Dude. I miss you.

I'm sure that my summers spent in Kennebunkport definitely kill my chances at "woman of the people." Though that actually didn't seem to hurt GWB's "man of the people" image.

Get outside, find some brush to clear and you'll be a-okay!

I thought that the rich kids were the ones whose parents were paying full tuition (I had a partial scholarship) and also paying for their fraternity or sorority dues and spring break trips to Cancun.

What's funny to me is that my freshman year in college I joined a sorority and went to Cancun, but I paid for all of that. Makes me wonder what other people were thinking about me.

I'm sure that my summers spent in Kennebunkport definitely kill my chances at "woman of the people." Though that actually didn't seem to hurt GWB's "man of the people" image.

It's only a problem if you run as a Democrat.

Makes me wonder what other people were thinking about me.

All depends on their perspective I think.

When I was in Virginia for my first two years of college there was another kid from New Jersey I'd ride home with sometimes. He once asked me why I didn't have a car, "you have a job". Um, yeah, I use that to pay tuition.

This surprised him a lot. And he wasn't a kid I considered particularly rich.

We can argue about whether she is upper middle class or rich. But I'm pretty sure what she is not is in "average" financial circumstances. I just thought it was funny that anyone would describe her has "average". If 150,000 a year is average, then is someone making 60K a year poor? How about someone making 35K a year? I mean I don't think her income says anything about her at all. She is a judge. She makes what judges make (including having a judges pension which is defined benefit and absolutely secure except in circumstances where her pension will be the least of her worries). The writer is being pretty unaware in describing her financial status as "average". I mean 90% of people her age have net worths ranging from negative to a few thousand dollars. Nobody with a million dollar net worth is "average". And it may just be an accident of property values rising, but it doesn't matter whether she was a genius an bought shrewdly, or bought a house she liked and it escalated. She owns a million buck house free and clear. That is not average, not even with 30,000 in debt, which in her case is a debt of less than three months pre-tax salary.

I'm pretty sure what she is not is in "average" financial circumstances.

Well, what the article says is her "finances look a lot like the average person's", which given the fact that she has no savings beyond enough to pay her outstanding debt, is pretty accurate. It says she owns a condo, but I didn't see where it says she owns it "free and clear".

I grew up in a neighborhood sometimes featured on Cops. That may take me beyond "of the people" into "of the hood."

Timelies all!

While I'm not sure if my upbringing would paint me as unsuitable for the Supreme Court, the fact that I go to science fiction conventions and have associated with known anarchists probably would.

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