Roberts and working in a steel mill during the summers.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

* made a point the other day when talking about Roberts. He mentioned that on his summers off from Harvard, Roberts would work in a steel mill. Sounds like a rags to riches story? Roberts' dad was an executive at the mill...........

[underpants]

1. Link? First hand info?

I knew that sounded a bit hooey when I heard it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. From the NYTimes.

http://nytimes.com/2005/07/21/politics/21nominee.html?ei=5094&en=3e6d2bbcdacc8242&hp=&ex=1122004800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

July 21, 2005
Court Nominee's Life Is Rooted in Faith and Respect for Law
By TODD S. PURDUM, JODI WILGOREN and PAM BELLUCK

This article was reported and written by Todd S. Purdum, Jodi Wilgoren and Pam Belluck.



--------------------snip--------------------------

Born in Buffalo, Judge Roberts arrived in Long Beach, a flag-bedecked town of 1,500 residents on the shore of Lake Michigan, around fourth grade with his parents when his father, John Sr., helped open the Bethlehem Steel mill in Burns Harbor, a half-hour's drive away. At first the family - John and his three sisters, Cathy, Peggy and Barbara - lived by the lake amid the summer cottages of wealthy families from Chicago, about 60 miles away. But in 1965, the family built a brown split-level house with five bedrooms on a quiet street a couple of blocks away.

Like other steel executives' children, John Roberts went to private school, first next door to his family's parish at Notre Dame, and then to an all-boys boarding school, La Lumiere, a bucolic retreat on a pond in nearby LaPorte.

[shoelace414]

3. wha...?

he's not the daughter of a sharecropper?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. hehehehehehehehe... Prep school and Ivy League all the way.

;)

[burythehatchet]

9. no but he was born a poor black child

he just pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

[dweller]

6. guess that blows

the 'raised in a log cabin' scenario.

unless it was a cabin in a Catskills ski resort...
dp

[Skinner]

7. Nice catch.

:thumbsup:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Thanks Skinner!

:hi:

[papau]

11. I knew he was not a union job steel worker! I doubt he even visited

the 110 to 130 degree, 130 decibel floor, or had to watch out for the overhead crap moving about, or hold his breath because of the benzene cleaning going on, or had to avoid a spill from one of the acid baths, or learned to duck behind the "safety pole" as the end of the wire draw occurred so as to not get whipped by hot steel.

GOP is selling Rags to becoming rich via education - why can't the media say rich kid and legacy?

[underpants]

15. Thanks

Like I said this didn't pass the sniff test for a second

[oneighty]

4. I guess the old log cabin story

is so yesterday. Mills are in cabins out.

I was a poor white boy do not sell so good either.

180

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Lol! What's funny too is that Jon Stewart mentioned last night that

the story of Roberts youth sounded familiar..the football star and steel mills. Oh yes! The Tom Cruise movie, All The Right Moves. Except that in that film, Cruise played a poor kid in a steel town trying to get a scholarship.

[ComerPerro]

13. LMAO

Missed the Daily Show last night. Was at a DU meetup.

That's a great line.

And, so fitting.

Ever notice that so much of the Bush administration's fabricated BS sounds suspiciously like a movie?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. The whole segment on Roberts was great! I wish someone posts it. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. Judge Cutie from The Daily Show last night. Video.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The_Daily_Show_cable-on-Roberts.wmv

or

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The_Daily_Show_cable-on-Roberts.mov

[oneighty]

17. I seldom watch TV

My remark is an obvious answer to this foolishness. I read many young man/boy rags to riches stories as a child. Horatio Alger, perhaps you remember him?

180

[deminks]

8. Another link

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050720/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts_boyhood_4

LONG BEACH, Ind. - Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. grew up a stone's throw from Lake Michigan in an exclusive community popular among executives from Bethlehem Steel, attending Catholic schools and enjoying summers along the waterfront about 30 miles outside Chicago.


Yet he also did "nitty gritty" work during the summers at a nearby steel mill, part of a summer work force made up largely of mill executives' children.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Answering phones? Sharpening pencils? Filing? n/t

[underpants]

14. Robbing BethStell pension plan?

Oh no that was probably his father

[bballny]

16. He is

your typical business republican. His father was management and he has all the disdain that management has for union people. He is no blue collar guy and has zero understanding of the common man. I worked in a factory in the summer and my father was the typical union guy except he was the union representative that helped negotiate the contact for the longshoreman against CPC The children of the management people worked upstairs and not with the union workers. I wonder if it was the same at Bethlehem steel

[underpants]

19. Welcome to DU bballny

:hi:

[papau]

21. It was that way at US Steel - Waukegan Works n/t

n/t

[AnnInLa]

20. Remember when the repukes made such fun of John Edwards

and his "common man" background? Now, they are trying to make this advantaged guy sound as if he has the same type of background....I have trouble believing that people raised with every advantage should serve on SCOTUS...or be in Congress, for that matter.