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Will you stop it Senator Clinton!

May 4th, 2008
By T-STEEL, Site Administrator

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Now economists who don’t agree with Senator Clinton’s gas tax proposal are “elite” or spouting “elite opinion”:

Clinton dismisses “elite” economists on gas tax

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday dismissed the “elite opinion” of economists who criticized her gas tax proposal, using a term that has dogged rival Barack Obama in recent weeks.

…Clinton used her appearance on ABC’s “This Week” to raise questions about Obama’s ability to connect with working-class Americans while dismissing economists who have said her plan to suspend gas taxes over the summer would do little good.

“I’m not going to put my lot in with economists,” the New York senator said when asked to name a credible economist who supported her proposal.

“We’ve got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans,” said Clinton, a former first lady who would be the first woman president.

WILL YOU STOP IT, SENATOR CLINTON!

You are a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. You are a multi-millionaire. You are, as the article above says, “a former first lady who would be the first woman president“. You are elite! And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Let’s look at the definition of “elite” via Dictionary.com:

1. (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
2. (used with a plural verb) persons of the highest class: Only the elite were there.
3. a group of persons exercising the major share of authority or influence within a larger group: the power elite of a major political party.

And from the American Heritage Dictionary:

1. A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status: “In addition to notions of social equality there was much emphasis on the role of elites and of heroes within them” (Times Literary Supplement).
2. The best or most skilled members of a group: the football team’s elite.

Hello!?! Sounds like you, Senator Clinton. By the way, sounds like Senator Obama also. And what do you know? Senator McCain is elite as well. In fact Senators Clinton and McCain are senior elite. Senator Obama is a cutesy baby elite and he may make his way to senior elite soon enough. So enough already, Senator Clinton. You are elite and elitist. And you’re not going back to the non-elite. Why say this to a fellow Democrat when Republicans have been able to frame Democrats this way for years and win the big prize because of it? You are an intelligent, battle-tested politician that knows the game. Why do this when it can be used against you?

And it’s very easy to say that you just disagree with the economists’ opinions. Why throw in the “elite” tag unless you’re… well let me just say this:

You lend much credence to Senator Obama’s comment that “this is some politics being played”.



This entry was posted on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 at 11:45 am and is filed under Hypocrisy, Newsweek Blogitics, Bill Clinton, John McCain, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Politics. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    Apparently we are expected to believe that Sen. Clinton, because she makes noises that sound like she is an advocate for the common man, the working class, the average Joe American, and has found a way to chip away at her rival, Sen. Obama, by adopting tactics that can only be described as Rovian - we are expected to believe she is genuine, worthy, and deserving of our votes??? I'm sorry, but that would require such a huge suspension of disbelief, that I for one, will be unable to make it if I am going to continue looking at myself in the mirror when I get up in the morning. My hope is that the undecided folks who will be tipping the Indiana primary won't be so easily fooled... those who aren't Republicans out to create mischief that is.
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    "We’ve got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans”

    Her elitism, conceit, and arrogance (and criminal misconduct) with "HillaryCare" even more than her and her husband's alienating lurch leftward after inauguration was the #1 reason -- HillaryCare, HillaryCare, HillaryCare (the leftists were too incompetent, dishonest, or cowardly to admit it, a leftist model, was too fascistic for their tastes; the critics on the Left wanted Medicare for All 15 years ago) -- for the 1996 elections. (Real) Americans found the elitism, conceit, and arrogance (and the plan) revolting, and they effectively revolted. (Do you remember how truly clueless her fellow elites in DC and elsewhere, throughout the USA, were about it?)
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    At some point the pandering and posturing goes from tragedy to comedy. Hillary is turning herself into a punchline on the national stage.

    I hope the good people of NC and Indiana are as able to see through the smoke as the Guamanians in the middle of the Pacific were.
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    In my vengeful moments, I hope this becomes a vdeo ghost to haunt both McCain and Hillary for a very long time.

    I'm surrprised she hasn't offered an initiative to distribute free rice, eggs and milk to every family earning less than $ xxxxxx., taking more of these staples from the world's shelves.
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    Wow, Hillary has just taken up one of the more loathsome traits found almost exclusively on the right. Dimissing educated informed opinion because its educated and informed. As if complex national policies should be left to the gut instincts of amateurs. Anyone even implying that education is a bad thing does not belong at the helm of this country.

    So either she doesn't believe a word of what she's saying and just pandering to people she is hoping are dumb enough to fall for the act, or she does believe it and she's an idiot. Either way I'm pretty disgusted.
 
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