Here’s the original conversation in an Ohio suburb between Barack Obama and Joe Wurzelbacher. Joe talks about his plan to buy a plumbing company and asks Obama why he wants to raise taxes on hardworking, successful folks like him. Obama explains his theory of trickle-up economics and tells Joe we need to “spread the wealth around.”
Here’s Joe with Neil Cavuto. Joe doesn’t think much of Obama’s “Robin Hood” economics and calls him a “socialist.”
Joe tells Katie Couric that Obama tap danced “almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr.” around his question.
What’s the point of promising to kick ass if you can’t actually say you’re gonna kick ass. Must be that “speak softly and carry a big stick” thing Senator McCain was talking about in the last debate.
Sound Bite: “After I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24-7.”
John McCain proposed some kind of government buy-back of “bad” mortgages during Tuesday night’s debate. He provided more details yesterday. In this new 30-second spot, Obama says it’s a bad idea.
Sound Bite: “McCain would shift the burden from lenders to taxpayers, guaranteeing a loss of taxpayer money.”
Since half the viewers of Tuesday night’s debate were snoring heavily after 45 minutes, the Obama campaign thoughtfully lets us know that their man won by a landslide. Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z
McCain’s first ad following last night’s VP debate says the Senator from Scranton lied about a couple of Obama-Biden positions. And even worse, he SIGHED following a Sarah Palin answer! (Of course, the folks snoring at home probably didn’t hear the sigh.)
Jackie Broyles and Dunlap — the Red State Update boys — take a look at tonight’s debate and predict “a train wreck of astonishing magnitude.” Dunlap’s rant is a classic.
Sound Bite: [Dunlap] “Unless she or a member of her family gets impregnated onstage, the spin’s gonna be that she held her own.”
The McCain folks got a post-debate ad out in record time. It’s a 30-second cheap trick featuring three clips of Barack Obama saying that “McCain is right.”
Hillary might as well be putting a stalk of hay in her teeth after last night’s victory fueled by rural Pennsylvanians. You know, the bitter folk. So she sticks with her new best friends from the sticks as she challenges Barack to two debates in Oregon, one focusing on the problems of life in rural oregon.
Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama “spent all day complaining about the hard questions he was asked” in the recent debate and he ought to toughen up if he wants to be president.
Watch that video of Obama shrugging off the Pennsylvania debate again. After careful analysis, the Hillbuzz blog insists that he was giving his opponent the finger and that the audience got it. Further research indicated that as a lefty, he wouldn’t have scratched his nose with the middle finger of his right finger unless it meant something, eh? And the Make them Accountable newsletter found more hidden meaning: “He also did a fist-shoving motion reminiscent of a certain Italian rude sexual gesture.”
