Word: litist
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...Political Elite Regarding "A Bitter Lesson" [April 28]: The pundits were frustrated when they couldn't label Barack Obama a racist, so they came up with élitist as an otherwise suitable condemnatory epithet. For heaven's sake, the man is running for President of the U.S., not chairmanship of the bowling league. An élitist is surely someone who has a wider field of taste, interests, education and comprehension than the average person. Isn't that what the country desperately needs after eight years of the cowboy populist? John W. Gray, Toronto...
...quell the impression that he's an ้litist...
Unless, of course, the party chooses a nominee who seems alien to the average working stiff. On that score, Obama now has some work to do. He is seen by many downscale voters as the candidate of ้lites, if not ้litist himself. Five days after his comments first surfaced on the internet, a Google search of Snobama was bringing up nearly 4,000 hits--which is ironic, considering that he is the only candidate in the race whose mother once collected food stamps. That's why he has rolled out the endorsements of Bruce Springsteen and the American...
...first time, I realized he is an ้litist.' MAYHILL FOWLER, blogger for OffTheBus.net who first reported on Barack Obama's comment at a San Francisco fund raiser that economic frustrations have made small-town Pennsylvania voters "bitter" and driven them to "cling to guns or religion...
Behind Pakistan's swings between military government and democracy lies a continuity of ้litist interests: to some extent, Pakistan's industrial, military and landowning classes are all interrelated, and they look after one another. They do not, however, do much for the poor. The government education system barely functions in Pakistan, and for the have-nots, justice is almost impossible to come by. This pushes the poor into the arms of fundamentalists...