PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2017

saco-indonesia.com, Dirusaknya Satlantas di Jalan Trunojoyo dan Bundaran Senayan, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan (Jaksel) oleh sekelompok orang yang tak dikenal, telah membuktikan bahwa wibawa polisi merosot di titik terendah.

"Memang (wibawa polisi tengah merosot) yang telah menjaga pos kepolisian itu kan polisi dan itu simbol kenegaraan. Memang tren pos polisi di serang marak, lantaran penindakannya yang tidak tuntas," kata pengamat kepolisian Bambang Widodo Umar, Senin (10/2/2014).

Dia juga memprediksi, jika Polri tak mengungkap kasus ini hingga ke akarnya, maka bukan mustahil peristiwa serupa akan dapat terulang. "Saya harap ini kejadian yang terakhir. Jadi polri juga harus mencari sekuat mungkin siapa pelakunya dan menindak tegas, hukum seberat-beratnya,"singkatnya.

Polisi juga akan terus mengusut kasus kasus perusakan terhadap dua Pos Pol Satlantas di Jakarta Selatan (Jaksel). Saat ini telah ada lima saksi yang diperiksa, yaitu Sumiati (18), Topan Saputra (17), Juleha (20), Tari (18), Taunah (66).

Kepala Bidang Humas Polda Metro Jaya, Kombes Pol Rikwanto juga menuturkan, pelaku perusakan dua Pos Pol Satlantas telah memiliki ciri-ciri berambut cepak.

Kejadian bermula dari perempatan Kuningan pukul 22.30 malam WIB, saat anggota lantas telah menghentikan arus lalin karena akan lewat rombongan Wapres. Kemudian ada pengendara sepeda motor berambut cepak berboncengan nyelonong kemudian dihentikan anggota lantas (lalu-lintas).

Setelah dijelaskan kemudian yang bonceng turun memukul anggota lantas hingga jatuh. Rekan anggota lantas lainnya yang tidak jauh dari lokasi mendatangi pembonceng tersebut untuk melerai.

Malah dipukul di wajah kemudian dibalas dan saling akhirnya saling pukul. Saat itu juga anggota lantas yang pertama berkelahi dengan yang mengendarai motor. Kondisi seperti itu Danton Lantas Ipda Kardi datang melerai dan membubarkan.

Dijelaskannya, sang pengendara motor tersebut juga sempat mengutarakan kecaman kepada anggota lantas. "Saat itu pembonceng mengatakan Awas kamu! Saya tidak terima, tunggu saya, saya akan datang dengan pasukan," papar Rikwanto.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com — Ribuan sopir angkutan umum sejumlah jurusan kembali melakukan aksi unjuk rasa di depan Terminal Lebak Bulus, tepatnya di Jalan Pasar Jumat, Cilandak, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (27/1/2014). Mereka berunjuk rasa setelah adanya kabar mengenai rencana penutupan terminal dalam kota di Lebak Bulus oleh pengurus terminal setempat.

Pemprov DKI Jakarta sebelumnya mengambil kebijakan menutup terminal antar-kota antar-provinsi terkait pembangunan depo mass rapid transit atau MRT. Kebijakan itu sempat ditolak oleh para pegawai perusahaan jasa bus. Kali ini giliran para sopir angkot dalam kota yang turun ke jalan untuk menolak penutupan terminal dalam kota.

"Ini gara-gara mau ditutup terminal dalam kotanya. Kita mengimbau Pak Gubernur saling menghargailah sama angkot di sini. Jangan ditutup semua," kata Endang (45), salah satu sopir angkutan umum nomor 106 rute Parung-Lebak Bulus, kepada Kompas.com di lokasi, Senin siang.

Endang mengatakan, aksi unjuk rasa tersebut dimulai sejak pagi tadi. Menurutnya, jumlah sopir yang mogok bekerja mencapai ribuan orang. Endang mengaku menerima kabar rencana penutupan terminal dalam kota itu dari pengurus terminal.

"Dari bagian dalam pengurus terminal, sama pengurus angkotnya. Karena mau ditutup, makanya sekarang kita pertahankan, jangan sampai ditutup semua," ujar Endang.

Berdasarkan pantauan Kompas.com, petugas kepolisian mulai berjaga di depan Carrefour Lebak Bulus untuk mengatur arus lalu lintas. Hingga berita ini diturunkan, para sopir masih melakukan aksi unjuk rasa. Meski hujan, para sopir masih memarkirkan angkotnya di depan terminal.

Sumber : Kompas.com

Editor :Maulana Lee

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com — Menteri Keuangan Chatib Basri mengatakan, kedatangan pemerintah ke DPR bukan untuk meminta persetujuan menaikkan harga bahan bakar minyak bersubsidi.

Chatib menjelaskan, tujuan pemerintah bolak-balik ke DPR hanya untuk membahas Rancangan APBN Perubahan (RAPBN-P) 2013.

"Persoalan mengenai kenaikan BBM ada di badan pemerintah. Di Pasal 8 Ayat 10, pemerintah hanya membahas APBN-P bersama DPR," ujar Chatib di Gedung DPR Nusantara III, Senin (3/6/2013).

Chatib menuturkan, pembahasan kenaikan harga BBM tidak bersamaan dengan RAPBN-P. "Kenaikan harga BBM tidak datang bersamaan dengan pembahasan APBN-P," ujarnya.

APBN-P dibahas dengan DPR selama ini karena ada perubahan defiasi dari asumsi makro. Selain itu, Chatib juga menyebutkan ada program pemotongan kementerian dan lembaga (K/L)untuk pengendalian defisit yang harus dibahas dengan DPR.

"Tentu APBN-P bergulir akan diselesaikan ketika harga BBM naik. Kalau pemotongan K/L, harus juga meminta persetujuan DPR," ungkap Chatib.

saco-indonesia.com, Seolah tidak bosan untuk merasakan dinginnya sel tahanan, AM alias Asep yang berusia (31) tahun telah kembali ditangkap oleh polisi terkait dalam kasus pencurian dengan kekerasan. Pria yang sehari-hari berprofesi sebagai buruh ini diketahui telah ditahan sebanyak tiga kali.

"Tersangka ini sudah tiga kali ditangkap dengan kasus yang sama. Korbannya biasanya perempuan," kata Kapolsektro Tambora Kompol Dedy Tabrani, di Mapolsek, Selasa (24/12).

Dedy juga menjelaskan, tersangka yang disekujur badannya telah dipenuhi oleh tato ini telah ditangkap saat melakukan aksinya pada Kamis (19/12) sore sekitar pukul 18.45 WIB di Jalan KHM Mansyur, Tanah Sereal, Tambora, Jakarta Barat. Tersangka juga merupakan spesial perampas kalung emas.

"Dari pengakuan tersangka, mereka telah mengincar kalung emas dengan alasan emas gampang untuk dijual," jelas Dedy.

Tersangka yang ditangkap di wilayah Tanah Sereal, Tambora, Jakarta Barat pada Selasa (24/12) siang terpaksa harus dilumpuhkan kakinya. "Tersangka kita lumpuhkan kaki kanannya saat berusaha untuk melarikan diri," ujar Dedy.

Selain menangkap Asep, polisi juga sudah menangkap IW alias Buluk yang juga merupakan rekan tersangka. Keduanya telah dijerat dengan Pasal 365 KUHP dengan ancaman maksimal tujuh tahun penjara.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Seorang nelayan bernama Naya (24) warga Kampung Badongan, Desa Teluk, Kecamatan Carita, Kabupaten Pandeglang, Banten, tenggelam di kawasan perairan Pulau Popole, Minggu, (16/3). Hingga kini, pencarian korban masih dilakukan warga dan Relawan Badan Penyelamat Wisata Tirta (Balawista) Banten.

Berdasarkan informasi yang dihimpun, peristiwa ini bermula di saat korban tengah mencari ikan di sekitar Pulau Popole, pulau yang disebut-sebut milik keluarga Gubernur Banten Ratu Atut Chosiyah. Saat itu Naya mencari ikan bersama Jastari (30) yang juga warga Desa Teluk Kecamatan Carita, Kabupaten Pandeglang. Tiba-tiba, korban terjatuh dari atas perahu dan langsung tergulung gelombang laut.

Jastari yang saat itu melihat korban tenggelam, tidak bisa menyelamatkannya, karena Jastari yang juga pemilik perahu, sedang menarik jaring. "saya tidak bisa menolongnya karena dia langsung tenggelam," ujar Jastari.

Sementara itu, koordinator relawan Balawista, Ade Ervin mengatakan, saat ini pihaknya baru melakukan pencarian. Karena pihak keluarga korban baru melaporkan kehilangan korban, Senin (17/3).

Pencarian dilakukan di sekitar pulau di mana korban dinyatakan hilang. "Kami baru terima laporan. Makanya kami baru lakukan pencarian. Jika kemarin langsung lapor, kami langsung detik itu juga melakukan pencarian," katanya.

Ms. Plisetskaya, renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s, but her life was shadowed by Stalinism.

Ms. Rendell was a prolific writer of intricately plotted mystery novels that combined psychological insight, social conscience and teeth-chattering terror.

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Last summer at a writers’ workshop in Oregon, the novelists Anthony Doerr, Karen Russell and Elissa Schappell were chatting over cocktails when they realized they had all published work in the same magazine. It wasn’t one of the usual literary outlets, like Tin House, The Paris Review or The New Yorker. It was Rhapsody, an in-flight magazine for United Airlines.

It seemed like a weird coincidence. Then again, considering Rhapsody’s growing roster of A-list fiction writers, maybe not. Since its first issue hit plane cabins a year and a half ago, Rhapsody has published original works by literary stars like Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Amy Bloom, Emma Straub and Mr. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction two weeks ago.

As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists. There are no airport maps or disheartening lists of in-flight meal and entertainment options in Rhapsody. Instead, the magazine has published ruminative first-person travel accounts, cultural dispatches and probing essays about flight by more than 30 literary fiction writers.

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An airline might seem like an odd literary patron. But as publishers and writers look for new ways to reach readers in a shaky retail climate, many have formed corporate alliances with transit companies, including American Airlines, JetBlue and Amtrak, that provide a captive audience.

Mark Krolick, United Airlines’ managing director of marketing and product development, said the quality of the writing in Rhapsody brings a patina of sophistication to its first-class service, along with other opulent touches like mood lighting, soft music and a branded scent.

“The high-end leisure or business-class traveler has higher expectations, even in the entertainment we provide,” he said.

Some of Rhapsody’s contributing writers say they were lured by the promise of free airfare and luxury accommodations provided by United, as well as exposure to an elite audience of some two million first-class and business-class travelers.

“It’s not your normal Park Slope Community Bookstore types who read Rhapsody,” Mr. Moody, author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm,” who wrote an introspective, philosophical piece about traveling to the Aran Islands of Ireland for Rhapsody, said in an email. “I’m not sure I myself am in that Rhapsody demographic, but I would like them to buy my books one day.”

In addition to offering travel perks, the magazine pays well and gives writers freedom, within reason, to choose their subject matter and write with style. Certain genres of flight stories are off limits, naturally: no plane crashes or woeful tales of lost luggage or rude flight attendants, and nothing too risqué.

“We’re not going to have someone write about joining the mile-high club,” said Jordan Heller, the editor in chief of Rhapsody. “Despite those restrictions, we’ve managed to come up with a lot of high-minded literary content.”

Guiding writers toward the right idea occasionally requires some gentle prodding. When Rhapsody’s executive editor asked Ms. Russell to contribute an essay about a memorable flight experience, she first pitched a story about the time she was chaperoning a group of teenagers on a trip to Europe, and their delayed plane sat at the airport in New York for several hours while other passengers got progressively drunker.

“He pointed out that disaster flights are not what people want to read about when they’re in transit, and very diplomatically suggested that maybe people want to read something that casts air travel in a more positive light,” said Ms. Russell, whose novel “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

She turned in a nostalgia-tinged essay about her first flight on a trip to Disney World when she was 6. “The Magic Kingdom was an anticlimax,” she wrote. “What ride could compare to that first flight?”

Ms. Oates also wrote about her first flight, in a tiny yellow propeller plane piloted by her father. The novelist Joyce Maynard told of the constant disappointment of never seeing her books in airport bookstores and the thrill of finally spotting a fellow plane passenger reading her novel “Labor Day.” Emily St. John Mandel, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction last year, wrote about agonizing over which books to bring on a long flight.

“There’s nobody that’s looked down their noses at us as an in-flight magazine,” said Sean Manning, the magazine’s executive editor. “As big as these people are in the literary world, there’s still this untapped audience for them of luxury travelers.”

United is one of a handful of companies showcasing work by literary writers as a way to elevate their brands and engage customers. Chipotle has printed original work from writers like Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Barbara Kingsolver on its disposable cups and paper bags. The eyeglass company Warby Parker hosts parties for authors and sells books from 14 independent publishers in its stores.

JetBlue offers around 40 e-books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House on its free wireless network, allowing passengers to read free samples and buy and download books. JetBlue will start offering 11 digital titles from Simon & Schuster soon. Amtrak recently forged an alliance with Penguin Random House to provide free digital samples from 28 popular titles, which passengers can buy and download over Amtrak’s admittedly spotty wireless service.

Amtrak is becoming an incubator for literary talent in its own right. Last year, it started a residency program, offering writers a free long-distance train trip and complimentary food. More than 16,000 writers applied and 24 made the cut.

Like Amtrak, Rhapsody has found that writers are eager to get onboard. On a rainy spring afternoon, Rhapsody’s editorial staff sat around a conference table discussing the June issue, which will feature an essay by the novelist Hannah Pittard and an unpublished short story by the late Elmore Leonard.

“Do you have that photo of Elmore Leonard? Can I see it?” Mr. Heller, the editor in chief, asked Rhapsody’s design director, Christos Hannides. Mr. Hannides slid it across the table and noted that they also had a photograph of cowboy spurs. “It’s very simple; it won’t take away from the literature,” he said.

Rhapsody’s office, an open space with exposed pipes and a vaulted brick ceiling, sits in Dumbo at the epicenter of literary Brooklyn, in the same converted tea warehouse as the literary journal N+1 and the digital publisher Atavist. Two of the magazine’s seven staff members hold graduate degrees in creative writing. Mr. Manning, the executive editor, has published a memoir and edited five literary anthologies.

Mr. Manning said Rhapsody was conceived from the start as a place for literary novelists to write with voice and style, and nobody had been put off that their work would live in plane cabins and airport lounges.

Still, some contributors say they wish the magazine were more widely circulated.

“I would love it if I could read it,” said Ms. Schappell, a Brooklyn-based novelist who wrote a feature story for Rhapsody’s inaugural issue. “But I never fly first class.”

Mr. Miller, of the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, represented companies including Lehman Brothers, General Motors and American Airlines, and mentored many of the top Chapter 11 practitioners today.

Ms. Crough played the youngest daughter on the hit ’70s sitcom starring David Cassidy and Shirley Jones.

Ms. Meadows was the older sister of Audrey Meadows, who played Alice Kramden on “The Honeymooners.”

Mr. Bartoszewski was given honorary Israeli citizenship for his work to save Jews during World War II and later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling Poland and Germany.

Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative in the aftermath of the death of a young black man who was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and the subsequent unrest, far eclipsing the sentiment recorded in the wake of turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., last summer.

Americans are also increasingly likely to say that the police are more apt to use deadly force against a black person, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

The poll findings highlight the challenges for local leaders and police officials in trying to maintain order while sustaining faith in the criminal justice system in a racially polarized nation.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. That figure is up sharply from 44 percent after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson in August, and 43 percent in December. In a CBS News poll just two months ago, 38 percent said race relations were generally bad. Current views are by far the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The negative sentiment is echoed by broad majorities of blacks and whites alike, a stark change from earlier this year, when 58 percent of blacks thought race relations were bad, but just 35 percent of whites agreed. In August, 48 percent of blacks and 41 percent of whites said they felt that way.

Looking ahead, 44 percent of Americans think race relations are worsening, up from 36 percent in December. Forty-one percent of blacks and 46 percent of whites think so. Pessimism among whites has increased 10 points since December.

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Do you think race relations in the United States are generally good or generally bad?

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Do you think race relations in the United States are getting better, getting worse or staying about the same?

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The poll finds that profound racial divisions in views of how the police use deadly force remain. Blacks are more than twice as likely to say police in most communities are more apt to use deadly force against a black person — 79 percent of blacks say so compared with 37 percent of whites. A slim majority of whites say race is not a factor in a police officer’s decision to use deadly force.

Overall, 44 percent of Americans say deadly force is more likely to be used against a black person, up from 37 percent in August and 40 percent in December.

Blacks also remain far more likely than whites to say they feel mostly anxious about the police in their community. Forty-two percent say so, while 51 percent feel mostly safe. Among whites, 8 in 10 feel mostly safe.

One proposal to address the matter — having on-duty police officers wear body cameras — receives overwhelming support. More than 9 in 10 whites and blacks alike favor it.

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How would you describe your feelings about the police in your community? Would you say they make you feel mostly safe or mostly anxious?

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In general, do you think the police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force against a black person, or more likely to use it against a white person, or don’t you think race affects police use of deadly force?

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Do you favor or oppose on-duty police officers wearing video cameras that would record events and actions as they occur?

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Asked specifically about the situation in Baltimore, most Americans expressed at least some confidence that the investigation by local authorities would be conducted fairly. But while nearly two-thirds of whites think so, fewer than half of blacks agree. Still, more blacks are confident now than were in August regarding the investigation in Ferguson. On Friday, six members of the police force involved in the arrest of Mr. Gray were charged with serious offenses, including manslaughter. The poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday; results from before charges were announced are similar to those from after.

Reaction to the recent turmoil in Baltimore, however, is similar among blacks and whites. Most Americans, 61 percent, say the unrest after Mr. Gray’s death was not justified. That includes 64 percent of whites and 57 percent of blacks.

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As you may know, a Baltimore man, Freddie Gray, recently died after being in the custody of the Baltimore police. How much confidence do you have that the investigation by local authorities into this matter will be conducted fairly?

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Ms. Pryor, who served more than two decades in the State Department, was the author of well-regarded biographies of the founder of the American Red Cross and the Confederate commander.

At the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Suzman’s signature accomplishment was the central role he played in creating a global network of surveys on aging.

Mr. Mankiewicz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for “I Want to Live!,” also wrote episodes of television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

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The program traces the outbreak to its origin, thought to be a tree full of bats in Guinea.

WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).

The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.

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“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”

We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.

Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”

Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.

Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.

And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.

That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.

With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.

On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”

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Who Is Running for President (and Who’s Not)?

Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.

This is intentional, Republican operatives said.

In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.

“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.

But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”

Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.

“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.

Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.

But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.

Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.

Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”

Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.

But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.

The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.

“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.

There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.

“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”