Joe upset but McCain won't let go
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| Sun, 10-19-2008 - 3:02pm |
Today in USA Today:
(((NEW YORK (AP) — "Joe the Plumber" is lashing out at the media for analyzing his personal life since he suddenly became a focal point of the presidential race last week.
Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Holland, Ohio, told Mike Huckabee on his Fox News talk show Saturday that he is upset by the attention and has been unable to work with reporters crowded on his front lawn.
"The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America," Wurzelbacher told the former Republican presidential hopeful on his show, Huckabee.)))
But McCain won't stop bringing his name up in his rally's - so how is that helping Joe? Or is he just using him for political gain? So who is using Joe - Obama or McCain?
In the Raliegh News and Observer:
(((In Concord, McCain delivered a 30-minute speech interrupted by chants of "U-S-A, U-S-A!" and a roar at every mention of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He pledged to rein in spending, explore new energy sources and help troubled homeowners by buying up bad mortgages.
He invoked Joe the Plumber nearly a dozen times.
Wurzelbacher, an aspiring small-business owner, had asked Obama on a campaign stop this month whether his tax plan would hurt him. Obama gave a detailed explanation of his proposal and said by giving tax breaks to more people, it would help small business.
"Right now, everybody's so pinched ... ," Obama told him. "And I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
McCain has pounced. His campaign passed out posters that read, "I'm Joe the Plumber" and "Let Joe keep his dough."

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Obama was caught actually saying what he really believes. That was his MISTAKE, not necessarily his "fault". It was also Obama's mistake to do this publicity stunt of canvassing neighborhoods when he was unable to control what the real people of America might ask him with camera's rolling.
I think it is HORRIBLE that the press would go after an ordinary citizen like him just because he dared to ask Obama a tough question that Obama was not able to handle well.
There is NO WAY to twist this somehow into something bad about McCain, no matter how hard you try.
Did you ever stop to think that the reason why Hillary didn't win the nomination was because lots of Democrats couldn't stomach the thought of another Clinton in the White House with all that comes along with that?
He didn't Mock Joe the plumber, he mocked the notion that McCain is fighting for a plumber. I have posted this several times.
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-elpoliticsto/message.asp?webtag=iv-elpoliticsto&msg=17575.72
There is the entire PARAGRAPH from which ONE sentence was plucked and CUT IN HALF, to change it's meaning, and the video of the ENTIRE SPEECH.
A sentence plucked out of a paragraph usually loses it meaning. A sentence cut IN HALF, loses it's meaning even more. The person responsible for putting this HALF SENTECE on you tube INTENTIONALLY did this. Otherwise, they would have NOT been afraid to post the ENTIRE video. It takes quite a trick to cut a SENTENCE in half.
This whole business that Obama mocked the plumber is just a LIE of ommission.
And you complicit in spreading this LIE, because the fact that his sentence was deliberately CUT IN HALF to change it's meaning has been mentioned several times on this board, and you persist in spreading this falsehood.
I personally think that was MOST of the reason.
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