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I absolutely loved Frank Rich's column today in the New York Times. The best part was when he exposed the utter hypocrisy of Republican up-and-comers Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's governor and Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor. Both of these phonies have sold the bogus story of rising from difficult circumstances though hard work. The reality of these silver spoon spinners looks a little different than the campaign storyline. Rich writes in the New York Times:
What such G.O.P. "stars" as Sanford and Jindal have in common, besides their callous neo-Hoover ideology, are their phony efforts to portray themselves as populist heroes. Their role model is W., that brush-clearing "rancher" by way of Andover, Yale and Harvard. Listening to Jindal talk Tuesday night about his immigrant father's inability to pay for an obstetrician, you'd never guess that at the time his father was an engineer and his mother an L.S.U. doctoral candidate in nuclear physics. Sanford's first political ad in 2002 told of how growing up on his "family's farm" taught him "about hard work and responsibility." That "farm," the Charlotte Observer reported, was a historic plantation appraised at $1.5 million in the early 1980s. From that hardscrabble background, he struggled on to an internship at Goldman Sachs.
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"Sanford's first political ad in 2002 told of how growing up on his "family's farm" taught him "about hard work and responsibility." That "farm," the Charlotte Observer reported, was a historic plantation appraised at $1.5 million in the early 1980s. From that hardscrabble background, he struggled on to an internship at Goldman Sachs."
Um, exactly how is Sanford being dishonest? Just because the farm was worth $1.5 million does not mean he didn't have to work hard and be responsible. Again, bullshit from Rich in place of substance.
posted by mdf1960, at
3/02/2009 2:53 AM
Um, no.
Sanford is a phony. he is pretending, like Bush, to be an average Joe - but is really a spoiled brat with a silver spoon in his mouth.
I think most Americans are tired of the fake populism of George W. Bush and his cronies.
If you are born at third base - don't sell yourself as a man who hit a triple. That's all, mdf1960.
posted by Wayne Besen, at
3/02/2009 9:57 AM
Frank Rich is a breath of reality and common sense EVERY Sunday. Is it me or doesn't everyone see right through the fake face and smile of Jindal's rediculous character. Someone please throw some beads at him and ask him to shake his peaches.
posted by Spouse Walker, at
3/02/2009 2:38 PM
