Poor Man

Good gravy, but do I feel sorry for Joe the Plumber.  Go ahead and click on the link.  Not much valid reading to be had there, but there sure is an awful lot of invalid reading to be had. 

Obama shows up at his house, he asks a question that is somewhat critical, even if it was politely worded and not delivered in a heated tone, and it makes the news.  No big whoop, right?  Because he was the first person on camera to actually ask a critical question of The Chosen One, his life is under the kind of scrutiny usually reserved for entomologists and their butterfly collections.  Poor Joe's wings are about to be ripped off by a pair of tweezers if they haven't already been. 

What the hell is going on here?

Joe Wurzelbacher never signed up for this.  He asked a question of a candidate running for political office, which is, I might remind people, what voters are supposed to do with political candidates and now his life is under scrutiny? 

This should tell people two things:

1. The mainstream media is in the tank for Obama, as they're actively trying to discredit a man who asked a simple question.  Why would they dig up dirt on this guy anyway?  Shouldn't they have better things to do, like chase down the ACORN story?  What's the point of all this if not to discredit him? 

2.  Better not ask Obama any questions when he gets elected, otherwise your life could be dissected for all to see.  That's the threat here: ask a valid question that might make The Chosen One look bad, and have your life scrutinized.  But once he gets elected, it'll be the federal government doing the scrutinizing.  Forget the US Search check; this will have the full force of the federal government behind it.  It's Nixon's administration all over again, only this time it'll be on the left.  Who, do you think, is going to turn out to be the leftist equivalent of Halderman?  What do you want to bet Obama has an Enemies List already?  I won't be surprised at all if that's true.  If that's not going to shut down dissent, I don't know what will.

Do I sound like a whacko conspiracy-theory-toting-freeper here?  Yeah, I do.  And it disgusts me to buy into this notion, but, honestly, what am I supposed to think about all of this?  A man who is not running for public office, who dared to ask a perfectly reasonable question of a political candidate, is having every detail of his life scrutinized by a mainstream media who wants The Chosen One in office, with, I'm sure the full knowledge and support of Obama's campaign.  It's absolutely disgusting.  By doing his job as a citizen, this is what Joe the Plumber receives in return.  In most normal campaigns it would be the candidate for office who would now be under scrutiny, not the average citizen who asked a question.  But this is not a normal campaign.  We have The Messiah, and he must be elected, by hook or by crook, hence anyone who's the least bit critical is fair game.  Which, if you ask me, is bullshit. 

On the happier side of things, this just reeks of desperation, as if Obama's staffers are The Wizard of Oz, and are afraid that Joe the Plumber is going to turn out to be Toto, and pull the curtain aside to reveal all the levers and gizmos they use to keep people from asking questions.  They have to make him out to be a bad man. They must discredit him. That way, no one will pay attention to the question he asked, and the Marxist answer their candidate gave.  If that's not desperation, I don't know what is.   Obama, if he really is The Chosen One, should have had this election in the bag months ago.  That he doesn't, that he's got a razor thin lead, which can turn at any time, shows that a goodly number of people haven't lost their minds in this country, and that's hopeful.  One can only hope that the smears against Joe the Plumber will help open a few more eyes.

So, Joe, I'm sorry this is happening to you.  It's not fair and it's wrong.  You deserve a huge apology, because you did what was right.  But, as we all know, the right path is almost always harder than the wrong one, so bear up.  You might just have cost the Chosen One the election.