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Re: When Elite Get Tough

Bible Student — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:20:01 -0000

What president (other than Jimmy Carter) actually acted like a middle-class citizen? What candidate makes less than $80,000 per year in his "job"?

Re: When Elite Get Tough

cranialrectalloopback — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:27:40 -0000

That's right. Remove the Left Coast and the North Eastern intellectual coast from the US and you get the mediocre third world that "mericans" want.

Re: When Elite Get Tough

cranialrectalloopback — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:25:49 -0000

Yeah. I'm glad my team's run ended at the Sweet 16. Lord knows we don't want to reach the ELITE 8.

Re: When Elite Get Tough

mclaren — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:55:19 -0000

He's clearly elitist, not that it is completely bad -- unless you are running for the presidency. Most of the coastal left is elitist, but doesn't admit it. Like the addict that can't see the addiction or will never admit it, the neo-liberal is oblivious to his own condition, and as such holds contempt for those who are different than they. Barack wasn't trying to be insulting to middle America, because he doesn't think what he said is bad. He believes it, as do most neo-liberals. But when the bitter, angry, unhinged left cling to things they believe in, it isn't guns or God -- it is gun control, it is class-warfare, it is nutty-environmentalism, it is increased gov't. regulation, it is irrational unilateral pacifism, it is unconstitutional separation of church and state, it is pro-abortion politics, it is condescending racism and classic Saul Alinsky theory, and on and on.

Barack is most certainly elitist. But he ought to embrace it rather than run from it. At least he'd hold his base.

Re: When Elite Get Tough

tbird55 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:29:48 -0000

Obama would do well to take this article's advice. He cannot allow the Republican Party (and Hillary) to portray him as an elitist, which he most certainly is not. He is our best hope for change in Washington and we need him to win.