Joe was not at a McCain rally, he WAS at an Obama rally. Joe heard Obama say that if he made more than $250,000, he was going to raise his tax so Obama could "spread the wealth around". Sounds more like a Marxist rally to me.

Did you notice that the Obama campaign and the partisans are discrediting, demeaning and attacking old Joe the Plumber personally and not on the message he provoked from Obama. Defend the message, don't personally attack an American worker who dreams and aspires to business ownership and dares to ask Obama what his plan would mean for his future. Shame on those that attack Joe personally instead of on his question and more precisely Obama's answer.

Obama said he intends to take more taxes from hardworking business owners who earn more than $250,000 a year to "spread the wealth", his words. He refers to business owners, who created jobs, who built businesses through vision, hard work, personal risk taking and sacrifice. Business owners who pay their fair share of taxes already. Obama wants to tax their success even more, create further entitlement by "spreading " and handing out more of the fruits of their blood, sweat and tears to those less ambitious, creative and imaginative. Another, liberal "let's make everybody a homeowner" scheme. We know how that little big government gem ended up.

How discouraging for American entrepreneurship. Pursuing the American dream is becoming sitting back, collecting a check from the National Treasury and letting the government rob and plunder hardworking, ambitious, creative people so Washington can dole out crumbs to appease the masses and secure enough votes to keep themselves in comfortable offices, big pensions, big houses and incredible health insurance for life. You can see I am arguably, not a fan of big government, but open minded enough to hear from others who would like to defend it.

Obama's remarks, beg the question, who is going to decide the recipients of this tainted government transfer of wealth? How much more is going to go to who? Whose ox is going to get gored next? Oh, that's right, our efficient, fair government in the Capitol is going to be the dollee. I bet ACORN is at the top of the dole list.

"The Proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism."

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev famously used an expression generally translated into English as "We will bury you!" while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.

On August 24, 1963, Khrushchev himself remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you," a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism"; a popular articulation of the materialist conception of history as the inevitable progression of class struggle towards communism. Wikipedia

Obama through his "spreading the wealth" socialism, is pitting the classes in America against each other. Why are you attacking Joe the Plumber?