Joe the Plumber

The "Joe the Plumber" discussion in tonight's debate was kind of a surprise to me, because I had heard something about Obama's conversation with Joe at the food pantry this morning.

One of the other volunteers was upset about the conversation. She had heard a snippet of it on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and Limbaugh had run a section about Obama wanting to "spread the wealth around." She was upset that this was socialism, and she is against socialism.

We actually had a nice conversation about it. I brought up Medicare and Social Security, as is my wont. We finally agreed that we need the best from capitalism and the best from socialism. What was so hard about that?

Anyway, here's the video of Obama's conversation with Joe the Plumber, from ABC.

I guess McCain bringing up Joe was a call-out to Rush and his fans.