{"id":323254,"date":"2010-02-15T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:30:14","slug":"joe-the-plumber-mccain-screwed-my-life-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323254","title":{"rendered":"Joe the Plumber: McCain Screwed My Life Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 269px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11488\" title=\"ReutersJTPphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/02\/ReutersJTPphoto-259x192.jpg\" alt=\"Senator John McCain and Joe Wurzelbacher at campaign event (Reuters)\" width=\"259\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator John McCain and Joe Wurzelbacher at campaign event (Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe the Plumber, (whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher) made some harsh statements about Senator John McCain this weekend saying the former GOP presidential candidate \u201creally screwed my life up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The jabs came at a fundraiser in Pennsylvania over the weekend where he headlined state Representative Sam Rohrer\u2019s Mobilize for Liberty event.\u00a0 As reported by Pennsylvania Public\u00a0Radio Reporter\u00a0Scott Detrow, who spoke to Wurzelbacher after the event, the outbreak media star of the 2008 presidential campaign held nothing back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the event, Wurzelbacher reportedly said he doesn\u2019t support Sarah Palin anymore because she is backing McCain\u2019s Senate re-election,\u201cJohn McCain is no public servant,\u201d he said in his remarks, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a \u201ccareer politician.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\nDetrow pointed out how Wurzelbacher owes his fame in part to McCain, and the Ohio plumber fired back to that charge, \u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t owe him s\u2014. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcCain was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><span>Wurzelbacher also said people should lay off the extreme personal attacks on President Obama.\u00a0 \u201cThe birthers, the truthers \u2014 if people are trying to bunch them [with tea partiers], that would kill us. That just pushes away Democrats and independents who might come out for our cause otherwise,\u201d Detrow reports him as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He even had some positive remarks about the president, \u201cI think his ideology is un-American, but he\u2019s one of the more honest politicians. At least he told us what he wanted to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Joe the Plumber gained his nickname and claim to fame during the 2008 presidential election when he asked then candidate Obama about taxes at a campaign stop in Ohio.\u00a0 His question then became a hot topic for debate and campaign fodder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wurzelbacher also eventually went on to campaign for Senator McCain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John McCain and Joe Wurzelbacher at campaign event (Reuters) Joe the Plumber, (whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher) made some harsh statements about Senator John McCain this weekend saying the former GOP presidential candidate \u201creally screwed my life up.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 The jabs came at a fundraiser in Pennsylvania over the weekend where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}