Posted on 08/09/2010 7:59:14 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
It’s a lie that might have once been true: Republicans are the party of the rich; Democrats represent the little guy.
Not so today. Not for quite some time now.
Consider the daughters of two former presidents, one Democrat, one Republican:
Daughter A’s wedding cost $100,000, Daughter B’s wedding anywhere from $2–5 million.
Daughter A attended a state college, the University of Texas. Daughter B got her BA at uppity Stanford and her Master’s at even more uppity Oxford.
Upon graduation from college, Daughter A taught at a charter school for disadvantaged children. She also published a biography about a 17-year-old single mother in Latin America infected with HIV whom she met while working as an intern for UNICEF in Panama. Daughter B went from college right to a six-figure position in a New York City consulting firm. She then took a job making the same type of money for a hedge fund firm whose owner is a heavy donor to her father and his party.
As you’ve probably surmised by now, Daughter A is Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of that eeevil rich oil guy George W. Bush—a Republican. Daughter B, naturally, is newlywed Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, whose Democrat father has always been depicted by the media as a man of the people, champion of the little guy, the first
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Democrats = Welfare plantation, main crop is votes.
Republicans = Individual freedom
The value of the article is in the last sentence.
Here’s another dirty little secret the Dems would have us forget all about: If it hadn’t been for enough Republicans voting for the Civil Rights bill in the 60s, it never would have passed in the face of opposition form Southern DEMOCRATS.
Yet they like to tell us the Democrat party is the voice of “people of color”.
Obama income 5 million
Bush income 770 K
so this really about enriching the black man with the white man’s money?
just askin
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