The Democratic National Committee just spent I-don’t-know-how-much money producing a video that claims George W. Bush grew up a privileged son of a privileged son.
The low-rent video, Fortunate Son, is a slam on Bush because his family is rich.
This is it, people. This is the best Democrats can do: class envy and racial strife. They don’t get any deeper than this. If you’re constantly afraid or envious or angry because someone has more stuff than you do, you’re probably a Democrat.
Although the video purports to show that Bush used his connections to avoid military service, it is nothing more than the usual class envy whining.
I stumbled across a critique of the video, and I was surprised to see it in the so-called non-partisan Capitol Hill paper, The Hill. Ben Goddard’s review is destined to become a classic and more succinct than anything I could’ve come up with. It’s my “privilege” to share it with you:
A video called “Fortunate Son” was kicked off with no small amount of fanfare. We are told it will be “played” in battleground states and backed by a grassroots operation involving veterans who will question President Bush on his National Guard service….This video is poorly written and poorly produced. The heavy-handed “Fortunate Son” theme that plays throughout has all the finesse of the Swift boat ads without the tenuous veneer of credibility that group was able to eke out of the angry vets….
It is common knowledge that Bush is, indeed, a fortunate son. He was born to wealth and power. He nearly squandered all that until, at midlife, he learned how to leverage his personality with his inheritance. So, what’s the point? Americans know that about Bush and has, by and large, decided they can live with it…
The inept use of music that doesn’t seem to relate to the visuals, the tortured script and the cheesy delivery of the lines completely undermine the message of this ill-conceived, badly executed video hatchet job. It might as well have a flashing billboard reading “Warning! Bad Political Attack Ad to Follow” to open the piece.
This article is better than the video, but it’s apparently the best George Soros’s money could buy. Money can’t buy class.
Since liberals are always giving me advice, I have some for them: Don’t hate people because they’re rich (or beautiful). Even if their fortunes were inherited from idiot son to idiot son, it is bad form to envy people in a higher tax bracket than you are. It’s not your business, so take care of your own.
I’m so glad my parents taught me not to covet my neighbors’ stuff. I’d love to have enough money to quit my job and do freelance writing only when I wanted to. In other words, I could really use a trust fund, but that’s not my reality.
Don’t let John Kerry convince you that wealthy people owe you some of their money. They don’t. As far as I’m concerned, they can use it as kindling for a campfire.
