Joe the Plumber on Crack
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"McCain was trying to use me," Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”
"I don't owe him s—," Wurzelbacher continued. "He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.”
I don't know the whole inside story, of course, but I'm pretty sure no one held a gun to Joe's head to do all those media interviews and campaign stops in 2008.
And the idea that a politician in the middle of a political campaign would seek to take advantage of the positive publicity created by associating himself with someone representing "the face of middle America?" Why, it's so shocking I just can't imagine where anyone would get such an idea.
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