In the vice presidential debate months ago -- it just seems that way -- we had Joe Six-Pack.

Now, the country knows Joe Wurzelbacher.

He's the balded plumber in the tight Toledo T-shirt who engaged Barack Obama in a six-minute conversation Sunday about the freshman senator's small-business tax that would hit Joe's about-to-be-business harder. Obama patiently explained how Joe might end up paying more on what he made over $250,000 but that was to help the people who weren't