Joe the Plumber wasn’t the first person to get Barack Obama to admit his position on wealth redistribution….
The referenced excerpt from a 2001 radio interview with Senator Obama, now on YouTube (follow the above link), is the lead story on Drudge today too.
Somehow Obama’s condescending mockery of “Joe the Plumber” seems less surprising now, though no less troubling.
Update:
Glenn Reynolds comments:
Maybe it’s just because I’m a law professor who’s followed Obama, but this is no surprise to me. Or to Jennifer Rubin. In fact, this is pretty standard stuff in large parts of legal academia.
Bill Whittle responds to the story with a short essay, “Shame Cubed”:
We have, in our storied history, elected Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and moderates. We have fought, and will continue to fight, pitched battles about how best to govern this nation. But we have never, ever in our 232 year history, elected a President who so completely and openly opposed the idea of limited government, the absolute cornerstone of makes the United States of America unique and exceptional.
If this does not frighten you – regardless of your political affiliation – then you deserve what this man will deliver with both houses of Congress, a filibuster-proof Senate, and, to quote Senator Obama again, “a righteous wind at our backs.”
Comment thread for Bill’s post here.
