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John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obama’s statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Democrats think their candidate is right, but 78% of Republicans disagree. While Obama was campaigning recently, a plumber’s assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher asked the Democratic presidential nominee a critical question about his tax policy. Obama defended the policy, saying in part, "When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” McCain brought the incident up...

Joe’s question about taxes threw a wrench into Barack Obama’s campaign pitch. So, oh what a background check Joe got. Within days, reports were all over the news that Joe owes back taxes, he doesn’t have an Ohio plumber’s license, his real name is Samuel, and he is — shock and horror — a registered Republican. Within days, Obama and Biden were holding up Joe to [1] public ridicule, and by implication mocking any American working stiff who might have the audacity [2] to want to earn more than $250,000 per year. Obama may be full of talk about delivering the American dream, but he apparently has enormous disdain for Americans who actually sweat to earn it...

I realize it’s all about winning at this point. But someone has to ask: What has happened to the Democratic Party? It seems like just yesterday that the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy was talking about income equality and civil rights and worker protections and going to bat for the little guy, the blue collar laborer, the everyday Joe the Plumber. Now, the well-to-do elites who run the Democratic Party — and their surrogates — greet these people with brickbats. They insult them, talk down to them, and even try to destroy them. Isn’t that the...

You think WE'RE angry about what happened to Joe the Plumber, check out this guy. He nails it. This video should be viral...

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Sarah Palin invoked Joe "the Plumber" once again on Saturday in Pennsylvania, needling Barack Obama for having a “staged photo-op” interrupted by a voter asking him “a simple, a straightforward question” about taxes. “So when he left Joe’s neighborhood in Toledo, our opponent didn’t look real happy,” Palin said of Obama. “Seems that the staged photo-op there got ruined by a real person’s question. So here’s a guy working—standing there in his neighborhood when a candidate for president shows up and he wanted more than just a handshake and a campaign button. He wanted some answers.”...

One week ago, Joe Wurzelbacher was just another working man living in a modest house outside Toledo, Ohio, and thinking about how to buy the plumbing business where he works. But when he stopped Senator Barack Obama during a visit to his block last weekend to complain about taxes, he set himself on a path to becoming America’s newest media celebrity — and as such suddenly found himself facing celebrity-level scrutiny.

I AM - WE ALL ARE JOE THE PLUMBERAS JOE THE PLUMBER SLAMS OBAMA, THE NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS Joe the Plumber was the real winner of the 3rd presidential debate. In less than five minutes on a neighborhood street where Obama came to call, Joe simply asked him a direct question and was able to smoke out Obama on his socialistic, "share the wealth" tax scheme. By extensions, and as a result, McCain and all Americans became winners. But, because Joe the Plumber, a regular every-day Amereican playing catch with his child on a middle class American street, trying...

A lot of people want to know why we shouldn't begin "vetting" the media -- and by "vetting," I do in fact mean vetting. I mean starting a fund to put ***** detectives on them and begin outing them, one by one: In the closet. Hits his wife. ******. Stoned out of his mind on coke half the time. Etc. And to reduce costs, I'm sure some budding citizen journalists-detectives would be wiling to take a night a week following these bastards around, taking pictures. The media's position that Joe the Plumber who merely asked a question must be "vetted"...

Joe the Plumber's' AZ driver license suspended Comments 6 | Recommend 4 Daniel Newhauser, For the Tribune A plumbing license is not the only license "Joe the Plumber" is having troubles with. The former Mesa resident has a suspended driver's license and outstanding court fines in Arizona, according to Mesa Municipal Court records. "Joe," whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was referred to more than 20 times by Republican Sen. John McCain in Wednesday night's presidential debate for questioning Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's tax policy. The man portrayed by McCain to be the typical, hardworking American revealed this week...