Obama's Goons Go After Joe Wurzelbacher's Records

When "Joe the Plumber" asked Barack Obama his question on Obama's tax policy, little did he know that the Stalinist Democrats were going to pounce. And pounce they did.

Randy Ludlow at the Columbus Dispatch writes:

A state agency has revealed that its checks of computer systems for potential information on "Joe the Plumber" were more extensive than it first acknowledged.

Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, disclosed today that computer inquiries on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher were not restricted to a child-support system.

The agency also checked Wurzelbacher in its computer systems to determine whether he was receiving welfare assistance or owed unemployment compensation taxes, she wrote.

Jones-Kelley made the revelations in a letter to Ohio Senate President Bill M. Harris, R-Ashland, who demanded answers on why state officials checked out Wurzelbacher.

Harris called the multiple records checks "questionable" and said he awaits more answers. "It's kind of like Big Brother is looking in your pocket," he said.

If state employees run checks on every person listed in newspaper stories as buying a business, "it must take a lot of people a lot of time to run these checks," he said. "Where do you draw the line?"

This is a chilling development and one that should give pause to people thinking of voting for Obama. If Obama and his gang of goons can go after a regular citizen with police state tactics, then what can we all expect if Obama is elected and his goons are in control of federal agencies?

This episode may be a good preview on what critics of King Barack the Spreader can expect.

Obama Camp In A Panic Thanks To Joe The Plumber

You can tell when the Obama campaign is in a panic when they viciously attack a critic. This occurred with Stanley Kurtz and Jerome Corsi. Now they and the MSM are attacking Joe the plumber.

Michelle Malkin posted:

Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s number one Ordinary Joe, had no choice. Obama-Biden simply can’t tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.

Wurzelbacher never claimed to be making $250,000 a year. He told Obama that he might be “getting ready to buy a company that makes about $250,000, $270,000″ a year. His simple point was that Obama’s punitive tax proposals would make it more difficult to realize his dream.

Obama’s followers couldn’t handle the incontrovertible truth. Left-wing blogs immediately went to work, blaring headlines like “Not A Real $250k Plumber!” Next, they falsely accused Wurzelbacher of not being registered to vote (he’s registered in Lucas County, Ohio, and voted as a Republican in this year’s primary).

Next, they called him a liar for identifying himself as undecided. Only registered Democrats and fake Republican tools used in mainstream media stories and YouTube debates are allowed to use that label, you see.

Next, award-winning liberal blogger Joshua Marshall cast Wurzelbacher as some kind of rabid freak for calling Social Security a “joke” – as if no working-class Americans could believe that the federal government’s entitlement programs were a rip-off unless they were bought and paid for by the McCain campaign.

Then, suddenly, the journalists who wouldn’t lift a finger to investigate Barack Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright sprang into action rifling through citizen Joe Wurzelbacher’s tax records.

The media has been camped out in the front yard of Joe the plumber's home and published articles decrying that "he has no plumbers license" (he works for a plumber who does), has debts (who doesn't?) and has a property tax lien (is that unusual?). They've called his dream to own his own plumbing business "a fantasy."

The issue isn't Joe himself, it is what Barack Obama said to Joe last weekend that he wants to "spread the wealth." Because Obama was caught in an unguarded moment (and on videotape), he exposed himself for the neo-Marxist he is. Small wonder he refused McCain's challenge for ten townhall debates.

The recent major (and credible) polls show a 3-2 point difference between John McCain and Obama. The Democrats are in a panic. Now they are running ads claiming that McCain wants to cut Medicare.

They hoped to coast along the final three weeks before the election. But they can't since the polls are so close. Now they are embarking on throwing everything but the kitchen sink at McCain.

Sarah Palin is still drawing huge crowds. She continues to electrify the GOP base and is drawing blood in her attacks on Obama. The tide is turning and the Obamatrons are hysterical.

Good. Let them panic. That's when more missteps are made. Obama's inexperience will cause him to make more.

UPDATE: The Rosett Report has a good post on the attacks on Joe the plumber called First They Came For Joe The Plumber