Why we know socialism works for the few, not the many.

Is not there some old Harry Truman Democrat still around to advise the
new Democratic aristocracy to live it down a bit in these tough times?

After presidential calls for sacrifice in our rough days of
recession — and coming on the heels of the Gatsby-like Clinton wedding,
the H.M.S. Kerry, the Gore getaway in Montecito, and “John’s Room” —
the enormous movable feast of Michelle Obama’s from Marbella to
Martha’s Vineyard does not go well with “two nations,” “raise the bar,”
downright mean country,” and all the other progressive complaints.
What was that about one selfish America living one way and another less
fortunate America living quite another? More mundanely, who says a
life in government doesn’t pay?

Aristocrats: Raising the Bar on the Costa del Sol

The problem with Michelle Obama’s Marabella-to-Martha’s-Vineyard
August is not that the first family doesn’t deserve time off but that
Michelle, in the past, has gone on the record that the country’s elite
(of which she claimed not to be a part) had created one nation for
themselves and quite a different for most others — at least that’s how I
interpreted never having been proud of her country until the rise of
hope and change.

So the Versailles-like aura around her trips suggests that her
prior angst arose not because millions were not able to share the
lifestyles of the elite but that she herself had not yet quite partaken
in the sort of life she felt she deserved — which she is now
apparently enjoying to the fullest. The fact that her Costa del Sol
trip coincides with hard times back in the states, comes on the heels
of the Kerry yacht and the Clinton wedding, and clashes with her
husband’s anti-wealthy rhetoric (e.g., “at some point you’ve made enough
money”) makes it all the more weird, both for her adminstration’s
equality-of-result politics and for the larger liberal narrative of
talking truth to power.

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