Too much isolation among the rich and privileged throughout his life is a hard habit to break.
THis is a meaningless attack on Bush--Gore pretends he is a good ol Tenn boy, but he attended the prestigious St Albans School in DC, and graduated from Harvard. He went on to Vanderbilt Law, but dropped out.
St. Albans embarrasses Gore and his party. Gore never mentions that he went there. All the St. Albans pols skip the school in their official biographies. When he was being considered for running mate, Kerry went so far as calling a reporter (still another Albanian, Brit Hume) to emphasize that he had left St. Albans and graduated from a different high school.
The bashfulness is understandable. St. Albans is a snooty, elitist, inside-the-Beltway institution. The people's party fears association with an all-boys private school that costs nearly $20,000 per year, has a "refectory" instead of a "cafeteria," and prides itself on its noblesse oblige. (Gore is, however, inoculated from St. Albans attacks by the Bush campaign: George W. Bush's younger brothers Neil and Marvin are graduates.) |
