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Operation Destroy Joe the Plumber

By Michelle Malkin • October 17, 2008 12:02 AM

Scroll for updates…McCain defends Joe the Plumber…

My syndicated column today reports on Team Obama and the Obamedia’s mission to tear down Joe the Plumber. Yes, we are in the midst of a new contagion: Joe The Plumber Derangement Syndrome. JTPDS.

Now, pay close attention to how the MSM rushes to uncover every last bit of gossip and dirt about Joe Wurzelbacher’s life. Some of it is relevant to the public policy questions he posed to Obama. Much of it is not. Danny Glover notes the behemoth double standards of the media mavens who call it journalism when they investigate, but consider it “stalking” when those of us on the Right perform the same tasks on Democrat poster families:

“The impulse to learn more about Wurzelbacher is perfectly normal. Readers and viewers are no doubt want to know more about the man now that he is all over the news. I know I do. And speaking as a journalist, let me add that reporters should be curious enough to do some basic background research.

But why is it that political reporters only get curious when a conservative Joe America storms onto the scene? Why aren’t they just as curious when liberals trot out, say, a 12-year-old boy to give a national radio address?

It has been almost a year to the day since journalists dropped the ball on telling America more about Graeme Frost, the boy who made the case for sinking billions of dollars more into the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. But when Michelle Malkin and other curious conservative bloggers did the legwork the press wouldn’t, they earned the scorn of their mainstream colleagues.

This time around, with Joe The Plumber as their target, the MSM is coming out with guns blazing. Maybe they should spend more time telling the bigger story about Wurzelbacher — that he managed to get Obama on the public record as favoring a socialistic redistribution of wealth.

As I note below, there’s also a feeding frenzy over Wurzelbacher’s tax lien. Patterico wonders where the media hounds are on the story of Obama’s treasurer’s tax liens. Bet you hadn’t heard about that. Bet you never will again.

Here’s the NYTimes’ latest on Joe vs. Team Obama. Count how many sentences are devoted to Obama’s wealth redistribution remarks and how long it takes before they mention them.

No, they don’t get it.

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The Left declares war on Joe the Plumber
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s number one Ordinary Joe, had no choice. Obama-Biden simply can’t tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.

The Left’s political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life, and predictably wielding the race card once again. It’s standard operating procedure for the Obama thug machine.

Wurzelbacher, in case you’ve been in hibernation, is the small businessman from Ohio who questioned Obama this weekend about his tax plan during a Toledo campaign swing. The revealing exchange was caught on tape and broadcast widely across the Internet and TV airwaves. In response to Joe’s question about why he should be “taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream,” Obama sermonized that Wurzelbacher needed to “spread the wealth around” because “it’s good for everybody.”

John McCain flung that chilling Marxist mantra back in Obama’s face during Wednesday night’s presidential debate and repeatedly cited Joe the Plumber’s plight. Obama squirmed. The dirt-diggers started Googling. And the next morning, six-term Sen. Biden launched the first salvo against the Ohio entrepreneur on NBC’s Today Show, challenging the veracity of his story: “I don’t have any ‘Joe the Plumbers’ in my neighborhood that make $250,000 a year.”

Under an Obama-Biden administration, they’ll make sure no Joe The Plumbers ever earn such a salary. “It’s good for everybody,” don’t you know?

Biden, as is so often the case, twisted the facts about Wurzelbacher. No surprise there. Slick Joe is the one who tells fables about visiting a diner in Delaware that hasn’t been open in years; spins yarns about getting “forced down” in a helicopter over Afghanistan because of perilous conditions that turned out to be weather-related, not al Qaeda-related; and continues to slander the family of the man involved in his wife and daughter’s fatal car accident (crash investigators cleared the now-deceased driver of drunk-driving, despite Biden’s insinuations). But I digress.

Wurzelbacher never claimed to be making $250,000 a year. He told Obama that he might be “getting ready to buy a company that makes about $250,000, $270,000″ a year. His simple point was that Obama’s punitive tax proposals would make it more difficult to realize his dream.

Obama’s followers couldn’t handle the incontrovertible truth. Left-wing blogs immediately went to work, blaring headlines like “Not A Real $250k Plumber!” Next, they falsely accused Wurzelbacher of not being registered to vote (he’s registered in Lucas County, Ohio, and voted as a Republican in this year’s primary).

Next, they called him a liar for identifying himself as undecided. Only registered Democrats and fake Republican tools used in mainstream media stories and YouTube debates are allowed to use that label, you see.

Next, award-winning liberal blogger Joshua Marshall cast Wurzelbacher as some kind of rabid freak for calling Social Security a “joke” – as if no working-class Americans could believe that the federal government’s entitlement programs were a rip-off unless they were bought and paid for by the McCain campaign.

Then, suddenly, the journalists who wouldn’t lift a finger to investigate Barack Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright sprang into action rifling through citizen Joe Wurzelbacher’s tax records. Politico.com reported breathlessly: “Samuel J. Wurzelbacher has a lien placed against him to the tune of $1,182.92. The lien is dated from January of ‘07.” Press outlets probed his divorce records. The local plumbers’ union, which has endorsed Obama, claimed he didn’t do their required apprenticeship work and didn’t have a license to work outside his local township.

Hang him!

After Wurzelbacher told Katie Couric that Obama’s rhetorical tap dance was “almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr.,” the inevitable cries of “bigotry” followed. (There are now tens of thousands of hits on the Internet for “Joe the Plumber racist.”)

Welcome to Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome. If you can’t beat him, smear him. It’s the Obama way.

***

My friend Lorie Byrd was on the very same wavelength. Read her take here.

Update: McCain defends Joe the Plumber.

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#504379

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am, flenser said:

He’s already got people like you.

Shows how well you understand people like us.
#504387

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am, Marshall Russ said:

Obambi’s campaign could not have done something better for McCain if he had conceded the race. By keeping Joe in the news he will become an even bigger cause for the government squashing the working man. The details do not matter only that this American in OHIO(of all states) is getting beat down.
Thank you Obambi.
#504388

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am, Socky said:

What we have here is the Official State Media destroying an ordinary citizen who dared question the One.

And fascist thug enablers like eaglehaslanded playing semantic games while the left declares war on anyone who speaks out.
#504390

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am, fulldroolcup said:

eaglehaslanded wrote, snottily and inaccurately: Ahh, no. You can do plumbing work as an employee of a licensed plumber, but you are not a plumber unless you get a certification.”

I see: I looked up the word “plumber” in the dictionary, and I didn’t see anything about cerfication. Please explain why your definition is dispositive.

“You are defined as a contractor, an employee of the actual plumber.”

See above, wiseass. Please explain why “plumber” is not shorthand for “I do plumbing for a licensed plumber”.

Please further how anyone becomes a plumber. I’ve heard the terms apprentice plumber, trainee plumber , journeyman plumber. “Apprentice plumber” gets 47,000 hits on google.

Why is that?

“You might not like it or think it makes sense, but that’s the way it actually works. I have plumbers in my family.”

And if we think it doesn’t make sense, it’s because it doesn’t make sense — many of these bogus licensing requirements are, again, nothing more than anti-competitive practices.

Essentially you’ve bought into the old guild system, in which guild members get to limit the number of their competitors.

So your “appeal to authority” leaves us flat.

Why you think this makes Joe a liar is beyond most of us. Try injecting some good faith into your arguments next time.
#504392

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am, Judabuggs said:

Hi Eagle,

Thanks for posting my link again. I was afraid it might get lost in the shuffle.

Appreciate it!
#504393

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am, flenser said:

if I do it myself, does that make me a plumber too?

If you do it for a living, yes, it does.

How can a person be as stupid as you?

It’s called “training”.

No, it is not called “training”. It is called “a guild system”. Given your fondness for them, I am guessing you are in one yourself.
#504400

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am, wighttrasch said:

Did anyone see Newt tear Diane Sawyer a new one this morning?
#504401

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am, eaglehaslanded said:

They are not “McCain videos”, which is why McCain has not bought a LICENSE. The linked anti-Obama video was done by an individual.

Reread what I wrote. I said McCain is ALSO doing this. Here’s a copy of a letter his campaign sent YouTube:
http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/mccain-letter-20081013.pdf

He’s using music and news footage without permission. Fox News went after him, for pete’s sake. Again, he and his people need to think about what they are doing. Most news organizations will grant fair use if you ask.
#504403

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

eaglehaslanded said:
….Palin should absolutely do SNL.

Given all the trash talk by them it will be an irrefutable testament to her bravery to go on that show and also be an incredible contrast to Obama who shirks engagements on conservative talk radio shows.

She really is looking to be America’s own ‘Iron Lady’. I hope she gets the chance to field dress a few of them …
#504404

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am, flenser said:

eaglehaslanded is right about one thing. The McCain campaign should copy that linked youtube video and run it in as many states as they can afford to.

All right, eaglehaslanded did not actually say that. But I’m being generous here.
#504405

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am, jangar said:

McCain used to be the media’s darling as well. Losing that support will probably cost him the election. I think he should try to get it back.

Much like trying to get family-friendly tv programming..IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN.

If you cannot understand the culture war we are in, then you’ll believe anything.
#504408

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:12 am, granite said:

Believe me, you should not be surprised.

Actually you’re right and, I’m not. I was just being rhetorical…
#504409

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am, FamilyMan said:

” I’d like the certified guy working” WHO IS A TRAINED TROLL LIKE eaglehaslanded
Please spit on the the troll.
#504411

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:26 am, jangar said:

eaglehaslanded said:
….Palin should absolutely do SNL.

Why would Sarah want to stroll thru that cesspool? It’s not in her character to do what everyone else is doing.
#504413

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am, flenser said:

I said McCain is ALSO doing this. Here’s a copy of a letter his campaign sent YouTube:

I was guessing you were a lawyer, but now I see you are not.

Or at least, not a good one.
#504415

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am, MrVIBEMAN said:

I’m an engineer at a Power Plant.

My job title is Reliability Engineer.

It says Reliability Engineer on my company supplied business card.

That’s the kind of work I do.

Everyone know’s I’m the Reliability Engineer.

I don’t have a ‘PE’ (professional Engineer certification).

I don’t have a 4 year degree.

Does that mean I’m not really an engineer?

I would say Joe is a plumber, just not a ‘licensed’ or ‘certified’ plumber.
#504417

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am, granite said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am, Socky said:

…eaglehaslanded playing semantic games ….

Exactly!

May I add “semantic games” to my list in #156 above?
#504421

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:31 am, Judabuggs said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:19 am, wighttrasch said:
Did anyone see Newt tear Diane Sawyer a new one this morning?

No, I missed that. Is there a link perhaps? (I hope, I hope)
#504423

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am, Baxter Greene said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am, eaglehaslanded said:

Joe must be the perfect example, otherwise why would the media be eating him alive?

If he were perfect, the media couldn’t touch him. That’s my point (again).

Well your point is idiotic (again)

The media goes after whoever is a problem for their ideology or agenda.

Does your parsing of words of whether
Joe is a Plumber or a Contractor change
the fact that Obama wants to take the money that he earns and redistribute it
to people who are not earning it?

If you want to parse words,why don’t you explain how Obama is going to give
“tax rebates” or “cut the taxes” of over
95% of the people in this country when
over 50% don’t even pay into this system.That is not a rebate genius,that
is other peoples wealth redistributed:

Obama’s 95% Illusion
It depends on what the meaning of ‘tax cut’ is.
http://wsj.com/article/SB122385651698727257.html

One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
AP
It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”

Obamanomics Is a Recipe for Recession
By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
July 29, 2008; Page A17
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121728762442091427.html

What if I told you that a prominent global political figure in recent months has proposed: abrogating key features of his government’s contracts with energy companies; unilaterally renegotiating his country’s international economic treaties; dramatically raising marginal tax rates on the “rich” to levels not seen in his country in three decades (which would make them among the highest in the world); and changing his country’s social insurance system into explicit welfare by severing the link between taxes and benefits?

This is a prime example of why your position of Joe not being perfect somehow dis-qualifies him is pathetic.
The media is going out of it’s way to discredit this guy the same way they bend over backwards to spin and defend
Obama’s failings.

Do you call attending a church for 20yrs. that teaches a racist separatist
philosophy which calls for the genocide of the white race if they do not conform to black ideals being “perfect”.

The media did everything they could to
deflect this for Obama,excusing it as “guilt by association”instead of holding
him responsible for showing either incredibly bad judgment or supporting a
racist philosophy.

The same has been done with his ties to
Acorn,ties to a domestic terrorist Ayers,his ties to Johnson and Raines in
the Fannie/Freddie debacle.

Nothing to see here!
Just a distraction!

But Obama walks up on a hard working
middle class guy and gets called out on
his tax policy and he gets the shake down because he has a tax lien and no license.

According to liberals:
It’s okay to do fund raisers and work on boards wasting over 100 million dollars with domestic terrorist.

It’s okay to reside in a racist church
for over 20 yrs.

It’s okay to give over $800,000,work side by side with and represent as a lawyer a group that has and is committing voter fraud on a national scale.

It’s okay to be in the pocket and have people work for your campaign that are responsible for the worst mortgage failure in our history.

But don’t you dare try to make a living
doing plumbing work without a license and get behind on your taxes,that’s crossing the line.
#504425

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am, flenser said:

MICKEY KAUS: “If even John McCain’s lifelong (and only temporarily suspended) campaign for legalization doesn’t get him much support among Hispanics–who currently seem to prefer Obama 2-to-1–will Republicans in general finally give up on the cynical Rovian dream of using immigration liberalization to win over that growing ethnic group?”

Ah, if only!

But I’m not sure the party leadership ever wanted amnesty for that reason anyway. I almost hope they didn’t, since that would demonstrate a shocking degree of political ignorance. Hispanics don’t care about amnesty.
#504430

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am, longbow said:

Attacking the messenger is a sign of desperation and dishonesty and in no way invalidates Joe’s point about taxes and Obama’s desire to confiscate and redistribute wealth.

I don’t understand the arguments about whether Joe is a plumber or not – generally in the trades if one does the work of a carpenter, a drywall hanger, a mechanic, a plumber, etc. etc. then that’s what they are. Licensing requirements vary from place to place, and licensing is not necessarily any indication of competence – or honesty.

The prime example, of course, is “journalist” – any idiot can call himself one (and many do) and yet they have no license, no competence and no honesty.
#504432

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:35 am, jangar said:

These are stink bombs for the sole purpose of getting the right fired up so he can cruise over to some lib blog and say “look how angry and defensive the far right get when exposed”.

Going to work…have a great day y’all!
#504437

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:38 am, eaglehaslanded said:

Why would Sarah want to stroll thru that cesspool? It’s not in her character to do what everyone else is doing.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/16/palin.snl/

Betcha her approval ratings go up as a result.
#504444

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am, Digshot said:

Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving. You people really do love her, don’t you? She’s the future of the Republican party? Are you serious?

Maybe there is a God.
#504447

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am, eaglehaslanded said:

The media is going out of it’s (sic) way to discredit this guy the same way they bend over backwards to spin and defend Obama’s failings.

Yep. And what should McCain do as a result?
#504448

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:42 am, Salt said:

This argument is ridiculous.

Did Joe call himself a plumber? Or was that just the moniker that Sen. McCain gave him?

What does it matter?

Vince Squillace, executive vice president of the HBA of Ohio in Columbus, suggests that Wurzelbacher might actually be licensed within the context of state and local building statutes and not know it.

Squillace told BUILDER this afternoon that contractor licensing laws in Ohio “are not that tough.” Most plumbing contractors are registered with state and local agencies to do both commercial and residential work. And if Wurzelbacher were hired as a “laborer,” then he would be allowed to install plumbing mechanicals and fixtures under the company’s license as long has he’s supervised by another company employee, Squillace explains.

So while Wurzelbacher may not have passed any tests that would certify his individual status as a registered and licensed plumber, Squillace believes that he is probably working legally

Now, if only the media would spend half the effort they have on Joe W. on one Senator Barack Obama, we might actually have gotten his socialist ideas on spreading on wealth much sooner than 20 some days before the election.

That, folks, is the real problem here. A media so far in the tank that they will land hundreds of investigators in Wasilla to look for dirt and investigate the heck out of a hard working man in Ohio. Meanwhile the gaffe-master Sen. Biden goes completely unscathed and gets plenty of time on air to attack an American voter.

Why?

Because he dared to ask a question that they would not and because Obama completely botched his typical cover up of his world view.
#504451

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:43 am, franksalterego said:

Did anyone, besides me, notice in the Al Smith get-together last night, Obama’s collar was two sizes too big?
#504454

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am, franksalterego said:

Or, p’haps, his neck is two sizes too small.
#504456

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:52 am, vickisoup said:
Poor Joe W.
This chilling crucifixion of a man for simply daring to ask Obama a very good question should scare the snot out of every one of us, considering that he could actually become President.
Lord have mercy.
PS: Let’s all pitch in and take care of Joe’s tax lien, shall we?
How do we reach him and how do we make the contribution? I’m in for the first $5. Care to join me?

I’m IN!!! This man deserves our help and our gratitude. New slogan…”Don’t mess with plumbers!”
#504468

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:51 am, Baxter Greene said:

According to Ohio law,Joe can work as a plumber:

Ohio’s License Requirements for Plumbers Allow Joe the Plumber to Work

http://www.blogsforjohnmccain.com/ohios-license-requirements-plumbers-allow-joe-plumber-work
UPDATE:Under Ohio law as of February 2008 a “helper” or “tradesman” is not required to maintain a license if he/she works for a licensed contractor. The legislation is a little muddy as it was introduced to include elevator contractors but ,if I am reading this correctly, Joe the Plumber qualifies as a “helper” working for a licensed Plumbling Contractor.

What I care about when someone works on
my home,is that they know what they are
doing.I seriously doubt that eagleboy here checks to make sure that everybody who is working is properly licensed.
If you can fix my plumbing the right way with a competitive price,then we have a deal.It is hilarious to watch the
same people who want to give illegals the right to vote and do whatever work they want in this country become so concerned with following the law and paperwork all of a sudden.

But if not following the rules is the problem (like not paying your taxes)then
when is the media going to get out of
Joe’s trash can and confront this:

Hey!!

Guess who else has tax liens against
them:OBAMA’S TREASURER

Name: MARTIN H. NESBITT
Date of Birth: 11/29/1962

SACRAMENTO COUNTY COURT

DEBTOR: NESBITT,MARTIN H

ADDRESS: 4820 S WOODLAWN AV
CHICAGO, IL 60615

http://webofdeception.com/obama.html#nesbitt
CREDITOR: STATE OF CALIFORNIA

AMOUNT: $ 2,411

NUMBER: 200712040848

TYPE: STATE TAX LIEN

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-basketball4-2008oct04,0,6611305.story

Regulars include Love, King and Arne Duncan, chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, who played professionally in Australia. Marty Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama’s campaign, often plays,
(via Patterico)

Or how about the Head of the Ways and Means committee:

Rangel’s Tripping
http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2008/09/rangels-tripping.html

Where to begin with the mess that is Rep. Charles Rangel’s financial and ethical morass? The Harlem democrat keeps finding himself on the wrong side of ethical and legal quandaries.
His blunders keep adding up, and they’re all on one side of the ledger – shorting the taxpayers by not paying his fair share of income or taking advantage of programs meant for low and moderate income families.

As always, follow the money.

STEP DOWN, CHARLIE
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/postopinion/editorials/step_down__charlie_129514.htm
September 17, 2008 —

Charlie Rangel must be a centipede – given how many shoes have been dropping regarding his personal finances.

Joe the plumber is getting 10 times the
shakedown then Obama and his democratic buddies are getting.
But according to super smart eagleboy,this is how it goes.
#504472

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am, flenser said:

The media is going out of it’s (sic) way to discredit this guy the same way they bend over backwards to spin and defend Obama’s failings.

Yep. And what should McCain do as a result?

According to you, he should suck up to the media.

Which displays your absolute cluenessness about what’s going on. McCain never stopped sucking up to the media.
#504475

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am, L.N. Smithee said:

eaglehaslanded wrote:

These are the facts:

1. His name isn’t Joe, it’s Sam.

I’m guessing that his middle initial, J., stands for “Joseph.” If not, BFD, he goes by “Joe.”

I’ll start calling him “Sam” when Barack quits wetting his panties over someone calling him by his birth name.
#504476

On October 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am, 30 pcs of silver said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 9:46 am, Digshot said:
The ‘derangement syndrome’ has run its course, hasn’t it? Are you going to be using that same line in 20 years?

“Spread the wealth around.”
#504500

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:03 am, sambo said:

Lets see…
MSM hears rumor of un identified person yelling ‘kill him’ at McCain/Palin rally. Investigate? noooooo! Repeat rumor 24/7.

MSM heres Obama himself admit he’s a socialist. Investigate Obama’s past socialist ties? nooooo! Investigate the questioners past.

We need to hit these guys where it hurts!!!
#504512

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:06 am, Milwaukee Mike said:

I was not aware that Socialist/Communist/Marxist/etc. were a race of people.

I guess I’m a racist too!
#504521

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:09 am, wighttrasch said:

Judabuggs; I think one messes w/Newt at their own peril sometimes. Diane thought she could get a dig in under the guise of ‘fairness’, and let’s say Newt didn’t suffer the fool gladly. The video should show the interchange around 1:50…

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6055909
#504526

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:06 am, emjem24 said:

Comment #25…WOW! Well said!!
#504548

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:42 am, ITookTheRedPill said:
Those who can’t handle the truth,
try to silence those who speak it

A great bumper sticker idea!!
#504556

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am, Baxter Greene said:

It’s not about what McCain should do.McCain has called Obama out
many times.

Obama was going to join McCain on campaign finance reform,then broke his promise to follow the money.

Obama said the surge would be a failure.Now says he has superior judgment because looking back at the “un-believable success” of the surge,he
still would not vote for it.

Obama and his liberal base called the NSA wiretapping against the law with many democrats calling for Bush’s impeachment.
Obama votes for it,even giving the telecoms immunity,and all of a sudden
there is NO PROBLEM.

This is just a few of many that the press and democrats chose to defend,spin,or ignore in defense of their failed community organizer whose greatest accomplishment is writing 2 books about himself.
This is a good evaluation of the democratic party of “The peoples temple
of Obama”:

Is This What It Means To Be An Obama “Progressive?”
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 04:05:15 PM EST
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/8/13/17515/4808

But a new breed of Democrat and “progressive” is emerging. Glenn’s Greenwald’s interview with Mort Halperin allows us to coin a new phrase – a Halperin “Progressive.” What is a “Halperin” progressive? One who decides what the right position is for progressives based on what Barack Obama does.

What is McCain going to do,how about what are liberals and their activist friends in the media that are always talking about “getting to the truth”
and how morally and intellectually superior they are going to do.
Because all they have shown is that they are willing to lose wars and destroy anybody or support any lie to further their political agenda.

Obama’s propaganda on his “tax cuts”
is out there for all to see,but the democratic activists that call themselves journalist are much more concerned with getting their hero elected then telling the truth.
Joe the plumber has done a better job
of exposing Obama and his cultist and the media is doing everything it can to destroy him for it.
I am sure Fidel and Hugo are very proud of them:
Searching for Obama’s 95 Percent

Posted by Philip Klein on 10.16.08 @ 8:23AM
http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/10/16/searching-for-obamas-95-percen

HEMPSTEAD. N.Y. — “We are going to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans,” Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, said in the spin room here at Hofstra University following the final debate of the 2008 presidential election.

Plouffe was repeating one of the boldest claims made by the Obama campaign. It’s a claim that the Wall Street Journal editorial board dubbed “Obama’s 95% Illusion,” noting that more than a third of Americans don’t pay any income taxes, and that what Obama’s plan does do is offer a raft of subsidies and government payments to individuals and families that he redefines as “tax cuts.” His proposal looks more like a redistribution scheme than an honest effort to reduce taxes — as he revealed on Monday when he told a now famous Ohio plumber that his plan aimed to “spread the wealth around.”

Tax cuts my A$$
#504558

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am, almiller said:

Remember the Hans Christian Anderson story The Emperor’s New Clothes. Everyone thinks that it ends with the Emperor’ em-BARE-ASS-ment and the unscrupulous tailors’ escape. But that isn’t the real ending. The Emperor’s sycophantic catamites (the press) ran the little boy down and stomped him to death. And so it is with Joe the Plumber.
#504583

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am, vickisoup said:

So BO can’t handle Joe the Plumber’s question without turning his attack mongrels on the poor guy, but he wants to be the leader of the free world where sitting down and talking with people who disagree with his policies will be a daily event. And those are other Americans. What about leaders of foreign and enemy countries??
Uh….I’m having a hard time reconciling that one.
Let’s talk about that.
#504590

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am, Jarhead said:

He’s already got people like you. But he needs people not like you as well if he’s going to win.

I think people who are undecided up to now who are still on the fence, may just vote for McCain. After seeing what the MSM, Obama & “Barak’s has a three letter word J-O-B-S.” Biden, are doing to an american citizen for asking a question will most like turn them off to Obama/Biden. Why you may ask?

They can do that BS to each other but when you go after an American Citizen for asking a legitmate question that will impact our lives for years to come IMHP is off limits. Remember they work for us, we DO NOT work for them. We are the Bosses conducting the interview not the other way around. I am getting hot about this topic so I will stop by saying God Bless Joe the Plumber for asking one of the qustions the Obama media is un willing to ask the F’n False Prophet.
#504596

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am, Jarhead said:

Oh one more thing, if someone is in one of these rope lines when Joe Biden comes along. You may want ask him if he knows the way to “Sesame Street”.
#504598

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am, docjohn52 said:
I met Ronald Reagan as a child, um… 17, Military School in Cal., security guards chased us (20 or so, summer school tour), around the Sacremento capital building before finding me, and making me take my shoes off. It seems the taps I was wearing on my shoes were tearing up the marble floors.

I shook his hand with my shoes in my left hand, apologizing, and he said, “We salute you sir!” he leaned down, “Don’t worry, someone will fix it.”

I wish he were here now…

This post literally made me cry. Where is our Ronald Reagan today? When you quoted, “Don’t worry, someone will fix it”, I remembered my Mother who died a year ago. “Don’t worry”, she would tell me, “We can fix it”. Very soothing words and we believed Reagan, just like I believed my Mother, because the words were true. Who can we believe today? Thank God for people like you posters who still see the truth. Thank God for Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc. etc. who are our voices. Keep them all in your prayers every day, because they are the ones who are working hard to fix it!
#504615

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am, eaglehaslanded said:

All wrong, as usual. But don’t let the truth get in the way. Geez.
#504627

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am, eaglehaslanded said: Find someone pure as the driven snow instead.

Re: Comment Number 89…RAAAAAAACIST ALERT! Snow is white. I should know. I live in Minnesnowduh. Take it back, you bigot. Now, I will stop feeding the troll.
#504636

On October 17th, 2008 at 11:54 am, Jarhead said:

When Joe does make his way to “Seasame Street” after he its at Katies. He may want look in on the Count and spell out for the Count the word J-O-B-S.

Now using Counts voice:

(Biden saying the letters)
J- The letter J, boys and girls That is one Letter.

O- That is two letters we now have Two letters boys and girls.(Holding up two fingers)

B- That is Bee as in Boat.

S – That is Four Letters

(CAMERA PANS to Biden: looking in the camera like a deer in headlights. CAMERA PANS back on count)
We have four letters, which gives us the word jobs boy and girls. Jobs are what mom and dad do so you can have things.
#504665

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Mercy4Me said:

I sent a check so that Joe can handle anything that the MSM throws at him, I suggest you do the same. Help a brother out!

Newell Plumbing
c/o Joe Wurzelbacher
5665 Cowan Street
Toledo, Oh. 43613-2071
#504673

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

Obama parody, to the tune of Turn The Beat Around by Gloria Estefan:
Spread the Wealth Around
#504681

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm, deadeye said:

What’s the big deal about Joe the Plumber’s private life? Isn’t the whole idea that The One told him, on camera, that we need to “spread the wealth”?
Marxism is running rampant in the Democrat Party.
#504699

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:14 pm, greenfairie said:

I’m not surprised. This is what the Left does; it destroys anyone who gets in its way. It would do the same to any one of us.

The irony is, Joe didn’t really do anything. He could’ve been a plant or a Freeper and it wouldn’t have mattered. OBAMA was the one who tripped himself up. He was the one who said “spread the wealth around.” He basically dropped pretense at being centrist and TOLD THE TRUTH. And it’s what we’ve known about him all along: the guy wants to take from the productive and give to the lazy, the potheads, and anyone else who feels entitled to our money in order to secure their votes. He wants to make that entitlement class bigger because they’ll vote for Satan himself if he promises to keep the bennies coming.

Don’t blame Joe, Lefties. Blame your Messiah for slipping up.
#504707

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm, deadeye said:

Marxism is running rampant in the Democrat Party.

Socialists and Communists vs. Conservatives
#504776

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm, flmom said:

The MSM may have over-played their hand with the smearing of Joe the Plumber. Joe is everyman, he represents the core of America, The treatment he has received has got to turn off those ordinary Americans who are undecided right now. I know I am, although I am not a fence-sitter, this has set my decision in stone.
#504800

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm, Me said:

I see- legitimate points don’t belong in the Obama campaign.
Check.
If taxation of success is the American way (according to Obama), then good-bye to the American dream.
#504835

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Mercy4Me said:
I sent a check so that Joe can handle anything that the MSM throws at him, I suggest you do the same. Help a brother out!

Newell Plumbing
c/o Joe Wurzelbacher
5665 Cowan Street
Toledo, Oh. 43613-2071

My check will be on the way…are you absolutely certain about the address? Just want to double check before I mail it. We ALL need to support Joe and get his tax lein paid. Otherwise, I am afraid he will be hounded until he loses his house.
#504843

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm, flmom said:

The MSM may have over-played their hand with the smearing of Joe the Plumber. Joe is everyman, he represents the core of America, The treatment he has received has got to turn off those ordinary Americans who are undecided right now.

The same exact thing is true about how the MSM has treated Sarah Palin, and the consequences of their doing so.

The Democratic Socialists are NOT the party of “the little guy”. Republicans are.
#504850

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm, Bulldogger said:

BO on Fox news just slammed Joe again at his ralley, BO laughs at Joe and then says.

Gee Joe, hows business?

Then the crowd starts laughing.
#504857

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

Gee Joe, hows business?

Spoken like a true Chicago thug.
#504858

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm, flmom said:

I agree, ITTRP, but Sarah Palin is a Governor, Joe the Plumber is not seeking office. He’s just your average Joe, there are many ‘little people’ out there who can relate to him.
#504873

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm, Bulldogger said:
BO on Fox news just slammed Joe again at his ralley, BO laughs at Joe and then says.

Gee Joe, hows business?
Then the crowd starts laughing.

Are you kidding me??? I hope that is on video and is replayed everywhere. That is SO BENEATH a man who would be President of all the people. He really showed his true colors with that kind of smug, elitist put-down of a middle American hard-working man!! I do believe this kind of stuff will end up being the October Surprise…Obama crashing and burning by his own words. “Just words”, Obama? Keep those words coming, you dolt.
#504879

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:22 pm, happyscrapper said:

Wait a minute…could that remark by Obama be taken as a threat??? I didn’t hear it, as I turn off the TV when Obama speaks. But did it sound like maybe he was suggesting that Joe’s plumbing business could be “hurt”?
#504883

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:23 pm, happyscrapper said:

If anything happens to Joe’s place of business, this is going to come back to bite Obama in the a$$.
#504891

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm, Socky said:

Puffington Host: Joe Wurzelbacher is a “parasitic leech.”
#504897

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:29 pm, Bulldogger said:

It’s official Joe is now has no job!

Oppose Obama and Lose Your Job? Joe the Plumber Gets Threatened By Toledo Officials

By: Hank
10:28 PM – Link this post

The National Journal reports that Toledo, Ohio, officials plan to notify “Joe the Plumber” Worzelbacher that he’s out of work, following his televised criticism of Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s tax plan:

A staff person with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection told On Call this afternoon that her division will contact Wurzelbacher to notify him that he can’t work without a license.

“We’re trying to track him down,” she said.

In the meantime, the Democrat-friendly local plumbers’ union is fuming.

“He has no license whatsoever with the city of Toledo,” said Tom Joseph, the business manager for Local Union 50 of the Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics, which has endorsed Obama. “He has no license in the state of Ohio. He has no contractor’s license in the state of Ohio. He is not a plumber. He works for a plumber.”

Freedom of speech is recognized as an inalienable right of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Apparently, no one bothered to tell Obama’s supporters that.

http://www.federalreview.com/2008/10/oppose-obama-and-lose-your-job-joe.htm
#504906

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm, Bulldogger said:

Sorry should read It’s official Joe now has no Job. I don’t know about you but I am even more pissed about this than the amnesty deal last year and that’s about as pissed as anyone can get.
#504920

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, nativeaz08 said:

OT: Anyone in Colorado? Or anywhere willing to help defeat Obama and ACORN?

The McCain-Palin campaign is asking for phone bank volunteers for their Super Saturday push. The phone bank push is happening at all the McCain-Palin campaign offices in Colorado (and I believe nationwide, so if you’re not from Colorado contact your local office). Jack DuBois of the Centennial office says that the main push will be from the Centennial phone bank, and they are planning McCain-Palin merchandise giveaways and are giving away VIP tickets to upcoming Palin events. Sarah Palin will be back in Colorado on Monday, with appearances currently scheduled for Colorado Springs and Loveland. Tickets for these appearances are also available at the Centennial office.

To sign up for the Centennial phone bank, you can RSVP by emailing Jack Dubois at jdubois(at)mccain08hq(dot)com or call 303-952-4674. The shifts are in three hour blocks from 9 am to 9 pm. The shifts currently most needed are late afternoon and evening, but all shifts still have plenty of slots. The goal is 100,000 calls statewide by the end of the day.
#504923

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm, shanimal said:

OT: 2 healthy male Obama supporters beaten down by granma at Palin Laconis NH rally. Yes, this is what the Boston Globe and MSNBC want you to believe. Olbermann lead with this story last night on Countdown. I don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to see that the real story is 2 guys getting thier 15 minutes of fame. Facts be damned, the Boston Globe doesn’t need facts when bashing Palin…

http://multimedia.boston.com/pub/tn/15/politics.htm?bctid=1859060243
#504928

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Freedom of speech is recognized as an inalienable right of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Apparently, no one bothered to tell Obama’s supporters that.

They don’t believe in it.
#504929

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:41 pm, flmom said:

Bulldogger

We should do what we did during the amnesty deal, flood them with e-mails and phone calls of protest and spread this as far as we can. This should outrage everyone, we are all Joe the Plumber.
#504931

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm, AlohaGuy said:

So BO can’t handle Joe the Plumber’s question without turning his attack mongrels on the poor guy, but he wants to be the leader of the free world where sitting down and talking with people who disagree with his policies will be a daily event.

No, he’ll be sitting down with people who do agree with his policies – Chavez, Dinnerjacket, Putin…
#504948

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm, DagneyT said:

And speaking as a journalist, let me add that reporters should be curious enough to do some basic background research.

What a joke! They ignore any information about Barry Oblabla, but they want to learned about the background of…who? The guy who brought their boy Barry DOWN?
#504957

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm, Bulldogger said:

Those 30 investigators in AK are now headed to OH you can be sure of that.
BTW there are some blogs now calling for action to defend Joe.
#504973

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:00 pm, Bulldogger said:

Drudge just posted this.

ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today delivered the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the McCain-Palin 2008 rally in Miami, FL, at 1:15 p.m. ET:

It’s great to be here in Miami. Florida is a must-win state on November 4th, and with your help, we’re going to win Florida, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week. You may have noticed– there was a lot of talk about Senator Obama’s tax increases and Joe the Plumber. Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe’s driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I’m glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions.

The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn’t recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.

The question Joe asked about our economy is important, because Senator Obama’s plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million Americans. Senator Obama’s plan will kill those jobs at just the time when we need to be creating more jobs. My plan will create jobs, and that’s what America needs.

Senator Obama says that he wanted to spread your wealth around. When politicians talk about taking your money and spreading it around, you’d better hold onto your wallet. Senator Obama claims that wants to give a tax break to the middle class, but not only did he vote for higher taxes on the middle class in the Senate, his plan gives away your tax dollars to those who don’t pay taxes.

That’s not a tax cut, that’s welfare. America didn’t become the greatest nation on earth by redistributing wealth; we became the greatest nation by creating new wealth.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1mm.htm
#504989

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

Serve His Oneship and only his Oneship–resistance is futile–submit to the Obamanation. Twelve years old? Twelve year olds were sent to a gold mine in Papa Stalin’s gulag. Almost prophetic isn’t it? They ARE coming for your children. A friend of mine in the Right-Wing-Gun Nut-Circle-That Every Man Be Armed
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right

By Melissa DiPane
FOX 35 NEWS

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — She’s only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this election year.

That’s because the seventh grader at New Smyrna Beach Middle School was called a racist by classmates for wearing a pro-Sarah Palin t-shirt.

Jones is volunteering at the Republican Headquarters in New Smyrna Beach. The Palin t-shirt was a gift from her fellow volunteers.

—
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
#504999

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm, Misscheryl said:

check this out:

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1mm.htm
#505001

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm, cicerokid said:

“On October 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, nativeaz08 said:
OT: Anyone in Colorado? Or anywhere willing to help defeat Obama and ACORN?”

As a small bus. owner and always of the phone anyway, i am signed up for phone bank here in Indiana…Palin is gonna be in Noblesbille Friday, i wish i could go!!
#505003

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:24 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:51 pm, Bulldogger #232 said:

Those 30 investigators in AK are now headed to OH you can be sure of that.
BTW there are some blogs now calling for action to defend Joe.

If you get a firm site let us know. I would send the man a buck or two and a couple more to buy a beer.
#505006

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:25 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

When I was using TNT and C-4 to blow stuff up, I never had a license, either. Of course, I was in the Army at the time. The non-union, United States Army.

“I’m Joe the Plumber!”

ECS
#505013

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm, happyscrapper said:

Joe the Plumber lost his job??? This is BIG! Obama’s thugs cost a man his job for asking his holiness a question! Michelle…you need to get all over this!! I think Obama just struck a nerve of every American who is just like Joe the Plumber. We need posters, bumper stickers and we need to “get in their faces”! I can’t tell you how mad this makes me!!!
#505014

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

Joe-the-Plumber
Vetted More Than
Obama-the-Presidential-Candidate
#505016

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

Who knew the most dangerous man in America would turn to out to be a middle aged white guy who wants to buy a business and create jobs.

What a country!
#505018

On October 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm, happyscrapper said:

On October 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm, Bulldogger said:
BO on Fox news just slammed Joe again at his ralley, BO laughs at Joe and then says.

Gee Joe, hows business?
Then the crowd starts laughing

Do you think Obama knew that Joe had lost his job when he made that statement? And could he actually have been taunting Joe about that? This man thinks he is untouchable…he is GOING DOWN!!