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McCain discovers plumber no ordinary Joe ( Media says McCain screws up with Joe the Plumber)
Politico ^ | 10/16/08 8:00 PM EDT | CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & AMIE PARNES |

Posted on 10/16/2008 11:08:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

NEW YORK – John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted.

A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.

McCain likes to say that he isn’t George W. Bush – and in this case of bungled public relations, it is clear he is not. The famously-disciplined Bush campaign operation would likely have found the perfect anonymous citizen to illustrate a policy proposal, rather than spontaneously wrap itself around an unknown entity with so many asterisks.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; amieparnes; antichrist; backlash; carriebudoffbrown; desperation; enemedia; joetheplumber; libpanic; mccain; mediots; obama; panick; pathetic; wurzelbacher
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.

Uhm...Earth to liberals...The man said right up front that he was looking to buy a buisness that would make more than 250K, not that he already was...

Get your facts straight before getting snarky...

21 posted on 10/16/2008 11:25:58 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: ChocChipCookie
Last thing I checked, they did not have a 24/7 Christian Prayer thread over on dastardly, stinking DU for Obama, but instead, their heads were exploding one after the other over this whole JOE THE PLUMBER godsend of a story for the good guy side.

22 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:04 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (RINOs **BETRAY** us, since, if they ever DO take off the gloves vs. the Libs, they do so too late...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.

Joe the Plumber did not say to Obama that he made $250,000.

Joe the Plumber said that he HOPED™ , some day, to own a plumbing business that made him $250,000.

Obama's reply was that such a business owner's earnings would be taken to "spread the wealth".

It does not matter what Joe the Plumber's "personal story" is. He could be a hypothetical person and his hypothetical question would still be valid.

It speaks volumes that the liberal media desperately attacks Joe the Plumber in order to divert attention from Obama's answer to Joe the Plumber's question.

23 posted on 10/16/2008 11:27:39 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Did you see the guy to the camera mans left he had his arms folded and he mouthed some words but I think he called Obama an A Hole.


24 posted on 10/16/2008 11:28:02 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Joe said he wanted to work to buy the business....and was referring to the taxes with his acquired business.

That's exactly what Joe was talking about.  These reporters really, really lack comprehension skills.  Just when you think they can't look more stupid...Dumb asses.

25 posted on 10/16/2008 11:29:01 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Something tells me Brown and Parnes don’t quite get it, Joe is a stand-in for millions of people like him. Trying to fling mud at someone who’s not running for anything only makes you look desperate and petty - although seeing Obamanites in that frame of mind is refreshing.


26 posted on 10/16/2008 11:29:39 PM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

but I thought obama is a christian? after all, he attended the same hate-filled racist church for 20 years


27 posted on 10/16/2008 11:30:20 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Good job, Canada!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Purely Politico pablum.


28 posted on 10/16/2008 11:30:57 PM PDT by afnamvet (COUNTRY FIRST! McCain / Palin 08)
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To: CSI007

Idiot journalists can’t see the forest for the trees. They are stuck on the minutiae of Joe rather than seeing the big picture. They are looking for ANYTHING to undermine the man and are grasping at the weakest of straws. Joe is the perfect metaphor for EVERYMAN who is under the thumb of big government and trying to throw off that shackle — and the ball and chain that O wants to tie us all down with.


29 posted on 10/16/2008 11:31:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Youtube - Obama Attacks Joe the Plumber



Youtube - Joe Biden Insults Joe the Plumber and All Small Business Owners




Youtube - Joe the Plumber - McCain/Palin Ad

Joe the Plumber Interviewed in His Front Yard

LEAVE JOE THE PLUMBER ALONE!!!!LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!!


30 posted on 10/16/2008 11:32:32 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

These stupid a holes don’t get it. This guy wanted to buy his bosses business and he a=was wondering if Obama would raise his taxes after he bought the business! He was setting Obama up but it worked!


31 posted on 10/16/2008 11:33:16 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"It is THE losing issue for them for 2008 and they know it. This is abject desperation."

Exactly!

32 posted on 10/16/2008 11:33:54 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Kickass Conservative

The media is doing this to draw attention TO Joe and AWAY from what Obama said about spreading the wealth around; this is typical rat behavior.... we all need to keep the eye on the real ball here and it is Obama’s comment.


33 posted on 10/16/2008 11:36:02 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: ChocChipCookie
Didn't you hear, it was a setup by the McCain campaign.

John McCain had Sarah Palin sneak into Karl Rove’s office and tap into his computerized mind reading machine to see what street Obama was going to visit. McCain would have done it himself, but we all know he doesn't know how to use a computer.
Anyway,once Sarah got the info, she made a note and hid it inside Trig’s diaper so her Secret Service Detail wouldn't catch on. When John McCain got the note out of Trig’s diaper, he ordered his trusted Butler Alfred to find a mid forties white guy living on that very same street. Alfred went to Joe's house, and using his skills as an amateur Hypnotist, put Joe in a trance and told him what questions to ask Obama. The rest as they say, is history.

34 posted on 10/16/2008 11:36:50 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
In a life or death situation (been there a time or two in my life) who would you want watching your back, a guy like Joe the plumber or the little smirking 0?

Nuff said.

35 posted on 10/16/2008 11:37:10 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin, the official Obama Suckup Team...


36 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:40 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: ari-freedom

Watch his performance at the Al Smith memorial event in New York. He has a hard time with words.


37 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:49 PM PDT by eyedigress ( My first 4 wheeler was on the rocks in Fairbanks)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Let the backlash begin. Joe did nothing wrong and is in fact not running for public office, yet they “vetted” this guy more than they ever did Obama. Americans are going to be outraged at how this guy is treated.

So he really is an average american who’s made a few mistakes.

Go Joe!


38 posted on 10/16/2008 11:38:59 PM PDT by DiogenesLaertius
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To: ari-freedom

bravo!


39 posted on 10/16/2008 11:51:56 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (RINOs **BETRAY** us, since, if they ever DO take off the gloves vs. the Libs, they do so too late...)
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To: goldstategop
Hmmmm ,If the Newslords want to talk back taxes, Let's talk about charlie Rangel and his 30+ large tax bill!!!

What will we hear from the media about charlie?

*crickets*

40 posted on 10/16/2008 11:52:21 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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