Patronizing about the alleged Patronizing

As some of you know, Barack Obama said something that has led Hillary Clinton and John McCain to call him an elitist.

Obama had the temerity to something true about the justifiable resentments that the poor and middle class blue coller folks possess...because every four years politicians and the media rediscover they exist and, to the media's eye, wish to be patronized.

Yes, the mixed-race child of a single mother who became a community organizer and got into Harvard the hard way -- via scholarship, is the elitist.

Not the woman from a prominent Chicago family who went to Yale. And who has made nine-figures the last seven years.

Nothing is better than a more elitist than thou argument wherein a Yale alum calls out a Harvard alum. I only hope those slumming at Princeton can get out of bed in the morning.

Good thing I was blessed with paying tuition at a state university.

And then there's the other guy, the guy who employs the tassled-loafer lobbyist army praising his obtuse straight-talk. The kind of regular guy who divorced his injured and long-suffering first wife to marry a rich-beer heiress. The guy who had to sign a pre-nup -- something only the truly non-elite do. The guy who still won't release his tax returns.

The working class of Pennsylvania (and other places) are re-discovered every four years by the national media, who don't know shit about any of them but have a preconceived notion about them. They talk about the economy and its effect upon them for one week, but the other 3 years 11 months they only discussion of the economy in our national media is Wall Street, interrupted by brief dollops of the Asian and European Markets.

I really hate the discourse of this country.

Just wait until non-elitist Yale grad Bush bombs Iran in a few months.