This one comes from a brainless editor at Reuters:
Obama fights perception he is elitist
Uh, Reuters, Duh!
Barack Obama is running to become President of the Freaking United States of America!
Of COURSE Barack Obama is elitist, and so is every other member of Congress, and every other person who seriously wants to become President of the United States. Hillary Clinton is elitist. John McCain is elitist. Even bloody Ralph Nader is elitist, you gormless Reuters hacks!
Being in Congress, especially being a Senator, and especially being a Senator who is running to become President of the United States, requires that a person be an elitist. If a person really didn’t believe that they were better than anyone else, they would not be running to become President of the United States.
The President of the United States is the most powerful person on Earth – arguably the most powerful person there ever has been on Earth at any time in history. Dare we not call that position elite?
Or are we speaking in some kind of code here that I don’t understand? Is this about Barack Obama being uppity?
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain are all multimillionaires. John McCain’s wife has over a hundred million dollars, and the McCains have at least as many houses as cats have whiskers.
Why is it that we’re only getting a story from Reuters about Barack Obama being elitist? It sounds like a stupid Republican talking point to me.
Hey Reuters editors – let me remind you of your job description: It’s to report the news, not to repeat the talking points of political part hacks.
Oh, but what story could you have possibly reported instead of this idiotic Golly-Could-A-Presidential-Candidate-Be-Elitist trash? Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmm. Oh, gotta put on my thinking cap for this one. It’s soooo hard…
Oh yeah! Loren Davis!
The Celeste and Loren Davis Ministries emails are running around the Internet like wildfire. Voters are actually believing the garbage that they’re spreading, about Barack Obama swearing in on the Koran, and being a secret Muslim friend of Al Qaeda.
You know why so many people believe this garbage? It’s because the television news channels from which they receive revealed truths aren’t telling the truth about Loren Davis. It’s because the newspapers of record aren’t telling the truth about Loren Davis.
I can’t believe that the major news organizations haven’t run into the Loren Davis emails and blog postings. They’re all over the place, like rats on the stinking carcass of a decaying democracy. The truth about Loren Davis is easy to find. I found it. It’s in the archived versions of the LorenDavis.com web page!
This story ought to be fun for journalists to write about. Voters are being asked to believe vicious smears about Barack Obama from Loren Davis, but Loren Davis is a faith healer con artist who believes that Satan is in your local elementary school, that the NFL is trying to get people to engage in devil worship, and that Wal-Mart has a conspiracy to put the Mark of the Beast on people using secret satanic symbols in its checkout register.
Come on, reporter people! Do we have to throw it in your lap?
This story even has the American flag angle on it. We all know how much reporters these days love to write about people disrespecting the American flag. Well, Loren Davis has written that the American flag is a symbol of Satan – the ultimate evil. A lapel pin missing for a couple days ain’t nothing to that.
Irregular Times readers, I’m giving you a mission. Be the reporters that the reporters refuse to be. If they won’t tell the American people the truth about Loren Davis, then please, won’t you?
Or is it elitist of me to ask you to do that?
The six worst words in the English language are “Is America ready for a ______ (black/female) president?” To which I advise, “Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes, we’ve got to have war.” It makes No difference if the candidate is black or female or an amputee or a scotch drinker- if the person is ELITIST enough stand the tests they are all put through, then YES, America is ready for a scotch drinking amputee black woman. Or whomever. The fact that “he” had a black father, and “she” presumably sits whilst peeing makes NO difference whatSOever in the race to be president. If “he” weren’t so elitist, he wouldn’t have gotten this far. If “she” weren’t so , well, experienced in the game we call The White House, she wouldn’t have gotten this far. And even Mr McCain- hothead that he’s purported to be,Yes even He has some cash in the old bank. So they’re all elitists, and two of them (the important two) happen to have physical or visible differences from the guys who were President before (them). : “Until the color of a man’s skin (or the shape of a woman) is of No More Significance Than The Color Of Her Eyes, we’ve Got to have War.” At least the two important candidates are fighting with all they’ve got.
Actually, Pati, we have had just the same sort of thought. A few months ago, we wrote an article on the topic at:
http://irregulartimes.com/clintonobamabrains.html
The article takes the racist and sexist question “Are we ready for a ____ President”, and turns it around: Gee, but are we ready for a President with brains?
Re: “…is it elitist of me to ask you to do that?”
No, not at all. However, someone once called me an elitist because I don’t watch the teevee and was very critical of the MSM so my opinion might be considered biased. *shrugs*
Ah! It’s elitist now to not accept the spoonfed distortions of reality fed to us by television? Yikes!
Call me an elitist, then!
i’d wager that many people who show up to vote don’t even know being an elitist means and just assumes that it’s some sort of negative connotation.
(“Well HAIL, Clem, we cain’t have no ELITIS’ bastid in the WHAT HOUSE! Why, that’d be downright un-Christian!”
Until we get the corporate influence out of our government, it won’t matter much who’s elected.
Whoops! I forgot to mention something in my first post. The link to check out the archived webpages is incorrect and goes to the wrong place. It should be http://www.archive.org not http://www.archives.org.
I think it’s elitist for people to say that people who aren’t elitist don’t know what the word “elitist” means. At least I think so. I mean, I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I’m an elitist by using an elitist word like “elitist.”
No, I’m not riled up at all. Just disppointed that an “atheist” is once again using just as many blanket statements, just as many generalizations, just as many stale stereotypes as Jerry Falwell did describing atheists and every other organization he attacked with obscene lack of any discernable thought or reason.
Ho hum. You’ll have to become more of a thinking person (which you claim to be, but honestly, I see nothing but what you most likely would describe as “anti-dogma,” which is, after all, dogma in itself) and stretch your awareness to just maybe SECRETLY (under NO circumstances should you ever tell any of your cool friends you’ve done this thought experiment – you’d be branded as a weak-minded, cool-aid rejecting TRULY open-minded trippin’ loser”) and ever-so-briefly consider that maybe, oh no no no no no, it can’t be, or
can it? That there may be one or maybe three or, oh, too scary to go there, but you peek with one eye – several open-minded, tolerant, kind, loving (brace yourself, here it comes) Christians who aspire to nothing higher than to be of service to the “least” of them, but failing because they are unable to judge anyone less than anyone else?
No, don’t do it. You’ll hurt yourself.
And you know why I won’t sign this? I am busy with service, and have no more time to listen to nothing different than I’ve heard my entire life. I’m not going to debate my faith with anyone who doesn’t display SOMETHING mildly insightful and thought-provoking. I’m a tremendously flawed human being, trying my ass off to be a tremendously flawed human being in service to other tremendously flawed human beings. I’ve wasted enough time now explaining this AGAIN to someone else who will not even break stride to consider it. One per customer, this is yours. Your stated thoughts are hardly irregular. They are over-generalized, Falwellesque, ill-informed herding. They are common.
Wow, Loren (or Celeste). That was really incoherent. You go on “serving” people by spreading filthy untrue rumors about Barack Obama, then. You certainly are busy with that.
Oooooh rapier wit. No, I am not only voting for, but actively campaigning for Obama. I am a resident of Denton and at least 3 times your age. And I will continue to spread filthy rumors that Barack Obama is the only candidate for change with integrity. Busily. Along with other real acts of service instead of reading this drivel any further. Such venom.
Uh huh. Sure. You really know it all, if you’re still able to be actively campaigning for Obama, know how to use the Internet and are at least 3 times my age.