Yeah, right:
While publicly identifying with the nation’s have-nots, the Obama administration has been cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration invited top editors of three of Washington’s local luxury lifestyle magazines — Capitol File, DC magazine and Washington Life — to a meeting where they discussed, among other things, how President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama can embrace Washington’s glittery social scene.
The White House is “identifying taste makers in order to help create grass-roots interest in some of the programs they are working on,” said Washington Life’s Michael Clements, who attended the meeting. “They wanted to introduce themselves. It was certainly a departure from previous administrations.”
The Obamas “are trying to push the vibrancy of Washington night life to the forefront,” said Tony Hudgins, the associate publisher of DC magazine, who also attended the meeting, organized by Michael Strautmanis, a deputy to Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
A White House aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity dismissed the notion that a publicly populist Obama White House is privately courting socialites, contending that the meeting was held to explore how the Obamas can “engage in the community.” The aide also pointed out that similar meetings were held with representatives of sports, entertainment and philanthropic organizations in Washington.
What this points out, other than Obama’s rank hypocrisy, is the fact that The Rich know they have nothing to fear from Obama – when Obama seeks to tax The Rich, the “rich” people will actually be the upper-middle class business owners and other high wage earners who, while well off, have no wealth to compare to the super rich Obama is hob nobbing with at the White House. This is the dirty, little secret of the liberals’ class war rhetoric – the genuinely rich people, those worth, say, $50 million or more, are largely secure against any liberal tax schemes because liberals tax income, not wealth.
Our weak-minded liberal rank-and-filers think that when Obama proposes to make The Rich pay their “fair share”, he’s going to tax Bill Gates, et al and really sock it to ’em for their nefarious ripping off of the poor…but Bill Gates has little or no actual income to tax; his money is all in various instruments which are taxed little or not at all. And so The Rich are happy to oblige Obama’s desire to become an integral part of the rich, ruling elite in this nation – after all, Obama is quite wealthy, too, and he’ll become wealthier still…and join those who have fabulous riches, but who pay little taxes.
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