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Old 09-10-2008, 12:17 PM
epchick epchick is offline
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94 View Post
I think you can work your background as long as your current behavior is in keeping with the values you were supposed to have learned/ experience you are assumed to have had.

Once there's a serious breakdown between your current behavior and your past, you shouldn't be able to just trot out your roots as a way of mitigating your present policies. Think Cheney. Do you care that his background wasn't wealthy?
I agree with this. I wouldn't like a candidate who "trumpets" his lower-middle class background, yet his life up to that point was about shunning that life.
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