Joe upset but McCain won't let go

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Registered: 10-12-2008
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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Registered: 10-20-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:36pm
But you didn't 'donate' donations imply that you are willing to give something. Your taxes are a lawful obligation. I think that they are actually a way of 'spreading the wealth'. I never thought about it that way before but the op does have a point. That is essentially what we are doing even if we don't like to think of it that way.
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Registered: 10-13-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:43pm

I bet the left thinks John McCain is to blame for that too.


Have you seen any indications that "the left" thinks John McCain is at fault for the wreck you saw, how much did you bet

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-12-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 4:46pm
So you think McCain talking about a man gives the media the right to smear that man?

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 5:23pm

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I agree with you but this is

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 5:29pm
But it was ok to spread the wealth to the wealthiest people, the top 5% wasn't it? They cut back on social programs, they spent billions in Iraq, but that's ok I presume. But just kick the middle class in the gut.
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Registered: 10-12-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 8:25pm

But what you aren't getting is that Obama's plan is going to kill the middle class.

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 8:35pm

I will post this one more time for you since you either ignored this or didn't bother to read or comprehend what the links are saying.


http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=164272,00.html


This basically says that most all are paying Federal tax--- at least SOME


http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=tax_baselessness


This basically says the idea of some not paying any Federal Tax is a conservative myth, wanting us to believe that some don't


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24054024


this says even illegals do indeed pay some Federal tax.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 8:53pm

I realize what the IRS says.

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