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...what future awaits "spread the wealth," a similar bromide uttered by Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber at a rally in Ohio? The history of this expression can also be traced to a movie: Hello, Dolly, released in 1969 and never before now regarded as subversive. But perhaps it deserves a closer look. It starred Barbra Streisand, a notorious Hollywood lefty who also starred in The Way We Were, the 1973 weepie that glamorized frizzy-haired communists and left-wing agitators from New York City and derogated real Americans like handsome blond Robert Redford. In Hello, Dolly, Streisand plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, the Wealth Spreader | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...understanding my argument is to imagine some of the Republican ticket’s policies as catalysts for the creation of art. For example, let’s start with one of the more obvious inspirations: the Iraq War.McCain has made it clear to every Joe-the-Plumber that we will not be sissies in Iraq and won’t go home until we have achieved his vague idea of “victory.” This being so, we could anticipate this war to drag out even further if he won—years, not months. Maybe...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCain as President: Do Fewer Civil Liberties Mean Better Art? | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...remain in the US. Obama’s plans to raise the corporate tax rate would have the opposite effect; businesses would be forced to cut jobs and may choose to leave the US for a nation with lower taxes. Despite his recent rise to fame, Joe the Plumber may only have a future in Calcutta...

Author: By Andrew J. Crutchfield, Peyton R. Miller, and Rachel L. Wagley | Title: Underdog to the Rescue | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...ahead and agree with you on that.' SAMUEL WURZELBACHER, the Ohio resident known as Joe the Plumber, when asked at a rally for John McCain if a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for "the death of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...popular: C Correct: D 4. If McCain can fill one debate with 24 “My friend(s),” and Palin can fill another debate with 6 winks, how long will it take for both of them to fill a debate together? A) Ask Joe the Plumber. B) I don’t know. You know? *wink* C) To infinity... and beyond! D) Too long. E) There is not enough information to answer this question. Most popular: A Correct...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking the SAT...III? | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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