The reason the Obama campaign got so upset about Joe the Plumber was
that Obama told him:
Obama said, "My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from
the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. If you’ve got a
plumbing business, you’re gonna be better off if you’re gonna be better
off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you,
and right now everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody
and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/spread-the-weal.html
The campaign was embarrassed by the "spread the wealth" comment.
Sounds to me like he advocates using the tax code for wealth redistribution.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
And the other part of this is the conservative media myth that Obama said
that the government should redistribute wealth. In fact, he has never said
any such thing...
A common tactic of the cuckoo media. They have figured out that their
audience is weak on crucial life skills. So they take a few words, move
them out of context, add other words that were never spoken, and roll out
their fantasy-based ideological prescriptions. Then the economy crashes.
World temperatures soar. Food becomes toxic. Prescription drugs kill us.
Sick children get abandoned. Allies leave us. Oops. Oh, and the greedy
rich become richer. Well at least something works.
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