Word: elitist
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...tactics of a campaign in the paroxysms of electoral death. And, as a consequence, the tenor of American political discourse ratchets one notch lower. It is unfortunate that any candidate who strays even the slightest bit from the accepted narrative of cultural pandering is immediately branded a cultural elitist. It is even more so that such a branding is coming from someone who’s supposed to be on the same side...
After several brutal days of trying to defend himself against accusations of being an "out-of-touch elitist", Barack Obama faces a major overriding challenge in tonight's nationally televised debate with Hillary Clinton at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center - to prove that is a regular guy. Even under the best of circumstances that's not an easy task when you're standing on a stage before a packed auditorium of hundreds and being broadcast to millions. But considering the fallout he has had to endure since his notorious "bitter" comments about small-town America were revealed, and the fact...
...results. His six-day bus tour across the state, meant to showcase his approachability, was a series of awkward photo-ops. And another soaring speech, like the one he delivered in Philadelphia last month to address the race issue, might only underline an intellectual prowess that some perceive as elitist...
...what may well be a preview of the approach he takes in the debate, Obama responded to the elitist charge at a town hall for veterans earlier this week by turning the accusation around. "I am amused by this notion of elitist given that - when you are raised by single mom, when you are on food stamps for a while when you're growing up, you went to school on scholarship," Obama said "So when someone makes that argument, particularly when I've spent my entire life working with workers in low-income communities to try to make peoples lives...
...Clinton, and McCain for that matter, are going to use these comments to cast Obama as an arrogant elitist, they better be prepared to deal with the blowback. As Jamal Simmons, a Democratic consultant and Obama supporter, put it in an email exchange with TIME, "Hillary Clinton calls Barack Obama elitist? Really? Hillary Clinton was a corporate lawyer who sat on the Wal-Mart board before becoming First Lady and is now worth over $100 million. Barack Obama is the child of a single mother raised in part by his grandparents who went to school on a scholarship...