McCain: Washington D.C. and NYC = Fake America
By SilentPatriot Thursday Oct 23, 2008 2:30pm
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In response to a question from Brian Williams about "elitism", John McCain pinpoints D.C. and New York City as the bastions, or, as Politico puts it, "fake America." I suppose that's why bin Laden targeted lower Manhattan?
WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?
MCCAIN: I -- I know where a lot of 'em live. (LAUGH)
WILLIAMS: Where's that?
MCCAIN: Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. I know the town. I know -- I know what a lot of these elitists are. The ones that she never went to a cocktail party with in Georgetown. I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
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John McCain's definition of "elitist"
... anyone living the the only two American cities attacked on 9-11.
He actually said that. People from DC and NYC are his definition of elitists. He didn't mention ANY other part of America.
That is disgusting! He is targeting EXACTLY the same people the terrorists did, and attempting to label THEM as less "American" than his chosen few (and getting fewer all the time).
McCain should get down on his knees on national television and beg forgiveness from every man woman and child in D.C. and NYC who lost a loved one on 9-11.
Bingo!
The terrorists and the right wing nutcases have at least two things in common:
1. They both hate New York and Washington D.C. (Also, Los Angeles, since the millenium bomber tried to blow up the LAX. Couldn't stand those California values.)
2. They both hate the U.S. government, since they blew up a federal government building in Oklahoma.
Both groups have a deep rooted hatred of secular, liberals. They should get together. I'd be all for sending American wingnuts to live with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I believe the phrase I want here is "It takes one to know one."
Disgusting.
So - when those jetliners hit the WTC in NYC - they didn't actually bomb the REAL Amerikkka!
Call the troops all home, false alarm...
His wife wore $313,100 worth of clothing and accessories at the convention. He owns seven homes, wears $800 loafers, spends thousand a month on a makeup artist and he uses the word elitist with a straight face?
BTW- Opie has something to say...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d
Well, he knows that he doesn't have to court any votes in those two places anymore, so he can go around talking all the smack he wants about the east coast 'elite'.
...when you want to dress up a trailer trash queen with $150K of hep togs though!
You probably could go to Dallas and spend about half that amount to get the same result.
I'm watching specifically to see how the GOPers are using the "bogus AP story" and poll talking point and spewing this lie all over the mainstream media.
This AP poll has been nationally discredited as a sham. They interviewed 44% evangelicals for it - duh!
Send this around to your newspapers as well as to AP to force them to explain that their poll is nothing but pure PROPAGANDA.
I came up with this... funny or flop?
http://bsalert.com/news/2417/Top_Arguments_Fo...
The #1 reason needs work though...
God almighty, this team makes me want to beat myself sensless with a hammer. How did these two get to the point of actually contending for the white house. I am so tired of this.
I was thinking the same thing. It certainly shows how much McCain really believes in "country first" that he could risk putting Palin a heart beat from being president. BTW, to answer your question "how did these two get to .. contending for the WH" I think a big reason is pseudo journalists like Brian Williams. A real journalist (the kind that neither Palin nor McCain would ever sit down with) would ask "what about your 7 houses senator?"
God firbod we dictate to the nation our ideals of diversity, globalism and unity. That'd be awful!
imagine there were two candidates like mccain and a democrat just like him, no hope, no change, I say there was no riot when they introduced the bailout because barack represents some relief. I might have been one of the rioters. when you have little to lose, going crazy is an option, but we have some spark.
AP and their Republican propaganda machine can no longer be trusted to bring the people honesty and facts.
This bogus poll and their ridiculously misleading article headline tell the story of a once-credible news agency which has totally gone over to the dark side.
Every CNN anchor this evening has permitted one of the Rep bobbleheads to refer to this bogus poll.....'AIDING AND ABETTING PROPAGANDA'??
It's time to shove this poll right up their butts. Make the mainstream media retract and disqualify this bogus poll. Send this information to everyone you know and all newspapers and news agencies.
The Associated Press (AP) can no longer be trusted. They no longer deserve the respect of the american people. Time to shut this organization down for the propagandists they've become.
Truth is our most precious commodity. These people have violated the public trust publishing such ridiculously biased nonsense as fact.
Send this to every media outlet you can.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/m...
TRUTH WILL PREVAIL - EVEN IT MEANS THAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DESTROYS ITSELF IN THE PROCESS.
I just had the biggest ironygasm ever.
Right here: "Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves."
Seriously. My ironycock just exploded in a mess of what the hell.
I pity the Foo. I hope it cleans up easily.
But seriously, the irony. I mean, really.
Williams: Who is a member of the elite?
Palin: Oh I guess just people who think they're better than anyone else and um, John McCain and I are so committed to serving every American - hard working, middle class Americans who are so desiring of this economy getting put back on the right track and winning these wars and America starting to reach her potential and that is opportunity and hope provided everyone equally so anyone who thinks that they are I guess better than anyone else, that's my definition of elitism.
So painful. Painful to watch, but even more painful to read.
It just dawned on me about these two extremely average (I know)idiots: They will never be more than mediocre pop-off smartmouths, therefore they resent the "elitists."
Gov. Palin, may I dream of the day that you become able to speak just ONE tiny, complete sentence that's NOT a run-on?? And while I'm asking, could you speak it SO THAT IT MAKES SENSE???? Pleeze? Or am I being elitist?? If so, then pardon me for living. Grrrrrr!!
Something just struck me as I was reading the quote from Palin. She actually answered the question.
Then it's as if she suddenly realized she'd forgotten her lines and she parroted a talking point.
Did I miss McCain leaning over and pulling the talk ring in her back? Or are they doing that with infrared now?
But mavericks don't need punctuation cause it's so elitist like I just said anyone who thinks that they are I guess better than anyone else which also too must mean you because you probably only went to one college and think yer some kind of Joe the Professor or somethin.
He knows the town - the man is delusional...
There's a lot more than just the Upper East Side.
I live in Berkeley, CA, how do I get invited to these parties that I'm supposed to be at? Oh yeah, you have to be Senator, lobbyist or newscaster. How do I get invited to do a skit on SNL when I'm in New York? Oh yeah, you have to be a Senator r someone who has excelled at something, in other words an elite. We need elites. Because hockey moms who hate women's rights don't know how to get us out of this economic crisis or bring our soldiers home.
The GOP's have really amped up the hate machine today, Blakeman's out and about and the 527's are all over the tube. Let's get our Dem friends to the polls safely and legally and put Obama in with a landslide!
she looks like she is very uncomfortable. I think she knows it's over.
On the upside, all she has to do now is go down the hall at campaign headquarters to see all those elitist lobbyists Grampa's so worked up about.
You know how god fearin' Alaskans are about their liquor...
and there are still people who think that man and Mommy Mooseburger are ready to lead a country???? Unbelievable!!!
does that mean Palin will have to return all the expensive clothes that she bought from retail stores born and thriving in "Fake" America?
So every person in New York is going to swanky cocktail parties and laughing at the rubes in the "real America?" Somebody better tell Rocco and Vinnie.
McCain is full of BuLLshit!! An elitist would look the other way as voting fraud is committed to help him win. An elitist would put out literature and robocalls that target the worst nature in people. An elitist owns that many houses and pays over a hundred thousand to pretty up his barbie doll running mate.
Damn I'm sick of the lies. I hope the blogs like this step it up and push back against the forces in this country that look to stamp out the progressive voices.
Vote Early. Vote Obama.
WTF???
Oh, anyone who thinks they're better than someone else? You mean like the people who think other people aren't "real," or aren't good enough to be president because they're liberal or black or Muslim or named Obama or live in New York or D.C.? God I hope more people jump on this. Jon Stewart seems to get particularly pissed off at this stuff and I hope he says so.
"I know the town. I know -- I know what a lot of these elitists are........" This is all this idiot ever says. I....I....I....I know, I know, I know. This begs the questions....Well why haven't you done something? What's the big secret? What are you waiting for? The guy's another spoiled brat with no visions for anything other than his self gratifications. Young rich wife, and what is turning out to be a phoney claim to an honorable life.
Well said........thanks!!.:)
Doesn't help much but these two "Punch and Judy" fuck-ups are seriously dissociated from reality -- i.e., psychotic.
"Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves."
Um, NO John, THOSE people would be the crazy Christian fundies in your base who think their 'morality' and their 'values' are the only values and the rest of us should get with the program.
THOSE people are people like your RUNNING MATE who thinks that she and her party should be able to tell women what to do with their own bodies.
THOSE people are people like your RUNNING MATE and your SUPPORTERS who think they should be able to tell two consenting adults they cannot get married due to their respective genders.
THOSE people are people like YOU.
Absolutely.
These two dufuses don't know what they're doing.
I can't believe that they've essentially repeated over and over again that they hate half of the country. If Obama said that he didn't want the country to be run by stupid religious nuts, there would be outrage by everyone in the media.
Speaking from the so-called "real America" (central PA) I can honestly say that my brothers and sisters in NYC and DC are not cocktail party elitists. They are honest, hard-working people who give more of a shit about this country than you ever will.
Fuck you, John McCain. You douchebag.
Like you and John McCain?
Who is she? Is he talking about Sarah Palin? So, people in Georgetown are elitists? What the hell does he MEAN?
Yep, McCain use a similar disrespectful expression on Obama. Remember "That One"?
"She never gets top"....unbelievable.
A bit earlier, you can see McCain roll his eyes when she begins to run on....
that she hired to get her name out among the elite in the Republican party who attend those cocktail parties. According to an article in The New Yorker Magazine, she lobbied for this job.
Does this dumb fuck realize what he's saying?! He's been in D.C. how long now as a senator and before that a representative - 1982 is it? - and WHERE is he in the elitist conglomerate there?
And a son of an admiral, a grandson of an admiral.
John, where did YOU go to school.
John, does this mean Cindy McCain is an elitist too?
I'm pretty freakin' sure - especially when he was growing up - the class structure within the Navy was pretty fucking elitist. My uncle was in the Navy and his son (my first cousin) went to the Academy. You could see the differences in housing.
I know how it was when I was in the Army working in Radiology in hospitals and clinics. Hanging with nurses and doctors wasn't kosher in the military, officers vs enlisted, but we did it anyway. Stateside, we were friends with a veterinarian and his wife, he was my husband's running partner, and they moved wayyy the hell off post so people could come and go as they wanted.
Remember the Exorcist, huh! Yep - it's Georgetown.
McCain: I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
Reeeeealy? Interesting. I always thought of those people as radical right-wing evangelicals, but that's just me.
mcfuckhead really is a douche bag
the hatred, bigotry and racism that
he and ms painintheass are inciting
is outrageous. it will be many more
years to quell this injustice to the
American people.
... and I am REALLY pissed that they left us out.
... that you are among the untouchables. In fact, they probably think "elite" is too nice a word for you, you, you ... fake from Hollyweird.
Actually have identical goals: the usurpation of liberal democracy to their own ends.
Bin Laden (and Muslim fundamentalists in general) see secular liberal democracy as a threat to their world. The economic center of liberal democracy is NYC, and the military center in Washington DC. So it only makes sense that they would blast the crap out of those two places.
McCain/Palin also detest liberal democracy, for different reasons. McCain detests it because in a liberal democracy the government acts as a bulwark against the predations of capital. Palin detests it because it is secular and resistant to dominionist theocracy. Palin's people are (in neocon terms) "useful idiots" to McCain's people - capitalist plutocrats.
So, again, they would despise the same places Bin Laden despises, because they both despise the same thing: liberal democracy.
For more on this, I would recommend the film "The Powers of Darkness" by Adam Curtis.
So elitist means educated and successful. Since when is that a bad thing.
Elitist, bad; trailer trash, good.
Knocked up teenage daugher, priceless.
Jes** Christ, are they intentionally trying to lose this election?
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A terrorist is anybody that would try to kill "innocent" Americans. Palin made sure to emphasize that "innocent" each time she said it.
Meaning, of course, that people who work in abortion clinics are guilty, and therefore fair game.
I really, really wish Brian would have just come out and asked outright, "Are people who bomb abortion clinics terrorists? Yes or no?" Because she would, of course, have to answer no, or lose the support of the anti-choice base.
They're really going with this? Seriously. They're really going with this "split America in half" class warfare? I think they know it's over and are setting fire to the oil rigs on their way out.
undecided voters left? I just don't see how you can watch these two do nothing but speak smack about people and still not know to eliminate this ticket as an option.
"ordinary folks" that John hangs out with. He grew up in a top-drawer military family, went to elite schools, the Naval Academy, is now married to a multi-millionare. His friends are lobbyists and lawmakers, presidents and military brass. Joe the plumber is probably not going to be weekending at his home near Sedona anytime soon. Give me a break with these people.
she was merely an heiress to an oilman.....
..and I was born in DC. So please say that again to my face.
MCCAIN: Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. I know the town. I know -- I know what a lot of these elitists are. The ones that she never went to a cocktail party with in Georgetown. I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
uh....you mean like Bible thumping Palin, and Mr entitled McCain.
he should just go off to some place where he can be around people like himself...like a retirement community in Florida.
from Washington, have lived here all our lives, and actually like being here. And yes, last time I checked, we're Americans.
Why don't they just say N****** and Jews and get it over with. Good Lord!
Brian, what do you mean by elite, do you mean uppity?
huh? Transparent codewords.
the "elite" as he sees them.
Newflash Sen. McCain, having 8 homes makes you part of the elite. Having a running mate that spends $150,000 on clothing in 1 month makes HER one of the "elite."
Bizarro world indeed...
that they're projecting all their moral failings and deepest fears onto others. Their time is almost up and they know it.
the spending spree was "gifted" to her by the rnc
makes it worse
monies donated by the rnc, that is admitedly running out of money to support down ticket candidates
if i found out that the dnc was outfitting the obama's, i would be royally pissed
Maybe that's why the 9/11 terrorists decided to attack where they did! They actually LOVE the US and were punishing DC and NYC for tainting their beloved land.
What is it with this jerk. Jon Stewart catches him all the time, repeating himself, over and over again.
Here we heard him refer to the Georgtown elite to Brian Williams in an interview yesterday in Washington.
On "Swamppolitics" they have a story where he has given an interview to Mike Glover of the Iowa based AP and he talks about "The Georgtown Coctail Party Person".
This guy has had about 10 buzz points he just keeps repeating, like a broken record.
1- Joe The Plumber
2- Taxing small business
3- I'm not George Bush
4-I'll get you jobs, I'll get you jobs.
5- My Friends
6-My Friends...oh, I said that already.
ok...everbody add to the list.
7. I know how to get Osama
...that this was going to be on NBC's Nightly News, Williams and Chuck Todd both alluded to the fact that the interview would raise some eyebrows.
I think the point they were making was that McCain and Palin made a major gaffe with this statement--and it's being played all over the tubes right now. This one's gonna get some play--if only because D.C. and NYC were hit on 9/11.
And there may be more gaffes coming. Doesn't this interview go for another day?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=27347...
first, palin and mccain refuse to say that those that bomb abortion clinics are terrorist...that only those that attack us owned buildings like the capitol can be considered terrorists....was the wtc a federal building?
then they go into this elitest bit
dumbass just called the city that was indeed attacked by terrorists a city filled with elitests
and as mcliar is one of those who has spent alot of time at those georgetown cocktail parties...is he now an elitest too?
they are both asswipes
and why should he? He is down about 25% in NY state and he can call them whatever he likes, he will never win it anyways.
On the other hand, the way this is going; the next planes that fly into NY skyscrapers will prolly be flown by some evangelist secessionists from Alaska... or Kentucky. They all know by now that in NY there are only some negro loving, homosexual, terrorist consorting, unamerican, elitist commie abortionists that conspire to destroy democracy and the American family.
All irony aside... did you notice Sarahs nipples getting harder when John said "dictate"?
He's so ridiculously lame it's a wonder he can get out of bed.
Can the STINKING CONs really hate the country enough to put us all through 4 years of these 2 total retards?
News just in that Senator McCain said "Barack Obama will say anything to win".
My response to that: AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! etc
Someone needs to say to Senator McCain. "I knew Senator McCain - and you're no Senator McCain, Senator McCain".
Please tell me that's a joke. McCain is a worm.
What are McCain and Palin going to do after they insult 3/4 of America? Anyone in Wash.DC, New York, large cities, anyone liberal or intelligent are anti-American, non patriotic, enemies of the state according to them. All are guilty except them. What will they do after they have lost and insulted the nation? I hope go to some dark spot and sulk.
Which does not at all make them "elitist" by the definition of "thinking you're better than anyone else" of course.
So McPalin thinks I live in fake America? I think I'm gonna go cry...tears of joy when Barack and Joe get the keys to the White House.
My favourite part is how she says "of course it's not geographic, and not 5 seconds later McCain says "I know where most of them live" These two are unbelievable.
Oh geez. Jon Stewart is going to go ballistic over this one. I can't wait.
This is why I have so much respect for Obama...we have been divided long enough ... if we do not hang together, we will surely hang separetly
he is the ONLY one who can unite us
here we have a guy that's been in DC for most of his adult life talking shit about it, then also talking shit about the actual capital of this country - NYC - as if there's something "strange" about these places.
yea, my nation's capital and the center for global commerce are very odd indeed..
I believe, that McCain was referring to his past, when he showed up with Cindy after unceremoniously dumping his first wife. The so-called 'Elite' apparently didn't like the way he treated the mother of his children (family values, anyone??) and apparently Cindy was not accepted on the cocktail circuit - that's why Cindy left DC. John, though, stayed. Happily, and more and more hungry for more and more power. A sad case really.
When you see John and Cindy together, you can tell that they really don't know/like/love that much about each other.
I'm not sure what Cindy's deal is....I kinda feel sorry for her...but then again.....she holds the purse strings, she can cut them at any time.
She reminds me of a typical example of a battered wife, no self esteem left whatsoever..... As I said...sad.
MCCAIN: Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. I know the town. I know -- I know what a lot of these elitists are. The ones that she never went to a cocktail party with in Georgetown. I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
I read that three times, and I still don't know what it means. What the heck is he talking about?
I have a feeling it's code that the people he's appealing to will get. People who have dark fantasies of what goes on in those cities where everyone stands around being snooty and plotting how they're going to force everyone into gay marriages and steal their money to give to people who ought to be working for a living.
SHHHH! You'll give it away!
;)
Is that there is no bigger cocktail party whore in DC than John McCain.
By their own descriptions, doesn't that make Palin a elitist. As far as opportunity and hope provided everyone equally, that's not something that Bush, Cheney, McCain, Palin, or any other reich wingers believe in. They don't believe in a living wage where everyone can have their basic needs met. They also don't care that Corporate America, and America's wealthiest are the reason why there isn't opportunity and hope for everyone equally. The economic predators on Wall Street who praise companies that slash their work forces so the CEO's, investors, shareholders can become wealthier are part of the reason there is so much poverty in America. McCain and Palin don't want to help America's working poor, or middle class. They want to continue a fascist environment of limitless greed.
Palin wants a America that is both fascist, and theocratic. She wouldn't defend the US Constitution, a Constitution that was written to protect freedom, and liberty for all. Instead she would poison, and taint the Constitution with religion. The religious extremists believe in death for Christian moderates, muslims, and nonbelievers alike. It is not the Jennifer Anistons of America who want to tell us how to live, it's the Sarah Palins.
MCCAIN: I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
I wonder who would be so presumptuous as to think they should "dictate what they believe to America"?
"I’m not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently."
- Presidential candidate John McCain, September 30, 2008, discussing the bailout
"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
- President-elect George Bush, December 18, 2000, after meeting with Congressional leaders
What a couple of pandering bitches!! (apologies to female dogs)
Thank gawd I'm not an elitist - I don't want to get taken out and "re-educated" should these two somehow take the white house in a couple of weeks!
Ya know... with the caribou... ya know... and the moose... ya know... gosh golly gee... everyone else... ya know... they pal around with terrorists ya know... and want to surrender to the Communists in Russia... ya know... I spoke with my pastor... ya know... Jesus is so gosh jolly great... ya know... He said... Sarah.. ya know... dawg gonit... be blessed and chase the witchcraft out of Washington... wouldn't ya know it dawg gonit... when I landed in Seattle... ya know... they had the biggest darn houses... gosh darn it... who would of guessed there were 2 Washingtons...
You had me on the floor reading this :-D
with McCain-Palin. Williams seemed to rattle little Ms Palin. She was visibly uncomfortable with his terrorism question and gives a long rambling answer. Both McCain and Palin seemed very nervous. Body language is so telling.
Love the tight little smiles they both have. They know they are done.
I sense a real tension between McCain and Palin. I think it is finally sinking in that she's a bit too mavericky even for him, and that she just sees him as a stepping stone to Palin 2012. And I don't think John likes it that Sarah is the superstar among their fans.
Her trouble is, she's trying so hard to impress everyone but hasn't yet realized, this not 8,000 people in Wassila she's trying to convince, it's 300 million and many have been "down the street" before.
Don't be surprised if she shows up in a cheerleaders outfit before its all over.
I worked with meth heads that talked like her...we called them "loquacious"...I think this is more along the lines of "word salad".
Though I doubt her word salad is from meth addiction....I think it stems from a mental disorder...my mother has severe bipolar disorder...and when she's off her meds...whoa...it's word salad to the Nth degree...And Palin does have someting goin on in that brain of hers...and it ain't right...those synapses are just misfiring all over the place.
Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a
manwoman of wealth and tasteIve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith.
I live in NYC- I am an elitist
Just went to a cocktail party,
It was held on the Subway ride
on my home from my 8-hour workday
at my elite church job
where I am not making enuf to pay my rent
or my phone bill...
The party was delightful
A man had spit up his soda
that I stepped in
and my boots got just a bit sticky.
I ran home from that elitist subway party
to get on a phone call because you see I
take a class at night to pay for my elite party ways
my 30 dollar shoes and maybe to replace the dress
that got a big old rip in it when I was
trying to wrestle a homeless man to the ground
He was not pulling up his boot straps and living traditional
small town values
By the way when I stand on the subway platform I can see
the skyline of Elite New York and the hole in the sky
where the twin towers once stood.
Thank you terrorists for not knocking down anything in the
real America.
So let me introduce myself I am Susie the Elitist
and I am really pissed off.
So honey I am getting out my lipstick, and unleashing my
barracuda because I have a bone to pick with someone.
I salute you.
These two knuckleheads are twits. An elite is a person or a limited group which is in the upper echelon of some category....wealth (like McCain and his wife), education (Obama), power (Bush family), athletic prowess (Michael Phelps), etc. An elite does not necessarily think he is better than others, at least not in the negative way implied by McCain; most "elites" don't think they can dictate to Americans what they should decide for themselves.
I'm sick of this term "elite." Hollywood elites; liberal elites; media elites; elites, elites, elites! Republics use it to describe Democrats, in particular, liberal Democrats.
If George Clooney is a "Hollywood elite," then why isn't Mel Gibson a "Hollywood elite?" Is it because Clooney is wealthy? Is it because he's an extraordinary actor highly sought after? Is it because he's been to Darfur and let the world know of the conditions there, and therefore, he has high moral character? No, it's because he is a liberal Democrat.
Like Ghostwolf says, McCain's definition makes Palin and even himself "elites." They think they can become President and Vice President and dictate to me how to live. It's pretty obvious that Palin, like Bush, believes that God annointed her; within the past few days, she has said that the election is "in God's hands." Since she and McCain think they're going to win, they think God is on their side. Isn't that the height of arrogance and elitism, to believe that God is on their side????
McCain did get one thing right.....Americans are deciding for themselves, and it appears as if they are deciding big time, who the next administration is going to be. Let's hope it actually turns out that way!
http://ugv.abcnews.go.com/player.aspx?id=6305372
I'm really tired of the New York City bashing from Republicans. A lot of them live here. If they can't stand being around us, go live in a frickin' trailer park.
Williams: So, tell me, Sarah, what's the definition of elitist in your mind?
InSane: Well, my friends, I think I know where elitists live----
Williams: I'm asking Sarah, Senator.
InSane: Who?
Williams: Sarah. Your running mate. She's sitting right next to you.
InSane: Okay, my friends.
Williams: Sarah?
Palin: What?
Williams: What's the definition of elitist in your mind?
Palin: In my what?
Williams: Your mind. Your head. How you think.
[pause]
Williams: What's your personal definition of elitist?
Palin: Oh! Well, it's basically anyone who thinks they're better than anyone else. I don't like that.
Williams: So, it has nothing to do with geography?
Palin: Shucks, no. Of course not. It's when you think yer better than someone else.
InSane: Like New Yorkers. Ew! And people in DC!
Williams: Um, okay, so, Sarah, do you think you're better than elitists?
Palin: Yes. I mean . . . wait. What?
Williams: Do you think you're better than elitists?
Palin: Well, I mean . . . if I say yes, then . . . so I can't . . . wait . . . Alaska . . . smuropfjiowphffffff.........erp......
[BOOM! Palin's head explodes all over InSane and Williams.]
InSane: Ack! What the hell happened?
Williams: Well, sir, I think that-----
InSane: Oh my god! You killed Sarah! You're a terrorist! Can someone come in here and fix my makeup? And put Sarah's head back together already! Sheesh!
Williams: Sir, I'm really sorry. I didn't think the question would-----
InSane: Whatever. It's happened before. We'll have her up and running in a bit.
does that make me one of the non-elitists? I also live in Pennsyl-tucky! I'm folksy!
during the interview. Or if his wife was waiting off camera in one of her $300,000+ outfits. "My friends, that's not elitist because . . . Joe the Plumber!"
McCain and Palin are the only two dip shits who in order to make a point denigrate and divide Americans. Those damn elitists in New York you know where 911 happened
The true definition an elitist is someone who lambastes an opponent for being an elitist while you own 10 homes and spend $150,000 on clothes in less then 2 months.
I guess the Republicans are all finished wrapping themselves in 9-11. They're going back to demonizing the people they've been exploiting for fear and sympathy, now that the whole 9-11 schtick doesn't work anymore.
How sickening.
ya everybody knows firefighters in NYC and Pentagon employees in D.C. are total elitist snooty types. scared of confrontation, weak, and nothing real Americans admire or aspire to emulate...
I think Palin's wackiness is starting to rub off on McCain.
... all McCain implied was that this is where the elitists live. He didn't say that everyone living there are elitists. Remember your Venn diagrams, people. Overlapping sets, and whatnot. We're blowing that part of the statement out of proportion.
Focus on what's important. There's no way McCain can win. He knows it, Palin knows it. The only way is to hype how 'close' the race is until the 5th, when the people pulling their strings have to decide if they're going to steal the election again.
Let's hope they decide to scrap the whole thing and try to reinvent themselves. Short term, it's the nation's (and world's) best option. Long term... we've got to make sure the plutocrats and economic Darwinists can never come back to power. And that's long-term.
Socialism is not anti-democracy, or anti-American. It's an alternative to capitalism. Look around the world. Some of the happiest, safest, and healthiest nations of the world are proudly socialist, and they're not former Soviet-bloc countries. Many are even democracies who take part in the global capitalist scheme. It's about treating people fairly. It's not "redistributing the wealth", as McCain snidely puts it. It's "redistributing the tax breaks" so that We the People get some, too.
This sounds exactly like McCain is describing the demagogues who lead his far-right base.
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