Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren
We await other contestants.
In a casual, intimate moment Warren invited the lumpers into her kitchen for a personal video conversation. Her husband, Bruce, appeared briefly, was offered a beer, declined, smiled, and left.
Warren says at the beginning of the short video, “Hold on a sec. I'm going to get me a beer.”
Forbes noted that “Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren identifies as a capitalist, which makes sense, given her estimated $12 million fortune.”
But she and Bruce as just plain bourgeoisie folks, as Forbes notes:
“She and her husband, Bruce Mann, both longtime law professors, hold much of their wealth in retirement accounts. Their TIAA and CREF accounts—available to educators and nonprofit employees—are worth at least $4 million. They also own two homes: a $3 million Victorian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an $800,000 condo in Washington, D.C.”
Perhaps when working as a law professor, it was not unusual for Professor Warren to address her class of future Harvard-educated lawyers saying, “Hold on a sec. while I get me a piece of chalk so's I can write down that there judicial ruling for ya'all.”
Warren is the most recent winner for disingenuous speak. But there's plenty of time for others.
Back in August 2016, Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton was speaking before a largely African American audience in Selma, Alabama when she channeled lyrics from a gospel song by the late Reverend Dr. James Cleveland (1931-1991), often referred to as the King of Gospel.
She said, in a voice not her own: “I don't feel no ways tired. I've come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy. I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me.”
Well, apparently, He did – bring her that far and no farther.
That's number two of the Trifecta.
Earlier still, in 2004, it was Presidential Candidate John Kerry who put aside elite-speak for the dialect of the proletariat when inquiring about buying a hunting license in Ohio. Here's how the Washington Times led off the national reporting on the incident:
“In Ohio this week, John Kerry tried to stage something for the press to show that he's not an anti-gun elitist who looks down his nose at the voting public. But the dog-and-pony show he put on in order to hunt geese in Ohio the other day largely served as another political opportunity for the Bush campaign and the National Rifle Association to remind gun owners that few senators have been as hostile to them as Mr. Kerry.
Mr. Kerry's Ohio hunting adventure started last Saturday, when the senator, campaign entourage in tow, went into a grocery store and asked the owner: “Can I get me a hunting license here?” Even the phraseology sounded staged. Mr. Kerry ordinarily doesn't talk this way, and his language sounded fake and patronizing — as if he was pretending to talk like someone from rural Ohio.”
(Someone please tell the people at the Washington Times that the people in rural Ohio speak at least as well as those in citified Washington, D.C., and often more honestly.)
Kerry donned full dress camo gear as he went out looking for game. Third in the Trifecta.
To this list, some might want to add Democrat Presidential Candidate's Michael Dukakis appearance in 1988 where he rode in a tank, à la General George Patton on the cover of Life Magazine, July 7, 1941.
But Dukakis said nothing in the ad. So, he's home free—except for looking silly. But, look, few among us would not look silly riding in the turret of a tank.
The Democrat Candidate Trifecta of Disingenuous Class Associations, of relatively recent times, is established.
That is until newly-declared candidate and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is filmed entering a big-box, home-improvement store asking if he can buy one of those riding lawnmowers that can turn around on its axis. But that's unlikely. He's got people for that.
But he might go to a McDonalds for lunch and order lobster tail with a New England-style cracker and crabmeat stuffing, served with fresh lemon wedges and homemade dinner rolls. They no can do? Okay, so he defaults to a Big Mac with fries and an 8 oz. diet drink—and no more than eight.
And Joe Biden tells a crowd of hard-hat union construction workers that, “Hey, I ain't no privileged billionaire. I'm a lunchbox-carrying, steel-toed boot wearing, working stiff just like the rest of you folks. Putting in my 40 hours a day, and barbequing burgers on the weekend for the wife, kids, and grandkids. Just got me a new one of them!”
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