I recall that remark. He said the tax hikes would only affect three people in the room: President Bush, him, and Charlie Gibson. "Just by looking around the room, I can tell that only three people here will be affected..."
Which tells me he's really ignorant. Those who are comfortably off here in MO do not feel a need to call attention to themselves with $1000 hairdos, men here don't get manicures, and if you have to impress people with your clothes beyond looking presentable, you're either under 18, or living beyond your means.
I make a hell of a lot more money than Kerry and I drive a 10-year-old Ford Bronco -- because I can and there is no reason not to since I almost never need to drive it. That whole schtick really got me bent actually, as it was almost as if he was pitying everyone else in the room because they were apparently blue collar country bumpkins.
Someday, and hopefully soon, Kerry will learn that everybody who makes better than blue collar wages isn't an arrogant New England elitist ass weasel like himself. It is rare that you see someone so self-assured that they are the upper-crust of society. Apparently he hasn't learned that discretion is the better part of valor and all that; he certainly has no class as a relatively wealthy American. He has no clue what American wealth actually looks like, not that he has ever earned it to know.
People that have to inform you how superior they are usually aren't.