"As UCLA professor Mark Kleiman wrote, "If you went to Harvard, it's plain embarrassing to say you're going to vote for someone as, well, unwashed, as Huckabee."Certainly, Obama's underlying policy platform is good for working-class America and better than Huckabee's, which is led by a punishingly regressive tax proposal.However, the campaigns' rhetorical themes are critical to consider because they impact what will and will not be acceptable topics of political debate in the post-Bush era.Personally, I want to believe Obama's vision of America as a class-free utopia where change comes without rancor or division. But history shows that most positive change in America has been about class and conflict whether it was the battle for basic labor laws or the fight for Social Security.That's why, whoever wins the primaries, the more class forces its way onto the presidential stage, the better.In short, stay classy, Mike Huckabee." Download entire article in PDF format.
