• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    Joe Biden doing some heavy lifting in this narrative as a VP and one term president. If anything, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton actually prove this point that anyone can become president, both come from very modest means.

    The Bushes, however, are a dysfunctional political dynasty stretching back to senator and investment banker Prescott Bush, George HW’s father, and Samuel Prescott Bush, a steel executive and industrialist, who was HW’s grandfather.

    Also, you left out that this is the 3rd election in a row with Trump on the ballot.

    • @[email protected]
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      784 months ago

      “I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my father and his father before him”

      • @WhatAmLemmy
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        84 months ago

        “I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my millionaire father and his millionaire father before him”

        FTFY

          • @WhatAmLemmy
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            04 months ago

            You don’t have to be a millionaire to be “self made”. Tons of average joes consider themselves to be. The distinction is relevant.

    • @Upsidedownturtle
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      224 months ago

      It is also just one man. No parents, siblings, children, spouses like the Bushs or Clintons. No one is getting all uppity about politicians like Glitch McConnell having decades in the senate.

      • @njm1314
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        164 months ago

        I think a lot of us are actually uppity about that

    • @tan00k
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      74 months ago

      Also who says “anyone can become president”? Liars and the gullible, I guess

    • @Dkarma
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      14 months ago

      The whole thing is heavy lifting. Clinton and Bush havent been a thing for 20 years. Running and losing doesn’t count.