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McCain accuses Dems of mocking plumbers
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Frank Cotolo
18 Oct 2008 |
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Speaking at a rally in Miami, McCain said Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber was
being punished with jokes for asking Obama a legitimate question.
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A McCain campaign official said, "Last week, Senator Obama showed up in Joe's
driveway to ask for his vote and Joe asked Obama a tough question about taxes.
Obama said, 'Hey, you have the same first name as my running mate.' How rude."
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The tax question prompted Obama to say he wanted to "spread the wealth
around," and Republicans have called that "socialism".
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Obama's people came back and said that was nonsense. And then they told five
socialism jokes, three that made very little sense but had a crowd laughing
because one of the Obama people laughed so hard that coffee came out of his nose.
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But McCain ridiculed Obama's remark about spreading the wealth, though he
could not come up with a spread-the-wealth joke.
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Obama is trying to stunt McCain's appeal in Florida, which has been won by
Republicans in the last two Presidential elections.
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"We feel," said an Obama campaign official, "that if we can make more old
people laugh while McCain, who is an old person, stays stone-faced, we can
get the bulk of the old people to vote for Obama. At least those of them
who live until Nov. 4."
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Joe the Plumber's friend, acting as a spokesman for Joe, who had to leave to
fix a toilet at a neighbor's house, said, "A plumber is the only guy I know
who can take a leak and then fix it."
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