Damn the 1%

Ever since the Occupy Wall Street idiocy, the national lexicon has come to refer to the 99% (supposedly the poor and middle class) versus the 1% (the evil people who are wealthy). The Obama campaign is, of course, delighted by this kind of class warfare, it is what they eat and breathe. At a recent campaign appearance to pander to students by offering them money, President Obama noted that he "was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth" and that someone had to give him an education. Whether or not the comment was meant to be a dig at Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (the White House says it wasn't, but then, they say a lot of things that don't quite pass the smell test), it is clearly playing class warfare. As for someone having to give President Obama an education, that's probably the most honest I've heard him be, because he certainly didn't earn the education he received. From everything I've seen it appears he was a mediocre student at best, especially by comparison to people who get into Columbia and Harvard. But I digress...

I wonder if Democrats would be so quick to criticize the supposed 1% if we attach some names to them. John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. All were born into wealth from a family of insane riches. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was from a similarly wealthy family. George Washington. The first president and arguably the greatest American in history (recently voted the staunchest foe in the history of the British Empire) may also have been the wealthiest man to ever serve as President. Surely President Obama and his campaign would acknowledge that these wealthy men were too wealthy to understand the plight of the common man and woman in the United States and, as such, unqualified to serve in public office. Right?