Joe the Plumber only voted once since 1996. He isnt even a licensed plumber. Here are the facts!
WASHINGTON - In the third and final presidential debate, Republican John McCain made inaccurate assertions about the catalyst for the current mortgage crisis
McCain also was misleading when he suggested that the "full extent" of Democrat Barack Obama's relationships with a former Vietnam-era radical and a voter registration group aren't known.
McCain implied that Obama's health-care proposals would take the choice of insurance policies and doctors away from individuals or hurt small businesses. Experts dispute both of those claims.
McCain played loose with several assertions.
Out of the gate, he blamed Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's lending practices as "the catalyst for this housing crisis."
Housing experts say that's not true. The subprime lending boom was fueled by private companies, not by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Three of every four subprime mortgages in 2006 were purchased for sale into the secondary mortgage market by the investment banks that are at the heart of today's meltdown.
McCain also said he was hurt that Obama didn't repudiate recent remarks by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a civil-rights icon who likened the McCain-Sarah Palin campaign to segregationist George Wallace. However, the Obama campaign released a statement shortly after Lewis made his remarks saying that Obama "does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies."
McCain said Americans needed to know the "full extent" of Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers, a former member of the violent Weather Underground, and with voter registration group ACORN. Both already are well-documented.
Ayers, an education professor in Chicago, isn't affiliated with Obama's campaign. The men aren't close, and Obama has condemned the Weather Underground's violent activities in the 1960s and 70s.
Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama in 1995, but McCain's claim that Obama had launched his political career in Ayers' living room is an overstatement.
Obama responded by noting that Ayers also was involved in creating the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education organization whose board Obama chaired. The group was funded through billionaire philanthropist Walter Annenberg and Annenberg's wife, both Republicans. Obama and Ayers also served together on a different charity board.
ACORN officials think some of their workers submitted phony registrations simply to meet their quotas. ACORN officials also say they're required in most states where they are active to submit all voter registrations they collect. Spokesman Scott Levenson said the group also notifies elections officials of suspect registrations.
There's no evidence that Obama had anything to do with the invalid registrations.
So let me say that your candidate is a liar and has to lie to win this election. Way to go on your choice of a candidate....