11-21-2008, 11:54 PM
swampy wrote:
I think this country is made up of a lot more Joe Six-Pack types than Harvard elite.
Hence the dramatic drop in the U.S.'s ability to compete over the past few decades.
swampy wrote: Nothing like the Kennedy's or Rockerfellers to punch a hole in that argument.
The Rockefellers are a republican dynasty. Irrelevant anyway...neither are up for cabinet posts and a few old establishment democrats does not a trend make. That the republicans are the party of the rich is not a remotely arguable point.