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Sat Apr-12-08 11:38 PM
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No-one sees the irony of a multi-millionaire calling a black man an "elitist"? |
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..wow...
This placed HAS changed...
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:40 PM
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1. It's beyond irony all the way to utterly rediculous (n/t) |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:40 PM
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2. It's pretty shocking isn't it? |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:40 PM
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3. Why are you injecting race into this? |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:42 PM
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No need to inject it, it's there.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:41 PM
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"uppity". That wouldn't do.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:46 PM
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Edited on Sat Apr-12-08 11:47 PM by DearAbby
can't come right out and call Obama Uppity...shit no, you would be labeled a racist...so what to do....:think: you call him an elitist! Yeah that's the ticket!!
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:04 AM
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22. I really think that is the real issue... And ironically |
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her voters ARE bitter about the prospect of an uppity black man possibly becoming president. That's only my opinion, of course.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:23 AM
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30. Jeez I thought we were talking about McCane (sic) |
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 12:24 AM by StClone
McCain and Cindy are multi-millionaires. Who gives a crap what Hillary says any more? Oh, they like elitist as Bush is the elitist of the elite and you can have a beer with the born again saved from the evils of the drink, too. Americans sure can pick 'em.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:42 PM
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5. You can be a broke Ivy league grad student and have elitist thinking and perceptions |
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of the "common" man.
FDR was a muti millionaire, but he was no elitist.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:44 PM
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7. Obama cut his teeth in politics working for the "common" man in Chicago..... |
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...Hillary was a Goldwater girl, and NEVER worked for the little guy.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:02 AM
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21. I guess she was just a typical white person. |
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:15 AM
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Mon Apr-14-08 12:28 AM
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49. So according to Bill that makes her a coward and a racist? |
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"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Bill Clinton Los Angeles Times in September 1991.
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:05 AM
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34. He cut his teeth working for Rezko |
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How come the Obama campaign has not been able to find one "common" man he actually helped in Chicago. They have been looking for someone for an ad. They haven't been able to come up with anybody yet.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:46 PM
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8. No, but "typical"stereotyping is damn foul and disgusting |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:53 PM
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13. Ever hear of focus grouping? Politics runs on it and it's an application of that which is "typical" |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:46 PM
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10. And the media plays her game! It's nuts! |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:47 PM
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11. I'm sure it's just because people here are not colorblind like Stephen Colbert |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:48 PM
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12. I'm not elitist. I'm just better than most people. n/t |
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:59 AM
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
"Those of us who know everything are annoyed by those who think they do."
:toast: :toast:
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Mon Apr-14-08 12:26 AM
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:54 PM
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14. Well, the Hillary tells me it's true so it must be accurate...right? |
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Oh no..more sniper fire, let's split!!
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:56 PM
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15. No, there's no irony at all. |
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Edited on Sat Apr-12-08 11:57 PM by barb162
Elitist thinking has nothing to do with skin color. The same point goes for arrogance, being a snob, etc.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:57 PM
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17. ..and you fail to see the irony that you COMPLETELY missed the point... |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:56 PM
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16. I hadn' t thought about that. n/t |
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:57 PM
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18. They're both millionaires. The real irony here is two rich people, |
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both of them corporate handmaidens, arguing over which one is more down with the people.
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Sat Apr-12-08 11:59 PM
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19. One his a house poor Millionaire, and the other is a multimillionaire...... |
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:01 AM
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20. Like I said, two millionaires. |
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Unless you are seriously suggesting that an annual income of more than $900,000 and a net worth of $1,3000,000 is blue collar, which is a stretch even for you.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:09 AM
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24. I know people with that net worth who are still check to check |
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Their net worth, like the Obamas, comes mainly from value of home, monthly mortgage is upwards of 6,000 and a bad break could have them in foreclosure like so many others.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:22 AM
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29. RIGHT!! I had to explain to people that Obama still has to go to work if he loses his senate seat |
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:05 AM
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23. Why make it about race? |
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:09 AM
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25. Trippin! Rove and Cintons calling Obama "arrogant" is surreal. Bad trip. |
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:14 AM
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26. poor Obama and his $1.5 million house |
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:03 AM
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42. I bought my house in the nineties for about 200 k and |
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 05:04 AM by Rob Gregory Browne
it's now worth about 600k. So 1.5 mil for a house these days is not all that outrageous.
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:21 AM
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Sun Apr-13-08 12:32 AM
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31. Ah, the race card used by the most racist campaign since Reagan 80' once again |
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Sun Apr-13-08 02:18 AM
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32. Hillary and Obama are both elitist. |
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They went to Harvard and Yale, didn't they???
I thought anybody who graduated from an Ivy League school was elitist. I could be wrong. You usually can't get in unless you know somebody important or you're damn smart.
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:05 AM
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43. Obama has never lost touch with who he is his books define this. |
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Sun Apr-13-08 02:20 AM
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33. how about we remember that the Clintons have not always been millionaires. |
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:19 AM
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38. Yeah, only for the last few DECADES. |
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And it's not like Hillary lived the life of a privileged, pampered, princess in the lily-white, wealthy Chicago suburbs, right?
Oh I forgot, she grew up shootin' in Scranton! What a bag of bullshit.
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:06 AM
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45. Hillary a good part of her life has had a very comfortable lifestyle you don't go without a s 1st |
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 05:07 AM by cooolandrew
lady.
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:07 AM
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35. So if you are black you can't be elitist? |
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:09 AM
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you're dragging race into this. bizarre. Are you saying that someone who's black can't be an elitest?
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:10 AM
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I laughed at first when I heard about all of this. I just shook my head and was like they MUST be joking.
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Sun Apr-13-08 04:51 AM
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some of the posts in this thread are funny.
And yes, the irony gave me a pretty awesome grin too.
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:01 AM
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41. That sure is the true, they know they are wrong it is politcal leverage at its worst. |
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Edited on Sun Apr-13-08 05:02 AM by cooolandrew
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Sun Apr-13-08 05:06 AM
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44. Absolutely, and I also see the irony in 2 individuals who haven't been... |
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...in Mainstream America for at least the past 20 years calling Obama, who has only been in Washington for less than 4 "Out of touch with normal Americans."
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Sun Apr-13-08 06:22 AM
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46. every other thread points to that irony... what list are YOU readin? |
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"The right hand doesn't know what the FAR right hand is doing." Hillary Rodham Clinton
now THAT, is irony
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Sun Apr-13-08 06:34 AM
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47. No, no irony for me. Splunge for me, sir. |
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Don't want to get fired for being a "yes man", ya know.
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Mon Apr-14-08 12:29 AM
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50. No one is fooled. They see it. |
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Mon Apr-14-08 07:52 AM
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51. Black people can't be tinkers? tailors? |
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soldiers? sailors? beggermen? thieves?...multi-millionaires? saints? paupers? cannibals? victims? presidents? saviors? CEO's? Not to mention butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.
Has Obama taken a vow of poverty?
Of course Obama is an "elitist" by most measures. So what? Everyone running for president is and probably will be in the foreseeable future.
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