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Don’t blame Obama for plumber fiasco
Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008 | 2:05 a.m.
Where is the logic by John McCain supporters in accusing the Barack Obama campaign of the trashing of a private citizen, Joe Wurzelbacher? It wasn’t the Obama campaign that recorded the conversation between Mr. Wurzelbacher and Obama and then uploaded the recording to cyberspace. And it most certainly wasn’t the Obama campaign that decided to introduce “Joe the Plumber” into the national conscious.
If blame has to be assigned, consider: Someone in the McCain campaign viewed the conversation and came to the conclusion that there was an advantage to McCain therein. And then it was McCain himself who sat on the stage and introduced Joe Wurzelbacher to a national audience.
As for the media: After all the attention paid to the vetting or not vetting of Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee, just what did anyone expect to happen with the introduction of a private citizen into the campaign? After all, it is the media’s job to let the public know just who “Joe the Plumber” is.
And Mr. Wurzelbacher himself has to take some of the blame. It was he who chose to misrepresent himself in that conversation with Obama.
The McCain campaign seized upon an opportunity to portray Sen. Obama as a socialist. Whether they investigated Mr. Wurzelbacher’s claim or not, they chose to let the chips fall where they may. That, folks, is the logic of the “Joe the Plumber” situation.
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Joe the Plumber's pedigree is of little note. What is far more important is Obama's own pedigree, which is decidely socialist.
1. In 1996, Obama was a member of the "New Party" whose stated objective was "to establish democratic socialism as a political force in the United States"
http://www.youdecide2008....-socialist-w......
2. Obama taught Alinsky seminars for years. Saul Alinsky was a Marxist revolutionary who wrote the book "Rules for Radicals" (which he dedicated to Lucifer, stating: "The devil challenged authority and got his own kingdom, and that goes to the heart of what left is really about. That of course is to get power any way you can, including lying, cheating and stealing. The ultimate rule is that the ends justify the means")
Alinsky's main objective was the acquisition of power, brought about through community agitation -- i.e. helping people understand that they are miserable because the government is impervious to their plight, and they are being exploited by capitalism ("greedy corporations" is a big catchword), so they must harrass said government and corporations until the oppressors understand it is in their "self-interest" to give the masses what they demand.
Alinska taught that true revolutionaries cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within. The key is camouflage.
3. As Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama diverted huge sums of money to socialist groups. The largest recipient -- over 1 million - was the "Small Schools Workshop" -- founded by domestic terrorist/socialist educator William Ayers and directed by Mike Klonsky, the leader of the "New Communist Movement," a Marxist-Leninist organization of the 70s and 80s with ties to the Black Panther Party.
How about Ohio State Officials looking up the "dirt" on Joe for the Obama campaign. Read hear about offices including the Democratic State Attorney General's office helping find personal facts for the Obama campaign that attacked Joe 48 hours after his question.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/loc...
nieman1: "Ohio State Officials looking up the "dirt" on Joe..."
Like every other post of yours, these are desperate baseless words. Just a pack of lies with no substantiation whatsoever.
Your posts are really boring now. Just repetitive meaningless blather meant to sway those too stupid to look for themselves. Can't you see this isn't working? The convertible have already been converted.
Utah is nice. You should move there. Say...in just over a week.
Typical "joane"!
Mud-slinging when truth arrives and personal invective with nothing to say on the side? Check!
Joe has a dream! Of success and rising in the world. Obama says he and his tax-theft plans will punish Joe when he arrives.
Punishing success by, in this case "spreading the wealth around" IS a hallmark of liberal, well more socialist theory today.
"There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
Why should anyone feel sorry for "Joe The Plumbler"? He is not licensed nor is the business he works for and wants to purchase (WHEN he gets enough $$) licensed.
I don't think he will ever be able to afford to buy the business, nor does he have enough brain cells to start his own..........
Obama will give illegals full government health coverage, medicaid and medicare.