Another perspective on Yale, class, and the Presidency: David Wyles, a college roommate, says he and Mr. Lieberman came to Yale from comparable class backgrounds. But Mr. Wyles, a scholarship student, took campus jobs. "Busing dishes for these rich preppies and having them treat me like a servant," Mr. Wyles says, he became a radical. Mr. Lieberman took another route. "He saw going into politics as a viable alternative," Mr. Wyles said. "You know what? It's not in his nature to be a radical. He's a balanced person. He listens to people. He rarely goes too far in the pendulum because he's always thinking about what other people think. Not that he doesn't have his own moral compass. But he reaches out to other people. "I think he has a definite sympathy for the underclass, for immigrants, for blacks, for Latinos. But it's not like he doesn't relate to insurance executives either. That's part of buying into the American dream: `We can all become middle class.' Of course, it's not true, but he believes it." If only David Wyles were the Senator from Connecticut...
12/08/2003
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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