“Our lives if you look back over the last two decades more closely approximate the lives of the average voter than any of the other candidates.”
May 6th, 2008 at 03:56pm Matt DiBari
This of course, was said by Senator Barack Obama last Friday in an effort to assure voters that he and his wife are not .
One of two things has happened. Either the United States has suddenly become a country of millionaire Ivy League educated lawyers in the last couple of weeks, or Barack Obama has fallen back on his old stand by.
My upbringing was much more reflective of what working class black and whites go through than John McCain’s background being raised as the son of an admiral in boarding schools or Hillary Clinton out in the suburbs of Park Ridge.
(John McCain, Jr, did not become a Rear Admiral until 1958, the year Senator McCain graduated from the Naval Academy. So no, Senator McCain did not grow up the son of an Admiral, but that’s neither here nor there.)
I can only assume he is referring to that brutal time when he was raised by a bank vice president (the typical white racist) and attended an elite prep school in Hawaii.
Oh the humanity of it all.
Barack Obama. He’s just like YOU!
Except for all the money and elite education.
The funny thing is, I don’t even know why Barack Obama is lying about this particular topic. I don’t exactly think positioning yourself as the most hard off of three millionaires is exactly going to endear yourself to the people fighting to pay the bills. Nor do I think Barack Obama really wants to get into a battle with John McCain over who has had a harder life. I think John McCain wins that one pretty easily.
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1. Mark Noonan | May 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Just more of Obama trying to move away from his actual roots - which are not “black American” but “white American” crossed with “socialist foreigner”.
2. Old fool | May 6th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I think is is un-american for (Sen. Mccain) a multi millionaire to take $29,000 us dollars from social security to pay his alimony. Hell, I go to the ssa office with my wife as my beneficiary so that she can be entitled to my social security and learn a new word. “Off-set” But all you hear is Social security is going broke.
3. Eric T | May 6th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Obama or Hillary can’t compare to McCain on service to the country or patriotism. If you go to the part in that one debate where John McCain said “I was tied up at the time”. He was in a POW camp while Hillary and Obama were getting high partying, and goofing off. Hillary and Obama don’t know hard times.
The democrats are trying to relate to the working class. But they really can’t. Neither have probably ever broke a sweat or worked 70-80 hours a week and still not had enough money to pay the bills and put some healthy food on the table.
Taxes swallow up a big chunk of a workers paycheck, cutting taxes on the working class could make a McCain presidency lengendary. Other admistrations have been real top-heavy, with most of tax breaks going to the few at the top.
4. Joe | May 7th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Matt: the United States has suddenly become a country of millionaire Ivy League educated lawyers in the last couple of weeks
Eric T: Hillary and Obama don’t know hard times
Are you people serious?
Are you saying that Obama is lying that he was raised by a single mother?
Is he lying when he says that his mother had to use food stamps at times when he was a child?
Matt… “millionaire Ivy League lawyers”? Was he a millionaire when he got into school? No. He got scholarships and grants and his mother saved up enough. He became rich from being a lawyer. Why do you think he shouldn’t make money in a job? He wasn’t handed an Ivy League education or was allowed entry into an Ivy League school because he was a legacy from his father… like some people (aka the current President).
His father was a goat herder in Africa. Last I heard, they didn’t make much money. His father got a scholarship to go to school in Hawaii.
What other hard times do you want? Ya know… you don’t like Obama, we get it. But why do you feel it is necessary to claim he is lying about growing up as an average person and not a millionaire (like some occupants of the White House)?
You people really need to look at issues and stop worrying if he grew up poor enough to say he was an average person or if he wears a friggin’ lapel flag pin.
5. Patrick | May 7th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
This sort of thing makes me embarrassed for the author.
Obama is only a few years removed from making under 250k per year (and didn’t marry into wealth like either Kerry or McCain did) which makes him easily the closest to middle class candidate we’ve seen in decades.
6. Matt DiBari | May 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Is disingenuous better? I can’t think of a nicer way to put it.
Senator Obama’s attempts to portray himself as the most “common” millionaire is laughable.
He seems to conveniently leave out his racist bank executive grandmother sending him to an elite prep school so he can whine about John McCain’s highfalutin life as the son of a submarine captain.
But fine, Barack Obama is not lying. He’s merely leaving out key details of his life an embellishing details of someone else’s.
Judgment to Lead.
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