Nothing here of a truly dumpster dive caliber, but some of the stuff collecting in the saved items folder while I spent the weekend focused on real life, rebellious teenagers, baseball and football. Read at your own risk.
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TOLEDO, Ohio – Evoking “Joe the Plumber” near his hometown in this pivotal state, Republican John McCain on Sunday cast himself as the guardian of middle-class workers and small-business owners who fuel the economy.
“If I’m elected president, I won’t raise taxes on small businesses, as Sen. (Barack) Obama proposes, and force them to cut jobs,” McCain said of his Democratic opponent during a rally at the convention center. “I will keep small business taxes where they are, help them keep their costs low and let them spend their earnings to create more jobs, not send to Washington.”
McCain flew to Toledo, near where “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher lives, from the state capital of Columbus amid the GOP’s push for this swing state and its 20 electoral votes.
The Holland, Ohio, plumber was in New York making the media rounds with his family, but McCain has been evoking his spirit after making him the focal point the final presidential debate between McCain and Obama. McCain also mentions Wurzelbacher at his rallies after the plumber was videotaped questioning Obama about whether his tax plan would keep him from buying the two-man plumbing shop where he works.
While some analyses showed Wurzelbacher faring better under Obama’s plan than McCain’s, McCain has lashed out at Obama for saying that while his policies may force some to pay higher taxes, they were designed to “spread the wealth around” by targeting only families making over $250,000 annually.
“Sen. Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is growing the pie,” McCain told a crowd of several thousand.
During an earlier rally at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, McCain drew cheers when he proclaimed that he was campaigning “on behalf of Joe the Plumber and Rose the Teacher and Phil the Bricklayer and Wendy the Waitress.”
Where is my barf bag?
from Burnt Orange Report by
Phillip Martin
Among the major Texas newspapers to have issued endorsements for President, the Austin American-Statesman has, to date, done the best job restricting their endorsement to facts, not hype.
Their endorsement walks through key issues for voters — politics, taxes, diplomacy, energy, tax cuts, and the candidates’ respective character — with clear arguments and a clearly stated opinion. It doesn’t read like one of their editorial staffers is a thesaurus. The Statesman’s editorial is cogent and concise. Its straight-forward language allows it to make, in my opinion, one of the best arguments for an Obama presidency.
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