{"id":12793,"date":"2012-03-13T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2012-03-13T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:51:28","slug":"i-guess-it-all-depends-on-what-you-consider-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12793","title":{"rendered":"I Guess It All Depends On What You Consider Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">I love Joe Biden. He provides a perspective on things that just seems to be unique. Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/13\/biden-tells-10k-a-plate-fundraiser-audience-that-gop-doesnt-know-the-middle-class\/\">Hot Air<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today quoting some of the Vice-President&#8217;s recent statements at a Democratic fundraiser.<\/div>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Biden told attendees that he is confident about Obama\u2019s reelection because Republicans are being open about their intent to cut programs important to a large swatch of the electorate \u2014 the middle class.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThese guys don\u2019t have a sense of the average folks out there,\u201d he said. \u201cThey don\u2019t know what it means to be middle class.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok. So let&#8217;s take a closer look at the fundraiser where these statements were made. It was held at the Georgetown home of Senator John Kerry. Couples paid $10,000 to attend. The menu was char-grilled grass-fed New York strip steaks and white truffle mashed potatoes. I&#8217;m not sure I have ever even seen\u00a0white truffle mashed potatoes. I am pretty sure they don&#8217;t serve them at my local steakhouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The article mentioned some of the guests:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Pool reporter Tracy Jan of The Boston Globe noted some high-profile guests at the fundraiser, including \u201cElizabeth Bagley, former ambassador to Portugal and attorney specializing in trade and international law; Matthew Barzun, former Ambassador to Sweden who Obama has tapped to be his 2012 campaign finance chairman; Steven Green, former ambassador to Singapore; Bob Barnett, a Washington attorney who\u2019s worked on eight national presidential campaigns helping candidates prepare for debates; Tom McMillen, former Maryland congressman; and Jack Manning, co-founder of Boston Capital.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ed Morrissey rather wryly comments at the end of the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>But don\u2019t worry \u2014 these folks <em>know<\/em> the middle class.\u00a0 They hire them to clean up afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I just want to know what white truffle mashed potatoes look like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=0b5abba0-9930-43be-82f8-680b5988d944\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Joe Biden. He provides a perspective on things that just seems to be unique. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air\u00a0posted an article today quoting some of the Vice-President&#8217;s recent statements at a Democratic fundraiser. The article reports: Biden told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,2426,221,118,1281,2427],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat-fundraiser","tag-ed-morrissey","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-kerry","tag-middle-class-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12800,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions\/12800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}