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NAME THAT ELITIST!! come an play!
Join me for the new game that's all the rage
NAME THAT ELITIST!!!
To play: enter a name of someone who has labeled Barack Obama an elitist in the past four days, some short background, and a short reason why your pick should make the list for people who obviously do not look in the mirror before they speak!
The winner: all contest participants will write to his/her tv/newspaper/blog a letter demanding they explain their paradoxical statements about Senator Obama and how they have the life experience to declare someone who gre up biracial in a single parent home an "elitist" --
WILLIAM KRISTOL: NYTimes/Fox News
Born into privilege
Graduate of Harvard University/Harvard Grad School
Just his voice is reason enough
Grad School Roommate of Alan Keyes
Chicken Hawk advocate for Iraq and Iran war
GEORGE WILL: ABC News/Syndicated Writer Wash
Post/Newsweek
Born into privilege
Graduate of Princeton University/University of Oxford
Bow Tie
Voice
Well known for coaching Ronald Reagan for debates and writing favorable articles despite supposedly neutral stance as part of the MSM
Patronizing, smug, baseball lover
PAT BUCHANAN: MSNBC/ Former Presidential Candidate/McLaughlin Group
Born into privilege
Graduate of Georgetown Univ/Columbia Grad School
Well know for having to sell his Mercedes when running for President after being caught driving the car following his populist appeal and demand for voters to "buy American"
Famous Quote: "Gays have declared war on culture"
All around bigot -
HILLARY CLINTON: Former First Lady, Sen from NY
Born into upper middle class
Graduate of Wellesley/Yale Law
Beer drinking - gun toting - woman of the people
Taxable income 2001-2006: $109 million
Sniper fire victim
Champion Bowler
JOHN MCCAIN:
Born into privilege: Son and grandson of Admirals
Graduate of US Naval Academy
Married to one of the wealthiest woman in the SW United States
Believes in military presence on other countries "100 years" if necessary
Suffers from PTSD
Expert on the difference of Shia and Sunni
Godfather to Lindsay Graham and Joe Liberman
you get the idea ---
NOW add your candidate to
NAME THAT ELITIST!!
Comments (18)
Your background doesn't necessarily make you an elitist, your attitudes do. At this point, there's no bigger elitist in the nation than Hillary Clinton.
Why?
At this point her entire campaign point is premised on pure, unadulterated elitism. The idea that the party elites (super delegates) should overrule the votes of the people and nominate her. You know, to save the people from themselves.
April 15, 2008 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (April 2, 1911 – April 7, 1993) was an American textile wholesaler and father of New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Rodham and Hannah Jones,[1], British immigrants descended from a line of coal miners from Co. Durham and Wales[2][3].
Rodham attended Pennsylvania State University on a football scholarship, playing for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team[2] and joining the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.[2] He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education[2] from the College of Education in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression.
He briefly worked for his father's employer, Scranton Lace Company,[4] then freighthopped to Chicago without telling his parents.[2] Rodham found work there selling drapery fabrics around the Midwest, sending the money he made back home.[2]
In 1937, he met Dorothy Emma Howell, who was applying for a job at a textile company that Rodham was making a sales call at.[4][2] After a lengthy courtship, they married in early 1942.[2] Rodham enlisted in the United States Navy, where he became a Chief Petty Officer stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Station, performing training duties for sailors headed for the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.[2]
After the war, he began what was to prove to be a very successful career in the textile supply industry, starting with Rodrik Fabrics, a drapery fabric business located in Chicago's famous Merchandise Mart building.[2] He later opened a fabric print plant building on the North Side.[2]
The Rodhams had three children: Hillary (born 1947), Hugh (born 1950), and Tony (born 1954). In 1950, they moved to the more affluent Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.[2] The family still maintained ties to Scranton; all three children were christened there, and they spent summers at a cottage overlooking Lake Winola located in Overfield Township, Pennsylvania in the nearby Pocono Mountains,[4][2] that he and his father had built themselves in 1921.
April 15, 2008 12:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe being born to privilege does not make you an elitist - but doesn't assuming that no one from Iowa has ever heard of arugula make you condescending? George Will seems to believe that even if you are a farmer who grows arugula in Iowa - you do not know what it is.
April 15, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
IDIOTIC: Former Grand Goober of the shadowy Reestablish The Establishment, Incinerate The Proletariat, and Eat Their Children Organization (RTEITPAETCO)
Born into squalor
Graduated from squalor (with honors)
Married into squalor (twice)
Taxable income 2001-2006: $37.12
Famous quote: THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS...FOR HILLARY!!!!
Favorite color: Blue. No. Yellow.
April 15, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can anyone beat Bill Kristol? Not even George Will out-douchebags him. George Will is a douche about politics and baseball, while Kristol is a douche about everything in the world ever invented all the time.
April 15, 2008 7:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
My god. That was really well said.
April 15, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha. Thanks!
April 15, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that the Greatest American Hero?
April 15, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look at what happened to meeeee-eeeeee.
April 15, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
hey, didn't you lift that blurb from the back of the dust-cover of one of kristol's books? If I remember, it was written by Will himself...
April 15, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha. No, I believe that would go something like this:
Another masterwork from America's most dishonest public intellectual, Kristol will once again dazzle you with his calm, rational expression of the most untrue douchebaggery ever inflicted in the public sphere. As you unpack each cogently-expressed, mindbogglingly-facetious argument, you'll only be left with one question:
Why is either one of us ever taken seriously?
-- George Will
April 15, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am not worthy.
April 15, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does the chick who started all this count?:
And that doesn't even go into her background - Wellesley, for one thing.
April 15, 2008 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does it matter who M. Fowler is, what she does in her spare time or otherwise, or whether or not she counts for anything?
She reported what Barry said and it must be accurate. He hasn't denied it , but has tried to spin it several ways, he "mis-remembers" what he said, why he said it or what he uh and, and uh meant to say.
Also his "annie oakley" jokes are pretty lame, as he tries to cover his gaffe with idle chatter.
I think he may have enough black supporters and enough ObamaDupees to see him thru. More the pity.
April 15, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. Black people and dupees thank you for your insight.
Dialog torpedo AHOY!
April 15, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eh -just jealous that you aren't elite enough to go to the dupee party we're having (the "dupeebration") There's even gonna be Black people there!
April 15, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dumbass post
April 15, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to agree with Dubs. Kristol, while maybe not being the biggest elitist, is certainly America's biggest douchebag. He is literally wrong about everything he talks about.
April 15, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
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