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Showless Joe? McCain’s Everyman Plumber Misses Morning Event
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ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: Maybe Joe the Plumber was out on a job. But he wasn’t out campaigning with Sen. John McCain Thursday morning.
Joe Wurzelbacher has been a regular part of McCain’s stump speech for the last several weeks, and so anticipation was high this morning in Defiance, Ohio, when McCain seemed set to finally meet his middle class foil.
But when McCain acknowledged him in front of the crowd, Joe was no where to be seen.
Speaking in the western Ohio town of Defiance, McCain was delivering the normal “Joe the Plumber” section of his stump speech, talking about how Joe was able to ask about a question of Sen. Barack Obama that no one had been able to ask.
Then, the moment of anticipation.
“Joe’s with us today. Joe, where are you? Where is Joe?” McCain asked, looking around the audience for Wurzelbacher.
“Is Joe with us today? Joe, I thought you were here today.”
McCain quickly figured a way to recover.
“Well, you’re all Joe the Plumbers!” McCain said, allowing the crowd to break the awkward silence. “So all of you stand up!”
McCain staffers called it a simple mix up, and said that Wurzelbacher will join the campaign at a Thursday evening event.
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Read the following:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/francis-fukuyama-endorses_n_139139.html
and if you disagree, you really need to get your head checked!!!! Yes I know it's from the liberal Huffington Post, but it's the truth and sometimes the truth hurts.
Posted by: jonb2565 | Oct 30, 2008 12:19:21 PM
Maybe Joe got sick of seeing Cindy McCain chewing the inside of her mouth behind John at these rallies. Can John stand by himself on stage??...he always has to have somebody there to lead him on and off I suppose.
Posted by: Trey | Oct 30, 2008 12:19:33 PM
Maybe Joe was busy rearranging the deck chairs.
Posted by: samurai | Oct 30, 2008 12:19:49 PM
Oh Where Oh Where is Joe today, Oh Where Oh Where can he be? hahahahahahahahaha!
Top 10 Reasons for Missing Joe.
10. His boss wanted him back on the job or he's fired.
9. He's out getting his very own $150,000.00 wardrobe.
8. Palin is taking him moose hunting.
7. Todd caught Joe checking out Palin's plumbing.
6. The deal went through him paying $280K for a $100K business.
5. There was a skin head convention in town.
4. Joe is enjoying the State Of Ohio hospitality for working without a State Contractors License.
3. Joe's at the American Idol try-outs.
2. Joe's publicist wants more money for public speaking contract.
1. Joe has finally realized he is screwed under McCain's plan!
Posted by: John Michigan | Oct 30, 2008 12:20:15 PM
Say it ain't so Joe.
Joe, you told us you were a responsible business person.
I guess you're supporting McCain and Palin because they'll bailout your company just like they bailed out the millionaire executives that they want to give real tax breaks to (while they offer us crumbs).
Posted by: Debbie | Oct 30, 2008 12:21:38 PM
JOHN MICHIGAN!!! YOU ARE HILARIOUS!!!
Posted by: jonb2565 | Oct 30, 2008 12:22:10 PM
Even GOP hacks are cringing at that video. Hey McCain in the video you say Joe has done alot for America....what exactly has Joe the fraud done for America?? This will be more fodder for late night comedians.
Posted by: Mike Sk | Oct 30, 2008 12:23:33 PM
A MEDIA CONSULTANT OVER AT FOX 'COVER STORY
Bill Thompson, a pioneer in direct response marketing who advised Perot in his presidential bid
Thompson quote "He needed to make himself look totally white," he said, adding Obama should have acknowledged that even though his skin is slightly darker, he's still a regular human being.
"It's going to come down to whether the average Joe or Jane accepts Barack Obama as an African American or a human being," he said.
WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH HIM?
Posted by: watching | Oct 30, 2008 12:24:45 PM
SNL Is going to have a field day with this!
Posted by: Angie | Oct 30, 2008 12:25:18 PM
No actually he went to Reverend Wrights house for tea and spirited discussion.
Posted by: Hippie Smasher | Oct 30, 2008 12:25:22 PM
FOX NEWS IS RACISIT!!!
Posted by: Angie | Oct 30, 2008 12:26:03 PM
Posted by: samurai | Oct 30, 2008 12:27:51 PM
Jenn rogers is a racist idiot.
Posted by: mike | Oct 30, 2008 12:28:01 PM
McCain,Palin, Plumber. Can the GOP get any dumber?
Posted by: hamishdad | Oct 30, 2008 12:28:36 PM
Has the McCaint campaign bought $150,000 worth of clothes for Joe?
If they haven't its SEXISM!
Posted by: Bill Gates | Oct 30, 2008 12:28:54 PM
Geevil = loser
Posted by: GOP is DOA | Oct 30, 2008 12:28:58 PM
Maybe Joe was out taking his plumber's exam so he could get an actual license.
Posted by: Frank | Oct 30, 2008 12:29:05 PM
Erratic campaign.
Posted by: newz4i | Oct 30, 2008 12:29:26 PM
Fox and Friends interviewed him this morning, and he was supporting McCain and very angry at the over the top investigation into his life, when he was the one approached by Obama while in his own yard.
I think if he was on Fox News this morning, it was a scheduling mix up. Simple - not a snub.
Posted by: Laurie | Oct 30, 2008 12:29:42 PM
Where Joe??
Where Joe??
You want to know where Joe at?
I know where Joe was NOT at.
He was not at consorting with terrorists and mad bombers like Hussein Obama your hero messiaih.
Keep it up msm.
Keep tormenting John McCain.
Just like vietcong did during war.
SHAME!!
Posted by: chas. johnson | Oct 30, 2008 12:29:53 PM
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