THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 282, October 29, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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JOE THE PLUMER'S AUDACITY TO HOPE
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, BARACK OBAMA, & SAMUEL JOE WURZELBACHER: THE AMBITIOUS &
SELF-MOTIVATED WORKER OR SMALL BUSINESSMAN AS A MORTAL THREAT TO THE LIBERAL PARADIGN -- WHY
OBAMA, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, & THE REST OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT ARE DETERMINED TO PUNISH THOSE
AMERICANS WHO ESTABLISH SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES -- WHY LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A
VESTED INTEREST IN KEEPING THE "LITTLE GUY" IN A DOWNTRODDEN & DISADVANTED STATE
FULL STORY:
It is a safe bet that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., will never again engage “Joe the Plumber” or anyone like him in a
discussion of policy without “preconditions.” Some things are just too dangerous to the future of Liberal America to be
left to chance.
On October 12, 2008, Joe, a real American with legitimate concerns for his future and that of his country, questioned
Barack Obama as to why the Democratic Party presidential wannabe would see fit to punish Joe for establishing a
successful business. Since then, Democratic Party political attack dogs and their media minions have not stopped
delving into any and every aspect of Joe’s life, in a desperate effort to cloud and eventually erase the real significance
of Joe’s encounter with Obama from the minds of the American people, hopefully before it influences their voting
decisions.
Adding to all of the distractions and diversions from their brief exchange, it turns out that “Joe the Plumber” (In reality,
Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher of Toledo, Ohio) is an extremely well versed and articulate speaker, who regularly offers very
profound observations on every topic from America’s current economic crisis to the War in Iraq. Some enthusiastic
onlookers are even postulating as to his worthiness to run for Congress in 2010.
So it is not surprising that the Democratic Party/Libersl media axis has focused an enormous amount of attention on
any perceived flaws in Joe’s past life. Among other transgressions, it turns out that he is not a certified plumber. But,
despite the inordinate hype that the monolithic cabal of Liberals made of Joe’s lack of official certification, the matter
is wholly irrelevant to the critically important point that resulted from his meeting with Obama.
Likewise, for all of his verbal proficiency and appeal, Joe’s driving political philosophy is not the issue of primary
concern. Even the very question he asked of Barack Obama is itself a secondary matter. Of singular importance is the
repugnant nature of Obama’s answer to Joe. Claiming that he did not want to “punish” anyone, Obama went on to
voice his belief that life in America would be improved if he and his class were able to “spread the wealth” on behalf
of others who might not be doing as well as Joe aspired to do.
The rare simplicity and direct candor of Obama’s answer is singularly telling, and leaves no room for “reinterpretation.”
It cannot be claimed, as the Obama campaign has so often done, that the response of the narcissistic Illinois Senator
was “taken out of context.” He believes in Socialism and the forced confiscation and redistribution of wealth, under
government direction, from the “haves” to the “have nots.” Thus, the event serves as a damning indictment of Obama’s
contempt for the freedom and opportunity that, for over two centuries has underwritten this nation’s prosperity and
greatness.
As such, immediate damage control from the political Left was in order. On one “news” program after another, Joe was
demeaned and belittled. Joy Behar, offering her typically vapid commentary on the ABC program “The View,”
mocked Joe as “engaging in fantasy” for hoping to eventually buy the plumbing business where he is presently
employed. Vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden (Democrat - Delaware) similarly demeaned him for worrying about the
possibility of eventually earning the $250,000 that, at least on that date (The number has predictably dropped to
$150,000 in Obama’s more recent speeches.), qualified him to be a target of Obama’s fiscal fairness police.
Perhaps most reprehensible of all is the grim revelation that Helen Jones-Kelley, the Director of Ohio’s “Department of
Job and Family Services,” suddenly decided to do a thorough background check on Joe. Of course, she denies any
connection between this vindictive move and her having made the maximum legally allowable donation to the Obama
campaign.
Such a colossal attack by virtually the entire Democratic Party political assassination squad, directed at a person of Joe’s
average social status may strike some naive Liberals as completely out of character for the party that so proudly declares
itself to be the advocate of “the little guy.” Yet, considering the ugly realities of Liberalism, the situation makes perfect
sense.
In truth, Democrats and Liberals have always had a vested interest in keeping the “little guy” in a downtrodden and
disadvantaged state. A preponderance of such vulnerable and feeble individuals represents the Liberal Democrats'
greatest hold on political power. Consequently, anyone who strives to elevate himself out of needy circumstances to a
position of autonomy and self-determination represents the greatest of all threats to the Liberal Leftist agenda. Obama is
certainly no exception. “Community Organizers” need, above all else, an exploitable community to empower them.
Ambitious and self-motivated, “Joe the Plumber” does not fit that mold. In the end, the visceral loathing exhibited
towards Joe by the political Left was merely a dark glimpse of its regard for any American who might spurn the promise
of subsistence at the hands of the “nanny state” and exchange its insipidness for the risks and rewards of good
old-fashioned liberty.
In this manner can be explained all of the seeming contradictions of Liberalism that have baffled many who might presume
Liberal intentions to be inherently good. Among the best examples is that of Liberal culpability over the failure of public
education. While claiming heartfelt concern for disadvantaged youth, Liberals fiercely and determinedly oppose any
efforts to let inner city children be set free from the educational wastelands of urban government schools.
Obama’s own involvement with the Annenberg Foundation (originally established to fund education), along with fellow
radical and domestic terrorist William Ayers, stands as further proof. Clearly, their mutual goal was not to boost the
traditional academic atmosphere for Chicago’s inner-city youth. Doing so would only open the doors of true American
opportunity to those impressionable young people, allowing them to break free of the Liberal snare in which they would
otherwise remain in perpetuity.
Fifty million dollars later, another entire generation of Chicago’s urban population is almost universally steeped in
venomous Liberal social and political philosophies that hang on many Chicagoans wrists and necks like shackles, barring
them from ever rising above the squalor of their current existence. Yet, in Illinois, their helplessness translates to the
maximum benefit of Ayers, Obama, and the others who hold a firm grip on those shackles.
In contrast, “Joe the Plumber” personifies the spirit of those Americans who once chose to abandon the comparative
safety and stability of the plantation, and instead risked the hazards and uncertainties of Harriet Tubman’s “Underground
Railroad” in hopes of finding freedom, who overcame the hardships and deprivations of the Oregon trail in pursuit of a
land of opportunity, and who steadfastly refused to accept their lot as members of soup lines, opting instead to strike out
on their own for a better life.
As such, he and his kind are a mortal threat to the Liberal paradigm, and must be stopped at any cost. And, as such, every
“Joe the Plumber” across America must stand resolute in the face of the ongoing propaganda onslaught from the Leftists,
and flatly tell them: “No! Real America will not go quietly into the night!”
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
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Public Policy: Elections, Political Parties, Political Factions,
Ideologies, & Special Interest Groups
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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