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It's just funny that Clinton is railing against hedge funds when her daughter works for one.
You don't have to be political to find that funny.
by prefan on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 03:56:32 AM PDT
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Ask kossacks who they work for. I think you'll find quite a few of them work for corporations who are considered part of what is wrong with our nation.
Some of us follow a Higher Calling when we choose an employer. Some of us just follow the money.
Proud member of the Cult of Issues and Substance!
by Fabian on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:04:07 AM PDT
The notion that working for a profit-making entity makes one an evil Republican lapdog of Dick Cheney.
{Sigh}
by Saxman on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:14:07 AM PDT
'you can't be rich and criticize how policy skews toward the rich!' Insert 'be immediate family w/ someone at a hedge fund' for 'be rich' and here's this thread. Exact same logic at work.
by burrow owl on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:17:40 AM PDT
Stanford & Oxford. LIKE THAT'S A BAD THING? You know we have reached the DKos end days when parents sending their children to top-notch colleges is considered 'elitist'.
BTW, none of these DKos-Marx-people object to the ill-gotten Kennedy riches. Because, after all, Teddy endorsed Obama --- (that makes it okay).
by Saxman on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:23:26 AM PDT
This is just the "$500 haircut" applied to HRC.
by burrow owl on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:25:31 AM PDT
HRC was middle class --- They are all newly "rich" (they aren't Kennedy rich). Why is it that old money is okay, but earned income is somehow tawdry?
I would have thought that starting from nothing and becoming a millionaire would be a good story.
Shows you what I know...
by Saxman on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:30:21 AM PDT
Oh, the Clintons are "well-off" sent Chelsea to Stanford & Oxford. LIKE THAT'S A BAD THING?
It's not being affluent and sending your kids to upper-crust schools that's "A BAD THING." It's your motivations in doing so that merit a subjective assessment of "good" or "bad."
Going to school with the goal of quickly making loot upon graduation is probably something many Kossacks look upon with skepticism and deservedly so since rapid acquisition of material wealth rarely coincides with the pursuit of social justice.
That's why many of us are impressed that Barack Obama chose NOT to become an investment banker or corporate lawyer; those are professions currently associated with impoverishing the lives of disadvantaged American workers, rather than enriching them.
You know we have reached the DKos end days when parents sending their children to top-notch colleges is considered 'elitist'.
It IS elitist. There should be a word that objectively describes such schools and the mentality that venerates them. It is "elitist." Many paying students go there to do what Chelsea did - get on the fast track to a lucrative Wall Street job... OR to do what Barack did - gain the credentials that will qualify you for being US President some day. Or Supreme Court Justice or U.S. District Attorney, etc., etc.
The adjective can be spun negatively if one wants to or it can assume a positive connotation:
"My oldest son is a police officer who was just accepted into the SWAT team. Less than 1/5 of the applicants can pass the training standards. He's proud to belong to such an elite organization."
I think the source of the Kennedy family's wealth is embarassing and ridiculous, but so what?
GO OBAMA!!
by Miles in WesternWA on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:41:18 AM PDT
You find wealth embarassing and ridiculous. Ok. Yet Obama was a well-heeled lawyer (if you don't think his community activism was in anticipation of a political career, you're just too precious for this world) and his wife a corporate attorney.
by burrow owl on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 06:00:40 AM PDT
You find wealth embarassing and ridiculous. Ok.
Not okay. And totally inaccurate. Please go back and re-read what I wrote.
That would be helpful.
by Miles in WesternWA on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 06:09:35 AM PDT
---and I'm not sorry (even though I will be in debt for years).
Tell me, is it lonely up on Mount Olympus? If you think the Democrats will succeed without wealthy people you are on crack. I have a news flash for you: PLENTY of wealthy people believe in social justice.
Fortunately, people outside of DKos-world (like Howard Dean) realize that having rich Democrats is a GOOD THING.
BTW, "Elite" is positive. "Elitist" is pejorative.
by Saxman on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 08:11:01 AM PDT
It's kind of funny. Not a laff riot, but it's amusing. A little ribbing won't hurt Hillary a bit.
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. - Tennyson
by bumblebums on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:18:07 AM PDT
There is nothing wrong with working for a hedge fund.
There is nothing wrong with working for an oil company or any other big corporation.
There is something wrong with:
Nothing in this post has really been said, since i voted for Obama and therefore don't matter.
by Fmrdempolop on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:20:51 AM PDT
She's railed against hedge fund managers? And to think that all along I thought she was proposing changes to the tax code so that hedge fund managers would pay OI rates.
Not that I don't believe you or anything, but I'd love a quote to this hell-raising populism.
by burrow owl on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:24:15 AM PDT
Yeah, it's a laugh riot: "remember the one about Clinton taxing carried interest at ordinary income rates....."
Oh, mercy. Good times.
by burrow owl on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:06:34 AM PDT
wide narrow
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