I'll also point out that this "one of us" fellow (Hyde Parkism and Harvard Law School notwithstanding) is a man who came from a humble, decidedly non-rarified background. He's a classic example of meritocracy. Shrub is not. Shrub is the archetype of the slack-jawed legacy boy.
Which is, as I said to frenchpony too, something I have never understood: why conservatives flock to candidates like that when said candidates (aside from pandering to the religious right) are the most unlike those whom they wish to represent as anyone could be!
"Bush is like us." Is he? Were you born into a rich family with a political legacy? Did you buy your way into one of the best universities in the world and buy yourself out of military service? Were you given companies to run (and fuck up)? Did you own a baseball team? Do you count as family friends Saudi princes and oil tycoons? Do you know anyone who makes a million--much less a billion!--dollars a year?
Of course, I guess the catch-22 is that I expect people stupid enough to think that intelligence is a bad thing to "get" the insurmountable differences between themselves and McCain.
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Which is, as I said to
"Bush is like us." Is he? Were you born into a rich family with a political legacy? Did you buy your way into one of the best universities in the world and buy yourself out of military service? Were you given companies to run (and fuck up)? Did you own a baseball team? Do you count as family friends Saudi princes and oil tycoons? Do you know anyone who makes a million--much less a billion!--dollars a year?
Of course, I guess the catch-22 is that I expect people stupid enough to think that intelligence is a bad thing to "get" the insurmountable differences between themselves and McCain.