Posted on 10/15/2008 1:02:01 PM PDT by mojito
Pam Meister has a great interview at Family Security Matters with the plumber whose wealth Barack Obama wants to redistribute. His name is Joe Wurzelbacher.
Wurzelbacher for President!
Read the whole thing here. An excerpt:
JW: No, there was nothing new. You know, I didn’t appreciate that, actually.
PM: There’s a clip of you that’s been shown on television, and it’s all over the Internet on YouTube as well. It’s a very short clip. Do you think it accurately portrays the exchange that you had with Sen. Obama? Obviously there was more to it.
JW: I haven’t seen too much of it to be honest with you – I’ve been working yesterday and today, and the evenings spent with my boy or with my family. So I haven’t spent too much time looking at it. I did notice – I wish the newspaper people, talk shows, I wish they would start off with the very beginning: “Do you believe the American dream?” That was essentially what it came down to for me – was do you believe in the American Dream, you’re not going to punish people for going for it?
PM: To you, what exactly is the American Dream? Can you explain that?
JW: Me personally?
PM: Yeah, you personally.
JW: Me personally, my American Dream was to have a house, a dog, a couple rifles, a bass boat. I believe in living life easy and simple. I don’t have grand designs. I don’t want much. I just wanna be able to take care of my family and do things with them outdoors and that’s about it, really. I don’t have a “grand scheme” thing. My American Dream is just more personal to me as far as working, making a good living and being able to provide for my family, college for my son. Things like that – simple things in life, that’s really what it comes down to for me. That’s my dream.
PM: Do you think your question surprised Obama, caught him off guard at all?
JW: Well that was actually my intent. Most people, you ask them “do you believe in the American Dream?” Nine times out of ten they’ll sit there and go, “Yeah, of course!” That’s where he messed up, because as soon as I asked him that, his answer shows that he doesn’t believe in the American Dream. You know, like the question you asked before – he pretty much contradicted himself. “I don’t want to punish you but – “ Well, you’re going to anyways.
PM: Has there been a lot of media interest in your story? Have you been getting a lot of calls from the media asking you to talk about this?
JW: Neil Cavuto, I was on his show earlier today, just a phone interview for about five minutes. He asked a couple of questions. Then a talk show – Trey Ware – he has a conservative talk show down in San Antonio, Texas – he picked up on it. I’ve had friends call me from all over the nation, saying they heard Rush Limbaugh quote something from me or they’ve heard Hannity quote something. I guess it’s getting quite a bit of play.
PM: What kind of feedback are you getting from friends and family, other than the fact they have heard you being quoted on some very popular talk shows?
JW: Well, my son thinks it’s absolutely the most incredible thing in the world. He loves – I always teach him to speak his mind and to know what he’s talking about before he speaks his mind because usually there’s always someone in the room who will know what you’re talking about. So he just thinks it’s really neat. My friends – well, a lot of them will come to me and ask me political questions just because I think it’s important to know about it – and so they know they’ll get a straight answer from me, even if I don’t like they guy or I do like the guy, you know, I’ll give them the pros and cons of it and let them make their own decisions on it. But some, they know it’s pretty important to me. I was kind of actually nervous about doing any of this, you know, answering calls and going on that show. But they all, you know, said that I always answer them good and so they just said go for it, so they’ve been very supportive.
PM: Do you hope Sen. McCain will talk more about this issue during Wednesday’s debate, you know, taxes for small businesses?
JW: There’s a lot of things I wish McCain would say. As far as this, yes, I would like him to speak. Not so much about small businesses, but just people in general that make this money. It’s not up to them to help America, I mean – let me rephrase that. It’s not – they shouldn’t be taxed more because they’ve succeeded. That’s envy and jealousy. Get off your butt and go work. Don’t sit there and expect the government to give it to you. So I wouldn’t mind him speaking on it like that. I know he couldn’t say it probably like that because that’d turn a lot of people off. But it just – yeah, I guess I would like him to speak about that and a bunch of other things. I’d like to hear him talk about immigration and what he plans on doing about that and with our borders. I mean, there’s a lot of things that haven’t even been addressed in the last two debates.
Oh, come on, Michelle couldn’t have really said that—it must be a hoax! ;-)
Republicans need to name it the Obama “Spread the Wealth” Economic Plan and not let up. Everytime his plan is mentioned, that phrase needs to be put in there very emphatically. Don’t let it out of anyone’s mind before the election. Please need to be walking into the voting booth with that playing over and over in their heads. THAT’S what will resonate.
With just matter-of-fact words, Joe proves he’s far more an American than The One. But then, common sense always trumps bloviating socialism, except in democrat sycophant minds. Joe makes too much sense for most democrat voters to get it.
use the following link to listen to the audio.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjljYjA3YTYzMjU2ZjA5Yzg1MmM2YjIzZjEyN2ZjZjk=
Great post
I know, I was just joshing since there’s a question on whether she really made the statements reported by API!
Obowser??
Fantastic!!!!!
Senator Obama, We look at your policies. Massive government programs. Wealth redistribution via tax policy. Large tax increases on producers to those that have not earned it. Government giveaways. Government run healthcare, mandated for all. A plan to give a trillion taxpayer dollars for global wealth redistribution. Senator Obama, you, who first ran for the Illinois Senate as a New Party - a socialist party group - why do you not call your vision for America, socialist - because it is? And how does socialism fit into a Constitutional Republic? They are two conflicting governmental philosophies. One thinks government needs to run and control everything. The other wants small government and private owners making the decisions how to run things.
Second: Sir, this country is about giving everyone the same equality of opportunity, it was NEVER set up to guarantee equality of OUTCOME. Yet all your policies are geared towards forcing equality of outcome. How is using the power of government to take assets and income from some and giving it to others, an American principle?
Third: Before we were a country, we tried socialism in America. It was called Jamestown. The experiment failed miserably with half the colonists dying the first winter. When people do unequal work but get the same reward, nobody works very hard because there’s no incentive to. When they changed this policy and let people keep what they grew, they had large crop surpluses and were able to pay their debts off quicker. Yet all of your policies are about punishing people who you think have too much, and giving it to others you believe should have it. How is that the American Dream - “Don’t be too successful, else we will take it from you?” Who are you to decide has too much?
4. Senator Obama. Right now, if someone comes up to me on the street, and says, “You make too much money, and I don’t have enough. You need to pay me $200 a month. Hand it over.” We’d say the person is nuts and has no moral or legal claim to my earnings. Yet you, Senator Obama, with the full power and strength of the federal government, wants to do the same thing, you want to be the middleman who takes it from me, and holds it a little while, then gives it to the other guy. Now, explain to me how that really is an American way of doing things, as you say, Senator Obama, rather than a socialist way of doing things?
silly me, I didn’t look close enough at your post with the ‘wink’ at the end. sorry. :o)
I'm reasonably certain that Barack won't be all that happy with what he gets from some of us...
Remember the old saying: "Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it."
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BTTT
There was a time (Sixties) when the phrase “share the wealth” equated to “socialism” in the mind of the average American. And, in that same mind, socialism was a bad thing. I just get the feeling these days that the sinew that once held these ideas together just doesn’t exist anymore.
That memories are too short to connect “share the wealth” to socialism is not surprising. What is a little surprising to me is the number of people in this country who are ready and even eager to adopt socialism, in all or in part, as our economic model.
That’s the only bad consequence of the fall of communism in the USSR. We don’t have the spector of the Soviet Union hanging over us to remind us to stay diligent.
This is why McCain picked Sarah Palin. To appeal to voters like this guy — and there are tens of millions of them.
bump for “Tell ‘em like it is” Joe.
The complete interview is excellent!!!
Get off your butt and go work. Don’t sit there and expect the government to give it to you.
My thoughts exactly!
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