by Mona Gallagher

Created on: October 20, 2008

"You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary," Joe Wurzelbacher said.

Where did Joe the Plumber go wrong? Why the team Obama frenzy to discredit him?
Assisted by the mainstream media, attacks from every direction flew at Joe the Plumber the past few days, and he is bewildered because all he did was talk to Obama on camera at a campaign rally.

"You know, I am a plumber," Wurzelbacher said. "Just a plumber."

In the week following the final presidential debate, Joe the Plumber has become a celebrity or at least an infamous person, but he's not enjoying the attention or the attacks on his personal information. He is under attack.

The MSM quickly started searching though Joe's records to find the trash on him and they were fast if not thorough. They divulged that he was not a licensed plumber and that he has a tax lien against him. Naturally, they neglected to report that Obama's campaign treasurer has a lien against him and his companies also.
Why ask about Obama's campaign when you can beat up a plumber?

The reason team Obama and MSM went after Joe the Plumber, I believe, was to provide a distraction and smoke screen for Obama's gaffe. If enough attention were brought on Joe the Plumber, the statement Obama made about "spreading the wealth around" might be lost in the clamor. If people focused on "spreading the wealth" they might connect it with socialism.

At the heart of the conversation between Barack Obama and Joe Wurzelbacher is the promise of the 95 percent tax cut for those making less than $250,000. Since only 60 percent of the population pays taxes, that means the remaining 40 percent would receive tax credits. Parse it further; Obama said he would give the tax cuts to working families. That excludes singles and many seniors. The pie gets smaller.

However you slice the pie, it remains a redistribution of wealth or the concept of social equality. You work hard and make a success and you give me some of my money though I've done nothing to earn it.

Obamas entire career was built on social equality through community organizing. Saul Alinsky's son recently said that Obama has learned the lessons well. If you recall Obama's "bittergate" speech of last spring, you can find a strikingly similar phrase from Saul Alinsky's book, Rules for Radicals. There is nothing romantic or uplifting about the rules Alinsky wrote for achieving social equality. It's a hard-line philosophy.

We can carry this debate a step forward.
MSM hasn't said much

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