Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The New Liberal Aristocracy; Modern elitists are past masters at preaching one thing and practicing another.

Victor Davis Hanson   "Class warrior Barack Obama spent his winter break in a ritzy rental on a Hawaiian beach. It cost the taxpayers $7 (or is it $20?) million to jet him and his entourage 6,000 miles for their tropical vacation. But whether the first family escapes to Hawaii or Martha’s Vineyard or Costa del Sol, the image of a 1 percent lifestyle seems a bit at odds with the president’s professed disdain for “millionaires and billionaires,” “fat cats,” and “corporate-jet owners” who supposedly can afford such tony retreats only because they have done something suspect."
...."Senator John Kerry, who will soon become secretary of state, is a tireless advocate of higher taxes while enjoying his multimillionaire wife’s multiple estates."
...."What explains the hypocrisy of the new liberal aristocracy?"
"....But penance plays a role as well. For the overpaid and pampered Hollywood movie star, calling for raising taxes, banning guns, ending global warming, and legalizing gay marriage means never having to feel too bad about living on the beach and making, under our capitalist system, more money in a month than do many Americans in a lifetime." (Emphasis added)

Uh-oh. Looks like I'm in trouble for the previous post! Article calls Obama ‘aloof’; Libs scramble to put aloof in Handbook of Racial Code Words. Well, one lib anyway. But after this remark gets forwarded around more, we'll see if Chris Matthews rants about it. Here's the tweet:                       
@NPRinskeep @ron_fournier really? Not republican intransigence and ideological rigidity but President Obama is aloof? Code for uppity?
And here is the article being tweeted about by the low-information tweeter. Read the article yourself and show me one sentence that can be construed in any way to be racial:


The Perils of Being Aloof; Willingness to Schmooze Can Make the Difference Between a Good and Great Presidency.
"At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?"
Did you read it? Go ahead, I'll wait here for you. After all, we don't want you to be another of the low-information people, do we?
Picture at right from Obama cartoons

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