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Ohio plumber becomes focus of debate [Joe just won the Election for John McCain]
yahoo news ^ | OCT 15 2008 | Deep Con

Posted on 10/15/2008 8:29:25 PM PDT by housedeep

Who is Joe the Plumber?

He is Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business who came to symbolize the notion of "spreading the wealth" in Wednesday night's third and final presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Earlier this week, when Wurzelbacher got a chance to speak with Obama when he visited Toledo, he told Obama that his tax plan would keep him from buying the business that currently employs him.

Sensing an opening in the debate, McCain cited that exchange when the candidates were asked to explain why their economic plans are better than their opponent's. McCain said Obama's plan would stop entrepreneurs from investing in new small businesses and keep existing ones from growing.

"Joe wants to buy the business that he has been in for all of these years, worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes," McCain challenged Obama.

"You were going to put him in a higher tax bracket which was going to increase his taxes, which was going to cause him not to be able to employ people, which Joe was trying to realize the American dream," McCain said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; joetheplumber; maccain; mccainpalin
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This is simply wonderful, and couldn't come at a better time. These types of stories take on a life of their own in middle america: in coffee shops and on lunch breaks. Over the next week we will see much about this young man. We just won.
1 posted on 10/15/2008 8:29:26 PM PDT by housedeep
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This is simply wonderful, and couldn't come at a better time.

bingo!

2 posted on 10/15/2008 8:30:48 PM PDT by Libertarian4Bush (HEY OBAMBI - SARAH PALIN IS MORE OF A MAN THAN YOU ARE, AND MORE WOMAN THAN MICHELLE!)
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To: housedeep

McCain needs to get “Joe The Plumber”, and take him on the road with him.


3 posted on 10/15/2008 8:31:21 PM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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To: housedeep

It’s nice, but I don’t think it will impact the large number of hard-core and soft-core socialists in the United States. They are committed to Oprah’s choice even tough they are unaware of the consequences.


4 posted on 10/15/2008 8:31:37 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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Roger that. I can't imagine how angry and freaked out the left will be come day after the victory of McCain / Palin.
5 posted on 10/15/2008 8:31:37 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: housedeep

Yup. He completely wiped the floor with Obama, though you’d never guess it from the media spin.

My only concern in all this is that Joe may not have wanted his name out there as much as it’s been mentioned.


6 posted on 10/15/2008 8:31:51 PM PDT by TheZMan (barack HUSSEIN obama)
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To: housedeep

this has fascinated me since this morning when i heard rush play it.

agree. definitely a psychological boost for our tribe.


7 posted on 10/15/2008 8:31:53 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: housedeep; RightFighter
RightFighter just posted this on the earlier thread:


8 posted on 10/15/2008 8:32:02 PM PDT by JennysCool (There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the polls.)
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errr... plummer lol


9 posted on 10/15/2008 8:32:04 PM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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10 posted on 10/15/2008 8:32:27 PM PDT by RightFighter (That Sarah Palin. She's so hot right now!)
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To: housedeep

Very powerful moment especially since Drudge leads with Joe as the main story including the video.


11 posted on 10/15/2008 8:32:34 PM PDT by conservativepoet (The chief aim of order within Christianity is to make room for good things to romp and play.)
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The right man at the right time.

“Senator Government” - Make it stick.


12 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:03 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Two things or maybe three things won McCain the election tonight:

1. Joe the Plumber - no doubt.

2. Murtha - his whites in W PA are racist was a setup. Murtha and white PA & Hillary Dems want Obama to lose. The white Dems want the Party back and this is their last chance.

3. McCain - he did a great job. Fox News is pandeirng to Murdoch’s Saudi investors.

There is no more Fox News for me. Trust Rush and probably Drudge followed by Hannity and Savage. I would not be suprised if Hannity goes to CNN. Fox are traitors. Glen Beck and Joe are at CNN. I hate CNN but they could change.


13 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:15 PM PDT by Frantzie
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Could Joe the Plumber save American from the Socialist Abyss?

God truly loves this country. What a gift.


14 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:30 PM PDT by johncocktoasten (Obama/Biden '08, in and of itself, A Bridge To Nowhere)
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"You were going to put him in a higher tax bracket which was going to increase his taxes, which was going to cause him not to be able to employ people, which Joe was trying to realize the American dream"
15 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: KoRn; Admin Moderator

yup... daddy made a typo

moderator please fix for me?


16 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:32 PM PDT by housedeep
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Obama-lama sez: “95% of small businesses make less than $250,000 per years.”

Wanna bet?


17 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:40 PM PDT by Seruzawa (American Government: Providing Middle Class Incomes to Unemployables for Over 200 Years!)
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Send Joe out as Sarah’s opening act.

Todd and Joe will probably be fast friends.


18 posted on 10/15/2008 8:33:51 PM PDT by Loyolas Mattman ("Oh, God Love Ya'...Stand Up for Chuck!!!" - Joe Biden)
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To: housedeep

Amazing. In 2000, Elian Gonzalez gave Dubya the edge in Florida by having every single Cuban come out of the woodwork. In 2008, Joe the Plumber gives it to McCain (assuming he says he’ll vote for McCain).


19 posted on 10/15/2008 8:34:21 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Don't believe the hype. The polls are wrong)
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Sarah will pick up on this and keep carrying it forward against Obama!

Go, McCain-Palin!


20 posted on 10/15/2008 8:34:26 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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