Oz vs. Fetterman

I just read an editorial criticizing senate candidate Mehmet Oz from NBC news, my first mistake, written by a woman who hails from South Jersey and now resides in South Philadelphia. Woman, New Jersey, NBC, I wonder if she’s a Democrat? Apparently, her geographic street cred and ability to pronounce “water” and “coffee” with a distinct Jersey twang makes her an expert on Dr. Oz’s foray into cross-border politics. In typical democrat fashion, her tactics are to divide us into tribes then subject us to a preposterous level of hypocrisy. She parrots Oz’s distinctly uncouth opponent Fetterman’s only real campaign issue that Oz “isn’t from here,” that he’s a “carpetbagger”. Apparently the doctor, like many successful professionals, did some traveling to pursue his education and career. He was born in Ohio, grew up in Delaware, was educated in Massachusetts (Harvard) and Pennsylvania (UPenn)and settled in New Jersey. He maintained his medical license in Pennsylvania and moved there in 2020 and is running for the Senate seat vacated by Pat Toomey (R). So what?  Recall Hillary Clinton, born in Chicago, schooled in Massachusetts (Wellesley) and Connecticut (Yale), married Bill and moved to Arkansas, then Washington DC, yet carpetbagged herself to New York for a Senate seat. Awfully familiar track record save for the big D after her name. And how about progressive darling Liz Warren, she of 1/1024 Native American ancestry. Born in Oklahoma, lived in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey where she received her law degree. From Rutgers, incidentally. Yawn. Was law school faculty in Newark, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Austin, carving out her niche in middle class economics, before landing in Massachusetts at Harvard, of course. Not being of Ivy League pedigree she most likely landed that gig based on that incredibly diverse 1/1024 Indian ancestry. And I use the politically incorrect title “Indian” because that’s exactly what she hand-wrote on her application on the race question. Maybe she should have used “Guardian” but I digress. After all she isn’t from Cleveland. She may win the carpetbagger title for most stops on her train to her Senate seat in Massachusetts but alas, she too has the big D after her name. So much low hanging fruit. Just one more. Remember Patrick Kennedy the disgraced ne’er-do-well son of Teddy, he of Chappaquiddick fame? With no career prospects after attending Providence College, young “Patches” saw a House seat open across the border, from his posh Massachusetts upbringing, in perpetually blue and confused Rhode Island. His door to door campaign and name recognition earned him a seat and most hilariously he was appointed a member of the President’s Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction. He served from 1988-1993 until a series of privileged social blunders involving alcohol, drugs and destruction of property caused him to slink away into obscurity. Carpetbagging? Of course not. Big D means special privileges. Even after drunk and under the influence of Ambien and likely OxyContin, crashing his car into Capitol barricades, claiming he was late for a vote cast 6 hours earlier, he was politely escorted home by Police, having not been administered a field sobriety test. He may not win our carpetbagger award but he certainly gets honorable mention. And on to our Jersey editorialist’s second Fetterman endorsed attack. Dr. Oz is rich, owns 10 properties, and he is pretending to be one of us. Really?  Again, I repeat: so what? Is this a tribal election or is it one based on policy? Admittedly Oz is a horribly inept politician and has shown himself to be a bit tone deaf. His grocery store spot where he pretends to be aghast at food prices as he shops for ingredients for his crudité was painful at best, and it allowed Fetterman’s adept internet social warriors to meme it to death.  Lost in the snark was the fact that produce prices are indeed astronomical and inflation is a concern, but the left’s currency is demagoguery, not practical issues that effect us all. How quickly we forget Liz Warren’s “gonna get me a beer”video, subjecting us to the visual of her attempt at swigging it out of the bottle, undoubtedly the first and last time she ever did that. And they all do it. From Obama shooting hoops, to Biden and his bicycling forays, sometimes even in an upright position. Hillary and her hot sauce and Kamala and her joy of weed radio interview. Come on, man, they’re just like us. Sure Dr. Oz is wealthy, but Pocohontas has a net worth of $12 million, hardly reflective of her supposed expertise in middle-class economics. But Oz was a TV darling after a successful career as a cardiothoracic surgeon. How exactly did an academician and public servant like Liz accumulate that kind of wealth? Certainly not on her exorbitant $300000 a year salary to teach one class at Harvard, even if you tack on the $175K she earns each year as a Senator. Joe Biden? A net worth somewhere north of $9 million but with the Big Guy, you never know where the cash is hiding. Barrack Obama? $50 million. Hillary Clinton?  A whopping $120 million. Seriously, Mehmet Oz is swimming in some deep waters. But apparently exorbitant wealth is never a concern if you have that D after your name. Wealth can generally be associated with success and, although some luck may be involved, it usually implies some degree of smarts are involved. At least in the cases of Oz, Hillary, Warren, and even Obama, I have to concede that they possess intelligence and they have the paper to prove it. Biden I suspect to be more of an Everyman with swarmy back room connections and handlers. Fetterman interestingly comes from a privileged family, and despite mediocre academic credentials, did receive a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School, for what that’s worth. He is not nearly in the wealth class of Oz, but he certainly can’t compete with most of his democrat colleagues either. But do we really need another soft on crime, lighter prison sentences, looser marijuana laws, class warrior democrat like Fetterman who has stated he has become “preoccupied with the lottery of birth”? Vote for me I’m “one of youse” is not an issue. Oz is a Turkish-American Muslim that is a product of immigrant parents. Isn’t that consistent with the democrat’s infatuation with immigration and diversity? Isn’t to suggest that he is an outsider suggestive of racism? Disregard the noise, the tribalism, the class warfare and vote on the issues. Pennsylvania can’t afford to make any more mistakes. Have you been to Philadelphia recently?