Thursday, April 17, 2008
Elitism
I love the presidential candidates arguing about who is the least elite. As if any of them have any idea of the average joe american. When's the last time you figure Hillary wore clothes from Sears or Walmart or grabbed a quick lunch at Macdonalds - without it being a set up photo op anyway. Come on, she made $100 million dollars in the last few years! How many common Americans have done that? Not to mention attending Wellesley College and Yale.
Obama isn't any better. His house, according to the Chicago Tribune, "a 96-year-old Georgian revival home that has four fireplaces, glass-door bookcases fashioned from Honduran mahogany, and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar...", cost him $1.65 million ($300,000 under asking price). BTW, that whole real estate deal is interesting - does anyone else notice that Obama has a lot of old acquaintances who have suddenly become bad choices? And his alma mater, Columbia University isn't exactly a community college either.
Now both of them are trying to be like what they think the average American is. Bowling, beer drinking and eating hot dogs. Let's face it, what chance does the average American really have to become president? Even if you came from average roots, by the time you've become a viable candidate, you've traveled so far from those roots, you'll be lucky to remember them.
Labels: celebs, government, gripes
