Oops, bad move. "Spread the wealth around" means income redistribution, which means socialism: something most people in this center-right nation abhor; those benighted minions dwelling betwixt the coasts not quite stupid enough to be unaware of the history of Russia and post World War II Eastern Europe. The Obama campaign and adoring press had to act fast and effectively and they did, by trashing the bejeebers out of the man who so deviously got Barack Obama to come clean. Via diligent research they dug up all sorts of dirt on Joe the Plumber: he's unlicensed, has a couple of liens filed against him, belonged once to some goofball Maharishi Mahesh Yogi political party, might be (hang on to your hats!) a Republican and, no doubt, is in hock to the local public library for some overdue book fines.
The problem with all these stunning revelations about poor Joe the Plumber, as deeply satisfying as they must have been to make for Barack's disciples, is they don't alter in the slightest what was revealed in his answer to Joe's question: that he is, at the very least, a socialist sympathizer and the most left-wing presidential candidate since Henry Wallace. Whether it was Joe the Plumber or John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Ghengis Khan or Bozo the Clown who asked Obama the question, the verity of his reply is not changed.
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