<p>I don’t see why choosing a private school for one’s kids says anything about what’s good policy for the nation. Clinton and Obama are capitalists. That means they believe it’s OK for some people to earn more money than others and to spend that money on the luxuries of their choice. It’s perfectly consistent for a capitalist to fight for what he believes to be the best system of mass-market government service and still choose to buy luxuries for himself. The free market capitalist says, if you want your kids to go to a fancy school, get to work and earn a lot of money. The voucher idea – that everyone’s entitled to government help to pay for Sidwell Friends – seems to me far more socialist than that.</p>
<p>If Obama were actually a socialist, as he is often accused of being, this would be a good point. But he isn’t, so it’s not.</p>