- Despite the uninterrupted election of 43 white-male candidates, the first truly viable African-American candidate is being hamstrung by accusations of racism.
- Education is gradually (or rapidly) becoming synonymous with elitism.
o Elitism, as a quality in a president, is somehow synonymous with snobbery or arrogance. As Jon Stewart aptly inquired recently, “Doesn’t elite mean good...if you don’t think you’re better than us, then what the fuck are you doing?”
- Former President Bill Clinton seems inexorably hell-bent on destroying Hillary’s campaign. (See: “Some of [the candidates], when they’re 60, they’ll forget something when they’re tired at 11 o’clock at night, too.”)
- Cliff Schechter, author of the new book The Real McCain, released an excerpt in which a former McCain staffer related an anecdote in which the Arizona Senator called his wife a “cunt” and a “trollop.” Thanks for injecting those words back into the American lexicon!
- Hillary already endorsed McCain over Obama with the snide “he gave a speech” remark.
- Where’s Vicki Iseman?
- Obama botched an attempt to sympathize with rural Iowans in Adel when he asked, “Anybody gone into a Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?” No…and there aren’t any Whole Foods in the entire state of
- Most of the media criticism of the candidates stems from haphazard verbal gaffes and whimsical surrogate paroxysms, not so much the issues. And they wonder why we’re such an ill-informed electorate?
- For all the distrust and disdain of entitlements and handouts (“Shouldn’t have bought what you can’t afford”), the Federal Reserve just bailed out Bear Stears with $30 million of taxpayer money. *** I’m aware that this buyout doesn’t mitigate the damage already done to shareholders, and there’s also the “domino effect” argument, but is it not a handout for a clumsy, unrestricted practice?
- Obama supporters post the most vitriolic, ad hominem responses on internet comment tubes. Seriously, check it out. Isn’t it ironic?
Talk about elite!
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