you've got to understand that "class" is not income-level. class is a semiotic system. it's affect, diction, alma mater, what you drink. it's how your house is decorated, no matter how big it is. it's hair style, musical preferences. those are the ways that sarah palin is wrong and barack obama is right, even though they both emerged from "humble beginnings." she just signs wrong, and what the hostility really shows is a very familiar liberal death-knell: we are supposedly in this to help people like you. but we despise people like you, from your head to your toes, coiffure to pedicure. we will help you if you put us where we ought to be: in charge of your life. but the idea that you could have power over us is not only scary and strange, it's some kind of cosmic misapprehension. it's on its face absurd and incomprehensible. this, boys and girls, is how you keep losing elections, and it's the way you'll chuck this one. if you had killed her with kindness, perhaps with just a hint of condescension, you could have won.

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[mr.fun]

"but we despise people like you, from your head to your toes, coiffure to pedicure. we will help you if you put us where we ought to be: in charge of your life. but the idea that you could have power over us is not only scary and strange, it's some kind of cosmic misapprehension. it's on its face absurd and incomprehensible."

and this is exactly why I love it. lib ridicule is failed ridicule; Palin's rings more true, and will get them elected. also, this is why Lisa makes me want to vote Repub. you'll also note that this is why Dubya Bush is ridiculed as a failed Elite: he went to Harvard and Yale, failed at business and life, lived the life of a failed Elite: he was and is a joke, and is the butt of jokes, but he's also a class clown. . .Obama, on the other hand, is a successful Elite project. he is a liberal apotheosis.

gawd I loves me some America.

[SillyWilly]

Fuckin' *nailed* it, C.