The reality: They laugh at you. They mock you. They can’t stand that they have to pay to employ you. John McCain doesn’t know your struggle. His wife doesn’t care about your kids. In fact, this is a virtue among them because, by gum, they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps… even when, like John and Cindy, they didn’t.

Go ahead fellas, continue to be Republican monkeys and court jesters. Someday we will have an economic system like Brazil and you will be on the outside of the gated communities right next to the Democrats who wanted to change things.

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This is coming from a guy who sees himself as the be-all and end-all judge of what is and isn’t “religion”.

Look, I don’t dispute what you’re saying, but the 80s and 90s preached a gospel that tax cuts and free trade were the way to prosperity, and for a lot of people, that didn’t happen, and those people were lied to. Instead of Republicans saying they were sorry and actually working to fix the problems in exchange for votes, they simply felt that the best way to keep getting the votes of the people they had hurt was to lie to them and whip of anti-gay fervor instead of actually bothering with focusing on jobs and economic development.

And then the Republicans parade around in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and declare, “sure, maybe things are tough economically, and I can’t help you with that right now, but at least we can get together and keep down gay people.” It’s almost as though their culture-warrior appeals depend on keeping the rust belt down.

Michigan earned their Rust Belt status by allowing themselves to become too reliant upon the auto industry. Up until very recently the Big Three have been unable to make cars which can compete across the board with imports, and they have been losing market share and bleeding money as a result. That the price of fuel has only further driven Michigan’s legacy businesses into the red only hastened that by making their one dominant product, truck/SUVs, unwanted. Between being managed by incompetent and overpaid execs, and having what few good ideas they’ve had stifled by a labor union that has de facto control over operations, automobile plants in Michigan are doomed. The state will continue to follow unless they move beyond sentimentality.

Barack Obama isn’t like normal Americans! Cindy McCain can wear $100,000 earrings if she wants–doesn’t mean anything!!

Is there any contradiction so glaring you people won’t say it?

“The Electoral Reality”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/

And nothing is more reliable than an unnamed “expert” who posts anonymously, versus the people who actually were quoted by Vanity Fair, with their name for all to see and criticize.

… says the guy supporting the party who akes tax money from har working average americans, and gives tax money to filthy rich oil corpo-weasels, beer baroness trophy wives, and rich fourth generation wastrels. While borrowing even more money for the poor people’s decendents unto the fiftieth generation to pay back.

Smarter Republican’t ditto monkeys, please…

Much earlier, if you recall John Edwards’ haircut from 2004.

Evidently, elitism, like patriotism, has less to do with actions than with rhetoric.

And, to no one’s surprise, they bring forth a potential first family who doesn’t understand the value of a dollar by overpaying for jewelry in a rather tacky, tawdry fashion.

Spend your money as you wish, but at least don’t be a hypocrite. I’ve never seen Cindy McCain running around saying not to buy stuff..

Joey

AND, elitism is not in the price of the clothes (BTW, what was the price tag on the Obama duds on “Family Night”), but in the attitude …

Accusing whole blocs of voters of bitterly turning to religion and gun ownership , because they are economically deprived, says more about an elitist attitude than $60,000 earrings [which might have been rented]

And, CSS, you can’t swing a dead cat in a room full of Democratic / Liberals without hitting an elitist …

This became an issue as soon as the Republicans accused Obama of being an elitist.