Hillary calls Obama "elitist" and feigns concern for party's chances.
Hillary is taking hypocrisy to new and untested levels:“We are tired of having Republicans or frankly our own Democrats give any ammunition to Republicans because what happens then is Republicans take advantage of the situation so I think this is an important moment for Democrats,” Clinton told reporters after canvassing a Scranton neighborhood.
She comes out with this bile precisely as she is handing ammunition to McCain to portray Obama as elitist.
Clinton has been looking for a way to reverse the "maths problem", in other words she has been looking for a way to overturn her almost certain defeat and has made no secret of the fact that one of the ways she would seek to do this was to attempt to make Obama unelectable. I do not believe for a second that she will succeed in this, but one has to bear this in mind while listening to this latest rant. She claims to be concerned about the party's electability, when in actual fact she cares only about her own.“Senator Obama is a good man and he is a very talented and gifted man. But I think his comments were elitist and divisive. And the Democratic party has been unfortunately viewed by many people over the last decades as being elitist and out of touch,” Clinton said. “I mean we have waged elections over that and you don’t have to think back too far to remember that good men running for president were viewed as elitist and out of touch with the values and the lives of millions of Americans. So I think this is a very significant concern that people have expressed.”
She also said she is still waiting for a comprehensive explanation for the remarks from Obama.
All of her comments will be recycled by McCain come the November election, which is why she is airing this stuff just now. She hopes enough super delegates will panic because of this crap and that they might be tempted to overturn the democratic wishes of the voters and give the democratic nomination to her.
But for her to claim that she is "tired" of Democrats "giving ammunition" to Republicans, precisely as she is doing so, takes your breath away.
Now, she is implying that she is more American than Obama is:
Hillary now travels that well trodden Republican path, of feigning outrage at a remark which she has deliberately misinterpreted. I am reminded of nothing as much as Bush's feigned outrage over John Kerry's remarks about people who are not too smart getting stuck in Iraq, a comment which Bush pretended to think was an insult to the troops rather than a joke against himself.
Hillary knows that the gist of what Obama said was true, economic destitution makes people bitter and the Republicans often invite them to vent their rage by asking them to concentrate on side issues like gay marriage and gun control. What Hillary is doing is nothing less than classic Republican electioneering. Find a splinter issue and use it to drive a wedge between your opponent and yourself, even if you have to distort his position in order to do so, in fact the more one can distort it, the better.
But to play this Republican card whilst pretending to have the best interests of the Democratic party at heart is simply sickening.
UPDATE:
I notice this refrain is now being picked up by some of Hillary's more insane supporters, who now see those who support Obama as opposed to Hillary as "progressive elites". When will these nutcases take a reality check? It used to be that we were simply "sexist" for not supporting Hillary, now we are both "sexist" and "elitist"?
Why can't we simply be people who prefer Obama and what he represents?
And I simply love how Taylor Marsh applies labels whilst, simultaneously, attempting to distance herself from the name calling:
For want of a better term let us call these folks “Latte Sippers.” It is an unfair and derisive label but it does capture the attitude of this cohort.Get that? It's "unfair and derisive" - which Taylor would never want to be - but it also perfectly captures the attitudes of the people which Taylor has just applied the term to.
So the "Latte Sippers" are up against what she calls "Lunch Bucket Democrats". Please tell me this is going to end soon. Or I'm going to find it impossible not to throw up in the lunch bucket... no doubt spewing my latte everywhere...
UPDATE II:
Just to show how much Hillary is overplaying her hand here. This clip is from Fox News who sent a reporter to capture the outrage of small town Pennsylvanians concerning Obama's remarks. The only problem was they could only find people who agreed with what Obama was saying:
So who is actually being elitist here? I'd say it's Hillary and her supporters for daring to tell the people of Pennsylvania how they should feel about what Obama said, rather than asking them how they do feel about it.
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