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The rubes and the elites
By calling small-town Americans "bitter," Obama has deepened a long-standing rift in the Democratic base. The party's success in November depends on healing it.
By Michael Lind [2008-04-15]

  • The Catch-22 of the scholarship student

    We have, in Barack Obama, the true obstacle to upward mobility in the United States: the fact that no one really _wants_ to see anyone else rise above the circumstances of his birth.

    Hillary Clinton gets to pretend to be a woman of the people despite her Park Ridge-Wellesley-Yale background; Barack Obama, the scholarship kid, appears to have learned to blend in a little too well.

    Elitist? Compared to what? The Obamas still do their own grocery shopping. When was the last time the Clintons did?

    -- ECLamb65
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    Tuesday, April 15, 2008 04:34 AM
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