I don't know how he could "punish" him, but that besides the point...
As far as "Barack doesn't act better, he just tends to act more responsibly."...
*) He put "president" on the back of his chair in his luxury airplane
as if he's already won and the rest of the way is just semantics...
*) In Philly, instead of stopping by Pat's or Geno's to take in a cheesesteak, Obama went to a specialty food store and sampled
$100 Spanish ham...
*) “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for
arugula?” the senator said. “I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.” - This was said in the middle of Iowa...a state that doesn't have a Whole Foods store in the whole state...besides...
"Customers and critics have occasionally referred to Whole Foods by the nickname "
Whole Paycheck" because of the high prices of many of their products"...It's the "Mercedes of markets" that the farmers he was talking to couldn't even afford to go to if there even was one in Iowa...
And out of every vegetable or grain someone can think of when talking to farmers, he went with "
arugula"?!?!?...I'm guessing 90% of the middle class in this country doesn't even know what the hell that is! (Add to that it's a plant that's not even local...It's found in the Meditteranean region, and only started being grown in America for less than 20 years)...
*) He has his convention speech on a set designed as a Greek temple...
*) He had his own presidential seal created...(went over like a lead balloon)...
*) He tells an upscale crowd in San Francisco that the middle-class workers in the midwest are bitter people and "cling to God and guns"...doesn't bother to say it to their face...