The press is
wetting its collective pants over
Palin's $150,000 wardrobe. Oh no! She's not "one of us"
anymore!
Here's a hint, jackasses.
Neither of the, you know, actual
presidential candidates are "one of us". McCain's been in
the senate for
twenty years. Obama's a college graduate, a
senator, and a published author. Biden's been in the Senate
longer than McCain, (since 1973) and Palin herself, lest
we forget, has attended four colleges, is the governor of Alaska,
and a
beauty queen.
Do any of these people sound average to you?
Q: Uhh...
A: The answer is
no, no they are
not.
This recent hysteria about "elitism" is incomprehensible stupidity.
These people
are the elite, because the job of President
requires extraordinary powers of judgment and competence. These
people have to be the best, because if they are not the best people
will die. Just as people have died as a result of electing the
last average guy.
It is also worthy of note that the campaign spent $150k on clothing
because if Palin had gone up on stage in her moose-huntin' duds she
wouldn't have been viewed as professional. Respectable.
Electable. The campaign has been walking a narrow line
with this "one of us" doubletalk, and here they have stumbled.
Their rhetoric has conflicted with their image engineering, (which,
believe me, is necessary) and now they have to try and spin it so
they don't sound like two-faced lying sons of bitches.
Also note how useful the elitism non-issue has been for the McCain
campaign. They, of course, say nothing at all about how his race
affects his suitability for presidency. The pundits do that for
them. But they do play up his inexperience, and also harp on his
"elitism". They get him coming and going! Presumably the next phase
will be to blast him on how
average he is.