Limousine Liberals At The DNC
There is no denying that Barack and Michelle Obama are a magnificent pair of orators. They have terrific speechwriters and their delivery is pitch perfect.
All style. Little substance.
Mulling over their speeches from Tuesday night I kept coming back to a couple of sentences that Michelle uttered.
They were meant to be moving, but when you chew on them, they’re chilling. And not in a good way.
Her parents were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.
Took?
That was an odd choice of words. Which raises the question: Have the Obamas themselves “taken” more than they need?
They have a net worth of about $70 million. They own an $11.75 million mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, and $8.7 million oceanfront spread in Hawaii, an $8.1 million estate in Washington DC and a sprawling home worth $1.65 million in Chicago.
I don’t begrudge this highly successful couple their homes or their millions. It’s their money. They earned it. Nor do I think it’s unfair that their daughters will someday inherit immense generational wealth.
What grates is that the Obamas - and many other Democrat party bosses - live like international jet setters while talking like socialists.
Anyone else remember Barack Obama’s famous encounter with “Joe the plumber” during his 2008 campaign?
It was at a campaign stop in Ohio that a man named Samuel Wurzelbacher - a plumber - stopped candidate Obama to object to his tax proposals. Joe told Obama that he was getting ready to buy his own business and that the proposed tax plans would cripple his chances of success.
Obama replied with a bunch of smooth gibberish about tax rates before concluding with his famous “spread the wealth around” quote.
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance at success, too... My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. If you've got a plumbing business, you're gonna be better off [...] if you've got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you, and right now everybody's so pinched that business is bad for everybody and I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.”
That reply became a mantra for the McCain campaign and turned Joe the Plumber into a minor celebrity.
Seven years later, when Barack Obama was speaking to a group about Wall Street reform, he made similar remark, showing his continued contempt for successful Americans.
"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money,” he sneered.
Frankly, all the eloquence in the world can’t disguise what the Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, AOC and Bernie Sanders are:
Limousine liberals who espouse Marxism while “taking” way more than they need.
