Someone please explain to me how the GOP managed to take the son of an admiral, married to an heiress, with 8 houses balanced against the black son of a single white mother raised in part by his maternal grandparents, married to a college sweetheart and somehow make the black guy the elitist.
I keep seeing "man on the street" interviews with voters who say Barak Obama doesn't know what it's like to struggle or what the average person goes through everyday. They refer to Harvard and limos and the fact that they worked for what they have. Are these people so f**king ignorant as to think that some magic fairy godmother came along and handed him a magna cum laude law degree from one of the most prestigious law schools in the country? Do they think that John McCain doesn't drive around in limos? Do they think that being the son of an admiral is the same as being the son of a sergeant? I especially love the quote from Mr. Wilson in reference to (once again) the "real" America, "It's something Barack Obama can't possibly know, because he's not one of us."
Do these ignorant asses deserve to vote?
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Whether they deserve to or not, unfortunately they will.
A further thought, my husband is convinced that what McCain and all those people following along on this "elitist" bandwagon really mean by that word is "intellectual," and "scholarly." Because people who are "intellectual" and "scholarly" generally are more open, less rigid, more willing to see shades of gray and acknowledge complexity and ambiguity, and less likely to talk in terms of moral absolutes and certainties.
And heaven forbid we have and intelligent president....
There is still hope. That's what I keep telling myself.
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