It Has Begun… Sen. Voinovich Joins Joe the Plumber- Calls Obama a 'Socialist'

It all started with an ambitious Ohio plumber named Joe– “It sounds like socialism.”

Voinovich joins Joe the Plumber on Obama: “The man is a socialist.”

Now a prominent politician has joined him.
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) called Barack Obama a socialist in an interview yesterday in Ohio.
Cleveland.com reported:

Sen. George Voinovich, what do you really think of Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president?

“He is left of Teddy Kennedy. With all due respect, the man is a socialist.”

Ohio’s senior senator, a Republican, made his comments Thursday to a reporter for The Daily Sentinel in Pomeroy, Ohio. He was visiting the Meigs County Republican Party.

Voinovich said he felt that John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, had the “maturity, experience and proven record of reaching across the aisle” and would be a “responsible president” in one of the “most challenging times in the history of this country.”

Voinovich’s office did not back away from the “socialist” quote today.

Spokesman Chris Paulitz said it was based on Voinovich’s strong belief in a limited role for the federal government. Paulitz cited the 10th Amendment, which says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Said Paulitz: “Sen. Voinovich has been a mayor and a governor, and believes the 10th Amendment is sacred. And he does not believe that Sen. Obama has an understanding or respect of the 10th Amendment.”

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