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Palin Pushes Joe the Plumber
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ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala reports: After saying on Thursday that she had begged her speech writers to not have to talk about “Joe the Plumber” on the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to the Ohio plumber for the third day in a row, pushing his encounter with Sen. Barack Obama to make the case that Obama will “raise taxes and redistribute your hard-earned money.”
“I’ve really gotta hand it to Joe the Plumber over there in Toledo,” Palin said at a rally today in Lancaster, Pa., referring to Joe Wurzelbacher, who was made famous by Sen. John McCain in Wednesday night’s final presidential debate. “Somehow he got Barack Obama to finally state his intentions in really plain language.”
Wurzelbacher had approached Obama during a campaign stop in his neighborhood last week, asking the Democratic presidential nominee how his tax policies would affect him if he purchased a new plumbing business.
“So when he left Joe’s neighborhood in Toledo, our opponent didn’t look real happy. Seems that the staged photo-op there got ruined by a real person’s question,” Palin told a crowd of thousands filling the seats of Lancaster’s Clipper Magazine Stadium. “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.”
“Senator Obama said he’s somebody who wants to spread the wealth, which means, which means he wants government to take your hard-earned money and dole it out however he sees fit,” Palin continued. “Now Joe said to him that sounded like socialism. To me it sounds like real bad medicine for an ailing economy. And whatever you call it, Senator Obama will do to those who want to create jobs what shouldn’t be done, and we’re calling him on it.”
Both Palin and McCain have pushed “Joe the Plumber” in campaign speeches in recent days, using the Ohio man as a metaphor to try to promote their economic policies -- despite the fact that Wurzelbacher may in fact receive a tax cut under Obama’s tax plan.
Palin raised Wurzelbacher at rallies on Thursday in Bangor, Maine, and Elon, N.C., and again Friday at rallies in West Chester, Pa., and Noblesville, Ind., after saying on Thursday that she had “begged” not to have to include Wurzelbacher in her speeches.
“I begged our speech writers, ‘Don’t make me say Joe the Plumber, please, in any speeches.’ And I was asked, ‘Just one time, just at this fundraiser,’” Palin said Thursda night at a private fundraiser in Greensboro, N.C.
Speaking on the baseball field of Atlantic League’s Lancaster Barnstormers, Palin also covered all of her bases when it comes to post-season baseball, calling on the crowd to “step up to the plate” on Election Day, while congratulating the Philadelphia Phillies for making it into the World Series for the first time in 15 years.
“OK, Philly fans, you do know all about turning an underdog into a victor," Palin told the crowd to wild cheers. "May you please help us do that also on Election Day, please.”
In nearly identical language, Palin had promoted as underdogs the Tampa Bay Rays during stops in Florida last week, and the Boston Red Sox in New Hampshire on Wednesday –- two teams currently facing each other in the American League Championship Series.
The Phillies will face either the underdog Red Sox or the underdog Rays in the World Series beginning next Wednesday.
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This woman is like a broken record.. simply repeating whatever card is put in front of her regardless of its validity. It is amazing at how low the bar has been set and that people actually support and encourage this.
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 18, 2008 9:13:08 PM
Obama is pushing fraudulent voters.
Acorn-GATE
Posted by: Vanessa | Oct 18, 2008 9:19:52 PM
Can't Obama go a week with out throwing people he associates with underneath the OBAMA BUS.
RACE CARD
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 18, 2008 9:21:43 PM
Senator Obama said he’s somebody who wants to spread the wealth, which means, which means he wants government to take your hard-earned money and dole it out however he sees fit
Posted by: Concerned American | Oct 18, 2008 9:22:28 PM
Hey Sarah,
See You Next Tuesday
Posted by: mart | Oct 18, 2008 9:23:02 PM
Main Street and Wall Street
Fannie and Freddie
Pallin around with terrorists
A couple of mavericks
Real America
Joe the Plumber
If you are not upset about this VP pick, then you aren't awake.
Posted by: wow? | Oct 18, 2008 9:23:45 PM
She's a ditz.
Posted by: jen | Oct 18, 2008 9:25:43 PM
The socialist programs that Obama suggests are the same type of socialist programs that brought about the economic crisis - one and the same.
Joe the Plumber brought the economic crisis into focus by pointing out that the Obama tax plan to redistribute wealth is the same sort of flawed thinking that brought about the collapse to the loan industry and rolled into Wall Street.
It sounds like a free give away, but it eventually has huge costs to all of us.
Posted by: plumbers | Oct 18, 2008 9:26:40 PM
How many conservative advocates will it take before the GOP rank and file sees this pick is scary?
George Will
Chris Buckley
Peggy Noonan
Kathleen Parker
Christopher Hitchens
Matthew Dowd
Andrew Sullivan
This woman should never be VP of the USA.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:26:44 PM
It was Obama and people like Obama who really cause the financial mess we are in now.
SUING banks and crying racism into giving loans of my money to people (mostly blacks) who could never pay these loans back. They defaulted all at once. Dragging not only the banks down but the whole financial market with it.
THANK YOU OBAMA. You have more ways to destroy the economy still up your RACIST sleeve
The media refuse to report this because most media types are AFFIRMATIVE action class are afraid of the RACE CARD charge
Posted by: wow? | Oct 18, 2008 9:27:37 PM
Wait a minute concerned american, taking our hard earned money and doling it out is whats been going on for ever. Are you awake? Do you think that taxation is some new fangled tool that Obama just though of? Have you read the tax code? Do you know about the loopholes for big business. You dont know what your talking aobut. Go educate yourself on the current tax codes and compare them to both Mccain and Obama plans then tell me who youd vote for. Or is it easier to just believe what you see on the internet?
Posted by: Mart | Oct 18, 2008 9:27:40 PM
Now he's a socialist? Can they even debate without labeling Obama a something'ist'?
How about, here's why his plan won't work? No labels.
Posted by: C'Mon | Oct 18, 2008 9:28:26 PM
If the media did their job instead of being a paid advertisement for Obama. He would of been done the first day.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:29:50 PM
At this point of the game and from what I've read and seen, "anything" the media writes or says has to be suspect.
Come on, "begged her speech writers". Besides the media has hit poor Joe harder than Obama and Biden.
Posted by: Kenny Jones | Oct 18, 2008 9:30:51 PM
The problem is that Obama wants to take your money and create more affirmative action programs.
His idea to make a poor black person rich is to give him your money. YOU SCUM
Posted by: Mart | Oct 18, 2008 9:31:34 PM
I like the person who needs to copy other people's Names instead of debating. That way you'll trick people. Grow up.
Wheels on the Bus 9:29:50 PM is a copycat.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:31:38 PM
Mart 9:31:34 PM copycat name
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:32:33 PM
Obama wishes JOE THE PLUMBER said taking his money and giving it to welfare programs was a FINE and DANDY idea.
Posted by: Mart | Oct 18, 2008 9:33:18 PM
Gee Palin,
Obama had 100,000 supporters at his rally today...
How big was your ANGRY REPUBLICAN MOB? Oh I know how many - Joe the Plumber!
You don't know it yet, but you and your grandpa are done!
See you on Saturday night live tonight, when you bolster your LAUGHINGSTOCK image, Good move!!!
Posted by: Davis | Oct 18, 2008 9:34:26 PM
I just heard the NEWS. Obama has LUNG CANCER.
Will JOE BIDEN be a cancerous lung breath away from the President.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:34:56 PM
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