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Entry: There Will Be Full-Bloodedness Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/there_will_be_full_bloodedness#27087 Post contents: What I can't understand is that Americans will elect someone whose life was so totally outside the course of lives of ordinary Americans. Mr. Obama never attended an ordinary American school. How can he have a reasonable opinion about the American school system? he probably never was sitting in the waiting room of a general practicioner among people of the lower or the middle class. How can he judge the American health system? He never rode to work in a commuter train every morning. He never did military service with other ordinary Americans. I am a German, and there is one good thing about the compulsory school system in Germany: the first 4 years, you visit the basic school (Grundschule) together with children from all social classes. My family lived in a village of about 3000 inhabitants in a half rural, half industrial county. The children in my class were the sons and daughters of coal miners, industrial workers and small-scale farmers, all of them decent playmates. I still have contact with them when we meet once a year, and I always learn a lot about how these people feel. What I said about Mr. Obama may be true for other presidential candidates; if they come from a multimillionaire family, visited only private schools and elite universities, always had private and special appointments with doctors, never earned their money in an ordinary profession like e.g. Ron Paul, then they shouldn't be considered eligible for president. Sent at: 2008 08 29