The real reason this story has resonance is due to the fact that Obama used the phrase "spread the wealth around.” In doing so, he portrayed a view of economics that conservatives are roundly against,  wealth redistribution to make things "fairer.”

Recently I was looking at all the comments after an article on Obama’s tax plan, and noting how over the top the Republican commenters were about Obama. I thought of writing something sarcastic, like "Obama is going to use his Marxist social engineering policies to support domestic terrorism through an oppressive tax code on teeny tiny business owners while promoting both Muslim terrorism and black liberation theology, thereby installing Bill Ayers as the Secretary of Defense yada yada yada...."