Lets consider what presidents came from privledge and what presidents came from modest roots....
President Obama - Born to a mixed race family in 1961, father soon left him to be raised by a single mother without any signifigant income or means of support. Came from there to become a Harvard educated lawyer then senator and finally president.
President George W. Bush - Born to a wealthy family, his father was director of the CIA educated at Yale and served one term as President of the United States, his grandfather was a United States Senator. After doing very poorly at undergraduate school was accepted to Yale. Ran several unsuccessfull business that his family bought him, ran a baseball team purchashed by family money, then ran for gov. of Texas and finally president.
President Clinton - Born to a widowed mother who left to study to be a Nurses assistant. Helped run his grandparents small grocery store. Did well in High School, got scolarships to Georgetown and Yale. Became gov. of Arkansas then President.
President George Bush, Sr. - Born the son of a united states senator, Yale educated he served in the Air Force then moved to Texas to take a job at an Oil company his father was on the board of directors of. With just 4 years experience he strarted his own oil company then became a congressman, VP and president.
President Reagan - Perhaps the most modist beginings of a modern Republican President, he was born to a traditional two parent family, his father was a successfull shoe salesman and business owner. Reagans parents sent him to college and supported him while he broke into the acting business. After many years in Hollywood he got into politics, became gov. of California and finally president.
President Carter - Born to parents who owned a small peanut farm in Rural Georgia President Carter joined the Navy and got into the Naval Academy where he recieved high grades and honors graduating in Nuclear engeneering and was assigned to one of the Navy's first Nuclear Submarines. Carter was elected gov. of Georgia with a grass roots poorly funded campaign and then became president.
Now I find it very interesting that the Democratic presidents are the ones who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps while the Republican presidents mostly came from wealthy privledged beginings....
And they call the Democrats the elitests!
President Obama - Born to a mixed race family in 1961, father soon left him to be raised by a single mother without any signifigant income or means of support. Came from there to become a Harvard educated lawyer then senator and finally president.
President George W. Bush - Born to a wealthy family, his father was director of the CIA educated at Yale and served one term as President of the United States, his grandfather was a United States Senator. After doing very poorly at undergraduate school was accepted to Yale. Ran several unsuccessfull business that his family bought him, ran a baseball team purchashed by family money, then ran for gov. of Texas and finally president.
President Clinton - Born to a widowed mother who left to study to be a Nurses assistant. Helped run his grandparents small grocery store. Did well in High School, got scolarships to Georgetown and Yale. Became gov. of Arkansas then President.
President George Bush, Sr. - Born the son of a united states senator, Yale educated he served in the Air Force then moved to Texas to take a job at an Oil company his father was on the board of directors of. With just 4 years experience he strarted his own oil company then became a congressman, VP and president.
President Reagan - Perhaps the most modist beginings of a modern Republican President, he was born to a traditional two parent family, his father was a successfull shoe salesman and business owner. Reagans parents sent him to college and supported him while he broke into the acting business. After many years in Hollywood he got into politics, became gov. of California and finally president.
President Carter - Born to parents who owned a small peanut farm in Rural Georgia President Carter joined the Navy and got into the Naval Academy where he recieved high grades and honors graduating in Nuclear engeneering and was assigned to one of the Navy's first Nuclear Submarines. Carter was elected gov. of Georgia with a grass roots poorly funded campaign and then became president.
Now I find it very interesting that the Democratic presidents are the ones who pulled themselves up by the bootstraps while the Republican presidents mostly came from wealthy privledged beginings....
And they call the Democrats the elitests!
