am # Could Pia Catton find a more absurd thesis?
Politico [emphasis added]: Obama’s vacation time was hardly your average American’s week at the lake. The family stayed in a house they rented for $25,000 per week on an island known as a playground for celebrities and CEOs, their every move shadowed by Secret Service and a press pool. They capped it off with a few days at the presidential retreat at Camp David, world’s most exclusive collection of rustic cabins. Nonetheless, the much-publicized R & R was likely to cement a connection with a significant portion of the electorate. More than any recent first family, the Obamas have come to personify a middle-class lifestyle that, while rarefied [only rarefied!], is something with which many Americans can identify. And it helps explain Obama’s continuing personal popularity, even as his policies draw more fire. Comment by sdferr on 9/7 @ 9:01 am # sorry, link. Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/7 @ 9:09 am # I simply find it odd – scary, even, in the Orwellian sense – that Leftists can’t ever se
