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I’ve not seen nor heard Joe the plumber pose the socialist question to Gov. Palin in regards to the redistribution of oil money to the people of Alaska. What’s up with THAT, Joe?
palin would beat obama if she were standing for the president,its precisely what she did in alaska gave her 80 per cent approval those old uncle scrooge mentality mcain professes is pathetic
mcain can suck up to joe the plumber all he likes,the guys already wealthy-at least-palin gave money backto the people-i wish some of that spirit would infect mcain.mcain and joe the richmen you only have palins popularity to hold on to.
palin i like but mcain is for people who have allready made it
Joe the plumber should have quit while he was ahead. He doesn't have a license, his employer shouldn't have legally hired him as such, he owes back taxes, and on and on. McCain is grasping at straws. As for Palin, she was doing her own 'spreading the wealth' in Alaska - taking from the oil companies and giving to 'the good, hard-working people,up there in Alaska'. Even Joe the plumber can speak better than Palin. At least he has learned how to pronounce a g.
Shortly after the third presidential debate Ohio government computers were used to look up personal information on “Joe the Plumber.”
Today, one of the people involved in checking the state child support system to try to dig up some dirt has been outed: Inspector general investigating access to Joe the Plumber’s personal information.
' Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.”
Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.
Amid questions from the media and others about “Joe the Plumber,” Jones-Kelley said she approved a check to determine if he was current on any ordered child-support payments. Such information was not and cannot be publicly shared, she said. It is unclear if Wurzelbacher is involved in a child-support case. Reports state that he lives alone with a 13-year-old son.
“Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look” at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. “Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way.”
And if you believe that, maybe I can convince you the moon landings were faked. Because Helen Jones-Kelly also happens to be a maximum $2300 contributor to the Barack Obama campaign. (Hat tip: Ace.)
This is a little glimpse into a very dark future, in which the power of the government is used against private citizens who dare to criticize Barack Obama.
Also, a Toledo police clerk is being charged with performing an illegal search of Joe’s records: Clerk charged with unlawful search of Joe the Plumber.
'Toledo Police have confirmed that a TPD records clerk is accused of performing an illegal search of information related to ‘Joe the Plumber.’
'Julie McConnell, has been charged with Gross Misconduct for allegedly making an improper inquiry into a state database in search of information pertaining to Samuel Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16.''
Yesterday, the mayor of Toledo admitted that the request to search police records for dirt on Joe the Plumber came from the media.
'' Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner admitted yesterday that a member of the media made the request of the Toledo Police Department for Joe ‘the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher’s records, NewsTalk 1370 WSPD is reporting. The comments were made in response to questions during an unrelated press conference.''
Finkbeiner did not say which news outlet, nor which reporter, made the request. He also did not identify the individual who ran the report.
Don't dare criticize Obama or his thugs will come after you.
'Joe the plumber should have quit while he was ahead. He doesn't have a license, his employer shouldn't have legally hired him as such, he owes back taxes, and on and on.'
How dare an American citizen ask the man running for president an inconvenient question in his own driveway! This 'Joe the Plumber' needs to be taught a lesson! Everyone needs to be shown that there are consequences for embarrassing the Obamamessiah!
It’s absolutely disgusting what the Obama campaign have done to Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. This is what you can expect if you become a serious embarrassment to Barack: character assassination on steroids.
Government computers in Ohio may have been illegally accessed to find information on Joe the Plumber:
State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.”
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama.
The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as an example of an American who would be harmed by Obama’s tax proposals.
Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.
Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.
It has not been determined who checked on Wurzelbacher, or why. Direct access to driver’s license and vehicle registration information from BMV computers is restricted to legitimate law enforcement and government business.
i like Joe. to bad some people broke the law to get dirt on him.But leave it to the dem's. don't know why as soon as a name comes up in the rep campaign someone has to start picking them apart in even means they can. Shows how mature the dem's can be.Rep have done their fair share but the dem's and media are about worthless any more.The media should be ashamed out their coverage of this election.media should never be on any ones side because when they are they do not report the whole truth.Its not reporting any more it their opinion.
but can you blame the me4dia for hating mcainthey like palin she gave money to the alaskan people but uncle scrooge mcain why why theres no lollies to ordinary people-obamas not an idiot-he can see the votes are in the back pocket,if i was palin i would distance myself fromm joe the plumber.let mcain clean his own toilet.
kerrie/harry/jerry/Trud....
We get the message buddy. No need to repost it under the name 'Larry', OK?
Joe the plumber the GOP plant that backfired. This guy has almost as much credibility as McLame and Falin, God I can't wait till this is over. The crybaby GOP needs it as* kicked and it is a-coming.
how much the GOP is paying Poor Plumber Joe to be their poster boy. I wonder if it is enough to pay his back taxes and maybe even buy that plumbing business. I wonder if Joe will now go to plumbing school and get his ticket, so that he can legally work that toilet plunger.
You guys should listen to what Joe says:he votes for McCain who is a 'real american'.To me that proves the smear will always work on a fraction of the voters.Had the campaign been waged on their program the GOP would have got much less votes.So they concentrate on lies.You only have to read some previous posts.THey are even saying that Obama will go after you if you dare to criticize him.
THat is exactly the opposite of what he really does,what everyperson with integrity would do,check with the facts;the facts as analyzed by all the media came to the same conclusion;Joe will profit from Obama's plans.
You might find this shocking bit it is a fact:smear and lies will always have success in influencing the feeble minded.It is no coincidence ,most of you already know that,don't you?
For weeks Palin has been telling you all Obama is no a real american,of course some of you believe that.Everybody swallows lies in life,nobody is immune...
'Joe the plumber the GOP plant that backfired. This guy has almost as much credibility as McLame and Falin,'
Yeah, Joe was 'planted'... in his own driveway playing ball with his kid when the Obama traveling circus rolled up his street to pester people with his sweet sounding bullcrap.
If Joe the plumber is a 'plant' that alone would cinch my vote for McCain because if Obama is STUPID enough to fall for the devious trap of harassing a man in his yard is too stinking stupid to run the country.
Salvadore Dali couldn’t have imagined the absurdity and surrealism of 'tonny from belgium' telling us what is and what is not a “'real american[sic]'”
It’s like a fish lecturing about cutting a diamond.
See what I mean ????
I watch the news (media, papers) and i see a unfair over view of reporting.I see them praise Obama's claims of change and see a them pull apart Mccains claims.Obama is a good talker he has a lot of Americans under his control in lot of ways. I watched some rally s and he has people putting their hands in the air like they are wore shipping him in some kind of way. Thats scary.Mccain is old but so are millions of others so the death thing is uncalled for.He talks a lot of being a pow but that was part of his life he can't hide it.Just like Obama can't hide he is half white and half black but Obama does hide that saying he is only Black. He is ashamed i think in some ways about being also white. He just says he will be the first black man the truth is he would be the first half bread.He should be proud of that being the first half bread.But hiding his white side only tells us he only wants to make history because he is Black.He has so much money he can't spend it all and still asks for more.$10 dollars more from each of us doesn't that tell us he is into money more then he should be?. He should have said i have enough money you guys take that $10 dollars and feed your kids but thats not what he is saying.He wants more.So the truth is he really doesn't care about the poor he cares about making records.People need to wake up and see that but everyone is co caught up in making history or at lest being part of it that they can't see he is caught up in all the glory.Is he going to tell you in 8 months he needs more money and taxes will go up? He has to pay for all those new programs he is saying he wants, the money has to come from some where and it won't be coming from his own pocket.He can taxes the heck out of the rich but that still won't be enough money read between the lines.He is up to something this country will get hit so hard and you will be so fooled by Obama you won't even see it coming tell its to late. So sad.
McCain said 'economics is not something I've understood as well as I should' and suggested he would rely on a running mate's expertise on the issue.
Ah, so that is why that 'financial expert' Palin was recruited
..but a single plummer from Ohio. Honestly, is the left so afraid of this guy that they must tear him apart day and night? Have you noticed that, after ripping him limb from limb they gagged everything else he says? All the folks they could concentrate on and this is where they land?
This is the left, so afraid of a simple, hard working person, who dares to challenge the left's intelligista, that they must resort to this. This is what you can expect for the next four years, a press that has gone south on the American people.
And consider for a moment who owns one of these press outlets:
General Electric (NBC)
ABC (Disney)
What might they have to gain?
Answer: the fairness doctrine. Cable (Fox) is kicking their asses so bad, that they need this to level the playing field. They have lost so many viewers, and dollars, only a democrat, and a grateful one, will greenlight such a mess.
The dems will be more than happy to oblige, buying loyalty from their corporate masters, for this move. Having a grateful press cannot hurt.
You didn't really think it was simple politics now, did you?
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