How to Treat a Citizen

I have heard that if you want to see how a man will treat a woman observe how he treats his mother. Perhaps the same could be said of Presidential candidates towards citizens. What does it say about the person running for President or for Vice President? A citizen who the candidate will represent asks a question. It doesn’t matter what his or her station is in life, plumber or not, mechanic or not, accountant or not, unemployed or not, money in the bank or in debt, Republican or not, Democrat or not, independent or not. A citizen or even a non-citizen can ask a question of a candidate, especially if the candidate is supposed to meet the people he is supposed to represent.

What happens? The candidate, unscripted, unguarded for a few moments, responds to the citizen’s question with what can now be described as alarming candor. He’s going to spread the wealth around. Instead of thanking the citizen for asking, that citizen is instead vilified as the most heinous of spies and not representative of an average American. I thought the president was to represent all the people, divorced or not, owing back taxes or not, aspiring to earn more than $250,000.00 or not. Both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have ridiculed this man and in doing so have ridiculed every person who makes less the a quarter million a year and every one who aspires to make that amount and more. This is the height of condescension. How dare this man, not college educated, not a lawyer, not a reporter or pundit, plant himself in the crowd; must have been a Carl Rove plot.

Is this what the citizens of the United States can expect from an Obama-Biden administration? If you want to see how they will treat us when they are in office, just look at how they have treated Joe Wurzelbacher. Don’t dare ask us, we know all the answers, so don’t ask. And don’t dare make us look foolish because we are the educated, not you. And the minions of reporters and snoopers are rooting out the grand truffles that will reveal who “Joe the Plumber” really is. I thought he was just an American, asking a question. And he got an answer of far greater depth than he ever envisioned he would.

From my corner of Main Street and Beech in Rocky Ford, CO

Dr. K