Perhaps it's the U of C elitism showing through, but . . . one of the reasons that I like Barack Obama is precisely because he's "like me."
Oh, yes. You're working on a PhD, so you're definitely one of those "intellectuals." I bet you even read books!
I'm never quite sure how to respond to people who hold Obama's "intellectualism" against him. Okay, he's devoted his life not only to public service but to study and thought on all of the subjects that would allow a person to make sound decisions for a nation ... and that is a bad thing? It would have been preferable for him to have been chopping up timber with his chainsaw on his "ranch"?
The ironic thing, that has driven me to more than one *headwall*, is that the candidates people claim are "just like them" aren't. Last I checked, Middle America doesn't own seven houses and can't afford to buy a baseball team. (Many of them now probably don't have one house and probably can't afford to go to a baseball game, but I digress.) Obama, who came from a family that was far from rich and did "pull himself up by the bootstraps" as we are told Americans do, is more like them than any Washington politician born with a silver spoon (or a profitable corporation) in his mouth.
And, not to put too fine a point on it, I see a man who admires Michelle Obama, who is da bomb.
Yes! I love her!
Because how cool is it to have a salad with "rocket" and radishes?
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Oh, yes. You're working on a PhD, so you're definitely one of those "intellectuals." I bet you even read books!
I'm never quite sure how to respond to people who hold Obama's "intellectualism" against him. Okay, he's devoted his life not only to public service but to study and thought on all of the subjects that would allow a person to make sound decisions for a nation ... and that is a bad thing? It would have been preferable for him to have been chopping up timber with his chainsaw on his "ranch"?
The ironic thing, that has driven me to more than one *headwall*, is that the candidates people claim are "just like them" aren't. Last I checked, Middle America doesn't own seven houses and can't afford to buy a baseball team. (Many of them now probably don't have one house and probably can't afford to go to a baseball game, but I digress.) Obama, who came from a family that was far from rich and did "pull himself up by the bootstraps" as we are told Americans do, is more like them than any Washington politician born with a silver spoon (or a profitable corporation) in his mouth.
And, not to put too fine a point on it, I see a man who admires Michelle Obama, who is da bomb.
Yes! I love her!
Because how cool is it to have a salad with "rocket" and radishes?
Much cooler than "arugula." :)