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bananacurve
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Amusing ourselves to death
Obama's father went to Harvard but his grandfather was a cook. Hardly a pedigree.
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Obama is president, not his father. He grew up as a lawyer's son, not in a working-class household.
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Which only demonstrates that occasionally someone manages to move between social classes, and has no bearing on the argument made above.
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