red states rule
04-19-2008, 07:34 AM
As usual Michelle Malkin nails it. Barry is a snob, and his has no trouble showing it
Not alone in snobbery
By Michelle Malkin
April 19, 2008
The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It's quick to acquire, hard to mask. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot camouflage the political stink he exhaled when he dissed small-town Americans as "bitter" Neanderthals "clinging" to their guns, faith and belief in strict immigration enforcement. It wasn't the first time the effete Snob-ama revealed himself.
In Philadelphia, he passed up the hometown cheesesteak — gloppy, artery-clogging and blue-collar (yum!) — for a nibble of Spanish-imported, $100/pound ham. In Iowa, he moaned to voters about the price of arugula at Whole Foods market. (Fun fact: There aren't any Whole Foods markets in Iowa.) And at an Altoona bowling alley, he couldn't even score his age. Superficial but telling glimpses of a condescending core.
Mr. Obama is reportedly flummoxed that his remarks have been interpreted as arrogant. After all, he was a "community organizer" who came from a single-parent home. He is The Everyman. The Uniter. The Soul-Fixer. The Vessel of All Hopes and Dreams. How could he possibly be perceived as out of touch?
Well, Beltway elitism isn't about biography. It's a corrupted state of mind. Mr. Obama can at least console himself with the knowledge that he has plenty of out-of-touch company in both parties in Washington.
Let's face it. Hundred-million-dollar Hillary "I'm not Tammy Wynette" Clinton, John "$400 Haircut" Edwards, John "French" Kerry and Al "$30,000 utility bill" Gore make Mr. Obama look like a peon of pretension. And it's hard to top the imperiousness of Reps. Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy and Sheila Jackson-Lee, who all abused law enforcement or service workers while demanding special privileges as "public servants."
But Republicans are just as susceptible to the Democrats' do-as-I-say virus. Take Mr. Obama's GOP presidential rival, John McCain. The New York Times-endorsed media darling got a standing ovation from the nation's newspaper editors at a big journalism powwow in Washington this week. Some maverick. While Mr. McCain eagerly criticized Mr. Obama as an "elitist" for his derisive comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, Mr. Obama has nothing on Mr. McCain when it comes to insulting average Americans who oppose illegal immigration.
Pandering to the open-borders lobby as cozily as Mr. Obama panders to San Francisco billionaires, Mr. McCain has attacked grass-roots enforcement activists as bitter racists and xenophobes, cursed his Senate opponents and mocked the "g... fence" in front of his deep-pocketed business supporters. And who can forget his disdainful admonition to conservatives, whom he berated to "calm down."
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Mr. McCain's ally, infamously vowed to National Council of La Raza leaders, "We're going to tell the bigots to shut up." Retired Republican-senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott moaned about populist conservative talk radio being a "problem" that Washington Republicans had to "deal with."
for the complete article
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080419/COMMENTARY/20312144/1012
Not alone in snobbery
By Michelle Malkin
April 19, 2008
The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It's quick to acquire, hard to mask. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot camouflage the political stink he exhaled when he dissed small-town Americans as "bitter" Neanderthals "clinging" to their guns, faith and belief in strict immigration enforcement. It wasn't the first time the effete Snob-ama revealed himself.
In Philadelphia, he passed up the hometown cheesesteak — gloppy, artery-clogging and blue-collar (yum!) — for a nibble of Spanish-imported, $100/pound ham. In Iowa, he moaned to voters about the price of arugula at Whole Foods market. (Fun fact: There aren't any Whole Foods markets in Iowa.) And at an Altoona bowling alley, he couldn't even score his age. Superficial but telling glimpses of a condescending core.
Mr. Obama is reportedly flummoxed that his remarks have been interpreted as arrogant. After all, he was a "community organizer" who came from a single-parent home. He is The Everyman. The Uniter. The Soul-Fixer. The Vessel of All Hopes and Dreams. How could he possibly be perceived as out of touch?
Well, Beltway elitism isn't about biography. It's a corrupted state of mind. Mr. Obama can at least console himself with the knowledge that he has plenty of out-of-touch company in both parties in Washington.
Let's face it. Hundred-million-dollar Hillary "I'm not Tammy Wynette" Clinton, John "$400 Haircut" Edwards, John "French" Kerry and Al "$30,000 utility bill" Gore make Mr. Obama look like a peon of pretension. And it's hard to top the imperiousness of Reps. Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy and Sheila Jackson-Lee, who all abused law enforcement or service workers while demanding special privileges as "public servants."
But Republicans are just as susceptible to the Democrats' do-as-I-say virus. Take Mr. Obama's GOP presidential rival, John McCain. The New York Times-endorsed media darling got a standing ovation from the nation's newspaper editors at a big journalism powwow in Washington this week. Some maverick. While Mr. McCain eagerly criticized Mr. Obama as an "elitist" for his derisive comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, Mr. Obama has nothing on Mr. McCain when it comes to insulting average Americans who oppose illegal immigration.
Pandering to the open-borders lobby as cozily as Mr. Obama panders to San Francisco billionaires, Mr. McCain has attacked grass-roots enforcement activists as bitter racists and xenophobes, cursed his Senate opponents and mocked the "g... fence" in front of his deep-pocketed business supporters. And who can forget his disdainful admonition to conservatives, whom he berated to "calm down."
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Mr. McCain's ally, infamously vowed to National Council of La Raza leaders, "We're going to tell the bigots to shut up." Retired Republican-senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott moaned about populist conservative talk radio being a "problem" that Washington Republicans had to "deal with."
for the complete article
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080419/COMMENTARY/20312144/1012