It's a hard world to get a break in.

I apologize for needling Clinton supporters needlessly.

As Piers wouldn't say, "Enuf already!"

Respectfully, live by snark Professor, and accept the consequenses. I have to say that, perhaps in my own biased view, you sounded just like an elitist snotnose yesterday, as you focused on some ignorant voter out there in rural Pennsylvania, and made some kind of macro point on the basis of the asinine comments of that voter. In any event, I take you at your word that you didn't mean to make fun of people who aren't as smart and sophisticated as you are.

made some kind of macro point on the basis of the asinine comments of that voter

Actually, I made some kind of macro point on the basis of the asinine arguments the Clinton camp (and, quite often, the candidate herself) has been peddling in recent weeks. But I understand how it's possible to miss that part when you're distracted by my elitist snotnose.

And I hope I made it clear that I actually like llamas.

Um. Have you been reading my blog?

YOU:
Gee whillikers! All I do is post a little thing suggesting that the Clinton campaign has lately been trying to appeal to voters who are likely to believe that Hussein Obama X wasn’t really a real law professor and that he doesn’t want them to vote in upcoming primaries, and Clinton supporters get all offended. Why, some good people have even tried to suggest that I’m an elitist snob who’s dismissive of women over 30 and who doesn’t understand Hillary’s working-class appeal!

ME (3/30/08:
Gee willakers everybody! Well I had no idea that folks would get real upset if I compared my buddy John McCain to JFK. Why, they have the same first name! And I coulda sworn JFK was a Republican! Plus, John and JFK both fought in World War II so they have that in common and John McCain was even tortured by the Italians so you know he's REAL tough.

At least give a brother a link!!!!!!

Seems to me that this is not so much about Low Information Voters as Wrong Information Voters or, more accurately, Voters Who Don’t Give Enough of a Shit to Get Accurate Information. These voters are found at all points on the educational and socio-economic scale -- witness all the well-educated liberals who announced that both parties were the same and voted for Nader.

This round, the voters who believe rumors that Obama is a Muslim are a particularly noxious subset of VWDGESGAI; the folks in Michael’s original post are a particularly hilarious subset of that subset.

BTW, what good deeds have we all done to deserve two Berube posts in two days? The heck with your Dangerous Day Job; keep the blog posts coming!

I had a horrible dream around 3:00am. Hillary came to me and told me that Obama cannot win because he is a lima (uh, whut is a lima?) and she had a huge horde of red eyed llamas and their Muslim clothed riders at her back. She however, was wearing Christian clothes. Tha's how I knew it was her.

It's all yur falt.

Elitism is beneath me.

Oh, gosh, Michael, will you marry me? (I'll even overlook your elitist, unpatiotic misspelling of "willikers"...)

In Ireland, the mine bosses used to send a llama down into the coal mines at the break of day with a tapir tied around its neck (for good luck), and then all the miners would hunker down at the mouth of the mine and listen intently, and sometimes even play a rousing, but very quiet, hand of whist. And then, after a while when they got bored, they'd go on down into the mine and dig up a bunch of coal.

Later on, when the lunch whistle would blow, they'd all give three cheers of, "Huzzah!", and come back up out of the mine and eat tapir and llama and potato stew.

And they say that sometimes on cloudy nights, when the loon calls mournfully and the giraffes are all asleep in their wee nests high in the larch trees, you can still hear the clip-clop of the llamas tiny hooves as it nimbly prances down the coal shaft, and if you listen very carefully, you might also hear the tapir wheeze its mournful song of woe on account if it is tied around a llamas neck.

And that is why we should all vote for Gravel.

Count me in with the people who are totally mystified how Hillary Clinton becamse the champion of the working class. I can certainly see how she's the champion of the uneducated.

Oops, did I just direct some snark Hillary Clinton's way? Forgive me, America.

Michael
Thanks for the reply.

You have a link in your piece "Why don't you try the Bill Ayers smear again?" which brings your reader to the Newsday article titled "Clinton campaign: Whatever sticks II" that has a pic of Obama in the garb, with a link to the Drudge bombshell that shocked the delicate minds of the informed voting bloc. To think one of 700 people in Hillary's campaign might be circulating a pic of Obama in a silly looking outfit is worthy of a 3 day state funeral on the front pages of TPM. Funny thing is Drudge never said Hillary's camp sent HIM the email, but JMM knew of course, but figured the informed voter didn't need to know. Free press is limited to those who with presses!Minor details I know, but that Newsday article is ripe with typical howlers that feeds this Monster Whore Pimping hysteria that's swept half the party to the point where any informed voter should press pause, not vice versa. Out of curiousity, is there a threshold of acceptable campaign tactics or perhaps advertisements for broadcast to the low informed voting bloc? Is the low informed voter only rural and not urban or inner city? In other words, who exactly ARE these low informed voters? Is it bad for a low informed voter in Idaho to vote for Obama?