who offered a helping hand and a warm smile. repeatedly, when i was reading a piece in the the wall street journal written by governor jeb bush, i thought of my family s journey out of the ghetto. he said today the sad real city if you re born poor, if you re parents didn t go to college, if you don t know your father, and if english is not spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you. you are more likely to stay poor today than at any other time since world war ii. what struck me about governor bush s piece was that all except one of his prerequisite for being condemned forest fire poverty applied to me. fortunately i know my father. but i was born poor. my parents didn t go to college, and english was not and still is not spoken at home. the odds were stacked against me. so like barack obama has been eager to harp on the odds for political purposes, in the narrative he has been pedaling for the four to five years. the little people at the bottom of the society