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PAMPERED POPULISTS: Victor Davis Hanson: ?It?s surreal to see President Obama play the class-warfa?

By Glenn Reynolds

PAMPERED POPULISTS: Victor Davis Hanson: “It’s surreal to see President Obama play the class-warfare card against the Republicans while on his way to vacation on the tony Maine coast, and even more interesting to note that now gone are the days when the media used to caricature Bush I (‘Poppy’) for boating in the summer off the preppie-sounding Kennebunkport. The truth is that the real big money and the lifestyles that go with it are now firmly liberal Democratic. . . . The more the polo-shirted Obama seems obsessed with golf, and the more he seems to prefer the landscape of the elite (who navigate the Ivy League, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Upper East Side, Cambridge, etc.), the more we wonder whom exactly he’s railing about.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 18, 2010 (boomark / email).