Monday, May 05, 2008

Election HooHa

Thought this was funny...

Clinton (Primary) Death Watch

Does Educated = Elite = Bad?

'What I've proposed is that the oil companies pay the gas tax instead of consumers and drivers this summer," Clinton said on ABC's This Week.


When asked to name an economist who supports her proposal, Clinton said, "I'm not going to put my lot in with economists. … We've got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans."



So if I'm reading this correctly, we shouldn't trust the (educated) experts opinion because they're elitist and don't understand the average U.S. Citizen. Can we apply the same logic to Senator Clinton herself? She as a law degree from Yale after all.

This last Sunday I really enjoyed this Opinion piece in the Chronicle.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We in san diego hold our politicians to a somewhat lower standard than the rest of the country.

http://tinyurl.com/5xv2bv

You might enjoy the review of Mike Taibbi's book "The Great Derangement" over on dKos. Not really addressing the economics of vote price as the general animosity's of politicians towards the voters.

http://tinyurl.com/3qg5ka

Quoted from the book:
Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs. The driving motivation of all Washington politicians is to quell or deflect that power, and this is visible even in such a terrible, immediate emergency as the Iraq war, when one would think that some kind of civic instinct would kick in, for five minutes or so at least. But no: instead, a newly conquering congressional majority armed with a fresh mandate essentially spent its first year in office trying to stay on the right side of public anger while maintaining business as usual; it was very plain that the party viewed its end-the-war mandate as a burden, not a privilege.

When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that’s when the real weirdness begins.

Anonymous said...

Hilary cancels her morning show appearances.

http://tinyurl.com/5j2fcr

Go Barry, Go!