JUST A SMALL TOWN GIRL?...
John McCain ditched his disabled first wife after Vietnam and married a rich beer heiress
twenty years his junior.
Bill and Hillary Clinton made $109 million over the last eight years and sold the Lincoln
Bedroom to the highest bidder when in the White House.
And now both McCain and Clinton are deriding Barack Obama as "elitist."
Give me a break. When Clinton was on the board of Wal-Mart and McCain was getting
reprimanded for his role in the Keating 5 scandal, Barack Obama was a civil rights lawyer
in Chicago. You tell me which experience better prepares one to understand the struggles
of working people.
What Obama said about the bitterness of those in small-town America, stymied by job
loss and economic stagnation, was hardly scandalous. It's only a "scandal" because
McCain, trying his best to ignore an economic recession, and Clinton, looking for any
opportunity to jolt a campaign on life support, said it was--and the media dutifully
bought the spin.
As the Obama-Clinton race turned to Pennsylvania, the press has endlessly repeated the
false dichotomy of Clinton as the blue-collar woman of the people and Obama as the
aloof, Harvard-educated, gutter-bowling latte liberal.
Republicans have been painting Democratic candidates as elitist since the beginning of
time, and they'll try to do the same thing to whomever emerges as the Democratic
candidate this year, whether it's Obama or Clinton.
The new conventional wisdom inside the Democratic Party holds that a long campaign is a
good thing; that every state deserves to be heard and that the excitement of the Obama-
Clinton race is bringing new voters into the process and strengthening the party from the
bottom-up.
There's a lot of truth to this new consensus, but it rests on the combustible caveat that
either Obama or Clinton (particularly the latter, given her recent "kitchen sink" strategy
and virtually insurmountable deficit in delegates, the popular vote and recent
superdelegate endorsements), won't tear the other one apart.
For the last few weeks, the campaigning in places like Pennsylvania and Indiana has been
refreshingly above board, focused on how to pull the country out of its economic
downturn. No longer. The New York Times accurately noted this morning how Clinton had
"activated her entire campaign apparatus to portray Mr. Obama's remarks as reflective of
an elitist view of faith and community."
The kitchen sink overfloweth yet again.
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