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JMDEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:05 AM
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Attention Obama Rapid Response Team!
Any of you lurking here? Anyone know how to contact them?

Make this ad in a hurry:

Hillary calling Obama an "elitist".

Hillary telling O'Reilly "God Bless us rich people".

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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:07 AM
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1. Elitist/Elitism has nothing to do with money, it's an attitude.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:11 AM
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2. Hillary's attitude IS elitist
"We dont need them Bill, screw 'em!"
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:37 AM
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15. Again, that's a completely different context. You know that.
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JMDEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:11 AM
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3. Sorry, you're right
That's why I don't hang out with poor people and welfare cases. They all act so friggin' elitist.

LOL!!!!
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:17 AM
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5. Funny isn't it JMDEM,it's only about attitude WTF
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:36 AM
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13. You can be a poor grad student at Yale with student loans up the wazoo
and still be an elitist.
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:16 AM
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4. Do some research It's used both ways
It's been a rightwing tool against Liberals and its total BS. Start with do gooders by Ronald Reagan,do a little research and get back with us
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:18 AM
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6. Bingo, I have told them that many times.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:21 AM
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7. eg that attitude behind 'God bless us rich people' or even 'God blessed us'...
yeah, you're rich because god thinks you're special. Right. I seem to remember some bit in the gospel about 'it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.'
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:35 AM
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10. Anyone viewing that honestly would see that she was being self deprecating.
It is Easier for a camel/needle . . .than a rich man to enter heaven . . .but it is not Impossible (inferred). Setting all hypothetical word definitions aside, When Jesus is first questioned by the young rich man, his first response is only (paraphrased) "You know of the commandments, adhere to them and you will find heaven". If the rich man had left at this point, it could be inferred that wealth is not an obstacle to paradise. It is only when the rich man approaches Jesus a second time and asks again (paraphrased) "I have done these things since my youth, Is there nothing more I can do to ensure my place in heaven ?", that Jesus tells him to give up his wealth. If the rich man was performing for his watching friends and trying to extend his contact with Jesus, then the additional requirements to dispose of wealth, could be considered a punative action directed more toward the rich man's insolance, than to his wealthy status. Otherwise, giving up wealth, would have been the first answer. Jesus did not say, "your wealth shows that you covet possessions, and you risk tresspass of that commandment." At this point, one must consider that Jesus was teaching his followers at the expense of the rich man.

Along with the eye of the needle analogy, Jesus says "by man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." This statement, when considered along with the lesson "Render to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, and give to God, what is God's", shows that Jesus believed a clear separation of secular honestly earned material wealth and non-secular Mosaic Law could co-exist. And that the focus of this parable may be that the more wealth you have, the more honest you must strive to be.
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JMDEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:44 AM
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17. Any Hillary supporter looking through coke bottles, that is. NT.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:38 AM
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16. He's a Constitutional scholar -
She busted labor organization at WalMart...

So yeah, he is kind of an elitist, isn't he??
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:30 AM
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8. "God BLESSED us rich people". IS THE CORRECT QUOTE
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:33 AM
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9. stop lying
i heard it and she clearly says"rich people god BLESS us"
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:37 AM
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14. If that's true, to me it's worse.
God doesn't make people rich, human institutions do. Does she believe in a divine right of wealth?

Anyway, it doesn't matter. One reason the uneducated and poor vote for her is that they buy her shtick of being one of them. Here's her admitting she isn't. No amount of parsing will change that as this grows legs.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:45 AM
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19. I was shocked when I heard her say that...
The words rolled off of her tongue so easily.

Please don't have her answer any phone at 2 AM or anytime...please.
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:53 AM
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21. You are not telling the truth
She clearly said "Well, you know, rich people-- GOD BLESS US, we deserve all the opportunities...to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation."

Though I think, in the larger context of the interview, it is important to note that she was arguing for taking more money from the rich, I think it is also revelatory of her sense of her own identity (one of the elite). I suppose one can be one of the elite without being "elitist," but is that the case here?
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:35 AM
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11. 4000 hits to 27,000 since I posted this thread
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:45 AM
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18. That's pretty cool, that link works for everyone. Hadn't thought of that.
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:53 AM
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20. Come again?
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:59 AM
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22. Like this-
click here
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Jed Dilligan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:00 AM
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23. You're creeping me out.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 12:36 AM
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12. Oh yeah, that's really gonna work
:crazy:
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Two Americas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-02-08 01:52 AM
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24. call out the posse!!!
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