Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
So when the person Joe the Plumber who is going to be harmed by Obama's tax plan really turns out to the Sam the Unlicensed Plumber who actually benefits from Obama's tax plan, it does sort of invalidate the value he had to McCain.

When you put a real face on the people making more than $250,000 a year or the business owners whose businesses clear a net profit of more than $250,000 a year, it is not ordinary Joes struggling for the American Dream like this guy. Most ordinary Joes struggling for the American Dream like this guy do not clear $250,000 a year and would see a benefit from Obama's tax plan. 95% of American would see a benefit from Obama's tax plan. This guy actually puts a face on the people who would be helped by Obama's plan.
But for those folks who want to make 250k or more in their business.. they get a slap in the face because they know they'll be punished for doing well. That's a great incentive to want to do better for yourself or your company.

And whether McCain used it as a political tool (which was obvious that he did and you can't really blame him for doing so during an election. This is politics after all) doesn't matter. What matters is what the American people percieve... much as they perceive Bill Ayers as not a big deal because his crime was 30 years ago; but if he were behind bars they would perceive him completely differently.
daihashi Reviewed by daihashi on . mccain obama debate #3 WTF was mccain talking about when he said that canada's response to obama's nafta policy was "we'll sell our oil to china"? i live in canada and i never heard anything remotely like that from any canadian in politics or coffee shops i think obama took that debate but he was weak in his counter-offence to mccain...i think he was trying to take the high road...obama would have done a better job of that by apologizing to mccain for taking the low road on negative campaigning Rating: 5