Barack and Michelle: out of touch elitists

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have lived a very charmed, privileged life, far removed from that a typical American of any race lives. Both came out of upper-middle-class economic status, educated in private schools as youths, and then attended elite universities such as Harvard. Both have both bachelors and law degrees. Both have worked at upper crust, high dollar positions, except when it suited their political purposes for one to take a less lofty post for a brief period.

Contrast this with the average American, a product of public schools and then if college attendance were possible, at a state junior or four-year college with in-state tuition, sandwiched around near-fulltime employment to pay the bills. Many more entered the work-a-day world without college, advancing in their career through the union, trade school or the school of hard knocks. Most are lucky to afford a modest flat, rather than a million dollar mansion in the Chicago suburbs, with open space purchased by a shadowy political opportunist, moneyman and developer.

The Obamas have largely been able to keep their true life and lifestyle under wraps, abetted by a compliant liberal press. However, inevitably, the truth has leaked out from Barack and Michelle's own lips, at campaign speeches where they thought no one was listening.

Michelle has largely been silenced in recent months, after embarassing remarks about her daughter's dance lessons, high private school tuition and how tough life was with student loan payments, until Barack struck it big with over a million dollars in revenue from his first book. She also drew fire for counseling young girls at several university and high school appearances to eschew corporate and profit-making work, instead becoming a teacher or other public servant.

The latest controversy came this week, as Barack's remarks to a private San Francisco fundraiser, about small town life in Pennsylvania, where his campaign has had trouble gaining traction. Once again, the remarks had to get widely circulated on the internet and blogosphere, before a reluctant mass media had little but choice but to tardily publish them. Barack was so obviously out of touch with the little guy and his plight, that the term "elitist" was barely adequate.

The truth was bound to surface, especially with a desperate Hillary and Bill Clinton grasping at any straw that might allow them to claw past the Obama juggernaut. (As if their two multi-million dollar mansions in New York and Washington D.C. make them feel the plight of the common man, either).

The truth is, liberal hyprocrisy ("do as I say, not as I do") is never going to enhance the life of the down-and-out, or do anything but keep them dependent on the next federal handout. Their only hope is unbridled free enterprise, creating an ever-greater quantity of well-paid jobs, allowing them to make their own way--becoming strong and self-reliant.

When that happens, it puts Obama and Hillary both completely out of business.