Atrocious to Smear a Private Citizen

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Atrocious to Smear a Private Citizen
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Thu, 10-16-2008 - 4:22pm
I think it is atrocious for the press to try to smear a private citizen who merely used his first amendment rights to question a candidate! He didn't ask for all this attention, and he has not stated who he will be voting for, but since John McCain received some points in the debate last night about an exchange "Joe the Plumber" had with Barack Obama the press is out to destroy this man. Good Grief! The man is a plumber! An average citizen. Now the left wing is trying to vilify him like he's George Bush! How HORRIBLE! And the extremists on the left seem to be following in lock step. No compassion for an ordinary man UNLESS he shares their socialist viewpoint. This is about as dirty as it gets!

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-14-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 5:59pm
Uh-huh....

How did you feel about this?

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:01pm
I'm confused. Can you explain what you mean?
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:01pm

I don't think this man's life is fair game to be destroyed...and, as another poster stated, he didn't have to give an interview and the press wouldn't have had a story.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:06pm

It is amazing and utterly frightening that John McCain purposely used this man, a man

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:07pm
Except for the fact that candidates from both sides ALWAYS use the first and last name of the examples of real people that they bring up when debating, and the name of their town. This has been going on for years. Now, suddenly it was MCCAIN'S mistake because he did what every candidate has been doing in debates for generations. That really doesn't fly.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:07pm

Yes, rape them, trash them, blame them, put the IRS on them, and then have their tires slashed.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-28-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:09pm
He is not a victim - no matter how many times you say it!
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:10pm

This is simply terrible, HORRIBLE.


So, write the McCain campaign and ask them to DO THEIR JOB.

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:11pm

>>rape them

Rape them???

Laura

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-16-2008 - 6:14pm

It's a common practice and has been for generations. In the last debate Obama used the first and last name (after checking his cue cards) of a dead soldier. Real people are used in debates ALL THE TIME. That in no way gives the other side the right to SMEAR the ORDINARY PERSON who didn't ask to be brought up AT ALL!

McCain didn't do anything that hasn't been done hundreds of times before. What is unprecedented is the SMEAR of an ordinary citizen because he had the AUDACITY to express his views after being tracked down and asked.

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