thanks...i like the forum format.

Rush "Druggie" Limpdick is a convicted drug offender felon. Period.

How compassionate of you.

What do they call it, there is a term for shaking hands and kissing babies. "Retail Politics". That's it. Bush Sr won because Dukakis was an idiot and a dufus. That's the only exception. Carter won because he reminded people that there was still a core of decency and tact in the nation that had gone buried for awhile.

I don't think most people knew that Clinton was a rhodes scholar. And for those who did know, they are the educated. Clinton was one of the best retail politicians ever, with a public mask that is dripping in working class values, but with a brain that is one of the most intellectual of all presidents.

This whole election in November is going to come down to those blue-collar voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. They tend to vote conservative over bullshit issues like "Obama will take away your guns" or "Obama likes gays", or "Obama isn't very religious and his pastor is a weirdo". That stuff unfortunately sticks with these people, just look at 2004. The working class voters who stuck with Bush twice have nothing to show for it but tripled gas prices and more federal employees now working to evict these people than to work out their mortgages.

I don't think you are not applying the word properly here in the comparison. An elite doctor has proven that they are among the best at what they do as does an elite athlete. In the case of politicians and Obama particularly, it means they think they know better than anyone else and the average Joe just doesn't know what is best for him. "He holds on to tight to his gun and religion to understand the real problems we are facing in America." That sounds elitist to me, I don't know about you.

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Spoken like a true condescending, out of touch liberal!

Has it occured to you that when people refer to the "elite" they are referring to a class of people who presume to know what is better for everyone else, and to understand other people better than they understand themselves, and who implicityly look down on them in the process?

Saying that wearing a flag pin is a SUBSTITUTE for "real" patriotism; people "cling" to their guns and religion out of bitterness. These statements were not only presumptious, but disdainful.

Then there is his wife, who has told us that: "we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."

Has it occured to you that they are disliked because they clearly look down upon those who are not as wonderful as they perceive themselves to be?

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----Denny Crane

Let's keep on topic folks, I have deleted a few posts and I don't want to come back.
Thank You

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Move along folks, nothing left to see hear, just the usual lib compassion and tolerance on display, boorish no matter their politics or personal views imho… cause you don't agree with the guys politics, you whack him like that?
I draw the line at beating up on someones afflictions, like alcoholism, etc. I guess its fair game in your view eh?...okey doke....

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Excellent summation Marcus!

Elitist.

Not elite.

Big difference.

Like the difference between race and racist.

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Yessir, I have the same amount of compassion for him that he's always shown to others.

And BTW:

Welcome to the forum!

Jason: You have been here for more than four years and have more than 3000 posts, and they always come down to the same thing:

• Americans are stupid;
  
• Americans are fools;
  
• the unwashed American masses don't deserve.....*fill in the blank with some left-wing politican or celebrity*
  
• only in America could...... *fill in the blank with some terrible thing*
  
• The same patronizing, world weary tone.
  
• The same tormented truth-teller routine.
  
• The same anguished prophet posture.

Ye gods, man, find a new shtick. This one is as old as the hills.

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Stick deep; in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety."

Macbeth 3:1

I would like to see you to prove that. Rush has never been convicted of drugs charges.

So Johnny K either you can prove your statement then correct yourself or be known for someone that use put false info out there just to attack someone you dont like and who makes liberals look like fools.

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So its now the rightwing who want someone to be convicted before they can be spoken bad about...Do I really need to bring up old OJ threads? The door swings both ways. Dont stand in the way or it bangs off your forehead.

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Can you show me where I have posted anything about OJ?

And talk about hypocrisy....didnt you liberals have Delay guilty before the first hearing?

That must be a hell of a knot on YOUR forehead.

BTW, no has yet posted anything showing where Rush was convicted felon as Johnny K posted. If you are going to spout off at least bring the facts with you.

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