TYT: Can You Be Proud of the Way Hillary Has Run This Campaign?

[ihavenobias]

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It's Impossible to be Proud of the Way Hillary Has Run This Campaign
By Cenk Uygur

I feel like asking the same question about elitists that Jim Mora once famously asked about the playoffs. Elitists?! Elitists?! We're talking about elitists?!

The Clinton and McCain families both have over $100 million. Barack Obama has a father from Kenya and mother from Kansas. Who are they kidding about elitism?

I don't think money is necessarily the determinative factor in whether you're an elitist or not. And I think the Clintons did work their way up in this world. But to claim that a guy like Obama who built his success completely on his own and from the bottom up is an elitist is beyond ridiculous. In fact, it's worse; it's Republican.

Republicans charge Democrats with being elitists every campaign cycle as they themselves are dripping with money, status and privilege. And they get away with it every time. George W. Bush's grandfather was a senator, his father was president, he went to Andover, Yale and Harvard - and he claimed the Democrats were elitists and he was the regular guy you could have a beer with (ignoring the fact that he is an alcoholic).

And the media lets them get away with this insane shell game. You can say Obama went to Harvard, too. But one thing is for sure -- his daddy didn't get him in. There is all the difference in the world between having your family name get you into Harvard and earning your way in. One makes you privileged and upper class; the other makes you an American success story.

One more thing about Obama. When he got out of Harvard Law, he could have made a lot of money in private industry. Instead, he went to work for disadvantaged communities in Chicago. This guy spent his life helping the poor when he could have been stinking rich instead. And now they call him elitist and the media mindlessly goes along with it...

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[gateley]

1. Kennedy, Kerry, Dodd and others sure weren't. nt

[Cresent City Kid]

2. My other favorite is "intellectual"

This is thrown at educated people who disagree with them. If you're right you're smart, if you're wrong you're "intellectual."

[D23MIURG23]

11. I don't get that.

Intellectual is something I aspire to be. I don't understand how it became a cussword.

[OhioChick]

3. K&R

:kick:

[CherylK]

4. K & R! Her campaign has been terrible!

But I would never vote for McCain.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Kidding about elitism??

You refer to the "Clintons" which I assume includes Bill Clinton. You tell us about Obama's upbringing. Bill Clinton's father died in a car wreck before he was born then he was raised by an alcoholic and abusive stepfather. Did Clinton's daddy get him into Oxford? Clinton with his education could have, as you put it "made a lot of money" in private industry. Instead he became Governor of a small, poor southern state with an annual salary in the 30K region.

Sorry, I know its against the rules to challenge an acolyte of the God.

Go ahead, put this Clark supporter on ignore ALL IN THE SAKE OF UNITY.

[ihavenobias]

6. You have to read more than just the title of the thread

Hell, just read the first couple of paragraphs and you might have seen this, which makes your post laughable:

"...I don't think money is necessarily the determinative factor in whether you're an elitist or not. And I think the Clintons did work their way up in this world..."

It's okay, apology accepted in advance. ;)

[Name removed]

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[99th_Monkey]

7. It wouldn't have occurred to me to use the word "pride" in the same sentence as "Hillary's campaign"

The word "nausea"? Yes; but the word "pride"? No..

[MindMatter]

9. Half of that 27% will come to their senses

The other half are die-hard Republicans supporting her to screw up the Democrats.

[jgraz]

10. I like listening to Cenk, but I always end up pissed off.

[CherylK]

12. Bump!

[navarth]

13. This whole 'elitism' meme is spurious.

To use the vernacular, it's horse shit. I want somebody who's smart running the country. I couldn't begin to give a fuck if he's somebody I could have a beer with. Fuck that. I want the smartest, sharpest, and most broad-minded, forward-thinking president I can get. And I don't want him/her to be fucking corrupt.

It's disgusting to me that the M$M plays up this kind of crap.