I agree about the Gibson/Palin interview, that her clip was taken out of context, but she put it in context, right there in the interview.
This clipped half sentence is being spread on the internet, and the Obama haters are not looking to put it into context, and are most likely ignoring any information being posted, that DOES put it into context.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Do you still believe that Obama was mocking the plumber, or now, after at least reading the paragraph this half sentence was plucked from, do you think otherwise ?
After hearing the ENTIRE quote from Palin, I agree that the entire text of what she said is different from the clipped version. It's good that she was given the opportunity to put her words in context.
I put Obama's words in context via your request. Do you think the context changes the meaning of the HALF sentence ?
In fact, Obama did NOT canvas "Joe the Plumber." Wurzelbacher heard Obama was in the neighborhood and sought Obama out - that's why the exchange takes place out on the sidewalk, instead of at a door or in a driveway. This seeking out of the candidates - and the cameras - seems to be what Mr. Wurzelbacher is about. Not that there's anything wrong with that, LOL - just that it wasn't a case of the evil Obama campaign trying to destroy a private individual's life for having the temerity to answer the wrong way when Obama knocked on his door. It just didn't happen that way. And, as others besides myself have already stated earlier, if one repeatedly thrusts ONSELF into the admittedly harsh, take-no-prisoners glare of a Presidential campaign in its closing weeks, one should expect to have oneself subject to the same scrutiny that the candidates and their families and associates have had to endure.
For crying out loud, there is a top-thread right now on this very board, questioning and mocking Michelle Obama's choice of LUNCH one day. Perhaps Mr. Wurzelbacher may not have known what he might be in for if he didn't shun the media after being thrust into it by John McCain at the debate last week....but McCain most certainly knew what kind of scrutiny happens in and around a Presidential campaign. I'd say it was unconscionable of the McCain campaign (or perhaps just McCain himself, who knows whether it was a pre-planned strategy or McCain just shooting from the hip, as he seems to do more and more these days, disturbingly) to choose to re-thrust Joe the Plumber back into the spotlight so vigorously and repeatedly that the entire pundit class was a-twitter about him after the debate....at least without CONTACTING Mr. Wurzelbacher first and asking him if it was OK to use him to represent something McCain wanted to talk about; to give a "human face" to it. If there's blame to be laid here, it's not upon the media, whose job it is during a Presidential campaign to find out as much of the truth as they can and bring it to our attention, and CERTAINLY not Obama, who neither controls the media nor asked them to look into Mr. Wurzelbacher's past, but upon the McCain campaign....and thus, upon John McCain himself.
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I agree about the Gibson/Palin interview, that her clip was taken out of context, but she put it in context, right there in the interview.
This clipped half sentence is being spread on the internet, and the Obama haters are not looking to put it into context, and are most likely ignoring any information being posted, that DOES put it into context.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Do you still believe that Obama was mocking the plumber, or now, after at least reading the paragraph this half sentence was plucked from, do you think otherwise ?
After hearing the ENTIRE quote from Palin, I agree that the entire text of what she said is different from the clipped version. It's good that she was given the opportunity to put her words in context.
I put Obama's words in context via your request. Do you think the context changes the meaning of the HALF sentence ?
Oh, sorry...I was just following your example of using a broad brush....
You didnt read what I wrote.
Well in many areas of the country $250K is middle class.
It's interesting, isn't it, how we never seem to be able to "read correctly" what you wrote.....
In fact, Obama did NOT canvas "Joe the Plumber." Wurzelbacher heard Obama was in the neighborhood and sought Obama out - that's why the exchange takes place out on the sidewalk, instead of at a door or in a driveway. This seeking out of the candidates - and the cameras - seems to be what Mr. Wurzelbacher is about. Not that there's anything wrong with that, LOL - just that it wasn't a case of the evil Obama campaign trying to destroy a private individual's life for having the temerity to answer the wrong way when Obama knocked on his door. It just didn't happen that way. And, as others besides myself have already stated earlier, if one repeatedly thrusts ONSELF into the admittedly harsh, take-no-prisoners glare of a Presidential campaign in its closing weeks, one should expect to have oneself subject to the same scrutiny that the candidates and their families and associates have had to endure.
For crying out loud, there is a top-thread right now on this very board, questioning and mocking Michelle Obama's choice of LUNCH one day. Perhaps Mr. Wurzelbacher may not have known what he might be in for if he didn't shun the media after being thrust into it by John McCain at the debate last week....but McCain most certainly knew what kind of scrutiny happens in and around a Presidential campaign. I'd say it was unconscionable of the McCain campaign (or perhaps just McCain himself, who knows whether it was a pre-planned strategy or McCain just shooting from the hip, as he seems to do more and more these days, disturbingly) to choose to re-thrust Joe the Plumber back into the spotlight so vigorously and repeatedly that the entire pundit class was a-twitter about him after the debate....at least without CONTACTING Mr. Wurzelbacher first and asking him if it was OK to use him to represent something McCain wanted to talk about; to give a "human face" to it. If there's blame to be laid here, it's not upon the media, whose job it is during a Presidential campaign to find out as much of the truth as they can and bring it to our attention, and CERTAINLY not Obama, who neither controls the media nor asked them to look into Mr. Wurzelbacher's past, but upon the McCain campaign....and thus, upon John McCain himself.
OMG how many times do I have to say it?
I said the person who made the video was an idiot .... after saying (this is a paraphrase) somthing like 'ahhh ok, I see'.
In fact, Obama did NOT canvas "Joe the Plumber." Wurzelbacher heard Obama was in the neighborhood and sought Obama out -
where/when/how did I say anything in regards to any of this?
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