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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Little Joe who wrote (38000)10/14/2008 1:50:16 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Republicans tend to think of dems as uneducated, unproductive, lazy schemers, rather than as elitists. There is a divde on both sides that is the result of stereo-typing and the bitter nature of politics.

But only one side, that I have seen, consistently uses "intellectual" as an insult, and promotes a lack of education as almost a good thing since it gives more commonality with "Joe Sixpack".
I haven't seen deliberate pandering to uneducated stereotype from Obama, nor really from Biden: possibly it hasn't been publicised but it wouldn't fit their image to use.

In the UK "elitist" was more a sneer by the extreme PC left, use to deride things like opera or hard science which are not immediately accessible to everyone regardless of how little they think. I've not noticed it much this time, occasionally directed against Obama but it seems only to emphasise his dignity: but it was used against Kerry a lot in 2004.
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