Getting in Touch With Clinton, Obama
The argument between a Yale law grad and a Harvard law grad as to who is most in touch with working class Americans is like listening to a debate about which is the tallest skyscraper in Wichita.
Welcome to the Kabuki Theater that is the Democrat Presidential primary.
Hillary Clinton downs a boilermaker at a local watering hole in Crown Point, Indiana, and we are supposed to understand that symbolic act to mean she is a regular Johnny Punchclock?
We know instead that Hillary would bite the head off of a live kitten and drink the blood from its still twitching carcass if that should earn her one additional vote.
Barack Obama offers condescending statements about small town Americans who “cling” to “guns or religion or antipathy to people that aren’t like them” at a San Fran funder with his effete, liberal friends, but he just chose his words poorly.
In response to the firestorm, we get glibness from Obama to make it all better, “Now I am the first to admit that some of the words I chose I chose badly, because as my wife reminds me, I’m not perfect,” so said Obama.
Actually, Obama was not the first to admit it and he only reluctantly conceded the point after being pressed on the issue. Further, Obama’s imperfection is not being hotly contested. It is rather his perfectly clear mischaracterization of those who have not embraced his candidacy.
But is not the pandering or the indignation that most clearly exposes both Clinton and Obama as tasked, in their minds, with having to save all of us mouth-breathing troglodytes across the American countryside from ourselves.
It is that both believe that they are entitled to make choices for which others should not be similarly endowed.
Both Clinton and Obama can send their children to expensive, private schools but believe that low-incomes families in failing school districts should not have such a choice.
Both Clinton and Obama can make millions of dollars through politics but target producers in the private sector with class envy politics and redistributive policies.
So is it Clinton or Obama who is the elitist? Yes.
