Opinion

Focus on Joe just meant to distract

Posted October 30, 2008 11:00 pm

All poor old Joe the plumber did was ask Sen. Obama a question which exposed the Senator's real agenda and the liberal news media has set its sites on destroying Joe's credibility. Now on virtually every form of news media whether it be print, TV or the Internet, there are attacks on Joe about his real name, whether he has a plumbing license or not, his back taxes, whether he really could make $250,000, etc. They have done everything but call him an enemy of the state. What did poor old Joe do to deserve these attacks?

Simple, he asked Obama a question about taxes in which Obama said that he wanted to take money from Joe the plumber and "spread it around" to folks that made less. When 40 percent of Americans already don't pay any income tax, giving them money from others who make more is called socialism. Now to anybody that has followed Sen. Obama's career, his associations and his voting record, the fact that he is a socialist is not a surprise. But Joe the plumber got Obama to say the words out loud and on the record. Basically Obama confirmed that he is a socialist. And now to divert attention from the truth, Joe has to pay the price with these personal attacks on his credibility.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake

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