If you're a liberal politician and are ashamed of your childhood then just change it. If you grew up with money in an upper middle class home, went to private schools, summered overseas, and got accepted into an Ivey League college then you have reason to be ashamed. Just write a book where you were born poor and of the color of the most current underdogs. Chicago mayor, who can't stop the slaughter of his poor black children is not peddaling a book where he steals from the comedian Steve Martin. Yes, he stole the bit about being poor and black (at least part of the time).
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...or-Black-Child