Every President over the last 20 years has been a Yale graduate.

[pnwmom]

One more point in Obama's favor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/weekinreview/25bumiller.html

Our presidential history is a case in point. Although there has long been an anti-aristocratic bent to American politics, voters have put some famous aristocrats (including two Roosevelts, one Kennedy, all Harvard men) into the White House, and have all but idolized them as well. Over the last 20 years, every president has been a graduate of Yale. In 2004, two members of the university’s rarefied secret society, Skull and Bones, ran against each other, and the more elite candidate, George W. Bush (Andover, Yale, Harvard Business School, son of a president), won.

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Amid all this, some have noted that we have reached a curious moment in American history: an African-American candidate, born seven years after the Supreme Court repudiated segregation in public schools and four years before the Voting Rights Act was passed, finds himself struggling to overcome an aura of privilege.

“It really is a delicious irony that the first serious black candidate for president should suddenly be described as elite,” said Tom Wolfe, the author of “Bonfire of the Vanities” and a longtime chronicler of the nation’s fixation on status.

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[CreekDog]

1. edited to remove that talking out of my ...

:hide:

[gateley]

2. You're on a roll tonight, CreekDog!

I'm going to follow you around so I can head to bed with a smile on my face. :headbang:

[CreekDog]

3. wow, thanks. and i thought i was causing trouble.

:hi:

[scotto2008]

4. Delicious irony indeed

Nice point. I never thought about it that way.

[pnwmom]

5. Welcome to DU, scotto2008! n/t

[gateley]

6. Hi scotto2008!

Welcome to DU! :hi: