Living the High Life

Carol Platt Liebau | October 17, 2008 11:49 AM

According to gossip columnist Richard Johnson of Page Six, the Obamas aren't waiting to get to The White House to live the high life. When Barack was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria last week, his wife called room service and ordered

lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne.

Sounds pretty tasty -- and pretty expensive. I guess that's one way of "spreading the wealth around."

Look, I don't begrudge the Obamas their caviar and lobster. I like lobster, too (caviar? not so much). It's just that the whole mentality strikes me as typical of Democrat thinking.

In that world view, the "government class" -- those who "care" about the poor -- are entitled to caviar and lobster, although it may seem sharply at odds with their much-touted kinship to "working people." But "the rich" -- who can afford to purchase caviar and lobster because of their own hard work and talent -- are to be demonized as "greedy," eating lobster and caviar is to be touted as evidence of "excess," and their wealth is to be spread around.