Tuesday, April 15, 2008
WHERE THE ELITE MEET TO EAT
There used to be a radio show called Duffy's Tavern featuring a bar stool philosopher named Archie.
He opened with a monologue on the telephone: "Hello, Duffy's Tavern, Duffy ain't here, this is Archie" and it would be Duffy himself on the phone and hence the report of the day.
That just to explain the title.
You don't hear the term 'elitist' much any more but Hillary fished it out of the demagoguery tank and here it is.
Obama is an 'elitist'.
Is that like being a "liberal"?
The funny thing about all this talk is that I suspect that the bitter little small town people don't give a shit about any of this and it is just targeted to other really elite elitists, the superdelegates, whose faith in Obama might be shaken by his unelectability. If any.
This is an old Rovian trick. Take your own vulnerability, in this case Hillary's unelectability, and try to hang it on the opponent.
Come on.
We are all elitists here.
Bill Clinton himself said the same about small town people.
The other thing is the thing that Obama cannot say and that is that in small economically threatened towns the likelihood that a black man will get votes is much lower.
There are some really racist pockets in Pennsylvania. Well, anywhere, but the Keystone State has a lot more than the average.
Like the small town I came from.
We had one black family in that town. They lived at the railroad tracks.
There were black workers at the resorts, dishwashers and bellhops and the like. All transients.
Not one black kid in my school.
The high water mark of the Civil War was in Pennsylvania and not everyone in the state were fighting for the northern side.
And so on.
It is a side issue but one that seems to have legs.
Too bad he said it and too bad it has come to this kind of bullshit campaigning.
