Over at Human Events, John Hayward looks at Obama’s speech in Scranton to note the strange phenomenon of a man who has reached the heights of power and wealth through the public sector demonizing those who seek to reach those same heights through the private sector:

There is no longer the slightest pretense of treating government as a dreadful expense to be shouldered by a consenting populace as evenly as possible, to perform a few carefully limited duties. Now you’re supposed to wait for Good King Barack to smile upon your small-business plan and direct one of his many courtiers to cut you a check. Applause for his good intentions is expected, while questions about the grim outcomes are rude, and limits to his discretion are unthinkable.
It’s long past time for Americans to grow up and move past this childish and destructive fantasy. The great majority of people act in the interests of themselves, and their families. They work hard to get ahead. They make investments in the pursuit of reward. The Democrats have no trouble understanding and promoting this when they’re looking to buy votes at $700 a pop . . . but otherwise, they expect us to embrace the highly regimented altruism of limitless “donations” to an angelic government filled with thousands of wise and selfless bureaucrats, whose salaries we are not supposed to envy.
Politics is the worst way to fulfill your self-interest. It’s compulsive, which means it’s destructive. Wealth is quickly shredded in a crossfire of votes from competing interests, seeking to force one another to pay for benefits.

Think back to the 2008 campaign, when Michelle Obama told a group of women at a Zanesville, Ohio, day-care center:

We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do . . . Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.

The Obamas are absolutely convinced that they rose to the top in the morally correct way, and that most of the other folks at the top rose there in a morally tainted way.