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• Thursday, September 11, 2008 09:37 PM

  Tinwoman, it has very little to do with money

  So some guy canning beans in a trailer thinks that he needs a president who's "his kind of people". Excuse me, does he think the McCains are "his kind of people". Does he really?

  Yes, he does. Wealth has very little to do with it. It's hard for some to understand, but many people have a great, almost religious love, for country. To you, the Flag is a piece of cloth, not much more. To others, it's a symbol worth dying for. If you saw someone burning a Flag, I doubt your reaction would be the same as watching someone rape a child. That's the kind of gut reaction some attacks on patriotic symbols brings to many people. It's an attack on their soul.

  Can this dope with the beans marry a woman who buys $250,000 earrings? Is he the well connected son of an admiral? I think not.

  None of that matters. This "dope" would love to able to buy $250,000 earrings, and this "dope" understands that being the son of an admiral means you don't get to see your farther very much, because he's out defending the country.

  These people connect with McCain, because they want to be McCain. The don't want to be Obama. My guess you would love to be more like Obama.

  And why do we need a president who is the equivalent of some dope in a trailer in terms of both mentality and education? Well in that sense I guess McCain fits the bill--fifth from the bottom of his class and all.

  See, the constant mocking and tone only alienates those you need to vote for Obama. BTW, Biden was just as far down in his class.

  You value education, so use that, instead of mocking people and driving them away, understand that they dislike Obama because they can't see themselves as every being Obama and don't want to be.

  You don't want to be McCain, the same way you feel about Obama, many others feel about McCain.

  But really, it's about angry old white guys voting for other angry old white guys who are just as stupid as they are, and feeling resentful and vicious towards anybody who's done better in life in terms of being smart or well-educated, particularly if they are from a minority group.

  It's not anti-education, it's when people look down their noses at others that people turn on them.

  I guess what I'm trying to say is, people are suspicious of Obama's life experiences and extensive travel because such is out of reach for them, and they actively resent his success.

  It's not resentment, it's lack of connection. They don't relate to him and don't want to be him. They wouldn't care if McCain got a PHD, just as they didn't care that Bush had an MBA.

  Part of campaigning is presenting yourself in a matter to relate to the most people. Bush was good at this, despite his other obvious flaws. It was a facade, but so is Obama.

  Money is okay, but too much book learnin' is a bad thing. Now look at McCain. He got rich and managed to stay stupid, just like "regular folks".

  -- tinwoman

  No, too much you think you're better than others is the problem.

  —Xanthro Read Xanthro's other letters
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