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'Joe the Plumber' Stumps for Palin

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October 29, 2008 8:52 PM

ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala reports: For the first time on the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was joined today by Joe Wurzelbacher, now widely known as “Joe the Plumber,” who has become a staple of Palin’s speeches in the final weeks of the election, as the McCain-Palin ticket tries to paint Sen. Barack Obama’s tax policies as a radical attempt to “spread the wealth.”

At a rally at Bowling Green University in Toledo this afternoon, Palin introduced Joe Wurzelbacher -- a Toledo resident made famous during the final presidential debate after John McCain raised his encounter with Obama over his tax policies.

“You know, there’s someone here who really gets it when it comes to this issue. He's a fellow Alaskan, and he's a fellow military man who has served our country proudly,” Palin said, referring to Wurzelbacher’s brief residence outside Fairbanks in the 1990’s. “I'd like you to meet him. Please welcome Joe the Plumber!”’

Wurzelbacher came on stage, wearing jeans and a checkered white shirt, as the crowd roared with applause and cheers, and began chanting “Joe! Joe! Joe!” Wurzelbacher did not speak to the audience, instead standing on stage as Palin continued her standard remarks.

“So Joe, I really got to hand it to you. Somehow Joe was able to get our opponent to finally state his intentions in plain language,” Palin said. “Because of an encounter with Senator Obama, what Joe the Plumber and the rest of us finally found out is that Obama says that he wants to spread the wealth.”

“See, Joe wanted more than just a handshake and a campaign button. Imagine that, he wanted some answers,” Palin said to cheers. “So Joe merely asked our opponent a simple, straightforward question, and he spoke for a lot of Americans. And the Obama campaign did not appreciate that. And since then, they’ve been investigating and attacking our friend Joe the Plumber.”

“I think you can handle it though, Joe,” Palin added, turning to Wurzelbacher. “You look pretty self-sufficient.”

Palin continued on with her standard remarks, wrapping up her section on Wurzelbacher by saying, “I guess if you want to work hard, and you know what hard work feels like, and if you want to get ahead, and if you believe that America is the land of possibilities, and you don't want your dreams dashed by the Obama tax increase plan, and if you don't like the way our opponents have treated a guy who just simply asked a question, then you are Joe the Plumber too, and we're all in this together.”

Wurzelbacher spent yesterday campaigning throughout southwest Ohio for the McCain-Palin ticket, joined by former Ohio congressman and White House budget director Rob Portman.

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-- No wonder we know so little about Sen. Obama. --

Those who don't know simply refuse to look for whatever irrational or intolerant reasons they can cling to in order to preserve their world view. The records are all in the open and free to peruse at your leisure.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste... particularly when they make such great fertilizer for gardens.

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 29, 2008 9:48:58 PM

-- This country will be MISERABLE if he wins, trust me. --

Sure Natasha.. you make such a great argument, how could we not?!?!?

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 29, 2008 9:50:48 PM

joe is a total lazy idiot--that let himself be used by mccain for what seems to all to be some kind of comedy skit.mccain actually thinke we are dumber than he is----

Posted by: rodney | Oct 29, 2008 9:50:48 PM

Update America:

Who is the middle class? Obama cannot answer that question and Obama supports profess to know.

When democratic leaders in congress criticized President Bush's tax cut proposal, they argued that the tax cuts were deeply unfair to the middle class. But who is the middle class?

If you went by opinion polls, just about everybody. In our latest installment in the WKSU series "New Work New Families: America's Juggling Act," Vincent Duffy tries to define the middle class in America...

The National Center for Opinion Research says 36% of people earning less then $15,000 a year call themselves middle class. Among those with incomes between $35,000 and $50,000, half claim to be middle class. And what about those wealthy Americans who earn more than $75,000 a year? 71% of them describe themselves as middle class. They can't all be middle class, but Dr. John Russo with the Center for Working Class studies at Youngstown State University says the responses don't surprise him.

Posted by: Update America | Oct 29, 2008 9:52:27 PM

It's a good idea, both together make one brain. Hey Joe the plant, what about that plumbing business you want to buy ? you have time for this. What a bunch of B.S.

Ex Republican

Posted by: RGeier | Oct 29, 2008 9:53:45 PM

Sarah Palin will destroy the Republican party. How ironic that she claims to be against Obama even though she works every day to make his well-spoken inexperience more attractive than her folksy ignorance. If McCain had chosen someone with gravitas, he might just have won this election against a man with very little experience.

Posted by: Brian | Oct 29, 2008 9:55:27 PM

It is really sad to watch the Republicans push out all the thinkers and limit themselves to the unhinged elements of society. I guess birds of a feather flock together.

Posted by: Truth Matters | Oct 29, 2008 9:56:07 PM

Hey Joe, what are you doing for Palin ? laying pipe ? Joe what you need to do is get your GED and then get your plumbers license.

Ex Republican

Posted by: RGeier | Oct 29, 2008 9:57:41 PM

some very reputable republicans are endorsing obama----they are ashamed of the DUMMY CAMPAIGN.obama workes across the isle and he is not elected yet---the republicans surely know something.

Posted by: rodney | Oct 29, 2008 9:58:10 PM

Update America:

Taking about Obama ethics and observance of the constitution………..

Philip J. Berg is Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as Obama is "NOT" qualified to be President of the United States Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed from Philadelphia Federal Court
For Immediate Release: - 10/25/08 - Contact Info at end.
UPDATE: Ruling attached at end. It's a really poor copy, but it is all we have for the moment. Willl put up a better copy when we get one.
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/25/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he is immediately appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Berg said, "I am totally disappointed by Judge Surrick's decision and, for all citizens of the United States, I am immediately appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. If I don't have standing, if you don't have standing, if your neighbor doesn't have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be President of the United States - the Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world - then who does?
So, anyone can just claim to be eligible for congress or the presidency without having their legal status, age or citizenship questioned.
According to Judge Surrick, we the people have no right to police the eligibility requirements under the U.S. Constitution.
What happened to ‘...Government of the people, by the people, for the people,...’ Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address 1863.
We must legally prevent Obama, the unqualified candidate, from taking the Office of the Presidency of the United States,” Berg said.
Our website obamacrimes.com now has 71.8 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website – and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations.
Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, “we” the people, are heading to a “Constitutional Crisis” if this case is not resolved forthwith.
* * For copies of all Court Pleadings, go to obamacrimes.com

Posted by: Update Amerca | Oct 29, 2008 9:59:28 PM

rgeier----laying pipe--yikes

Posted by: rodney | Oct 29, 2008 9:59:34 PM

-- Who is the middle class? Obama cannot answer that question and Obama supports profess to know. --

Well, according to McCain, it's an individual who makes more than $150,000 a year (where he will get a $500 tax cut). Or families who earn more than $100,000 where they will get a $516 tax cut.. anything below those figures and you will get zip. Unfortunately, the median household income in the US is $46,326. Under Obamas plan, those people would receive somewhere between a $500 and $1024 tax cut.

Bottom line, McCain wants the middle class to pay more in taxes so the wealthy can pay less. Great deal (for the wealthy).

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 29, 2008 10:00:48 PM

Who's paying for "joe the not a plumber" to travel all over the US with the Mccain campaign? Is Joe (Sam) footing the bill? And what about his stupid comment that Obama means "Death to Israel? Even Fox news called him on that one. This guy looks more like a "nazi skinhead" every day...

Posted by: gina51 | Oct 29, 2008 10:01:10 PM

No Socialism in ALASKA. Governor Sarah Palin does not take money for citizen taxpayers and give the money to welfare recipients. She is taking money from profiteering BIG OIL and giving everyone in Alaska extra income.

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So when Obama suggests we increase the tax rate on corporations and give a tax cut to the middle class, THAT's "socialism".

But when Palin increases taxes on corporations and just writes a check to people who did absolutely nothing to earn it, that's different.

Ok. Got it. She's a hypocrite.

Thanks.

Posted by: Really Stupid Logic from the right | Oct 29, 2008 10:01:59 PM

Update America:

Axis Of Bias
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Media: A major newspaper suppresses damning video of Barack Obama partying with pro-terrorism radicals. Meanwhile, Obama punishes news outlets that do their jobs. Fairness Doctrine anyone?

Los Angeles Times owner Sam Zell must have thought of the Chicago Cubs when he OK'd the layoff of 75 editorial employees this week. Zell owns the lovable loser Cubs, who haven't won the World Series in a century, and the liberal media are turning into the Cubs of modern communications.

But news-hungry consumers don't find it lovable when the media elite keep important stories to themselves. John McCain has demanded that the L.A. Times release its videotape of a 2003 farewell party in Chicago at which Obama is said to have grandly toasted guest of honor Rashid Khalidi, the late PLO head Yasser Arafat's spokesman. (Ex-terrorist Bill Ayers may have been there too.)

But the Times apparently doesn't think Americans are entitled to see Obama praising a terrorist mouthpiece before they decide whether to make him president for four years. Similarly, major news outlets buried this week's story of Obama calling for "major redistributive change" in a newly discovered 2001 radio interview.

But if you think we've got an unholy alliance between liberal Democrats in Washington and this country's media elite now, just watch what happens if Obama becomes president with a Democratic Congress — especially if it features a filibuster-proof Senate.

Major Democratic congressional leaders like Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, 2004 presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want the reinstitution of the outdated, pre-Internet "Fairness Doctrine." They want to counter the news revolution in which blogs and talk radio have taken on the Big Three TV networks.
The Obama campaign claims Obama opposes a new Fairness Doctrine, but City Journal editor Brian C. Anderson doesn't think a President Obama would veto such a bill. Moreover, Obama and most Democrats want to impose more "local accountability" on broadcasters, "setting up community boards to make their demands known when station licenses come up for renewal," as Anderson notes.

This measure is "clearly aimed at national syndicators like Clear Channel that offer conservative shows," Anderson says. "It's a Fairness Doctrine by subterfuge." Obama would pair that with relicensing stations every two years instead of the current eight.
We have already seen that Obama's forces have no scruples about punishing media organizations who do not act as disciples of "The One." Newswomen with both WFTV in Orlando, Fla., and the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia dared to ask running mate Joseph Biden about Obama's plans to "spread the wealth," as he infamously told Ohio's Joe the Plumber. The Obama campaign let the journalists know they were now personae non grata.

With both the executive and legislative branches firmly in the power of the most liberal leadership ever — Obama, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — it is naive to think they would not move against those who most threaten their prospects in the midterm elections of 2010. And that is Fox News and conservative talk radio, supported by the blogosphere.

The establishment media and liberal Democrats constitute an axis of bias, arming to threaten the free speech of Americans. George Orwell, call your office.

Posted by: Update America | Oct 29, 2008 10:02:32 PM

She is now being looked at by the state for monies she applied for ,for her kids...OHHHH tahst a mistake too huh????Let her and Joe go off in the sun set together see ya,,,,All the crap she read off her paper today about Obama and the PLO is nothing but BULL from the Mc Cain champaign......

Posted by: NH voter | Oct 29, 2008 10:02:47 PM

YAY PHILS!!!

Posted by: Ed from MA | Oct 29, 2008 10:03:11 PM

-- Philip J. Berg is Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as Obama is "NOT" qualified to be President of the United States Lawsuit --

Yup, thrown out.. read the documents.. Berg used 'evidence' that he obtained from places like "Inside Edition"!!

And how is his lawsuit against the US Government going? You know the one, where he claims they were responsible for 9/11! Naw, he isn't a nut case.. just wants people to think he is :)

Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 29, 2008 10:03:12 PM

A moron introducing a bigger moron..

Just what we need... more hate,fear and division...

Joe the Jerk and Sarah the Slime... now there's a dream ticket we can vote for.

Posted by: lmg | Oct 29, 2008 10:03:59 PM

Good to see that Joe could spare Palin some time in between getting a publicist, hiring a lawyer to get himself a book deal and trying to get a Country and Western record deal. Yeah, real salt of the earth type of guy that Joe. He is the male Sarah Palin... all sound bites and dumber than dirt.

Posted by: FactCheck | Oct 29, 2008 10:04:04 PM

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