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Oh, and if anyone wants to read something smart, insightful, and meaningful about "Bittergate," can I suggest Sherman Yellen's "Confessions of an Elitist."
http://tiny.cc/wDlhl
Says Yellen:
But what I don't have this week is patience with those who have come down hard on Barack Obama by calling him an elitist (read: snob) for making a clumsy but rational and compassionate statement about those people who cannot escape the crushing misfortune of unemployment with its debt and despair; a statement of concern for people who lack health care, and who are forced to live by the first rule of George Bush's America which states, "get rich quick or get out of sight and die quietly."
And, as Yellen concludes:
If elitist means that you were against the Iraq war from the start because you were informed enough to see the horror ahead, then I am an elitist, as were so many in this country, particularly Obama.
