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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (141596)	10/17/2008 3:05:02 PM
From: jlallen	20 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

lol What "rage"....you mean disgust at your drivel? Get a clue mooseboy.....no one gives a shit about you and your bile....go pollute elsewhere...dope.

To: Land Shark who wrote (141596)	10/17/2008 3:05:45 PM
From: Celtictrader	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Why is McCain Headed to Defeat? It is Not the Economy, Stupid huffingtonpost.com

To: Land Shark who wrote (141596)	10/17/2008 5:27:08 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Feeling Plumber Fatigue, Media Turn on 'Joe' Like Sarah Palin, it didn't take long for "Joe the Plumber" to go from political sensation to political target. FOXNews.com Friday, October 17, 2008 Joe Wurzelbacher is followed by reporters in Holland, Ohio, on Thursday. (AP Photo) Two nights ago, "Joe the Plumber" was a symbol of the American dream. By Friday morning, you would have thought he was convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Did you know he owes back taxes? Or that he's not actually a licensed plumber? And his first name's not even really Joe, but Samuel? The "shocking" revelations spurred a litany of plumber putdowns in newspapers and liberal blogs across the country. "Looks like there's a crack in Joe the Plumber's story," Democratic activist Bob Mulholland told the San Francisco Chronicle in a story that topped their Web site Friday morning. "Joe the Plumber's story sprang a few leaks," The Associated Press reported. But does it really matter? No, Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher doesn't have a plumbing license, but his employer does. His back taxes total less than $1,200. Not exactly Wesley Snipes. Watch Mike Huckabee interview Wurzelbacher on FOX News Channel Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. The show will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET Sunday. John McCain's campaign argues that Joe the Plumber is still as relevant today as he ever was (meaning, two days ago), and wishes the media would stop hating on him. "The same thing happened with Governor Palin," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds told FOX News. "She was a threat to Barack Obama, and Barack Obama's campaign and his allies in the media attacked her background, attacked her standing -- just like they're doing with an everyday average voter that asked Barack Obama a question." Wurzelbacher was catapulted into the most instant and unexpected kind of stardom after he asked Obama some critical questions about his tax policy in Ohio over the weekend. The video, which included Obama's response -- and now a Republican rallying cry -- that he wants to "spread the wealth around," went viral. McCain took up the cause of Joe at the final presidential debate. The two candidates invoked his name more than two-dozen times, while Joe himself watched in shock. "We've really gotta hand it to Joe," Sarah Palin said at a rally in Ohio Friday. "Somehow he got Barack Obama to finally state his intentions in plain language." But as is the case with many celebrities -- and Wurzelbacher cheekily said he feared becoming another Britney Spears -- his story and relevance was at first heralded, then scrutinized, then neutralized, only on a remarkably accelerated timeline. The opposition research to Joe (it's uncertain when being a voter turned one into the opposition) seemed to begin instantly. Allegations on the Internet range from claims that he is not a registered voter to suspicions that he was a Republican plant to rumors that he's related to notorious banker Charles Keating, namesake of the Keating Five scandal that embroiled McCain in the 1980s. And hats off to the Toledo Blade for digging up his divorce records to find he made $40,000 in 2006, nothing near the $250,000 he hoped to make by one day buying his boss' company and possibly becoming susceptible to Obama's proposed tax increases. Daily Kos called him a "right wing loon." A blog on The Huffington Post pondered him carrying the mantle of the "Angry White Man." At least one Web site used the term "Plumbergate." FOX News contributor Howard Wolfson, former Hillary Clinton spokesman, had at it when Joe the Plumber was broached as a topic on air Friday morning. "He's not a plumber, his name's not Joe and he would actually get a tax cut under Barack Obama," he said. "What it says is that John McCain's campaign didn't vet Joe the Plumber." The Ohio press later reported that Wurzelbacher does appear to be registered to vote -- as a Republican. And the Daily Kos even corrected The Huffington Post's claim that he was related to Charles Keating. The jury's still out on whether he's a GOP spy. Granted, Joe the Plumber didn't do himself any favors when he told CBS News' Katie Couric that Obama gave a "tap dance ... almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr." Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who plans to interview Wurzelbacher on his FOX News show Saturday night, tried to put the plumber phenomenon in perspective. "What he represents is not so much plumbing," Huckabee said. "What he represents is a guy who really just wants the government to leave him alone." If the media are any example, good luck with that, Joe.