OK, so now the "big issue" between the Democrats is which healthy, Ivy League, multimillionaire presidential candidate is the elitist? Do they really think they can convince us they are both just down-home, regular folks? Do they think what we need in Washington is someone who can go duck hunting with us or sit down and drink beer with our buddies?
I'm not buying it, are you?
Move on indeed. I can't wait for November to come and go. It doesn't impress me if they are Ivy League grads or have lots of money. I would like to see someone with less money than a millionaire because they may be able to see and know what it is like to work hard for money.
we are just now seeing the consequences of "electing" a ducking hunting,beer drinking guy, dumb as a post, never had no book learnin' who lives in a world w/out nuance. it's embarrassing, but more than that, our country now must find a way to heal the wounds inflicted on the world by the good ol' boys.
Jackie,
I do know millionaires who have worked hard for the money they earned.
Clinton and McCain are both multi-millionaires, for sure (although McCain's wealth is largely due to his wife). Most of the estimates of Obama's net worth that I've seen are around 1.3 million, though. I'm not sure how Gail defines "multi-millionaire," but I thought that would include more than one million. Most of Obama's wealth, incidentally, comes from the sales of his two books.
Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" is working as the hypocrisy of the Democrats is revealed daily as they go after each other. The Republicans couldn't/wouldn't do the job these two are doing and will continue to do on each other. I also agree with Rich's opinion on millionaires.Maybe he's one and The Bee wants us to move on because they're Obama's mama, looking out for their kid.Jackie...take a week off.
We need to pass campaign finance reform and stop whining. Right now our system is set up so that only rich people can run for President folks. One can pull out the elitist label on any candidate because they would have to have a ton of money to run in the first place because of how our system is set up.
After last night's debate, Gail, perhaps your preaching should be directed at your fellow news-media people. It was about halfway through the 90-minute debate before any substantive questions were addressed to the candidates. I guess the moderators thought that the Bosnia incident and Jeremiah Wright were far more important than how Clinton or Obama would handle the economy or foreign policy?
Maybe it's time for the media to "move on."
Does anyone else see the irony here: we finally have an African American person close to being president, and he's being called "elitist?"
Yeah, and he's also the least rich by far of the three remaining candidates. (Although he is apparently a multi-millionaire now, thanks to the sales of his second book.)
As someone else pointed out, the conventional wisdom is that Americans want a president who gives the image of being "just like us," never mind that the reality may be entirely different.
Thus, the current president, who is a rich man, the son of a former president, grandson of a senator, got into elite schools on "legacy admissions", etc., but who has cultivated a "folksy" image, is considered a "regular guy." But a black man raised by a single mother, who got his education on scholarships, is considered "elite." Go figure.