It's a big club, and you ain't in it

[Hortensis]

70. Look back over the past 50 years and pick out the

elites who made it to the presidency. There are very few. Kennedy, both Bushes off the top of my head. Who else? A few who came from what could be considered upper class homes, if not exactly in the Bushes' circle. But certainly not Nixon, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama. Some had very modest backgrounds.

Merely climbing or clawing one's way to the top of a structure does not make one a member of the "elites." Ask any non-elite ex-president. They're not nobodies, but nevertheless the doors to homes of the true elites, our top power families, are not guaranteed open to just anyone who was once president for a few years. These days there's apparently a strong market for them as trophy speakers paid with what amounts to chump change, but who knows how long that market will hold up?