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New McCain ad: “Joe the Plumber”
New McCain ad: “Joe the Plumber”
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McCain's New Joe the Plumber Ad Goes Where He Has Not Gone Before: Correctly Calling Obama's "Tax Cuts" for Non-Tax payers Welfare
Ace of Spades HQ — ... dare to make the less racist point that Obama voted present on reforming Fannie and Freddie, the Democrats' previous most prominent spread-the-wealth institutions. Of course, that was covert spreading the wealth -- subsidizing mortgages for bad credit risks by putting good credit risks on the line for their defaults. That covert, indirect system of spreading the wealth worked out so well Obama now wants to take it to the next level -- direct, open income redistribution. Via Hot Air, with the MSM's new determination to vet Joe the Plumber more rigorously than the vetted ...

You knew it was coming ...
Hyscience — The "Plumber Joe" ad is out: McCain at rally in Pa - "Joe's the man": "I thought I did pretty well," McCain said. "The real winner last night was Joe the plumber. Joe's the man. He won and small businesses won across America ... the American people are not going to let Senator Obama raise their taxes." AllahPundit has it that the left's very excited indeed to discover that (Plumber Joe) Wurzelbacher's not actually a "licensed" plumber (he just works ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... , tradesmen shouldn't have to be licensed in the first place. McCain has made Wurzelbacher into a political football by featuring footage of him in a new TV ad, Hot Air's Allahpundit charges, taking issue with the degree of scrutiny bloggers and media outlets have applied to the plumber. The ad will rile Wurzelbacher's new crowd of critics, ...

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