The Wit and Wisdom of Joe the Plumber
His real name isn’t Joe at all. It’s Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio and he was just elected to the Lucas County Republican Committee but will always be remembered as Joe the Plumber from the 2008 presidential campaign since, I guess, that moniker was more catchy than Sam the Plumber.
AOL News just published an apparent telephone interview with Joe/Sam who became a cause celebre when he asked candidate Obama a question as Obama passed through Wurzelbacher’s town in October, 2008. As per usual, AOL omitted a pertinent detail that reflected poorly on the Democrat presidential nominee saying only that it was “a tough tax question.”
More precisely, Sam said that Obama’s tax plan was going to hurt him in his effort to buy a plumbing business.
Unscripted, Obama gave a convoluted response ending with, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance at success, too . . . and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” (emphasis added)
That off-the-cuff “spread the wealth around” comment could have come right out of Karl Marx’ Das Kapital, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1672)
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