Hate to do this again, but will all of the attentnion that this fake "Joe the fake Plumber" is getting here are at least 3 facts about Joe:
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McCain discovers plumber no ordinary Joe
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & AMIE PARNES | 10/16/08 8:00 PM EDT
After making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, McCain learned 3 key facts -- Joe owes back taxes, isn't licensed and Obama's plan would cut Joe's taxes.
Photo: AP
NEW YORK – John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted.
A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone who would pay higher taxes under Barack Obama, McCain learned the fine print Thursday on the plumber’s not-so-tidy personal story: He owes back taxes. He is not a licensed plumber. And it turns out that Wurzelbacher makes less than $250,000 a year, which means he would receive a tax cut if Obama were elected president.
McCain likes to say that he isn’t George W. Bush – and in this case of bungled public relations, it is clear he is not. The famously-disciplined Bush campaign operation would likely have found the perfect anonymous citizen to illustrate a policy proposal, rather than spontaneously wrap itself around an unknown entity with so many asterisks.
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McCain discovers plumber no ordinary Joe - Carrie Budoff Brown and Amie Parnes - Politico.com