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Fact check: Did Joe The Plumber say Obama's comment 'sounded like socialism'?

 

Published 10/28/2008 by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney at CNN Political Ticker

What did Joe the Plumber say about Obama's tax plans? The Statement: Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, speaking at an October 27 rally in Leesburg, Virginia, referred to Barack Obama's October 12 conversation about tax policy with Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the citizen now known as "Joe the Plumber." She said Obama said he "wants to spread the [...] (link)

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