No Joe Left Behind
He told Joe that "It's not that I want to punish your success; I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you that they've got a chance to success, too. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." If you were really quiet you could hear a collective "D’oh” from the leftists in the media.
Obama’s "share the wealth” message is simply an updated version of the communist slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. Even somebody with the political instincts of David Duke, or Bullwinkle the Moose knows a candidate shouldn’t expose their communist leanings in the late stages of a close election. This is because most Americans don’t hold with the idea that their money should be taken away and given to somebody who didn’t earn it. The average American interprets Marxism as "From those who work the hardest to those who hardly work.”
So Barack had been exposed as a base communist; even worse, it was from his own mouth that this revelation came. So what is the reaction of the media? Attack the guy the dared to ask the Messiah a tough question when there was no speechwriter or teleprompter to pull his ham hocks out of the fire.
Within 24 hours we knew about Joe’s income, the status of his plumbing license, and various tax issues that the gentleman has. When you listen to the talking heads on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc. the idea seems to be that if they can make Joe look silly, somehow his question becomes less valid. This is an odd position for a media that collectively praised the YouTube debates and thought that questions asked by a talking snowman were perfectly okay.
The inconvenient fact for Barack and his operatives in the media is that the question is perfectly valid whether it came from Joe, Hitler, Mr. Ed, or Stewie from the show Family Guy. Of course in the case of Stewie the moment Barack outed himself as a Karl Marx acolyte, the Griffin family toddler would have shouted "Victory is mine!”, and padded off.
The undeniable truth of the situation is that Joe asked Obama a question and Barack gave him an honest answer that exposed his personal communist philosophy.
As punishment for making the Obama mask slip and give us all a peek at who this guy really is, Joe the Plumber has sustained a media lynching by a press corp intent on protecting a deeply un-American candidate. While within hours they could dig up Joe’s tax records, the mainstream media has been reluctant to investigate Barack’s ties to William Ayers, Churches that ascribe to Black Liberation Theology, or even ask why Mr. Obama refuses to produce a legitimate copy of his birth certificate. For those who are unaware, there is currently a lawsuit making its way through the courts that contends Barack is not eligible to run for President based on his questionable citizenship status. These are legitimate questions that Katie Couric, Chris Mathews, and the rest of the usual suspects refuse to investigate.
In this election we have heard the term "Main Street” uttered with amazing frequency. Barack has tried to position himself as the candidate that will fight for the folks who live on Main Street. Of course when a question from somebody on Main Street trips up "The One”, this post racial/post partisan candidate puts on the Bruno Magli’s of tolerance and treats the Middle Class citizen like O.J. Simpson treated an uppity ex-wife who dared to tell him no.
The lynching of Joe the Plumber is not the only example of Barack’s war on Main Street. When the NRA wanted to run ads during this election cycle, Barack’s lawyers threatened stations with their broadcast licenses if they ran the spots. Most of the NRA membership comes from Main Street, not the tea houses and spas of Manhattan. He has also tried to sic the justice department on folks who run the "American Issues Project” for their ads tying him to Bill Ayers. Of course we have all seen how Sarah Palin, unarguably from Main Street USA, has been treated by the mainstream media and other surrogates for candidate Obama.
This is a glimpse into how Obama will handle dissent if he gets into office. With his presidency and a congressional majority engaged in an unholy alliance with the media, nobody would be surprised to see a Ruby Ridge/Waco approach to those who publicly voice their problems with his administration.
All of us who actually live on the proverbial "Main Street” should be concerned with the treatment of Joe the Plumber, because to a certain extent we are Joe the Plumber. Not only did Obama admit he was going to take Joe’s money away and give it to people who didn’t work for it, but Joe has been savaged in the media for asking a legit question and getting an unusually honest answer from the slippery Democrat. Last time I checked, Joe wasn’t a political opponent or even running for any office; he was just a guy who had the misfortune of being outside when Obama decided he wanted to engage in conversation with someone from Main Street. Will it be different for anyone else in the country who voices an opposing viewpoint if candidate Obama becomes President Obama? Objective evidence says no. The best way to stop an impending abuse of power is to leave no Joe behind, and simply not vote the "post partisan” candidate into office. |
