Obama: McCain Fighting For "Joe The Hedge Fund Manager"
RICHMOND, VA -- It seems that Joe the Plumber has earned a permanent spot in 2008 campaign lore. In the final weeks of the 2008 election both candidates are mentioning his name on the stump almost daily. Barack Obama even invoked him during a press conference this morning and added a new quip to his speech at a rally here.
“I had a nice conversation the other day with Joe the plumber,” he told an audience of nearly 20,000 people. “Joe's cool, I got no problems with Joe, all I want to do is give Joe a tax cut, but let's be clear who Sen. McCain's fighting for. He's not fighting for Joe to Plumber; he's fighting for Joe The Hedge Fund Manager. John McCain likes to talk about Joe the Plumber but he's in cahoots with Joe the CEO.”
The rally in this solidly Republican Henrico County, which voted for George W. Bush in the last two elections, marked Obama’s eighth trip to the state during the general election.
Here’s the McCain campaign’s response, from spokesman Tucker Bounds: “Not only was he meeting with rich CEOs yesterday, it’s Barack Obama who has taken more campaign cash from ‘Joe Hedge Fund’ than any other candidate Barack Obama has taken more money from Big Oil, more money from Big Pharma, and more money from Wall Street than John McCain, and if he wins this election Obama is going to take more money from you.”
(NBC/NJ's ATHENA JONES)
Tucker your desperation is getting smelly...you are never gonna get laid again in DC with a whinny attitude like that...Buck up brother...No shame is going down fighting the good fight but running away crying and complaining about money issues is really a sad sight
Obama has probably taken more money from every demographic than you, because they want to see him elected and don't want McCain elected. They're not buying Obama, they're paying to protect us against McCain.
I'm beginning to see clearly now that it is Obama who is the racist pig, and not the American plumber, Joe. But Obama does not wear lipstick. He wears a rotting perfume that can be smelled from all across America.