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Joe the Plumber was once Joe the Alaskan (are you surprised?)
McClatchy ^

Posted on 10/18/2008 11:20:42 AM PDT by Chet 99

Joe the Plumber was once Joe the Alaskan (are you surprised?)

By Kyle Hopkins | Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE — The star of Wednesday night's presidential debate used to live in Alaska.

And for once we're not talking about Gov. Sarah Palin.

Long before he was "Joe the plumber," Joe Wurzelbacher lived in North Pole and Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks, according to Alaska public records. A family member says Wurzelbacher came to the state in the mid-1990s and stayed about four years — long enough to have the son who can be seen standing next to him in the now famous YouTube clip of Wurzelbacher grilling Sen. Barack Obama about taxes.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: eielsonafb; joetheplumber; wurzelbacher
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1 posted on 10/18/2008 11:20:42 AM PDT by Chet 99
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The (are you surprised?)line is part of the original headline, not my insertion.
2 posted on 10/18/2008 11:21:24 AM PDT by Chet 99 (Vote McCain/Palin, or this will be our future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTb5EFZmgbs)
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So the MSM is trying to say that he was a plant? Somehow McCain/Palin knew in the 1990’s that Obama was going to be on that street a decade later and moved Joe so he could ask Obama the question that is unraveling him?


3 posted on 10/18/2008 11:24:51 AM PDT by Domandred (McWhathisname / Palin - 2008)
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To: Chet 99

Oh boy, here comes the conspiracy freaks.


4 posted on 10/18/2008 11:24:55 AM PDT by SaintDismas (Starting to regret the handle I chose for this forum)
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To: Domandred
"So the MSM is trying to say that he was a plant? Somehow McCain/Palin knew in the 1990’s that Obama was going to be on that street a decade later and moved Joe so he could ask Obama the question that is unraveling him?"

And...McCain/Palin also got Obama to admit that his goal as President was to "spread around everyone's wealth".

This ranks right up there with Rove guiding hurricanes.

5 posted on 10/18/2008 11:26:55 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: Chet 99

So Joe asks Hussein a question and Hussein tells him a socialist answer. What in the world is wrong with that? /s


6 posted on 10/18/2008 11:27:31 AM PDT by eyedigress ( My first 4 wheeler was on the rocks in Fairbanks)
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To: Chet 99

So, now we know that Joe is not his real name, he doesn’t have a plumber’s license, he had his driver’s license suspended in Arizona, he is a registered Republican, he is divorced, and he once lived in Alaska.

We know more about Joe after less than a WEEK than we do about Barack Obama, and Joe isn’t even running for president. He just had the audacity to question the wisdom of Himself’s policy on taxation.

(stepping down off my soapbox now)


7 posted on 10/18/2008 11:27:44 AM PDT by Mrs. P ("Wonder Woman wears Sarah Palin pajamas." - Blood of Tyrants)
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To: Domandred

Its even more fiendish than that. McCain managed, through mind control or who knows, to get Obama to schedule a stop in the neigborhood that McCain moved Joe to, AND, get Obama to pick Joe out and ask Joe to support him. The powers of McCain are astounding. With that kind of power how can he lose? LOL!


8 posted on 10/18/2008 11:29:04 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Chet 99

Yeah, at an Air Force base. So what? Obama lived in Indonesia, attended a madras, sat under the tutelage of Bill Ayers/Saul Alinsky, and he’s denying that he’s Muslim/Socialist. Are you surprised?


9 posted on 10/18/2008 11:29:38 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Rokke
From Caption McCain & Obama at the Waldorf Astoria:


10 posted on 10/18/2008 11:31:02 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: Rokke
Rove guiding hurricanes.

You know he does!!!1! /DUmmie
11 posted on 10/18/2008 11:33:04 AM PDT by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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To: Mrs. P

Well said!! And these revelations makes his question less relevant how? The media creates the frenzy and then falls all over themselves to revel in it. Not one of them is pursing Omessiah and asking him to *answer* Joe’s question.


12 posted on 10/18/2008 11:33:57 AM PDT by Daffynition (The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.)
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To: eyedigress
So Joe asks Hussein a question and Hussein tells him a socialist answer. What in the world is wrong with that? /s

Yep, the sick part of the whole "Joe is not really Joe" crap is that Obama volunteered the answer that got him into hot water. If a reporter had asked the same question and got the same answer would they be attacking the reporter?

Joe pulled Obama's cover and the nutjobs in the liberal world are blaming the messenger as usual and completely ignoring the message.

13 posted on 10/18/2008 11:35:30 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: Mrs. P

Soon we will find out what he eats for breakfast and how that food choice has eroded his mental capacity and that is why he isn’t in love with the great leader and dares question him on the economy./SAR I actually read a quote by some dumb a**ed journalist that the election shouldn’t be about the taxes, it should be about the economy! What the he** does he think taxes are if they are not the economy? Liberals go way beyond being stupid and that goes for any of my friends and acquaintances who are liberal also.


14 posted on 10/18/2008 11:35:33 AM PDT by calex59
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To: HerrBlucher

Yes, and he even made 0bama say “I just want to spread the wealth.”


15 posted on 10/18/2008 11:36:59 AM PDT by YdontUleaveLibs (Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
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To: raybbr
Yep, the sick part of the whole "Joe is not really Joe" crap is that Obama volunteered the answer that got him into hot water. If a reporter had asked the same question and got the same answer would they be attacking the reporter?

Joe pulled Obama's cover and the nutjobs in the liberal world are blaming the messenger as usual and completely ignoring the message.

It's the "spread the wealth" answer, stupid.

16 posted on 10/18/2008 11:41:36 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Chet 99

Kyle Hopkins

http://tinyurl.com/6b8wws

Reporter Kyle Hopkins joined the Daily News in 2005, covering the Mat-Su and then state and local politics.

A graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he’s worked as a business reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as a crime reporter for the Vallejo (Calif.) Times Herald and as a staff writer at the Anchorage Press.

E-mail Kyle: khopkins@adn.com


17 posted on 10/18/2008 11:47:52 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Chet 99

His grade school teacher and probation officer can’t be far behind.

Innie or outie??


18 posted on 10/18/2008 11:54:35 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Chet 99

Wow! When did it become illegal to move from one state to the other? *sarcasm*


19 posted on 10/18/2008 11:59:50 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Chet 99
What? He lived in Alaska OMFG he should be taken out and shot!/sarc

Who gives a s**t if he's "Joe the paid McCain campaign worker" or "Joe the WHATEVER"? Who Joe is has nothing to do with what That One said in response to the question. The MSM and their employer the 0bama campaign are doing a masterful job of deflecting, twisting and spinning. They've changed the narrative to the point where even R.W. radio is taking the bait.

20 posted on 10/18/2008 12:04:23 PM PDT by yooling (The MSM is to Obama as Ron Santo is to the Cubs)
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