22 November 2008 UTC SJW is of remarkably limited notability outsede of this event to be sure I demur that McCain invented JtP as it is clear that it was an accident of fate when Obama and Joe met The use of a symbol of everyman goes back a long time vide Capra s Meet John Doe etc The article really has several articles entwined quite sloppily 1 Symbols of everyman through the years JtP being only one of them 2 Joe the Plumber as a question of how taxes should be levied whether they should be used to share the wealth and whether the tax rates discourage entrepeneurship This is the campaign issue 3 The investigations of Joe by governmental authorities and the results thereof 4 The life and times of Judge R er SJW Notability in doubt 5 A few hundred thousand words on why a plumber is or is not a plumber 13 44