There are several political clans in America. Some of them can be considered borderline nobility. The Kennedys for instance, come to mind. The Roosevelt family, too, held on to power for a long time and their influence spanned across multiple generations. And what to think of old-timey rich families like the Vanderbilts? Every time you turn in to CNN, for instance, and see the face of Anderson Cooper, remember his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt. The man’s pretty much blue-blooded.
The advantage of coming from “good stock” is so incredibly important that a lot of people try (at times failing) to establish ‘dynasties’ of their own. Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary tried it, and failed. Bush junior and senior managed to do it. And if Michelle Obama gave it a try a decade or so down the line, I give her a pretty good chance as she is far more likable than most other famous ‘other halves’.
Barack Obama’s father, Barack senior, was an influential Kenyan economist and came from a well-to-do background. One of Barack’s brothers was a tribal chief, which essentially makes former President Barack Obama ‘of noble birth’ — in his own way, he’s as ‘blue-blooded’ as the Roosevelts and probably the only president who could, if he felt so inclined, claim a ‘title’.
So, yes, America does not have nobility. Not officially anyway. But Kennedy’s sister-in-law married into Polish nobility, Obama hailed from African nobility, the Roosevelts and Vanderbilts and even the Gettys are essentially nobility at this point. They have that special allure, that gilded history, the glamour… perhaps the absence of actual dukes and barons increases the appeal of these famous dynasties.
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