JOE THE PLUMBER

I think Barack Obama made a big mistake last night. When addressing Joe, the plumber, he should have looked directly into the camera and said,” Joe, if you are earning $250,000 a year or more, your best interests are served by voting for John McCain.”

Despite being labeled “Joe the plumber – mister every guy” and wearing T shirts for interviews, anyone earning $250,000 is not the average American. What has consistently amazed me, has been the ability of the Republican party to get people struggling to get by, to work so hard to protect the welfare of the wealthy who always benefit from a Republican victory.

As to the claim Obama wants to redistribute Joe’s wealth downward to the less well off , the McCain policy will also redistribute the wealth -- upward to the Joe plumbers , that are struggling so hard to get by on their $250,000 a year income.

On a very negative note, when Joe was asked about his contact with Obama, he said,” He was as good a tap dancer as Sammy Davis Junior.” Now Joe is pretty young and that might have been completely innocent, but in the 50s or 60’s any reference to being like Sammy Davis Junior was often code for a racist remark. How much of that spills into the voting booth is worrisome.