Lynn Forrester de Rothscild on Barack Obama:
“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”
Elitist? Are you kidding me?
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Obama as an elitist struck me as particularly peculiar.
Elitist in what way? Upper class upbringing? No... middle-class white upbringing... no... hmmm... single parent, middle class Kansas and Illinois upbringing... oh, yeah, that is uber-elitist...
Oh, you're talking about college? When did getting into an Ivy league school on your own merits become elitist? Heck, I would have gone to Harvard if they paid me to do it. or even lowly Columbia, like Obama.
Leveraging your undergrad experience into a better grad school? Like Harvard Law? Clearly elitist.
I get that these aren't typical experiences, but I really fail to see how this is elitist. On Norlos.com, we all came from the "humble" start of KU, but nobody here really saw that as a real limitation as far as I can tell.
Maybe Sarah Palin's U of Idaho experience is limiting. Maybe military experience is inherently proletarian. I dunno. But Obama as an elitist is completely ludicrous, outside of the fact that he knows how to form complete sentences, and if that is elitist, then we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: slug | September 18, 2008 4:49 PM
Once again, I think The Onion says it best.
Posted by: hellx | September 18, 2008 5:04 PM
Once again, I think The Onion says it best.
Posted by: hellx | September 18, 2008 5:17 PM
Hey Slug, don't you teach at the same place that I do? Of course forming complete sentences is elitist, as is using words like "ludicrous". Big 12 attending snob.
Posted by: plantnerd | September 19, 2008 1:23 PM
I loved Sam Harris' opinion on the matter.
We're in the end-times here, people. Unless we can get a definitive list of products that have failed, I fear the worst!
Posted by: Adrian | September 25, 2008 2:39 PM