Obama's comment about wealth to "Joe"

Update: MSNBC's fact checkers have concluded that Obama's tax plan would not hurt Joe's plumbing company in regard to health insurance.

It didn't take long to find video of the now most famous plumber in America - Joe from Ohio.

Anyway, Repubes are all aflutter about Obama saying that he wants to "spread the wealth around." I'm not. I have absolutely no problem with this statement, at all. Why?

As I wrote earlier today, the rich have gotten much richer under eight years of George Bush's economic policies (and during six of those years, the GOP also had majorities in Congress). To wit, the top one percent of the most wealthiest people in America control 90 percent of the wealth. And it's not trickling down, either. President Reagan's so-called Trickle-Down Economics haven't been doing much for the working class in this country.

Call it class warfare, call it taxing the rich, call it what you will, but the rich have gotten much richer during the last eight years ~ one of the few groups of people who will be sad to see Bush go will be the hyper wealthy.

By the way, Obama handled himself pretty well with Joe in the video above. Obviously he's not someone who's going to enthusiastically endorse Obama (or even vote for him), but Obama handled himself pretty well (as any seasoned politician would). Credit him for having the courage for answering questions from someone who's pretty opposed to his tax plan. These unscripted moments are rare gems in a presidential campaign - we just don't get enough of them. And we get none from McCain, unless it's a veteran shouting out tons and tons of praise.

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The polls are coming in, and every one I've heard scored it for Obama - some by a closer margin than others, but they all say Obama. (As much as I dislike the instant polling, it's a reality that's not going away - I guess it's a direct byproduct of the instant information age we're living in.)