Class and Class

By Annita Achilleos

I just read an article in which the author was wondering when did the elite became a bad thing in America. She was referring to some instances during the VP debate in which Sarah Palin talked about being in the middle-class and being an outsider and hockey moms and all those things that I’m sure you have all heard so many times. Then the author mentioned how Biden referred to Home Depot presumably in order to show that he knows and understands the middle class and that he is not something alien. On top of this I had a discussion with an Obama fan that was saying that Obama looks more like a professor and someone that the average American won’t necessarily understand. In other words he looks too serious and too knowledgeable to be voted by the American people and that he needs to loosen up. I mean…are you kidding me? I am not saying the president should be cold and distant (the American people do not need a Putin), but the president needs to have some class. It’s the president of a country for god’s sake; he represents his whole nation on a political and a cultural level. Consider all the other world leaders and compare them to the current American president. The president cannot be a joke. George Bush has damaged this country already. Someone has to make things better and a middle class hockey mom that winks during what should have been serious debate definitely cannot!