Joe The Plumber Turned Away From White House

Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe The Plumber," recently visited the White House but couldn't get in.

Wurzelbacher, who served as a McCain surrogate during the 2008 presidential campaign, won the Republican nomination for Congress in Ohio's heavily democratic 9th district in March. He is running against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.

In a new campaign ad, Wurzelbacher is shown waiting at the White house gates, purportedly to get a chance to talk to President Obama. Eventually he retreats and gives the camera an exasperated sigh.

"Well, it's 3:00 and apparently no one's home," he says. "I'd like to come back and finish this conversation."

Wurzelbacher lashes out at the president in a blog post on his campaign site:

Your burdensome and punishing regulations made sure that job-creating small businesses suffer like never before. And yet, through it all, your friends, bundlers, and campaign contributors seem to be doing just fine. Thanks to your "spread the wealth" message, we’ve got people "occupying" legitimate businesses and industries, terrorizing the children of business leaders in their own homes, and calling for government control of everything and everybody. I thought you'd like to hear how all that is working out for us out here in the real world.

Mister President, I think it's time you and I continued our conversation.

I tried early and late, but you weren't home and I couldn't find anyone to take a message. Perhaps you had a good score at the golf course today? Any luck getting more campaign donations? I'm sure that's taking up a lot of your energy.

Wurzelbacher shot into the political spotlight when he asked Obama about his small business tax plan at a campaign event in 2008.

“I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” Obama said.

The McCain campaign pounced on his remarks and continually resurfaced them to suggest Obama had a socialist agenda. "Joe the Plumber" was referenced in debates and soon McCain called Wurzelbacher to start making campaign appearances with him.

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Comments

[plumberfullerton]

11:34 PM on 06/28/2012

As an employee of a plumbing contractor,Wurzelbacher was given the moniker "Joe the Plumber".The McCain-Palin campaign brought him to appear at several campaign events in Ohio, and McCain referred often to "Joe the Plumber" in subsequent campaign speeches and in the final presidential debate, as a metaphor for middle-class Americans.

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[plumberfullerton]

11:32 PM on 06/28/2012

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher ( born December 3, 1973), better known by the nickname "Joe the Plumber", is an American conservative activist, commentator and politician. He gained national attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential election when, during a videotaped campaign stop in Ohio by then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Wurzelbacher asked Obama about his small business tax policy, and Obama gave a response that included the statement, "when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."

plumber brea

[realityGeorge]

11:07 PM on 06/19/2012

Joe stands up for what he believes to be good and right. The comments I read here are negative, mindless put-downs. That makes Joe-the-Plumber better than any of you!

[ebbelwoi]

04:59 AM on 06/06/2012

Is Joe a visiting dignitary? I thought he was just a regular guy from Ohio who lied about being a real plumber?

[carlosgon2004]

03:00 PM on 06/12/2012

San Diego Plumber Asks? Why are we as a species in general so narcissistic (A Self-centered egotistical in nature personality), abusive, petty thinking, crictiqueing every word or movement type of personality. Practice LOVE SAYS San Diego Plumber,What we practice is What we pass on to our Generations (Family, Genealogy), For it is easy to learn Envy, Hate, Anger! But once we get past that Mentality, is when we reach Euphoria by our
own doing or should I say by THE POWER of YOUR THOUGHT'S (or by directing and Controlling them).
http://www.sandiegoplumberonline.com/plumbing-tips.html

[deebeedonny]

08:26 AM on 05/25/2012

come on', does anyone take this guy seriously??? this guy, goes to the Whitehouse, dressed in a T-shirt, and jeans, waiting at the gates, expecting to get inside, to talk to the President of the United States. then uses the clip for his so-called campaign....so tell me, does this guy have "any" room, to say, anyone else is asinine. the guy isn't even a liscensed plumber, change the name to joe the un-liscensed plumber...........

[deebeedonny]

08:17 AM on 05/25/2012

get a load of this guy....he goes to the Whitehouse, waiting to get in, to talk to the President of the United States. you got to be kidding......... talk about asinine.......what was he going to talk about, to see if the President could help him, get his plumbers license, which he doesn't have?

[Fredo777]

09:10 PM on 05/24/2012

This guy was + still is a complete d_uch*bag.

[kerao]

07:12 AM on 05/11/2012

the rat dropping of palin.

[hhl482]

08:07 PM on 05/08/2012

All you fake plumbers out there remember the #1 rule of plumbing: Joe the Plumber runs downhill.

[hhl482]

08:05 PM on 05/08/2012

Does this deluded b$ttc$%ck think he's running for President?

[NealtheDeal]

10:44 PM on 05/07/2012

Joe the s*** eating toilet flusher bagger with an IQ lower than pipe dope.

[indigotrustee]

01:12 AM on 05/06/2012

Don't let Joe/Sam near a plunger. Either he doesn't know what it's for, or he'd break the plumbing system at the White House.

[Silky85282]

05:44 PM on 05/05/2012

I want to see the candidate who ran against "Joe" and lost. What was his/her campaign slogan? "Vote for me, I'm a Dick"

[David LS]

11:23 PM on 05/04/2012

Put a suit on a pile of leftovers and all you get is a suit you can smell a mile away.

[429freckles]

10:53 PM on 05/04/2012

This guy just makes me want to laugh.
Imagine, he thinks he's important enough to get an impromptu visit with the President.
Funny, sick person.

Obama 2012