Posted by
darrel on Monday, November 03, 2008 5:52:27 PM
Here’s a guy, Joe the Plumber, outside of his home playing catch with his kid, when up comes Senator Barack Obama, who is running for president of Joe’s country. Joe stops throwing the ball when Obama approaches him to shake hands with him. “Hi, I’m
Barack Obama and I would like your vote this November”, or something like that.
Joe, who was just happily playing catch with his son, then asked the Senator if his tax plan would affect him if he bought the company he worked for and it was earning more than the $250,000 that he said would be taxed higher.
The question was innocent enough, Joe just wanted to hear Obama’s reply, which was something along the line of we are going to take from you and give to those earning much less. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Since the Senator’s reply didn’t set too well with most of America, Joe was investigated by Ohio officials who support “The One”, and dirt was dug up on him to discredit a man who just asked a simple question. The surprising thing is how easy it was to find information on Joe the Plumber. It seems that none of the records on him were “sealed”.
Senator Obama, however, is a whole different subject. Joe the Plumber (whose real name is not Joe but Sam and who owes the IRS some back taxes, and is not really a licensed plumber, and may not be planning to buy the business he works for, etc.) is not running for an office of trust in this nation. Joe is just an average citizen who just wants to be able to make a decent living and is hoping to achieve the American dream of owning his own business. He is definitely not running for the highest office in this land. Obama, who we should be able to know as much as possible about, is a closed book.
His records from Occidental College in California are sealed; his records from Columbia University are sealed; his records from Harvard University are sealed; his birth records which are in question are sealed in Hawaii.
Why is it that records on Joe the average guy can be acquired and made public when he has no bearing on how our nation is governed, but the man seeking the highest office in the land has a record that is being kept under wraps?
America, (that is, you and me), is hiring a man to be chief executive of our company. Shouldn’t we be allowed to see all of his pertinent records before making the decision to hire him? If you were applying for a job as a janitor, let’s say, wouldn’t you expect your future employer to want to know enough about you to be able to make a hiring decision? Truth is you wouldn’t have a chance at mopping those floors and cleaning those toilets without showing your qualifications first. Shouldn’t the future president be held to at least as high a set of standards?