That’s right! He may be a registered Republican but like Sarah Palin and others he has been maligned and mocked, he has had his privacy invaded and his personal information spread throughout the world wide web for all to see. In short he has become the target of the Obamabots.
We PUMAS know what that’s like. We know it quite well. You need not commit a crime, no all you have to do is question The One or speak out against him and you will soon find yourself in the same situation as Joe.
The only “crime” Joe the Plumber committed was asking a simple question of the Democratic Candidate for president. He wanted to know how Obama’s tax plans would affect his future. He wanted to know why if he worked harder and was successful he would be punished for that success. He wants to buy the business he’s been working for and he wants to keep the fruits of his labor. ( Imagine that! He wants to keep the money he earns! How scandalous! )
Obama basically mocked him and said we need to “spread the wealth around” said a bunch of hoo haw crap and basically he told Joe that if he is successfully through his hard work the tax plan would take some of Joe’s hard earned money and spread it around to those who weren’t so successful. Because you know Joe should feel bad and somehow guilty that those people aren’t successful right? I mean it must be Joe’s fault if some of those people don’t work or don’t achieve success on their own and Joe and the rest of us should be responsible for them right? Spread the wealth around!
And he wonders why people are calling him a Socialist or Marxist or just flat out the next Hitler! Yeah I said it!
Next we have the Media, Obama’s personal 527’s, jumping on Joe too! We’ve heard it from Biden too. “Well Joe doesn’t actually make $250,000 so he won’t be affected by the tax plan.”
NEWS UPDATE FOR OBAMA SURROGATES, SUPPORTERS AND THE MEDIA: It doesn’t matter how much money Joe makes or doesn’t make or if he would be affected by the tax plan. He has every right to ask the question and as a voter he deserves the respect of not only an honest answer but to not be attacked simply for asking! Obama wonders why people hate him?
There it is in print! Voters deserve respect from a candidate and any candidate of any worth knows that! You don’t ask for their votes and attack them publicly if they disagree or question you! It is not typically an incentive for support. He has to be the densest candidate ever to not see this simple, obvious truth.
They ( Obama supporters AND the MSM ) have now dug up everything they could on Joe the Plumber. We now know that Joe is his middle name and where he has lived previously. The Bots on Daily Kos have listed his address, the value of his home, his proffessional status, his tax liens, divorce records and all kinds of other private information that they have made public. A whole page dedicated to threads about Joe the Plumber.
Nice huh? They also went way overboard with Sarah Palin as we know but she is a public figure seeking office so some ( not all ) of that was to be expected but Joe the Plumber and so many more of us are neither yet the Bots seem to live to smear, threaten and harass all who refuse to worship their Idiot God.
What’s next? Joe the plumber T-Shirts? Probably already printing them. November can’t come soon enough!
CQ
OBAMA + DEM CONG = USA RIP
If there are “I’m with Joe the Plumber” tee-shirts, I’ll gladly buy and wear one. Because when decent hard-working citizens are smeared all across the media and the shrillosphere it’s time, and way past time to choose a side.
You either are for decent hard-working people of you are against them. KOS and his ilk are quite clearly against them.
Elistest media, including the lofty NYT are quite clearly against them.
Obama and his elitist Obamacrats are quite clearly against them.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are looking better all the time.
Yes I would wear one of those too but the Bots will most likely print something much more tasteless. Maybe we should prit our own. Uppity linked to a post yesterday called I Am Joe it was great and so true!
Obama and friends are having a good ‘ol time mocking Je and saying stuff like “how many plumbers do you knw that make that much?” What an ass! And we’re supposed to belive he’s not an elitist and he’s one of us? NO SALE!
It does not matter how much Joe makes he had every right to ask the question and should have been treated with respect not scorn.
CQ
Ted I agree except I think Obama = any congress = USA RIP
Even with a republican controlled congress he would call all those who didn’t do as he wanted racists and haters and force his agenda anyway.
NOBAMA in November!
CQ
I had to return one more, last time, since we talked about it a while ago: who would Powell endorse.
Perhaps it would be wise to read Colin Powell’s comments about this campaign: how he’s troubled by McCain’s campaigning, how “this nonsense should stop”, How Palin is not ready yet etc.
It’s all over CNN and you can find a link here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081019/pl_politico/14714;_ylt=AlSwLEgr7AHOFehOhRgsQQSs0NUE
To quote:”Powell, 71, criticized McCain for invoking the former domestic terrorist William Ayers as an Obama associate.
“They’re trying to connect him to some kind of terrorist feelings, and I think that’s inappropriate,” Powell said.
“Now I understand what politics is all about — I know how you can go after one another. And that’s good. But I think this goes too far. And I think it has made the McCain campaign look a little narrow. It’s not what the American people are looking for. And I look at these kinds of approaches to the campaign, and they trouble me.”
And I couldn’t agree more with the statement: “it’s a generational change”. I am 37 and totally fed up with how the babyboomers have corrupted and destroyed this world. Now they all retire we get a second wave of misery, all out of some misconstrued feeling of entitlement that the 1960’s really mattered. It may have, but it’s also 40 years ago.
Wow Patrick, your ageism is showing. I guess I should now apologize for thinking I have a right to get something back out of Social Security after they have been taking money out of my paycheck for over 40 years.
And each decade really matters to those who lived through it for one reason or another. The sixties were very important for a number of reasons. Civil rights being just one.
The civil war and the end of slavery was over 100 years ago and some are still fighting that.
Personally I could care less what Colin Powell has to say. He lost all credibility for me after his little performance at the UN.
Just one more politician trying to drag Obama’s ass across the line ‘cuz he can’t close the deal!
Patrick you are banned I am tired of your bullshit. You came here before all nicey, nicey then you present your Obamabot crap after being clearly told it would not be tolerated.
Truth is truth regardless of your candidate’s attempt to make any and all things negative about himself be re-defined as racist, smears, lies and a crime to speak out loud. You and your bot buddies can go enjoy yourselves at “re-education” camp after your idot god loses and your faith is shaken.
CQ
It’s a sad moment in American political life when our citizens cannot distance themselves from political discourse and commentary. We become emotionally tied up in supporting our candidate and any comment from other opinioned individuals is summarily dismissed with name calling and generally juvenile messages.
America is sadly positioned to lead, when we eat ourselves alive, and call members of the opposition by harsh and untrue names. When will we ever learn from the lessons of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City? When we were all ready to kill any Arab or Muslim looking person, only to find out that the real perpetrators of this audacious attack was someone who looked like I do in the mirror?
Why are we attacking other Americans? How does this behavior benefit us? Do we really need someone to be the Devil while we pretend to be the Angel? What happens when the shoe switches to the other foot? What do we fear so greatly?