His mother was a white woman from Kansas, his father a shepherd from Kenya. When his father went back to his homeland, his mother was left alone to raise him. She taught him to work hard, to study and learn, and to think about the welfare and lives of others. She so wanted him to succeed that she would wake him at 4:30 in the morning to study, hours before he went to school. They had very little money. Her parents helped and gave him a home when he was growing up.
He learned well from his mother. He became a fine student, worked his way through college, and then went on to Harvard Law School, where he became editor of the prestigious law review. All of this success came through hard work. After he graduated, he chose not to find employment with a big law firm, where he could have made a handsome living, but turned to teaching and community organizing.
He married a very intelligent woman who herself found academic success through hard work. She also went to Harvard. These people have two young daughters. They’re a fine young family. They enjoy an average level of material comfort, but they are by no means wealthy.
This man is, of course, an Elitist.
We now come to another man. He was born into wealth and privilege. His father was a Congressman, a World War II pilot who was shot down and returned to America a hero, became head of the CIA, then Vice President, and finally President of the United States. The younger man went to the same well-known prep school as his father had attended, did poorly, and then went to Yale, where his father before him had gone and been the captain of the baseball team. It is widely believed that he was able to go to Yale only because of his father’s money and prestige. He did not have good enough grades to get in otherwise. He did poorly at Yale.
He did earn a degree from Harvard Business School. He went into the oil business, at which his father had made money, but failed at that enterprise. That behind him, he used the family name to help him become a part-owner of the Texas Rangers. When he and his partners sold the team, he made a fortune.
Earlier, he had become a pilot too, with the Texas Air National Guard, where he could serve without having to go to Vietnam. Apparently he got tired of being in the Guard at a certain point and just left it, going AWOL. This part of his life story isn’t clear because the records of his final months in the Guard have disappeared.
He became Governor of Texas and, because of his family name and ultra-right politics, was chosen by his party to run for the presidency. He was awarded the presidency by the U.S. Supreme Court in a disputed election and served two terms as President of the United States. At the end of his administration, the country will be bankrupt. The financial system is in a state of collapse, largely as a result of the laissez-faire policies of his administration. During his eight years in office he and his administration have repeatedly violated many of the provisions in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The country has engaged in an unnecessary war with Iraq, where it is bogged down. Another war is going on in Afghanistan. Americans are detested around the world.
Eminent historians throughout the country–more than a hundred of them–have agreed that he is the worst president in our history.
He likes to ride around his Texas ranch in a pickup and cut brush with his chain saw.
Therefore, he is a Man of the People.
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