Joe The Plumber & The Final Debate

Well, Wednesday night’s presidential debate was a whole lot better than the previous two. This may be premature, but it looks like McCain may have found Obama’s kryptonite. God bless Joe the Plumber! How, after all of these months of campaigning, could Obama have slipped up like this? Wow, it looks like Christmas came early for John McCain… This is fantastic!

If you haven’t heard about the exchange between Barack Obama and Joe Wurzelbacher, also known as Joe the Plumber, last Sunday, here’s what happened: Obama was campaigning in Toledo, Ohio, and as he was shaking hands throughout a neighborhood, Joe approached the Senator with questions about his tax proposals. Joe told him that he wanted to buy the small plumbing business where he worked, and he added that this company will make over $250,000.00. He then asked Obama pointedly if he was going to pay more taxes if he is elected, and Obama responded yes.

Joe tried to explain to the Senator that he was a hard worker, pulling in 10 to 12 hours a day, and that he wants his share of the American Dream too. He will continue his work ethic if he does buy the business, Joe said, but it’s not fair for him to be taxed and taxed again for his success.

And Obama responded with this, "It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too."

He continued: "My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."

WHOOPS!

So now we know. We have presumed that Obama has leftist and Marxist leanings all along, but we didn’t think he would in effect put his income redistribution plans on a bumper sticker. There is no way that the Illinois Senator can deny his ultimate agenda now—stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Senator Obama, this ain’t the Sherwood Forest, and you ain’t Robin Hood. Your band of Merry Men can’t help you now—William Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Franklin Raines, and Tony Rezko are all gone. These "friends" of yours were important to you as you began your political ascendency in Chicago, but once these individuals became a liability to you in your presidential campaign, they were unceremoniously thrown under your campaign bus.

This Joe the Plumber development has stunned the Obama camp. When John McCain confronted Obama about Joe and the tax increases, Barack stumbled around, asserting that Joe the Plumber should have been given a tax cut 5 years ago. What is he insinuating? That because Joe wasn’t entitled to a tax cut in 2003, he deserves a tax increase now?

Now the mainstream media are digging for any information to discredit Joe the Plumber. So we are hearing now that Joe doesn’t even have a plumber’s license and that the business that he is planning to buy is not projected to earn a yearly profit of $250,000.00. The Obama Koolaid brigade, i.e. the mainstream media, just don’t get it. Joe the Plumber could have lied about everything he told Senator Obama; Joe is not the issue. The troubling aspect of the exchange between Obama and Joe the Plumber is Obama’s response that he wants to spread the wealth. Spreading the wealth is the issue! That’s what we are worried about—Obama’s plans to punish our economic progress. It is socialism, and after the shameless Washington bailout fiasco, we Americans have had about as much socialism as we can take. No way, No how, Nobama.

And Senator Obama, we need to get something else straight here, You speak of spreading THE wealth, when in fact you want to spread MY wealth, my neighbor’s wealth, and the wealth of any other American who is "unfairly" succeeding under your criteria of social justice. It’s not THE wealth, it’s OUR wealth, and we are passionately patriotic, despite what your running-mate believes. We just reject the notion that our hard-earned money should be further confiscated so that you can play Santa Claus to your constituents.

It’s worth reiterating—No way, No how, Nobama.