I’m pretty well protected by God. That’s not saying he’s going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance,” he told WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio, about his plans to report from the Middle East for a conservative Christian Web site, www.pjtv.com. The RNS reports that he was quoted by The Washington Post.

Guess the plumber’s 15 minutes of fame just keep getting longer and longer.

(AP PHOTO ABOVE)

Carla Hinton

Religion Editor



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Comments
Comment by K.L. on January 9, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

Jealously is such an ugly thing….

Comment by Tania on January 9, 2009 @ 11:26 pm

But Joe isn’t a plumber, and he owes back taxes and back child support. His name isn’t even Joe, it’s Samuel. Doesn’t his god punish liars? How is his god going to protect him from the law?

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