An offer we can't afford
Daniel Henninger looks class warfare in the face:
"About two-thirds through Mr. Obama's Kansas speech, I started to think of 'The Godfather.' After slapping around the 'wealthy' for about a half hour, Mr. Obama said, 'This isn't about class warfare.' Maybe that's true. In 'The Godfather,' when awful things are about to be done to people, Michael Corleone or Tom Hagen reassure those about to get hit, 'It's not personal; it's strictly business.'
"About two-thirds through Mr. Obama's Kansas speech, I started to think of 'The Godfather.' After slapping around the 'wealthy' for about a half hour, Mr. Obama said, 'This isn't about class warfare.' Maybe that's true. In 'The Godfather,' when awful things are about to be done to people, Michael Corleone or Tom Hagen reassure those about to get hit, 'It's not personal; it's strictly business.'
But I could be wrong about that. There is that defining moment when Michael Corleone says to Fredo, his brother, 'You're nothing to me now.' When even as party leader, a president of the United States gives a major speech in which people get singled out repeatedly as basically enemies of 'the middle class,' one has to wonder if they are nothing to him."
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