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Saturday, October 18, 2008 

Plumber persecuted

The story of Joe the Plumber, a middle class guy from Ohio who'd like to buy a small business but, as he told Barack Obama, is worried that the leftist senator's tax policies will make it hard to manage, has made headlines aplenty. Joe Wurzelbacher is someone to admire for his honesty. Unfortunately, some leftists out there on Obama's side don't seem to think so, and now, Wurzelbacher is being demonized and vilified by the left. Michelle Malkin has more on how the guy is being persecuted.

Not only that, even Obama himself seems to be really flubbing it. According to this AP Wire report (via Hot Air):
Obama said McCain was misleading voters by proposing tax plans that favor the rich while criticizing an Obama tax plan that would raise taxes only on people making more than $250,000 a year, just 5 percent of all taxpayers.

He’s trying to suggest that a plumber is the guy he’s fighting for,” Obama said. “How many plumbers you know that are making a quarter-million dollars a year?”
The same man who during the debate tried to assure Joe that he wouldn't have to pay any taxes in order to maintain a business is now turning against him. Or is he saying that McCain is wrong to support someone who's middle class? Whatever he's saying, it sounds ludicrous. McCain's campaign has issued a response:
“It’s an outrage that the Obama campaign and the media are attacking Joe the Plumber for asking a legitimate question of a presidential candidate. This is why voters still have so many questions about Barack Obama. Instead of answering tough questions, his campaign attacks average Americans for daring to look at the reality behind his words, said Tucker Bounds, spokesman the McCain-Palin campaign. “John McCain will continue to fight on behalf of all hardworking Americans like Joe for policies geared toward increasing prosperity and reducing the burden on taxpayers — not ’spreading the wealth around’ for Senator Government to distribute as he sees fit.”
People like Joe have every right to earn a living and to be able to work towards buying and managing their own businesses, and also to argue about whether the policies of the left are fair or not. And what the left and MSM are doing by antagonizing the guy for asking asking legitimate questions is simply wrong.

Update: here's an op-ed by Kevin McCullough that tells more about how the Obamedia has sought to hound Wurzelbacher.

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