From the ever-marvelous Joel Achenbach:
There
isn't one pundit in America — not one human being, for that matter —
who could have predicted that a black man would run for president in
2008 and would wind up being called an arugula-eating, passionless
elitist who doesn't know what it's like to be a plumber. We live in
mysterious times.
isn't one pundit in America — not one human being, for that matter —
who could have predicted that a black man would run for president in
2008 and would wind up being called an arugula-eating, passionless
elitist who doesn't know what it's like to be a plumber. We live in
mysterious times.
Achenbach ignores all the other mud thrown at Obama — terrorist, socialist, defeatist, etc. — but his point stands. It's worse to be an elitist today in public life than it is to be a black man. Guess you call that progress.
Kit Stolz 