Posted by
The Dutchmeister on Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00:00 AM
It looks like Barack Obama has really stepped in it this time, revealing what the far left didn't want you to know about his tax plan - but what conservatives have known from day one: If you're rich, Obama-Biden want tax the crap out of you and "redistribute" your hard-earned money to those who didn't work as hard as you did to earn their keep. That's called socialism.
And we have an average Joe (pardon the pun), Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, to thank for calling Obama on the carpet. (Check out the
Youtube video of his encounter with Obama. Priceless.) As
Michelle Malkin and
Lorie Byrd have written in recent articles, now the far left and MSM want Joe the Plumber's head. For exposing Obama's tax plan for what it is, the left has resorted to smearing this Toledo, OH-based small businessman by questioning his political affiliation, and even trying to dig up dirt on him by snooping into his financial and legal records. Have they no shame?
Malkin: "Obama-Biden simply can't tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelacher is on." After describing the left's smear campaign against Joe the Plumber, Malkin ends nicely: "Welcome to Joe the Plumber Derangement Syndrome. If you can't beat him, smear him. It's the Obama way."
Byrd: "If he continues to talk like that, and if he continues to resonate with Americans, there is no telling what we will learn next about Joe Wurbelbacher. Is he Trig Palin's baby daddy? Does he wear silk undergarments? Is he really bald? The point those on the left now trying to destroy Joe the Plumber don't get is that it doesn't matter. Not only do their nasty attacks on him discourage anyone else from becoming involved in public political debate, but nothing they could dig up on him would matter anyway..." "Those of us who have believed Obama's policy proposals to be a socialist redistribution of wealth had everything we believed confirmed, straight from the horse's mouth. That is what was so shocking about
the video exchange between Obama and Wurzelbacher -- what
Obama said."
Joe the Plumber deserves a huge pat on the back for having the guts to publicly question the merits of a politician's economic platform - and expose it for all of America to see.