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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (2776)	4/22/2008 8:10:00 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

I think neither of us should have been as insulting as evidenced by our postings. Yes, there are elitists everywhere. As I explained to Kenneth previously it isn't your bank account that makes you an elitist, it is attitude and personality.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (2776)	4/22/2008 12:39:01 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

What is Obama's biggest general-election vulnerability? 3. Controversies over the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama's comments about why small-town Americans are "bitter" and "cling" to religion and guns, and the candidate's liberal policy views have created a mixture that gives Republicans hope that they can portray Obama as out of touch with heartland America. One Republican described Obama's weakness as elitism. Another called it an "out-of-the-mainstream view of the world," and a third described his problem as a liberal-cultural disconnect of the kind that hurt John Kerry and Michael Dukakis in their elections. Democrats put these controversies in class terms. They say Obama can gird himself against Republican attacks only if he connects with working-class voters with a strong economic message. "Unfortunately," wrote one Democrat, "hope will not trump the deepening recession as we go into the fall." That's why Democratic strategists will be looking at Obama's performance in Pennsylvania. "If the returns from cities like Erie and Cresson indicate he still hasn't closed the sale with blue-collar voters, that would be a huge vulnerability for him," wrote Rick Sloan, communications director for the International Association of Machinists, which has endorsed Clinton.