“The White House Goes Glam,” gushes a headline in Tina Brown’s online “The Daily Beast.” Can we just give the word “glam” to the liberal elite, lock, stock, and barrel? It’s yours! Take it, with our blessing.Rants against Republicans for being the party of money are outdated. The party of money, as Michael Lind noted, is now the Democrats.
Liberals embraced Obama because he was one of them—cultured, a successful writer, a poised speaker on behalf of the poor, Columbia and Harvard educated, comfortable dining with the national elite. As such, Obama’s color was all upside, no downside. Because he’s black, Obama drew votes the way failed Democratic presidential nominees Gore and Kerry could not.
Otherwise, former Senator Obama is much like the well-bred, well-educated, wealthy former Senator Gore and current Senator Kerry (the Senate: the world’s most exclusive club). Obama is of the better class, the upper class. In these tough times, people are beginning to feel a class divide, which helps explain Obama’s declining job approval numbers.
Why does Obama care so much about “their” health care reform, and so little about our jobs? Answer: he’s their leader, not ours.
Class warfare, re-defined.
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