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From the carpetbagger report comes this bit of wisdom

36. On June 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm, majun said:
I always find it strange that the Republicans are always trying to slam the Democrats as being the out-of-touch party, fielding candidates that don’t relate to the common man. So, who have they run? An ex-movie star, who obviously could do a creditable job of pretending to be a common man. The son of an investment banker/US Senator who went from the elite ivy halls of the east coast to Texas, where he proceeded to build a fortune off the sweat of his own brow and his family’s extensive connections, and the prep-school/ivy legacy son of that son of an investment banker/US Senator, who himself was the son of POTUS. These are real regular guys…all of them.

Somehow, with the exception of Bubba, all the Democrats were painted as some sort of elitists with only a hazy idea of what common people are like. Not only couldn’t Papa Bush make that one fly against Bubba, but his little sock buying expedition wrote finis to his residency in the WH.

I don’t know how the Republicans are going to make the son and grandson of admirals and third generation service academy graduate seem the more common of the candidates, but that seems to be exactly what they are aiming for. In Obama’s case, a bi-racial child, essentially raised by a single parent and shipped off to relatives, who worked hard to get an education, I think they are going to have a hard time. Their argument boils down to an argument that being smart is somehow not “regular”.

I suppose that Obama can start developing a taste for pork rinds and declare that if he is elected to the presidency the WH won’t serve arugula or any other elitist vegetables. Maybe that will make A holes like Brooks happy.