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First They Came for Joe the Plumber…
Pajamas Media ^
| October 17, 2008
| Claudia Rosett
Posted on 10/19/2008 7:29:02 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Joes question about taxes threw a wrench into Barack Obamas campaign pitch. So, oh what a background check Joe got. Within days, reports were all over the news that Joe owes back taxes, he doesnt have an Ohio plumbers license, his real name is Samuel, and he is shock and horror a registered Republican. Within days, Obama and Biden were holding up Joe to [1] public ridicule, and by implication mocking any American working stiff who might have the audacity [2] to want to earn more than $250,000 per year.
Obama may be full of talk about delivering the American dream, but he apparently has enormous disdain for Americans who actually sweat to earn it for themselves. He wants to take Joes money and spread it around in the name of helping others get ahead but if anyone gets ahead more than Obama deems fitting, watch out.
It seems that Joes sins are less than [3] the litany would make them. He may not have a plumbers license, but he works for someone who does. He owes back taxes, but less than $1,200. And at least to date, it is not a crime in America to use a nickname or be a registered Republican.
But to [4] squabble over Joes record is to miss the real point. Obama is the one running for public office, aspiring to the countrys highest position of power and public trust. Joe is not. Hes a private citizen, who had every right to ask a very good question. He wanted to know why he was being taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream?
What he got from the well-heeled Senators Obama and Biden was mockery and contempt.
Most disturbing is this: If thats how Joe the Plumber gets dealt with while Obama is still stumping for votes, then what happens to Joe, or anyone else who dares question Obamas plans, should Obama win the White House?
Should we expect that that the answer will be targeted investigations, a public display of whatever can be dug up in the way of private laundry, and sneers from the Oval Office?
In the interest of having an informed electorate , it would be far more valuable were the media teams working less frantically to dig up dirt on Joe, and a lot harder on filling in the gaps in the record of candidate Obama. Why wont Obama release his Columbia transcripts? What exactly was he doing during those gaps in the bio?
How are we supposed to square the lavish praise of Obamas intellectual powers and refined sensitivities with his professed failure during years of intimate acquaintance to notice the hate-speech of Rev. Wright? What is the real story with the ties to Bill Ayers, to Tony Rezko? What does that say about his judgment in choosing friends and advisers and associates?
Would Obama appoint similar pals to high office in Washington? Would he bring similarly blinkered perceptions to the job of making policy? Would his critics receive the kind of savaging just dished out to Joe? If theres any chance that the answer is yes, then the drubbing of Joe the Plumber is a warning to us all.
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichrist; joetheplumber; joetheplummer; obama; rosett; waronjoe
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To: Ooh-Ah
41
posted on
10/19/2008 9:26:30 AM PDT
by
Fred
(The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
To: Gaffer
If Obama wins, I expect that the Free Republic archives will be seized and sifted with a fine tooth comb. Registry information will be taken and IRS audits will be the beginning. Before the site is closed permanently, I fully expect that the site owners will be served with subpoenas and the servers confiscated, all registry information will not only be sent to the IRS but also released to the MSM, so anyone posting with a screen name will have their personal identity revealed to the public and held up for scorn and ridicule.
Remember, what they've done to Joe Wurtzelbacher has been done before the Obamatrons have really won anything. Once they ascend to Power, they'll have every agency and power of the huge and bloated federal government at their disposal. You'll have people like William Ayers in the cabinet, Jamie Gorelick as AG, Rahm Emmanuel as NSA, etc. They will utterly destroy any and all opposition to The One.
42
posted on
10/19/2008 9:33:50 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: Boston Tea Party
His “real name” is also Joe. Lots of people are proud of their middle-name. (Unlike B. Hussein Obama)
43
posted on
10/19/2008 9:34:33 AM PDT
by
Mogollon
($5/gal Gas....Kick the Jacka$$es Out!)
To: realcleanguy
“The Nazis started this way in the 1930s..”
Actually, it was the twenties. Usually I take things like this as hyperbole, but the attempt to squash dissent, insult and impugn one’s opponents in the most hideous and guttural fashion, and use any chance to cheat, incite violence, or intimidate has been used by these despicable Obamists. You aren't that far off.
44
posted on
10/19/2008 9:39:50 AM PDT
by
Luke21
To: realcleanguy
And the outcome-Hitler’s defeat-was assured because of some really brave,strong people who endured a lot but believed in freedom’s cause. God bless Joe,and may more like him come forward as Election day nears!!!
Be heard,wherever you are!!
45
posted on
10/19/2008 10:24:22 AM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
(Sarah and Joe.....Let's GO!)
To: Ooh-Ah
First they came for Joe the Plumber...
And middle America got out their toilet plungers!
They know how to deal with a steaming pile.
46
posted on
10/19/2008 10:24:29 AM PDT
by
Fichori
(ironic: adj. 1 Characterized by or constituting irony. 2 Obamy getting beat up by a girl.)
To: Kay Syrah
47
posted on
10/19/2008 10:25:50 AM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
(Sarah and Joe.....Let's GO!)
To: WHBates
His followers don’t think it’ll happen to them. What “leaders” like this do is first eliminate those with any power. Then they go after anyone who disagrees and there’s nobody left to stand up for them.
To: johnny7
Damn...that one’s even better than yesterday’s with Joe goin’ umppy on Barack.
49
posted on
10/19/2008 10:42:34 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: oblomov
there should be their Tell that to the close-captioning guys on FOXNews. They are suppose to be professionals, yet they screw it up a lot.
50
posted on
10/19/2008 11:00:57 AM PDT
by
eccentric
(a.k.a. baldwidow)
To: Ooh-Ah
>>>Is this the treatment an Obama administration would use against critics?<<<
Remember, this is America, not Stalin’s Soviet Union or Castro’s Cuba. In our socialist worker’s paradise, any dissent will accompany a public shaming period, followed by mandatory workshops about diversity and the common good. Perhaps your license or certification to do this or that job will be pulled since the new regulations will demand that your opinions be restricted to those opinions which are allowed. Of course you can disagree with the government; just don’t expect to be allowed to work in construction, plumbing, education, wiring, trucking, aviation, boating, fishing, broadcasting, accounting, insurance, banking, or any other job which requires a license or certification. The government won’t kick in your door; they’ll just ruin your reputation. The government won’t put you in jail; you’ll just have to deal with harassing visits from the Internal Revenue Service and pay hefty fines for a missed number or a forgotten reciept from years ago. And don’t think you can hide your money under the mattress, either. Remember, what happened to Al Capone can happen to you.
We are in for interesting times.
51
posted on
10/19/2008 11:12:21 AM PDT
by
redpoll
To: ErnBatavia
Damn...that ones even better than yesterdays with Joe goin umppy on Barack.Thanks... I love to play with Photoshop. ;)
52
posted on
10/19/2008 11:13:07 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
To: ErnBatavia
Damn...that ones even better than yesterdays with Joe goin umppy on Barack.Thanks... I love to play with Photoshop. ;)
53
posted on
10/19/2008 11:14:08 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
To: Ooh-Ah
Everyone here should copy this and send it to anyone you know who still values your freedom.
We are dealing with gangsters running the Obama campaign. This is right out of the Hitler playbook.
Don’t be the “New Jews” of the 21st Century. There is still time. We don’t have to march into the ovens unless we choose to.
54
posted on
10/19/2008 11:45:09 AM PDT
by
RichardW
To: Luke21
Well, I thought i was dreaming at first, but then the nightmare starting becoming real
55
posted on
10/19/2008 12:51:45 PM PDT
by
realcleanguy
("I have not yet begun to fight")
To: LottieDah
56
posted on
10/19/2008 12:52:53 PM PDT
by
realcleanguy
("I have not yet begun to fight")
To: Ooh-Ah
Can anybody think of an example where anybody has gone farther than Obama ...on fewer accomplishments.
His career has been based on CONTACTS, not accomplishments...and he refuses to talk about his CONTACTS!
57
posted on
10/19/2008 12:57:38 PM PDT
by
lonestar
To: Ooh-Ah
Does a bear crap in the woods.
They haven’t waited until the election is over.
58
posted on
10/19/2008 12:59:49 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Ooh-Ah
59
posted on
10/19/2008 1:48:35 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
( Joe the plumber should provide his license right after Obama provides his real birth certificate)
To: Ooh-Ah
Why aren’t we hearing speeches by Tim Robbins about the “chill wind” that he was carrying on about during Bush’s Presidency? Oh yeah, supression and intimidation are acceptable when it is practiced by the Dems . . . .
60
posted on
10/19/2008 2:31:37 PM PDT
by
onevoter
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