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Jun. 13th, 2008 10:29 pmI am starting to feel a mild sense of despair and panic over how quickly the issue of Barack Obama's "elitism" has gone from having a question mark after it to a period. All of a sudden, this supposed elitism is not something that's being questioned but something that's accepted as a genuine hurdle for Obama to overcome if he's going to win. What did that take? A couple of months?
Few things have astounded me as much as the way Republicans have managed to associate themselves with "the common man" while smearing Democrats and liberals as latte-sipping "elitists" who look down their noses at average Americans. How on earth did this bunch of trustfunded country-clubbers manage to pull that off? George W. Bush is the spawn of one of the country's wealthiest and most politically connected families. John McCain dumped his crippled wife to marry an heiress. Nobody even knows how much money Dick Cheney's got. None of these guys knows jack shit about how "the common man" lives, and frankly, they don't give a fuck.
The problems that plague people like you and me are incomprehensible fiction to them. Their lives are all tax shelters and golf courses. Everything else is some sort of vague fantasy, if they even consider it at all. That's elitism. It's not whether Barack Obama doesn't eat at Applebee's or his lousy bowling score. Don't let yourselves be fooled.
Few things have astounded me as much as the way Republicans have managed to associate themselves with "the common man" while smearing Democrats and liberals as latte-sipping "elitists" who look down their noses at average Americans. How on earth did this bunch of trustfunded country-clubbers manage to pull that off? George W. Bush is the spawn of one of the country's wealthiest and most politically connected families. John McCain dumped his crippled wife to marry an heiress. Nobody even knows how much money Dick Cheney's got. None of these guys knows jack shit about how "the common man" lives, and frankly, they don't give a fuck.
The problems that plague people like you and me are incomprehensible fiction to them. Their lives are all tax shelters and golf courses. Everything else is some sort of vague fantasy, if they even consider it at all. That's elitism. It's not whether Barack Obama doesn't eat at Applebee's or his lousy bowling score. Don't let yourselves be fooled.