The media's treatment of Joe Wurzelbacher, a/k/a Joe the Plumber, strains credulity.
Joe is a simple working man who committed the apparently unforgivable sin of questioning Obama's stated tax policies. For that, the media have turned their collective investigative skills on Joe to try to discredit him.
Joe the Plumber doesn't even have a plumbing license, they breathtakingly report. Not only that, he owes the government back taxes!!
They don't explain to us why that disqualifies Joe's question to Obama. And they carefully fail to mention that Joe, who works for a plumbing company, doesn't need a license in Ohio, since he works for a plumbing company and is not self-employed.
They also carefully neglect mentioning the Democrat Congressmen who owe far more back taxes than Joe. After all, their mission is not to uncover corruption but to ruin the credibility of the man who dared to question Obama's stated intention to "spread the wealth around."
One can't help but wonder why they haven't investigated Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright with such enthusiasm. Oh… that's right. It's because Ayers and Wright are supporters of Obama.
In addition, Barack Obama himself has been misrepresenting and ridiculing Joe in his campaign speeches. "How many plumbers do you know who make a quarter of a million dollars?!" he derisively asks the crowd.
Joe didn't say he made a quarter-million dollars. He said he was thinking about buying a small company that made a little over a quarter-million and grow it, and he pointed out to Obama that his plan to gouge small businesses would seriously impact his ability to grow his business and hire more employees.
However, Obama, with his closed mind and stated communist policies, had no sympathy at all for Joe, the simple working-class stiff. Instead, if you can believe it, Obama told Joe, "It's always good to spread the wealth around."
Obviously, Obama meant that it's good to spread someone else's wealth around, since I don't see Obama giving away his millions! On the contrary, Obama and his wife have been dining on lobster and imported caviar in the Presidential Suite of the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
And then there's Jessica Hughes in Texas who received the call from an Obama campaign worker who asked her if she would support Obama. The woman told her, "No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets. I think you should find something better to do with your time."
The next day, two federal agents showed up at Hughes' door and accused her of making death threats against Obama. They said the campaign worker had turned her in and had told the Secret Service that Hughes said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor." When Hughes denies making the threat, the agents didn't believe her and asked why the campaign worker would have made up such a thing. That's a very good question.
If this is the way Obama and his cohorts treat "dissidents" in a society which purports to allow free speech, what will happen if he becomes president? Will those who oppose or question him end up in a Soviet-style Gulag Archipelago? Will they be sent away to "re-education camps", as they are in China? (After all, Obama has publicly stated his admiration for communist China.) Or will he simply use intimidation to quiet his critics?
It's something to consider.
Joe is a simple working man who committed the apparently unforgivable sin of questioning Obama's stated tax policies. For that, the media have turned their collective investigative skills on Joe to try to discredit him.
Joe the Plumber doesn't even have a plumbing license, they breathtakingly report. Not only that, he owes the government back taxes!!
They don't explain to us why that disqualifies Joe's question to Obama. And they carefully fail to mention that Joe, who works for a plumbing company, doesn't need a license in Ohio, since he works for a plumbing company and is not self-employed.
They also carefully neglect mentioning the Democrat Congressmen who owe far more back taxes than Joe. After all, their mission is not to uncover corruption but to ruin the credibility of the man who dared to question Obama's stated intention to "spread the wealth around."
One can't help but wonder why they haven't investigated Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright with such enthusiasm. Oh… that's right. It's because Ayers and Wright are supporters of Obama.
In addition, Barack Obama himself has been misrepresenting and ridiculing Joe in his campaign speeches. "How many plumbers do you know who make a quarter of a million dollars?!" he derisively asks the crowd.
Joe didn't say he made a quarter-million dollars. He said he was thinking about buying a small company that made a little over a quarter-million and grow it, and he pointed out to Obama that his plan to gouge small businesses would seriously impact his ability to grow his business and hire more employees.
However, Obama, with his closed mind and stated communist policies, had no sympathy at all for Joe, the simple working-class stiff. Instead, if you can believe it, Obama told Joe, "It's always good to spread the wealth around."
Obviously, Obama meant that it's good to spread someone else's wealth around, since I don't see Obama giving away his millions! On the contrary, Obama and his wife have been dining on lobster and imported caviar in the Presidential Suite of the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
And then there's Jessica Hughes in Texas who received the call from an Obama campaign worker who asked her if she would support Obama. The woman told her, "No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets. I think you should find something better to do with your time."
The next day, two federal agents showed up at Hughes' door and accused her of making death threats against Obama. They said the campaign worker had turned her in and had told the Secret Service that Hughes said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor." When Hughes denies making the threat, the agents didn't believe her and asked why the campaign worker would have made up such a thing. That's a very good question.
If this is the way Obama and his cohorts treat "dissidents" in a society which purports to allow free speech, what will happen if he becomes president? Will those who oppose or question him end up in a Soviet-style Gulag Archipelago? Will they be sent away to "re-education camps", as they are in China? (After all, Obama has publicly stated his admiration for communist China.) Or will he simply use intimidation to quiet his critics?
It's something to consider.
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