Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow (of "The sun glistened off his chiseled pectorals" fame) is back on the Obama beat and on the front page Wednesday, with a story headlined "A middle-class president's paradox." Some think Obama's an elitist. Imagine that.
But do they have fact-checkers? Saslow wrote:
His first year in office was defined in part by a paradox. He is a rare president who comes from the middle class, yet people still perceive him as disconnected from it.
Does Saslow think Clinton came from money? Reagan? Carter? Ford? Nixon? LBJ?
Obama supporters like Saslow seem to want it both ways: championing Obama's exotic upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia, and then feeling it's unfair that he's seen as exotic instead of Joe Lunchpail.
Saslow was underlining the "paradox" that Obama the "middle class" guy is seen as aloof:
As he arrived in Nashua, nearly two-thirds of Americans believed that his economic policies had hurt the country or made no difference at all; almost half thought he did not understand their problems.
Does Obama have to be seen as "middle class" for people to believe his economic policies are helping?
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For idiots like Saslow . . .
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:49 ET by Galvanic. . . US Presidential history begins with Clinton.
Good grief!
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:06 ET by motherbeltI agree; you have to wonder if this guy did any research at all, or if this came straight out of his.....imagination.
What?
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:29 ET by Patriot IINow its a middle class childhood.......before they were whining about be under privileged......more of the same crap, everything to everybody? what a buffoon, a lie, a fallicy..........I am sick and tired of the lies coming out of this administration!!!!!!
Patriot
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 17:05 ET by Jerry MackYea, we all heard about his mother being on food stamps. Raised by his Grand Parents. Media forgot to mention that they were financially well off. Forced to attend the most prestigious prep school in Hawaii on a scholarship.Imagine the humility that he endured.
I gather that the media is tired of the " Poor boy does good " routine. Now it is "we have a president that can relate to the middle class".
Middle Class?
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:56 ET by Six String SpiffRight, because I have those fond memories of smoking dope while my folks paid my way through HARVARD.
Yes, middle class... Good lord how long is the media going to continue to try to polish Obama? Is it not enough that they single handily got the man elected? cripes
Eli's a coming unglued......................
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:57 ET by TomoramaLike soap and water to a tree hugger, facts are "foreign" to a liberal "jowhorenalist".
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
Before he was a Senator in IL...
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:59 ET by c5thenHe and his wife were making over $1 million a year. When he was elected to the IL Senate, right before he ran for President, he and his wife were making over $3 million a year.
Since when is a 7 figure income considered "middle class"?
Why is it that he wanted a job where he would take such a HUGE pay cut???!!!
Throw 'da bums out!!!
Before it's too late.
power, that's why
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:02 ET by jon_torlinHe likes the idea of being in power, that's why.
-Jon
middle-class, really?
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:02 ET by jon_torlinI didn't know growing up with Muslim tutelage and surrounded by communists counts as a middle-class background.
-Jon
Obama may have come from
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:03 ET by motherbeltObama may have come from the "middle class" just as his wife comes from the south side of Chicago.
They pretend that they still have that "middle class" attitude, but it certainly didn't take long for them to get into the frills of the presidency, did it? Wagyu beef, world-renowned chefs, designer clothes, Air Force One etc. Almost as if they were "to the manor born."
The one that sticks in my head is the "overnight" trip to Camp David for his daughters. If that wasn't a "let's take a ride on Daddy's cool helicopter and see the cool other house we have" I don't know what it was.
Frankly Obama had a more
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:31 ET by Gat New YorkFrankly Obama had a more privileged up bringing than Clinton, Nixon, Ford, LBJ, and Reagan. In fact I would not categorize their up bringing as rich as middle class. And none of them went to a private school like Obama did.
The media keeps inventing myths about this guy and all have been found to be fairy tales.
Tim mentioned those
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:41 ET by motherbeltTim mentioned those presidents...and you're right about the media.
They don't need no stinking facts!
They are busily re-writing history, with Obma at its center.
Obama's standing above the country, above – above the world, he's sort of God. -Evnn Thomas.
Never the twain shall meet
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:20 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls'Obama' and 'lunchpail' in the same sentence. Wow, Tim, what a vivid imagination it takes to come up with that!
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Those would be the "regular
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:48 ET by motherbeltThose would be the "regular joes, the lunch-bucket guys" who go windsailing like John Kerry.
Real men...
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:26 ET by Irene FlickReal men don't wax.
ROTFL
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:41 ET by BlondeToo true!
I hope he fails, too.
modest background
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:51 ET by jon_torlinI thought it was Abe Lincoln that had the modest background.
Does that make him a rare president?
-Jon
"Grandma was a lowly bank vice president"
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:57 ET by SickofLibs"Every day was a struggle. I had to sell weed just to help put poi on the table and keep our ancient coal furnace running in the winter."
Sadly slips on his flip flops and trudge off to Punahou School
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 14:31 ET by upcountrywaterTuition for the 2009-2010 school year for Grades K-12 is $17,300.
Lunches and snacks are not covered by tuition.
Obama was indeed
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:35 ET by MidAmericaObama was indeed a product of priveledge. It's called affirmative action.
Even if it were true, so
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:39 ET by mattmEven if it were true, so what? He's still an elitist, despite what his background might have been. Look at how he and his wife indulge themselves in gourmet dining, fancy vacations and parties....
Contrast that with Bush. A "privileged" son of a CIA director, VP and President. Yet he was probably one of the most humble and least pretentious presidents we've ever had.
I think Libtard media hacks know this, but they write crap like this in the hope of hoodwinking the public.
Correction
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:49 ET by needleObama is a 'Rare' President with an Extremely rare Middle-Class Indonesian Childhood.
FIFY
- Relying upon the Liberal Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.
Barack Obama Senior Economics Minister of Kenya
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:28 ET by AvitarThe only reason Obama could be considered anywhere near middle class is because his family was always massively disfunctional. A Harvard Graduate son who is the abandon son of another Harvard Graduate is about as far outside of the middle class in every other term than wealth as you can get.
Gag Alert
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 12:37 ET by slickwillie2001This is hilarious: "The sun glistened off his chiseled pectorals."
I might have said "the sun glistened off the oil on his shaved and slightly effeminate chest in the carefully choreographed shot."
oh yawk!
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 13:43 ET by jon_torlinCome on, not that damned picture again please?? I just ate!
Seriously!
-Jon
Excuse Me.....
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 14:23 ET by DaMama.......while I go toss my morning oatmeal.
Does this guy get a tingle up and down his leg as well?
These Obama worshippers are so funny. Obama is one of the most privileged to ever serve as President. He wouldn't know the middle class if it came up and hit him across the head!
Saslow needs to put on his reporter big-boy pants and do some real research instead of writing fairy tales.
DaMamma... He wouldn't
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 14:26 ET by bigtimerDaMamma...
He wouldn't know what real sacrifice is if it hit him in the face...let alone at home...he's full of BS, it shows for all to see the more he opens his lying yapper.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Oops--time for some more of
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 15:16 ET by HockeyKidOops--time for some more of HockeyKid's Comparative BS Detection. Here are the stats on the presidents from LBJ to now:
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush, G.H.W.
Clinton
Bush, G.W.
Obama
As is plain to observe, Obysmal is far from a middle-class case. He is in fact the only president in the group other than the Bushes to attend a private high school. He and GW Bush are the only two to attend Ivy League schools for both undergraduate and graduate work (GHW Bush didn't go for a graduate degree).
Rather than being a middle-class man of the people, Obysmal is in actuality an elitist with a very narrow experience of the world. Heck, he even talks about trying to figure out "what it means to be black" (libspeak for underprivileged) in his own book.
Saslow joins the growing heap of lib "journalists" who can't fact-check a story.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Perfect
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 18:53 ET by Gat New YorkObama grew up in a great neighborhood and was fortunate enough to have a comfortable upbringing. He never had to work during college and from what I see did not even do any volunteer work.
I will given him that he keeps in shape and can speak well. He could have a future as a motivational speaker to idiots.
By the way you left out "Yale Law" for Clinton. he did not need Percy Sutton to get him admitted. And Oxford was a Rhodes Scholar. I think Clinton earned to right to lay into Obama and question his legitimacy.
Good Grief
Wed, 02/03/2010 - 22:41 ET by justbob223These people are more than ignorant. They are stupid beyond belief.