It has to be said that this report over at the Indianapolis News Weather is quite ironic: 375 people who worked hard the last days of the campaign to convince voters to go vote for Sen. Barack Obama, protested before the campaign’s office in Indianapolis claiming the campaign had not paid them yet, and demanding to be paid instantly.

When the campaign finally acted, the protesters did indeed get some money, but much less than they were due. They were told to fill in a form; they would receive the rest of their salary in the mail.

“I want my money today! It’s my money. I want it right now!” yelled one former campaign worker.

Another one: “It should have been $480. It’s $230.”

And then another: “They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90.”

Even more angry former campaign workers: “I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned.”

“They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don’t know. We’ll see what happens.”

The kicker: “Talking about they’ll mail it to us. I ain’t worried about that, man. They’re not going to mail nothin’.”

This is of course ironic because Obama has said he wants to raise taxes on “the rich” (which initially meant individuals making more than $200,000 a year, but that number was lowered to $150,000 by Sen. Joe Biden and to $120,000 by Gov. Bill Richardson, a key ally of president-elect Obama), which was celebrated by many of the same people now demanding the money they worked for as a ‘righteous’ plan, while conservatives and others who opposed the tax increases were accused of ’selfishness’ and ‘greed.’

At the same time, Obama has promised he will give a “tax credit” to people which means that they will have to fill in forms, which will then result in them receiving back some of the money the government took from them.

Of course, the protests and demands for immediate money could happen to any candidate, so we should not pretend that this is a typical Obama problem, etc., but it is highly ironic and as such entertaining; it gave me, at least, a good laugh.