When playing chess, an important rule is that when your opponent makes a "blunder", or a mistake, you make the decision whether you can take advantage of it immediately and make significant gain (such as winning a piece), or if not, you must decide to continue on with setting out your pieces, and allow your opponent to sort out his own mess. In doing so, they usually lose some time and position.
The Blunder
Harvard University political scientist Theda Skocpol - also an elite, I guess! - provided Talking Points Memo with a following statement, which, in part, reads:
I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!...
This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start.
This is the problem with Clinton's current attacks. The way Obama handled the Bosnia lies and Clinton's gaffe-ridden campaign was tactful, but also a good move- he allowed the media to do their reporting, and didn't get involved. He didn't once mention those particular woes in his campaign.
Clinton's choice of trying to take advantage of Obama's "blunder" is, in itself, a blunder; one which may end up hurting her credibility more, as her lies are exposed and voters decide they really can't trust anything coming out of her mouth (well, the ones paying attention, as I still think that a majority of general election voters have not yet started caring- but that's a topic for a future diary).