I’ve been thinking about this Joe the Plumber business, and everybody is pointing out that it’s not what Joe the Plumber asked Obama, it’s what Obama answered. He wants to “spread the wealth around.”
But it’s actually even worse than that. It’s now about how quickly team Obama was able to shut down Joe the Plumber, to mock him, to make fun of him, to investigate him, to demonize him, to virtual Tony Soprano him. They did everything but throw him in the East River with concrete blocks tied to his feet, and yet all of these associations that Obama has, they have no interest in exposing, at least right now.
But the issue itself is even bigger than Joe. It’s bigger than Obama’s lame answer, and it’s even bigger than Obama’s attack machine. Because the left tells us and Obama tells us, they’re only going to go after the super rich. That’s who’s going to pay the tax increases. That’s who’s going to be gotten even with, right?
Well, who’s Joe the Plumber? Joe the Plumber is just an average, ordinary American with dreams, and who’d they go after? They went after Joe the Plumber. That tells us what they’re going to do. They’re going to go after achievers. It doesn’t matter what your income. If you achieve, you’re going to pay for it. If you dream of achieving, they’re going to find you, and they’re going to come up with policies to make sure that you give up that quest real fast.
So you might say,
“Okay, first they came after the super rich, then they came after the rich, and now they’re going after the achievers,”
and that’s what this episode with Joe the Plumber shows.
You might think it’s just about trying to silence and discredit a guy who embarrassed Obama, but it’s more than that — and it wasn’t just the media. It was Obama’s team, too, that set out to destroy this guy. So you’re sitting out there thinking, “Obama is only gonna go after the super rich, or the rich.” But you can see right in front of your very eyes, they’re going to go after the achievers.
And if you say nothing, when they eventually get to you, there’s not going to be anybody else to defend you.
Joe the Plumber was on Fox News Channel’s Huckabee show on Saturday night. And Huckabee said,
“You find yourself under an enormous level of scrutiny. How does that make you felt, Joe the Plumber?”
WURZELBACHER:
It actually upsets me. You know, I am a plumber, and just a plumber. And here, you know, Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean these guys are going to deal with some serious issues coming up shortly. The media is worried about whether I’ve paid my taxes. They’re worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America, I mean they really don’t. You know, I asked a question, you know. When you can’t ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary, that bothers me.
That’s exactly right, Joe. They’re out to destroy you for the question you asked and for the answer you forced from Obama’s lips. But the thing to learn about Joe the Plumber, it’s not just what Obama said in response to his question. It’s what happened. And the left made it clear they are going after achievers. They are not just going after the rich. Joe the Plumber is not rich and he’s not on board. Joe the Plumber has not signed on. And so Joe the Plumber is like anybody else, he’s going to be investigated, he’s going to have his life turned upside down ’til he gets his mind right.
What we have here with Joe the Plumber and Barack Obama is a failure to communicate. And so they’re going to have to throw Joe the Plumber back down in the ditch or put him in the box ’til he gets his mind right.
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