I have a few thoughts about the fuss surrounding Joe the Plumber.  Here they are.

1.  Joe’s question is not particularly important.  Barack Obama’s answer is.  Did you catch the phrase “spread the wealth around”?  Where is that in the Constitution?

2.  Is the research the Obama campaign is doing on Joe an attempt to distract the American people from Barack Obama’s answer?

3.  The next attack on Joe will be that he was a Republican plant.  This should be good.  Think about that for a minute.  If that were so (which I don’t believe it is), the Obama campaign is so predictable that the McCain campaign knew how Barack Obama would answer the question and that they would go after Joe the Plumber personally.  The second part of that idea bothers me a great deal.  How many people have the Obama campaign (with media allies) gone after?  There seems to be something odd about the way the Obama campaign views free speech.

4.  If you look at the rise of Barack Obama, his political history is one of removing his opponent from the playing field–he is a Chicago machine politician to the core.  I really don’t want to move the Chicago political machine into the White House.  I don’t believe that will be good for the country.

This is what Senator McCain had to say about Joe the Plumber in Miami on Friday, Oct 17:

“The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn’t ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn’t recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.”

One more comment on Joe the Plumber–there is an article in The American Thinker that beautifully sums up what has happened to this average citizen who simply asked a question that was not appreciated.