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[johnny9fingers]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/14/uselections2008.barackobama?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

This shows how far America has come since the sixties. The Harvard-educated-black-guy is the one being portrayed as elitist.
Damn right too: and so he should be. Someone has got to have high standards.

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[vlion.livejournal.com]

The problem is that he's being a rich snob, not that he has standards.
After that lovely potshot at rural America he took in California, there's not a single chance that I'd vote for him. Ever. He doesn't get what drives people in the rural/lower-class strata, or what he said would never have come out of his mouth.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i am all for elitism.
the whole postmodern fandango at art school was hellish. i once went to a lecture by someone about her painting where she said she found it difficult to 'paint badly' which i think she thought would be more feminist of her. it was all hateful, really.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

I find their culture so -very- strange.

It is progress though. Fancy how their world has changed, eh?