Re: According to Obama

Minun olisi pitänyt tietää, olisi pitänyt tietää,
olisi pitänyt tietää KUKA SINÄ OLET, Jim Gysin:
On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:03:12 -0400, Trevor Zion Bauknight
<trev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Gysin wrote:

Most Americans of moderate intelligence (you know, the majority who
occupy that big, lumpy part of the bell curve) have real issues with
that sort of thing, and it goes without saying that it really chaps off
the truly dense ones--who still get to vote in spite of their genuine
stupidity.

Are you suggesting that there's a virulent strain of
anti-intellectualism running rampant in this country?

No, I'm saying that there might be a virulent disdain for intellectual
*elitism* developing in this country. Most folks in the belly of the
bell curve seem to handle genuinely smart people okay, especially if the
smart people are reasonably modest. Which, of course, leaves most
liberals out of the equation.

On top of that, most moderately intelligent types take issue when people
who really aren't that smart like to think otherwise and act like
blowhards. Folks like Gore and Kerry are called "posers" for a reason,
and it's directly related to my point the other day about them and Bush
having very similar college records. But the posers of the world would
have you believe that Gore and Kerry and their elk are like the sage
sitting at the top of the mountain, whereas Bush is "too stupid to be
president."

Gore and Kerry, at least on one issue, know who to listen to. Bush,
it turns out, is starting to agree with nearly everything they've
said, so he's smrat but really slow.

And it is this "take issue with" business that is going to perhaps cost
Obama in the general election if and when he wins the nomination.

Because every time
I say that, somebody shouts me down for being an elitist.

There does seem to be a direct correlation between degree of liberal
tendencies and elitism of the intellectual sort. And you *are* so far
down the spectrum that you're almost beyond the horizon, so...

There is a correlation between "wingnut conservative" and "saying
such stupid things that any reasonable intelligent people instinctively
act with disgust."

rich
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