Is it just me or is Bill Clinton looking increasingly like the the smug bastard son of Boris Yeltsin?
Except - I can’t remember - did Yeltsin ever treat both the press and the populace which such arrogant disdain? He may have. But then again, Yeltsin was a communist with Pravda behind him; he didn’t have to tell the truth or pretend to respect the intellects of his countrymen.
I should just perhaps be glad that the Clinton’s breathtaking disingenuity is finally becoming plain for others to see.
Speaking of disdain for the intellects of his country men, Obama has just blown new life into Hillary’s campaign by dissing Pennsylvania’s blue-collar middle class. Speaking to a group of mega-rich donors - you know, the sort who are “bouncing on fluffy pillows of honest-to-goodness wealth while shaking a rhetorical finger at us for daring to try to get comfortable on our foam rubber mats of hard-earned wages” - the rookie Obama “transcended racial bigotry” by indulging in the feel-good bigotry of “moral, economic and educational superiority” which seems to run rampant in some leftist quarters these days. Not that you read much about it.
Now, of course, they will tell us hapless rubes - if we can be persuaded to look up from quoting our bitter bibles and polishing our resentful gun racks - that what we heard ain’t what we heard at all. Instapundit is giving major linkage to the story here, here and here.
Two great candidates the Democrats have brought us this year, aren’t they? Don’t y’all forgit to vote fer your’n betters, now! They’ll learn ya an’ tell ya anythin’ you wants ta hear, an’ they’ll laff n laff if’n it gets too serious, an’ they’ll take care all yer needs, too! so you don’t never have to be lovin’ that old time religion anymores, cuz yer govimint will be yer god, and y’all will be her people.
And finally - why does Al Gore hate the press so much, when they so obediently do his bidding? Whoops.
Related: Civic Immaturity is the new sophistication
April 12th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Clearly we’re all a bunch of thankless wahoos who can’t appreciate the sage advice and leadership from our Democrat betters.
April 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I do NOT understand what is wrong with being a Bible-believing, God-fearing, gun toter.
If you’re Bible believing and God fearing, that means you’re self governing because you have to answer to God. Which means the government does NOT have to supervise your every move.
If you’re a gun toter, well, that just goes along with being self sufficient and independent. You take care of things yourself.
Maybe the bitterness in towns that have lost jobs and businesses isn’t that they’ve been lost, but that the government has made it so that they were lost with their taxes and strangulations . . . uh . . . regulations. Instead of businesses being allowed to plow their profits back into their businesses and people to hire, of course they shut down.
Maybe the bitterness is that they just want the government to leave them alone. And to be rid of snotty elitocrats like Obama and Hillary.
April 12th, 2008 at 11:46 am
A Clinton treat both the press and the populace with such arrogant disdain?
“HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!!!” she responded contemptuously, arrogantly refusing you the courtesy of an authentic and serious answer and derisively dismissing, not only the question, but you personally, as a joke unworthy of her consideration.
I never thought that I would take delight in reading left-leaning websites/blogs/etc., but to see the utter disgust that so many of them now have for the Clintons is an encouraging sight.
April 12th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Ahh this sounds familar. I think we heard this 4 years ago when the Press commented on all the rubes going to the Republican Convention in New York and all the article after the election about the idiots in Jesusland.
I am glad that Obama represents the some New and Hopeful and understands us all
April 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Sheer gold, lady.
April 12th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Yes, smug is the word that best describes both Democrats.
BTW, I own a shotgun and more than one bible and I have no intention of apologizing to anyone for it either.
Screw ‘em if they don’t like my white trash self.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Pardon me, dear Anchoress, but I do believe you just dissed Yeltsin!!! LOL
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