Last week, a guy put Barack Obama on the spot regarding his tax plan.
Obama's "share spread the wealth" statement was probably the first time a lot of folks had heard Obama say so bluntly what he thinks about your hard-earned money: it needs to go to someone else who hasn't made as much because it's all about "fairness," not opportunity.
In the latest example of tolerance, the Left is out to smear Joe the Plumber. We've been told Joe is related to Charles Keating, owes back taxes, he's not a licensed plumber and now will probably lose his job.
All because he asked a question that made The Obamessiah look bad.
Get ready for eight years of Gestapo tactics like this if Obama is elected president.
Question The One? You'll be roasted alive.
Expose him as the socialist he is? We'll dig through your tax records for the last 20 years.
Let's just start calling it "The Obama Treatment." If you have the audacity to ask an inconvenient question, get ready for the enema of a lifetime because, to the Left, the problem wasn't Obama's answer, it was the guy who asked it.
UPDATE: Here is Echidne of the Snakes post on the subject:
The media has decided that Joe the plumber is the crystallizing moment of the third debate. It's all very silly, because Joe voted for McCain in the primaries (so how undecided is he?) and because nobody seems to know if the 250,000 dollars he mentions as his income is revenue or profit (which is what he'd be actually taxed on) and so on.
Still, we are supposed to see Joe as the composite American, the average guy, whose life is exactly like the lives of everybody else! Exactly! Except that Joe is white and can never worry about the health exception to abortion, say. And I'd bet that people who write about how very average he is have rather little in common with Joe.
Where to begin? First of all, one can have voted for someone in the primary but changed one's mind about the candidate since. I've been an advocate for John McCain, but I can see how someone could have become disillusioned with him since the primaries.
Secondly, to my knowledge, Joe the Plumber didn't say he made $250k a year. He said he wanted to buy a plumbing business which had the potential for such income. A business that employs two or more people can, quite easily, make $250,000 each year.
Third, I'm not sure how abortion relates to Joe's question about taxes. The Joe the Plumber as Everyman theory is with regards to his ability to make and keep money. Anyone--including women--can be plumbers or own their own businesses. And Barack Obama's tax plan will cost those owners, regardless of their ability to get abortions.
And Joe, in fact, has quite a bit in common with the average American. He's working. He's trying to do better for himself and his family. He's concerned about the economy and how Obama's plans will affect him. Except for his lack of a womb, he sounds quite a bit like a lot of women I know, too.
UPDATE x2: Dan Riehl discusses the O body count.
The O-body count is growing and the Left and Obama haven't really even achieved any power of the executive kind so far. Everyone who has gotten in the way of Obama's path to power has been horribly run down. It's also obvious that they would happily destroy them if they could.
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