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To: mistermj who wrote (245464)	4/12/2008 12:21:33 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793662

I just can't figure it out. I think most people have plenty of respect for Obama's intellect and talents as a politician. But then he comes out and says something like that? If it's arrogance...it's on a scale we do not yet understand. I understand. I grew up in Princeton and have lived next door to Cambridge, Mass. So I have experience in two quintessentially liberal university towns. Obama simply expressed some of academia's native prejudices against badly educated small town/rural working stiffs. The inability of an uneducated man to roll with life's punches without resorting to illiberal scapegoating is something of an article of faith among the well-educated upper middle class. How else to explain their stubborn adherence to guns, religion, the Republican Party, etc? You could say this stuff in Princeton any day of the week and nobody would bat an eyelash.