Too funny:
Link?
That is funny, though. I’m starting to wonder if ‘elitist’ is the new ‘uppity’.
The full article by Lynn Forester De Rothschild is here.
I suspect that she’s right – there’s a problem in perception here, in spite of the reality, and Obama’s campaign needs to turn it around.
There’s also a problem with people thinking that a President of the US should not be a member of the elite. An ordinary guy really would not be up to the job.
I started a whole Pit thread about that. No one disagreed with me.
No, “elitist” is the new “smarter than us”, ie. is actually able to answer questions, rather than referring them to his spokespeople.
Here’s another link. My favorite excerpt:
… where the kingmakers of today identify the world leaders of tomorrow.
Where does Skull& Bones fit into all of this?
It doesn’t. The Bilderbergs are all grown-ups - CEOs, Prime Ministers, Treasury Secretaries, Members of Parliament, Congressmen, etc.
Crazy right-wing fringe groups think it’s a secret Jewish cabal that runs the world, but it’s really just a sort of meet-and-greet for the rich and powerful and the soon-to-be rich and powerful.
It’s where the people you’ll be working for or voting for tomorrow are vetted by the people who you work for and vote for today, essentially.
ETA: You can read a lot about Bilderberg in the last few chapters of Jon Ronson’s Them, and in biographies of Prince Bernhardt of Holland… and pretty much nowhere else. There’s very little literature about them.
You’re still off.
It’s a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there’s a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
This Pentavirate consists of The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face. “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!”
You know The Colonel puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly!
with apologies to Mike Myers
Does anyone in this thread realize she is a member of the DNC. This is a big defection. :smack:
OMG! You’re right! I think I’ll vote for John McShame now. NO ONE in the DNC can ever be an idiot or an asshole, so she must be right.
Oh wait, there are hundreds more who haven’t “defected” using retarded excuses about elitism.
Nevermind. I think I’ll stick with the rest of them. Thanks anyway.
She’s not defecting. She’s just not supporting Obama. Personally, I doubt most of middle America will care about the opinion of some lady who they’ve never heard of and is for all intents and purposes a British subject anyway.
That’s what all this “elitist” looks like to me as well. It seems that coming across as intelligent and knowledgeable is a negative in the US presidential election. Slimy and evasive seems to work wonders.
Very worrying and quite alien from my POV. The smarter the operator the better in this part of the world.
Not getting why this is funny. The author makes a point about perceptions, which is either correct or it is not.
The fact that she would be perceived as “elite” herself doesn’t detract from it, does it? Presumably, she knows “elite” when she sees it. 
From an outside perspective it seems that few things are dearer to America’s heart the pretense that you are wrong.
Perceptions about dependability are more important to most American voters than perceptions about competence.
Elitist seems to mean “couldn’t have happened to me”.
John McCain is a good-ole-boy who got lucky and joined the elite by marrying a heiress. Comparing your own life to that of McCain is like comparing yourself to a lottery winner. “I could have had that life, I’m just not lucky. It’s not me, it’s my pesky luck.” (This is, of course, a good part of the Sarah Palin phenomenon. She’s just another perky hockey mom. Could have been me, we’re so alike.)
Obama, on the other hand, has drive and brains and got to where he is by applying both pretty tirelessly - as well as being very lucky in the choices that others made for him, obviously. But to a lot of people he’s a walking, talking reminder of the chances they didn’t take, the efforts they didn’t make and the talents they don’t possess. A lot of people had a huge head start on Obama, yet failed to achieve anything near what he’s done.
That, as far as I can tell, is what that clever code word “elitist” means.
I assumed this was an Onion story and went to that site straight away, only to be amazed I could not find it.
He’s not really a good ole boy. That would imply that he’s Southern, which he’s definitely not. Plus, his dad was a four-star admiral, so it’s not as though he was deprived prior to marrying his current wife.