Headlines: Obama fights perception he is an elitist vs. McCain backs off gov't waste as cause of bridge collapse
Okay. This is my first post to DKOS. I would like to comment on two items from headline news:
- Obama fights perception that he is an elitist.
So how is Obama an elitist? He is the son of a former goat herder from Kenya. His mother raised him as a single parent when dad blew the coup. (I guess dad had to get back to his goats.) And we all know that Barack eventually graduated from Harvard, Magna Cum Laude, but he did it with his intellect and abilities; more of an achievement of brains than money, unlike GWB's coronation at Yale (yes, you can graduate and become president with a C average when your daddy has deep pockets and owns the Supreme Court). I have looked over the financial disclosures of the all primary candidates: Barack and Michelle are certainly not hurting, but they are by no means rich, especially since both of them are attorneys. But if your specialty is fighting for the rights of working class people, the rewards are not the same as representing Chevron or Exxon. I find nothing elitist about Barack Obama, he is the closest thing that we have had to a real people's candidate for decades. The label of elitist to Barack Obama is the silliest thing I have ever heard in a long time; media BS. He is an intelligent, passionate candidate who can bring about the real, significant change that this country so desperately needs.
- McCain backs off gov't waste as cause of bridge collapse.
John McCain is total a__hole. And talk about a flip flopper. Now that he is the Republican candidate and wants to suck up to the conservatives and Evangelicals, he has suddenly abandoned everything he ever stood for. What kind of a maverick is that? He now supports Bush's tax cuts, the same ones he voted against. He now condones torture. Does that mean he enjoyed the years of abuse in North Vietnam. Has he suddenly turned into a masochist? Hit me again big boy? And he accepted the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee who thinks that Hurricane Catrina was God's revenge for homosexual activity? Who wants insane wackos like this in power? Certainly not me. Yet the media has barely uttered a whisper on this, after all McCain is their golden boy. They are more concerned that maybe one of hairs on Obama's head might stray too far to the left. McCain suggesting that it is the spending habits of Congress that led to the bridge collapse in Minnesota is ridiculous when you look at how much money we have wasted on an unnecessary war in Iraq. And McCain, the war monger wants another 100 years of this? The country will be bankrupt long before that.