Why do average, everyday people have so much hate for this guy?

I have seen it here, at other forums and on TV.

All the guy did was ask Obama a question, next thing you know he has a probe up his butt and people start hating on him.

He could have been any one of us standing in front of our house.

If we can expect this kind of treatment for simply asking a question we are in for a long, troubling 4 years.

It wasn't Joe's fault that Obama outed himself on national tv.

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Because he dared ask Obama a "hard" question.

The same thing happened to an anchorwoman that asked Biden a hard question.

The Obama campaign does not like hard questions.

I think people hate Joe the plumber because he asked the perfect question that all the others were tip toeing around. It was a very blunt and honest question that called for a blunt honest answer. The answer would make one of the candidates look bad. So, people for that candidate would be ticked off.

I understand the question he asked too well. My husband is a business owner. We wanted the same question asked. Not because we wanted to know the answer, we already knew that. The first thing business owners do is look at the tax plans. We wanted everyone else to know the answer.

People get pissy when their candidates look bad in any way.

I don't see too many average, everyday people hating Joe the Plumber. I see the media hating Joe for getting Obama to admit what his goals are. Every average, everyday person I know supports Joe and is appalled at how the media and the Obama campaign have gone after this private citizen. Attacking an average person like this has only strengthened peoples resolve to oppose Obama and his socialist ideas.

We are beginning to see Obama's true colors here, and sadly it's just happening this close to the election. We have attacks on private citizens, we have comments about spreading the wealth. Then we have the definition of rich going from $250,000 a year, to $200,000 a year, to $150,000 a year! People are starting to wake up to the fact that Obama is not who he claimed to be, and that his ideas are just plain wrong for this country.

And we owe a lot of it to Joe.

Who hates Joe the Plumber? I don't know of anyone who does.

Neither have I seen the Obama campaign attack him.

He has been "placed" by McCain to be a victim of Obama, but there's no evidence to support that. If anything he has been used by McCain. And he seems to be willing, so I don't have a problem with him. He's a tool of the McCain campaign. By choice.

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
He's a tool of the McCain campaign. By choice.

This sounds a bit bitter, dare I say, hateful?

I for one, as an Obama supporter, do not hate Joe in the slightest.

The question he asked was actually a valid question, for those small businesses that are right on the quarter-mil boundary.

I do have an issue with the fact that Joe entirely mis-represented himself, in that he was not actually wanting to buy the company and the company does not make the amount of income that Joe claimed. That is the part that makes him appear to be a McCain 'tool', whether or not he knows it or intends to be.

Joe was thrust into the spotlight by McCain, not by Obama. He asked Obama a question, and got an answer. He may not have liked the answer, but that happens. I don't like a lot of answers politicos give, including some that Obama gives. Wah.

(Edit to use the right word...)

[edit on 29-10-2008 by Open_Minded Skeptic]

Originally posted by Open_Minded Skeptic
Joe was thrust into the spotlight by McCain

Proof? Evidence?

Do you have any reason to believe that Joe was anything more than a regular guy who asked Obama a question when he saw him walking through his neighborhood talking to people.

I'd like to see some evidence that he was used by McCain from the very beginning as so many Obama supporters are claiming.

I'll just wait.

Originally posted by nyk537
Proof? Evidence?

You're kidding, right? Did you watch Presidential Debate 2008 #3?

Do you have any reason to believe that Joe was anything more than a regular guy who asked Obama a question when he saw him walking through his neighborhood talking to people.

Nope, nor did I even imply that I think otherwise.

I'd like to see some evidence that he was used by McCain from the very beginning as so many Obama supporters are claiming.

Then I suggest you go find an Obama supporter that is making that claim and ask them about it.

I won't disagree with either of you. What I was referring to (and I apologize OMS) are those who imply that Joe was a "plant" from the very beginning, and was given that question ahead of time by the McCain campaign to try and "entice" that answer from Obama. There is no doubt McCain used Joe (to his advantage I might add) after the comment, but not before.

I apologize for implying otherwise of you. I just find those claims to be bogus.

Whatever Joe's original motives might have been, he's now being used as a distraction from discussing actual issues. I don't know if this was planned or serendipitous, but as this thread demonstrates, it's working like a charm.

This is pretty funny Dem's calling him a plant,weren't they the ones doing the interviews?,To me he is just an average Joe,now because he asked a legitimate question his life is in turmoil because of these so called liberals,they are quick to point fingers ,but in reality should be pointing at themselves