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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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Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:35:35 PM
What has happened in the last few days is that the Joe the Plumber story has broken through to the economic story.
the liberal give away that caused the Fannie Mae loan disaster, is the same broken thinking in Obama's redistribute the wealth tax system.
All of these plans (most would call them socialist) eventually result in breaking the economy. FDR spoke about not increasing taxes in a recession. It does not take a genius (even one with absolutely no paper trail) to realize these policies eventually stifle the economy and hurt every one.
Posted by: plumbers | Oct 18, 2008 9:35:41 PM
Lets elect Paris Hilton since she can draw 100,000 people.
Obama drew alot of Germans in Germany and blamed the worlds problems on Americans.
Michelle Obama hated America but is worth BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Posted by: Davis | Oct 18, 2008 9:36:39 PM
Hey Sarah, How dare you call yourself a CHRISTIAN and spout such vile lies? If you really believed in GOD you would know that what you are doing is a sin for which you will pay for in the afterlife. Tell the people the truth, that Barack Obama will cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the true elites, the wealthy of this country. Save your soul Sarah and come clean. You are heading for a very hot place one day, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: truthbetold | Oct 18, 2008 9:36:46 PM
Palin looks GREAT!
Posted by: jen | Oct 18, 2008 9:37:08 PM
I drive the Obama BUS and its getting really crowed underneath this bus.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:37:59 PM
Sarah, you are right.
Obama will raise my taxes and the rest of the country.
Keep up the good work!
Posted by: truthbetold | Oct 18, 2008 9:39:02 PM
Obama supports GOD and also supports after birth abortions which entails stabbing a just born baby in the skull and sucking the brains out.
Is Obama a failed after birth ABORTION
Posted by: truthbetold | Oct 18, 2008 9:39:13 PM
Let's ask Mccain about his association with terriost G. Gordon Liddy. Advising to shoot ATF agents in the head because the wear body armour in the Branch Dividian standoff. His breaking in to dems headquarters for Pres. Nixon. That amounts to trying to sercumventing the basic tenent of democracy. He donated $5,000 to Mccain. He held a fundraiser at his home for John Mccain.
Posted by: 08change | Oct 18, 2008 9:39:16 PM
If your even somewhat liberal in your thinking you should watch the 1971 movie called "Punishment Park." It will really show you exactly how far we have not come in this country.
The GOP neo-conservatives who control our country think exactly like the people in this film.....and that is what is really scary - and it is scary to think they will let Obama become President should he win this election.
Posted by: jozy | Oct 18, 2008 9:39:37 PM
plumbers,
Joe the Plumber is so contrived. This lame tactic is working for people already voting Republican. The rest of us see it as a gimmick. Socialist labels are just scare tactics. We just socialized the banking industry after all under a GOP President.
Posted by: gop tactics don't work anymore | Oct 18, 2008 9:40:08 PM
McPoopy Pants and Witless from Wasilla have spent too much time lately in the sewer. That's why they love Joe the Plumber. (Did he actually call Social Security a joke.)
Posted by: B. Bear | Oct 18, 2008 9:40:15 PM
Obama I am so sad. Just heard you have lung cancer.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 18, 2008 9:40:21 PM
So lets lie and raise you taxes under the Obama plan. WE REALLY KNOW THAT OBAMA IS LYING about the tax plan he has
Posted by: gop tactics don't work anymore | Oct 18, 2008 9:41:21 PM
plumbers,
What has really happened to the "Joe the Plumber" story in the last few days is that it has played out and the American people are sick of it...
McCain and Palin using Joe the FAKE Plumber that owes back taxes and really only makes $42,000 a year has become PATHETIC!!
So plumbers, do you really think that old senile fool and his parrot Palin can milk this thing until the election?
I don't think so....
Posted by: Davis | Oct 18, 2008 9:41:22 PM
Complaint Hits Rezko and Obama Land Deal: Fired Official Says Appraisal Replaced
Saturday, October 18, 2008
A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.
In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko's property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document.
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According to the complaint, Mr. Connor reviewed the appraisal of the Rezko property by another firm, Adams Appraisal, which had set the value at $625,000. Mr. Connor's complaint said that he told his bosses in a report that the property had been overvalued by at least $125,000 and that a "reasonable and fair evaluation" should have been no greater than $500,000.
Later, the complaint states, Mr. Connor observed that his lower appraisal was not in the Rezko file and that he notified his supervisors that it had been replaced. He said, according to the complaint, the new file had been reviewed by the FBI and "if the FBI were to ask me about such matters, I would tell them the truth. I never rescinded my original findings."
Critics of Mr. Obama's dealings with Rezko charge that the senator may have gotten a deal on his property purchase, noting that Mrs. Rezko paid the full asking price for her property on an adjacent lot. Both of which were sold by a single seller. Mr. Obama bought his house for $1.65 million - $300,000 below the asking price.
When the property was sold, Mr. Obama knew Rezko was under investigation on fraud charges.
The complaint said the Rezko loan was approved by Mutual Bank President and CEO Amrish Mahajan and others so that Mrs. Rezko could buy a 9,090-square-foot vacant parcel of real estate. It said that in January 2006, Mrs. Rezko and Mr. Obama, along with his wife Michelle, signed an agreement to sell a 10-foot strip of the property to the Obamas. At that point, according to the complaint, Mr. Connor's firm asked him to conduct the reappraisal.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/18/whistleblower-hits-obama-friends-appraisal/
Posted by: LightSeeker | Oct 18, 2008 9:41:29 PM
Obama started his campaign at the Bill Ayers house.
He didn't do enough bombing.
Obama and Ayers are BEST friend!
Posted by: 08change | Oct 18, 2008 9:41:37 PM
Did Obama just crap his pants. His skin is turning brown so he must be full of crap
Posted by: B. Bear | Oct 18, 2008 9:42:10 PM
Obama and his friend will start burning down buildings and bombings when Obama loses.
ThEY been trained by AYERS
Posted by: B. Bear | Oct 18, 2008 9:43:12 PM
NY governor's aide failed to pay taxes for 5 years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/governor_s_aide_taxes_5
Joe the Plumber is right. Obama wants to spread the wealth. After all Obama was a member of the Socialist New Party and personally trained by Marxist sexual pervert Frank Marshall Davis.
Posted by: geevill | Oct 18, 2008 9:43:15 PM
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