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		bananacurve on Jan 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amusing ourselves to death Obama's father went to Harvard but his grandfather was a cook. Hardly a pedigree.

pyre on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

Obama is president, not his father. He grew up as a lawyer's son, not in a working-class household.

vidarh on Jan 8, 2014 | [–]

Which only demonstrates that occasionally someone manages to move between social classes, and has no bearing on the argument made above.

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