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Republican Candidate On News Talk Online On Paltalk
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Toledo Plumbers Back Obama
NORTHWOOD, OH – Forget Joe the Plumber and support for John McCain. The guys who run the local Toledo area plumber’s union hall like Barack Obama.
Local 50 business manager Tom Joseph says most of the guys his union represents make $60,000-$100,000 or more a year. Certainly not the $250,000 they’d have to make in order to be affected by Obama’s tax increases.
Speaking on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com, Joseph said if any of them did make $250,000 or more a year they should pay more in taxes.
His union is actively supporting Obama. Busy getting out the vote.
Joseph thinks he and his union are far more representative of plumbers here in Ohio, and elsewhere in the nation.
The issue, he says, is not Joe the Plumber, who is being used, Joseph argues, to divert attention from the unseemly packages the former heads of Wall Street firms that have crashed are getting.
The polls put Obama and McCain at a statistical dead heat in key state Ohio. Joseph recognizes this. But believes the Buckeye State will go for the Democrat.
Significant, if correct, because never in history has a Republican been elected president without carrying Ohio.
Real “Joe The Plumber” On Paltalk Today
Local 50
Palin Gets A Major Foreign Policy Issue Right
Getting it right
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been criticized by many, myself included, for her lack of foreign policy experience. But on one issue, she is showing an understanding and resolve that, if nothing else, should bring the Republican ticket votes.
On three occasions during her interview with ABC, Charles Gibson asked her whether she would support an Israeli strike on Iran. And on three occasions Palin said the United States should not second guess what Israel must do to secure itself as a nation.
Bravo.
This is not merely about Iran’s possible quest for nuclear weapons (we’ll know more about that on Monday when the IAEA issues its latest status report). It’s about U.S. interference in Israel’s security affairs in general.
It’s also a brilliant political move. Many Jews, even those who are otherwise left leaning, are concerned about Barack Obama’s changing stance toward Israel. First Obama said Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel. Then when Palestinians complained, he took that back. It makes a lot of Jews nervous about whether Obama would really support Israel next time things hit the fan.
