Note: This began as a comment on another diary, but thought I'd bump it up to a diary of its own. Here goes--
I have a grad degree but don't like arugula a or lattes either. And I take black coffee with my orange juice.
I can't figure it out. Does that make me just half an elitist? Or maybe 3/4?
Seriously, I never quite figured out what makes somebody an elitist...it seems like attending a classy university on scholarship, even if you're half black and raised by a single mom, makes you an elitist?
One thing is clear--both Hillary and Obama are members of an elite by several measures: education, wealth, rank (both US senators), fame, earning potential, communications skills. You name it, they are at or near the top.
In my opinion, what makes somebody an elitist is to believe that only the elites, or only one's own particular elites, matter. By that measure, Bush is clearly an elitist, but Obama, IMHO, is not and never was...
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