Perry calls Obama 'privileged'

Rick Perry, seeking to paint President Obama with an "otherness" brush from most Americans, described him in terms that aren't usually used to describe him: "Privileged."

Perry has seized on the "lazy" comment the president made in talking about pitching the U.S. overseas as a cudgel against him, and he went further on the idea that the president is different than average Americans in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, via CBS News - which noted that Obama's biography is not exactly one of a rich kid:

Advertisement "He grew up in a privileged way," Perry said. "He never had to really work for anything, he never had to go through what Americans are going through," Perry said, theorizing that Obama's upbringing is what distances him Americans. "This president has never felt that angst that they felt in their heart." Obama, whose family was abandoned by his father when he was young, was brought up by his mother and grandparents, none of whom were wealthy. He attended the exclusive Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii as a scholarship student. In his autobiography, Dreams of My Father, he wrote of his struggle to fit into a school where he was one of the few black students.

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