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: 04-04-2003
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:43am
I feel for the man....I really do. However, it's my view that McCain is the one keeping his name in the press. I've seen Obama on television answering questions - some of them controversial - from any number of people...but that's always the end of it. If not for the debate (and from the looks of it, subsequent McCain rallies) Joe the Plumber would have been forgotten like all the rest of those other folks.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:47am

as in while many plumbers themselves might not make 250k ... a lot of plumbing companies DO.


So why turn it around to 'how many plumbers you know make a quarter of a mil a year'?


is that what you mean?

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:48am

Is Mike Huckabee part of the "liberal" MSM? Is Fox News?

sure....you can blame the media at large for being partly responsible as they go in quest of "The Next New Thing"....but it's disingenuous to keep on saying it's just the "Liberal" media who is responsible for all this attention.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:50am
Taxes are inevitable. There are taxes under Republicans and taxes under Democrats. What ARE taxes anyway, but a system that "spreads the wealth around"?

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:54am
I do feel for the man, because the media has done nothing but slam this guy.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:55am
Yes, exactly.

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 10:58am

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Really, there's very little twisting going on here compared to the denial I am seeing. What I am finding very telling is that no matter how reasonable some people are in pointing out the obvious, you can't even BRING yourself to admit that McCain was/is even a TINY bit responsible for the high profile way he has put AND continues to keep this man's name (AND his personal story) in the public's attention and on everyone's lips.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 11:00am

If I were an American voting in the primaries, the Clinton name and all the baggage that comes with it would have very much been a factor for me (despite the fact that Hillary ran a very good campaign and was a good candidate).

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Mon, 10-20-2008 - 11:02am
It definitely would have been the BIGGEST consideration for me. Without any shadow of a doubt.

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Mon, 10-20-2008 - 11:03am
I didn't find his behaviour during the primaries towards Hillary was all that bad....At least no worse than hers (AND her husband's) towards him.

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