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He needs to sue to get on the national debates, when they have them.
"m hart" <yaxcozv02@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mmalkin/2008/mm_0416.shtml
>
> Snob-ama Is Not Alone
> By Michelle Malkin
> April 16, 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-
> im****ted, $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.
>
> Obama is re****tedly 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. Obama can at least console himself with the knowledge that he
> has plenty of out-of-touch company in both parties in Wa****ngton.
>
> 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 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 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 Wa****ngton this week.
> Some maverick. While McCain eagerly criticized Obama as an "elitist"
> for his derisive comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, Obama's got
> nothing on McCain when it comes to insulting average Americans who
> oppose illegal immigration.
>
> Pandering to the open-borders lobby as cozily as Obama panders to San
> Francisco billionaires, McCain has attacked grassroots enforcement
> activists as bitter racists and xenophobes, cursed his Senate
> opponents and mocked the "goddamned fence" in front of his deep-
> pocketed business sup****ters. And who can forget his disdainful
> admonition to conservatives, whom he berated to "calm down."
>
> GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, McCain's ally, infamously vowed to National
> Council of La Raza leaders, "We're going to tell the bigots to shut
> up." Retired GOP-Senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott moaned about
> populist conservative talk radio being a "problem" that Wa****ngton
> Republicans had to "deal with."
>
> Speaking of whom, what's old vacant Lott up to now? The Wa****ngton
> Post re****ted last week that he's "struggling" to adjust to life in
> the private sector. "I took the Metro for the first time," he told the
> paper. It's hard not having his own taxpayer-funded car and driver
> anymore. And this bozo bon mot: "I haven't paid for lunch in 30
> years," he joked.
>
> Memo to Beltway GOP: If you are looking to repair your image with your
> conservative base, this is not the kind of press you want. Makes for
> great cable TV greenroom small talk. Not so good for your beleaguered
> fundraising efforts. And not so helpful if you plan to convince voters
> in the general election that you are materially different from Snob-
> ama and his Democratic colleagues who traffic in contempt for the
> common man. It's going to take more than rhetorical Altoids to dispel
> the smell.
>
> ---
>
> Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."
> Her
> e-mail address is malkinblog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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