Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich

1) Rich politicians 

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There seem to be two prerequisites for the modern U.S. presidency. 

1. Being fabulously rich.  
2. Successfully pretending you're not.

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Crowdpac estimates Hillary Clinton's net worth to be $21.5 million (more if you include Bill). Jeb Bush's: $10 million. Even Elizabeth Warren, enemy of Wall Street, champion of populist financial-sector reform, is estimated to be worth $3.7 million to $10 million, according to CNN Money. Of the 26 potential candidates identified by Crowdpac, only four -- Joe Biden, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders and Mike Pence -- are estimated to be worth less than $1 million.

With a net worth of $150,000, Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, is perhaps the middle-classiest of the bunch. But don't worry, his campaign would have backing from the billionaire Koch brothers and Steve Forbes, according to The Washington Post. He's also little-known and has basically no chance of winning the increasingly claustrophobic Republican primary. 

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These folks may want to represent an America where median wealth is only $44,900. Meanwhile, the national median income is about $54,000 per year, and one in five children lives below the federal poverty line, which is about $24,000 annually for a family of four. The gap between rich and poor in the United States has been growing since the 1970s -- and it's wider than in almost any other industrialized country. (Iran and Nigeria are better.) 

None of these would-be candidates can claim to represent that America. None comes close.

 2)  Burn the Quran pastor 

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With pressure building on potential nominees for the 2016 U.S. presidential election to declare their candidacy, a surprise entrant who added colour to the race this week was controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones.

Jones who is avowedly “anti-Obama,” and described as a “fringe front-runner” in the race, made headlines in 2010 when he declared his intention to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, causing deep consternation in the U.S. administration, which feared a violent backlash.

When Jones announced his plans to hold an “International Burn a Koran Day,” he faced major pressure from world leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama to call off the event.