I kinda feel sorry for John McCain.... On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not Joe's fault, it was McCain's staff: > > http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/30/joe-the-plumber-a-no-show/ > Dana Bash | BIO > CNN Political Correspondent > > During my regular morning call to McCain headquarters to see what's up > for the day, an aide told me we would finally see Joe Wurzelbacher > Joe the Plumber appear with John McCain. > > McCain's entire closing theme is based on Wurzelbacher's curbside > encounter with Barack Obama over taxes. But Joe's never been to a > McCain rally. > > About halfway through McCain's first speech in Defiance, Ohio, > however, I realized Joe wasn't there. I called the aide I had spoken > with in the morning, who told me that in fact Joe wasn't going to be > there after all. > > Unfortunately, no one told the candidate. > > As I was hanging up the phone, McCain started to yell for Joe, who he > thinks is in the crowd. > > "Joe's with us today. Joe, where are you?" McCain called the into the > crowd, "Where's Joe? Is Joe here with us today? Joe, I thought you > were here today (pause) All right, well, you're all Joe the plumber, > so all of you stand up and say I thank you." > > Ooops. > > It was an awkward moment. > > McCain aides called it a "miscommunication," but once I got on the bus > I called Wurzelbacher myself and asked him what really happened. > > He told me that he had hoped to come to the morning rally, but that no > one from McCain's campaign ever called him back to confirm, > > Bigger ooops. > > He said he had heard McCain yelled for him and he wasn't there, and > Joe was "not happy about it." > > It turns out, as soon as camp McCain realized the error, they sent a > car for Wurzelbacher and raced him to hook up with McCain's bus > caravan, which was making its way across Ohio. > > Shortly after 2pm in a sunny, picturesque town square in Sandusky, > Ohio, McCain was speaking to a crowd under a Gazebo and called Joe's > name. > > This time, he answered. > > He jumped on the stage, and the crowd went wild. > > "All right guys, I didn't prepare anything. The only thing I've been > saying is just to get out and get informed. I mean really know what > you're talking about when you're talking about it," Wurzelbacher > bellowed. > > "Don't take everyone's opinions. I came to my own opinions by > research. Get involved in the government. That way we can hold our > politicians accountable and take back out government. It's all ours." > > The only problem is that McCain started to speak before those of us in > the press traveling with him got in > and many of my colleagues in TV and print missed the joe moment. > > Afterwards Joe worked the ropeline, shaking hands and signing > autographs for voters there to see McCain. > > And now Joe is doing something those of use in McCain's traveling > press corps haven't been allowed to in months. > > He's riding the Straight Talk Express as we followed behind. > > By the next stop in Elyrie, Ohio, camp McCain seemed to have finally > worked out the kinks. Joe finally, explicitly endorsed McCain. > > "Vote for a real American," he told the cheering crowd, "John McCain." > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1TT7gt5F0w >> >> Joe? JOE? >> >> And just when you thought the endorsement of tax-evading unlicensed >> plumber meant something. >> >> > >
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