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Both are from privileged backgrounds, which both--in honor of another bit of democratic sentimentality--are trying to disown (Gore by emphasizing the Tennessee aspect over the Washington aspect of his childhood as a senator's son; Bradley by making a big deal about growing up in a small town where--as he doesn't emphasize--his father was president of a bank).
Hillary would kill me and Chelsea would disown me as her father."