North Carolina, Meet Joe
CONCORD — “Joe the Plumber” has plunged into the national spotlight — and now the North Carolina spotlight — as John McCain hopes to use the plumber’s story to energize his campaign.
Joe Wurzelbacher gained attention this week after he met Barack Obama during one of Obama’s campaign appearances. Wurzelbacher questioned and criticized Obama’s tax plan, saying that it would cause his income taxes to go up if he succeeds in buying his own plumbing business.
McCain repeatedly mentioned Wurzelbacher during a debate with Obama on Wednesday, and he continued to hit on the plumber rhetoric today in Concord, as he invoked Wurzelbacher to try to differentiate the two candidates’ tax plans.
“The real winner this week was Joe the Plumber!” McCain proclaimed to thousands of cheering supporters at a rally here. “Joe won because he’s the only person who can get a real answer out of Sen. Obama. Congratulations Joe, that’s an impressive achievement.“
McCain tried to portray Obama’s tax plan as a socialist-style redistribution of wealth.
It was McCain’s second appearance in North Carolina in less than a week. He acknowledged that he needs a comeback and said that North Carolina will be critical.
“I’m gonna give you some hard facts,” he said. “We have to win the state of North Carolina, and I’m counting on you to do it.“
More on Joe the Plumber, and the two candidates’ tax plans, in tomorrow’s Winston-Salem Journal.
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sjeilfypmr on 12/20/2008 (10:00 am)
This is embarrassing- what happened to honesty and integrity? This takes me back to W telling us that Al Gore could rewrite the Bill of Rights and take our guns away. Joe the plumber? This guy owes back taxes and since he doesn’t even have a plumbing license - so that tells me he hasn’t been working legally as a plumber. Are we as Republicans supposed to support illegal workers now because Sarah Palin say so? I for one am tired of being taken for a fool. I will not change my standards or my believes but- I will vote for the most qualified ticket- and we all know that is Obama/Biden.
Republican for Obama/Biden on 10/29/2008 (4:51 pm)