CNN: “So when he left Joe’s neighborhood in Toledo, our opponent didn’t look real happy,” Palin said of Obama. “Seems that the staged photo-op there got ruined by a real person’s question. So here’s a guy working—standing there in his neighborhood when a candidate for president shows up and he wanted more than just a handshake and a campaign button. He wanted some answers.”Bless his heart, the guy is an unlicensed plumber, who owes back taxes, a guy who would get a break under Obama's plan, as he has now has admitted.
If that scenario sounds familiar, it’s because Palin faced a similar moment on September 27 in Philadelphia at one of her own photo-ops, when Temple graduate student Michael Rovito approached the governor at a cheesesteak shop to ask her opinions on cross-border raids into Pakistan to hunt terrorists.
Palin told Rovito the United States should “absolutely” attack within Pakistan to stop terrorists, a position at odds with McCain’s. The remark was picked up by a network camera crew and caused a headache for the GOP ticket, who were forced to explain their apparently conflicting views in a national television interview days later.
At the rally in Lancaster on Saturday, Palin said that Joe Wurzelbacher, “bless his heart,” is being “investigated” and “attacked” because the Obama campaign didn’t appreciate him asking Obama a question about his tax plan.
Bless his heart. Joe the Plumber set out right away, post debate, having already been contacted by the McCain camp (Obama had posted video of the conversation on youtube), to slam Obama as a socialist. This is now their main talking point: Obama wants to tax the rich and give to the poor.
My first thought was that Joe was paid for, or at least encouraged to speak on behalf of McCain, a last ditch effort by the McCain camp to sway voters.
If the McCain camp wants to point any fingers they ought to be pointing at themselves. They exploited Joe without knowing anything about Joe. Bless his heart.
