Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
toledoblade.com -- 'Joe the plumber' isnā??t licensed

Heaven forbid that you play football infront of your own house.. lest Barack Obama walk up to you.. you ask him a question.. and now you get attacked by the Democrats and the media.

Geez..

Everyone acts like there's some sort of conspiracy here. He lived on the friggin street Obama decided to go door to door campaigning on.

Guilt of operating without a license.. yes.. Guilty for asking a genuine question? No.

But to each his own; heaven forbid that someone ask Obama a question that he doesn't give a good answer to lest you be attacked by mindless drones.
I'm not going to pretend Joe the Plumber is a legitimate issue, because he obviously is not. I completely agree with you there. This is a non-issue. But still McCain and Palin bring Joe the Plumber up every day in every speach, and have been doing so for six days straight. It will be a full week today if they bring it up again. I have never heard Obama or the Democrats bring him up once, have you? Ever? Even once?

It sounds like you are blaming Obama and the Democrats for bringing the spotlight on this guy, when it is the opposite. McCain is bringing the spotlight. Joe asked Obama a question and posed it in such a way that the question hinged on WHO HE SAID HE WAS, a plumber who wanted to buy a business that would make over $250,000 a year and thereby might be hurt by Obama's tax plan. And McCain and Palin have been promoting the story ever since. But the fact that none of the story Joe told is true invalidates the point he was making and the point McCain is making.

If McCain wants to put the spotlight on Joe's story every day for a week to make a political point, then it is not the Democrats' or the media's fault for checking if the story is true. Joe's real story does not support the point he was making, so it is perfectly valid to debunk it.

It's not a conspiracy -- it's just the McCain campaign making this guy into a pawn, which they really should not be doing.