[pieceofthepuzzle]

When I think of how many people in their 60s or even older who are struggling in this economy, worrying every day, many having had their savings and retirement accounts decimated, it makes me sick to see this 24 year old a****le staying at a $700/night Manhattan hotel while pontificating to the rest of us.

[bert]

The really bad part is that he was on a company tab. The company was paying the bill

I take this to mean he is all show and no real substance. He claims to be what he is really not. He visited the park soley to get the medal. The roughed up CBS journalist in Egypt was there to get the campaign medal for her resume

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

while pontificating to the rest of us.

That's the real issue. I don't care how much money he makes or how he spends it. Nunna my damned bidness.
But someone who makes that kind of scratch has very much earn the right to STFU.

[jazzlite]

...”When I think of how many people in their 60s or even older who are struggling in this economy, worrying every day, many having had their savings and retirement accounts decimated, it makes me sick to see this 24 year old a****le staying at a $700/night Manhattan hotel while pontificating to the rest of us”...

I am remembering a quote from somewhere which says something like, “When youth rule, the people are brought to mourning.” This 24 year mortal is sickening, but as long as he is bathed in money, he will not realize it.

[griswold3]

reminds me of john kerry’s ‘protest’ against vietnam in dc.
he stayed in georgetown with rich friends and it wasn’t until he heard Nixon was planning a massive arrest of protestors that he got in the mud.