re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The exact thing we now have in office…

Yep and frankly with the exception of Dole, every Republican nominee in my life has been. Not that I don’t think Bush I or McCain served honorably in public life but both men had a step up early on because of who their fathers were. Conversely, Gore and Kerry are teh only Dem nominees in my life part of that system. Both Clintons and Obama worked their way up. As you’ve said before, conservatives could have said Obama, raised by a single mom who ended up as a Harvard law graduate as a great American success story, instead they smeared his late mother as a whore and acted like he got where he got through AA.