For most of the past week, the news has been mostly election politics and mostly about the guy called, “Joe the Plumber.”   Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher lives in Holland, Ohio, near Toledo. While Senator Obama was campaigning in his neighborhood, he asked the Senator about the Obama tax plan and voiced his concerns about his taxes if he buys the plumbing business where he works. He said the business should gross between $250,000 and $280,000. Obama’s response, “I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”  “Spreading the wealth” is perhaps the best look into Obama’s thinking we’ve seen in the campaign. What does it mean? It means taking money from someone who has earned it, and giving it to someone who Obama thinks is more worthy of it. That’s essentially the Marxist philosophy. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in 1875. It’s also called welfare.

Joe later told reporters: “You know, I’ve always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question, for once instead of tap dancing around it, and unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance.”

It’s no surprise to me that Obama gave him a song and dance. He has yet to seriously answer any of the many questions about himself and what he really thinks. Only if he wins the election will we finally find out who this guy really is. There is a good chance that we won’t like what we find out.

Obama reminds me of cotton candy. I remember the first time I had cotton candy at the county fair. I took a big bite and there was nothing there. It virtually disappeared in my mouth.  It was all fluff and very little substance.

The media’s response to “Joe the Plumber” has been about what one would expect. Instead of merely reporting the substance of the exchange between he and Senator Obama, they immediately started digging into the man’s personal life, giving him a rectal examination and digging for anything to somehow discredit anything he might have to say. Within 48 hours they had discovered that he wasn’t a “licensed” plumber but merely working under the license of his employer—a common and legal practice. They also discovered he owed some back taxes. For all their effort in character assassination, they had nothing to say about the substance of his remarks to Obama or Obama’s wealth redistribution scheme. Apparently there is a price to pay for daring to challenge the messiah. Clearly this demonstrates the fact that the media want Obama to win the election and they are anything but objective in their reporting. With almost nothing but praise for Obama and distain for McCain coming from the media, it’s not surprising that Obama is ahead in the polls. I am suspicious of any poll unless I know who paid for it and why it was commissioned.

I’m at a loss when it comes to understanding just why the media, with the exception of Fox News, is in the tank for Obama. Apart from his Ivy League education and his proficiency at reading someone else’s words from a teleprompter, he has no experience in anything that one would normally expect in a presidential candidate. He’s spent his years before sitting in the Illinois legislature and his brief tenure as a U.S. Senator, organizing poor blacks in Chicago. They are organized for the purpose of demanding more free stuff from the government. I don’t see how he can represent all the people of this nation when he knows almost nothing about the ordinary citizen—people like you, me and Joe the Plumber.