November  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 Capras Meet John Doe etc  The article really has several articles entwined quite sloppily  Symbols of everyman through the years JtP being only one of them  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   The investigations of Joe by governmental authorities and the results  thereof   The life and times of Judge R  er SJW  Notability in doubt   A few hundred thousand words on why a plumber is or is not a plumber