Clinton is the true elitist.

[Drunken Irishman]

She speaks down to the voters, as if they are stupid. That's what true elitists do, they act as if they're smarter than the voter and tell them they're too stupid to understand what's going on. Clinton says voters aren't angry and bitter, they're hardworking. Well you can be hardworking and angry at the same time. My father made door and window frames for a living until he was laid off because the plant decided to move out of state after the workers tried to unionize. You don't think he was bitter and angry? Damn right he was and he doesn't need someone like Clinton, who hasn't had to live the life of a working class citizen, tell him he's not angry at the economic prospects of this country.

Hell, my family was below working class, we were dirt poor at times growing up. It was tough and my parents were fighters, but they also were angry and bitter over Reaganomics and what it was doing to poor and working class Americans. And while my parents continued to support Democratic causes, many in our neighborhood gave up. They gave up on voting economic issues because they realized neither party offered the solutions needed to fix middle America. So they decided to vote on other issues and since most were socially conservative, they backed Republicans. Ya' know what, that's how Reagan Democrats were born, because the Democrats offered only false promises and working class voters weren't going to support the elitists, the men who talked down to them like they were stupid. Well that's exactly what Hillary Clinton is doing right now. She's telling working class people everything is alright, she's pumping that bullshit sunshine up their ass, but they're not going to buy it. They're not going to buy it because for the past 30 years they've lived a life Hillary can't even remotely connect with. They've had to struggle finding jobs that pay less and force you to work more. They've struggled with bills and finances to the point where they have just enough to get by. And some aren't even that lucky. Then she has the audacity to suggest they aren't angry and they aren't fed-up with the government? What country is she living in? Is she going to suggest next their anger is misdirected and they need to realize it's their own fault if they're bitter and angry? Where the hell have we heard that one before? Oh yeah, every Republican candidate since Reagan.

In the immortal words of Howard Beale, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

We're all mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. Obama gets it. He gets that this country is angry and bitter over what we've become. That's why he's winning, because people are tired of the same lies and empty promises that have plagued campaigns for years. Telling someone over and over again that their jobs will return, only to support and sign trade agreements that ship them off to other countries is going piss off many people and many of them are going to be bitter. Bitter that their government lied to them. Bitter that their government really isn't going to do anything to fix the problems that face every community in the industrial heavy states. And Clinton will talk down to these voters by telling them those feelings are wrong, that they're not bitter, that life is good and everything is fine. Well I'm not buying it and I think voters across this nation aren't going to buy it, either. They've seen what this mindset has done over the years and because of that, they are mad as hell over it.

[AtomicKitten]

1. Word.

:thumbsup:

[leftofcool]

2. I am sorry you grew up in bitterness

and sorrier still that you are bitter today. It sounds like life has not been good to you.

[Yael]

3. 4 more years!!

:woohoo:

You really need new material.

[tridim]

4. Damn you're a rude sob

Do you get off on it or something?

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Yup.

It sucks. It sucked watching my parents go without for my brother and I could have just enough throughout our childhood. Life isn't always bad, but to suggest people aren't angry and bitter over what this country has become is Republican-style ignorance. Many of these people don't want much, just enough to get by. Enough to live a quiet, hardworking life where they don't have to worry about losing their jobs. But for the past 30-years, that has dogged many citizens throughout communities across this country. And when they do lose their jobs, they have a whole host of new problems, like where they're going to get the money to pay the mortgage, or their children's college, while also juggling food and bills. They have to worry about finding a new job that pays enough and that often isn't easy, not in the 21st Century economy. So many leave these towns, move to the city in hopes of working at a call center, just to get by. They earned the right to be angry and they don't need a candidate telling them everything is fine. Because it isn't.

[VolcanoJen]

8. You've got yours, apparently.

I have a feeling that you may have found yourself in the wrong party. That sounds like something my coworkers from Upper Wingnuttia would say.

[azmouse]

9. Gobama!

[catgirl]

13. Another snide remark from you

of course. That's all you seem to have.

[Pavarotti]

6. Neither Obama not Clinton are elitists

And we know it, but we call each other elitists because we are in a contested primary, and we are angry.

[cbayer]

7. Very nicely said, Pavarotti.

Welcome to DU. Be forewarned, it's not easy to be bi-candidate here.
:hi:

[keep_it_real]

10. I am indeed, hard working angry and bitter at the TRILLIONs of

Dollars being spent on a war that should never have been started and all that TRILLIONS of dollars that could have been spent on American health care, education, building the infrastructures, schools and hospitals, etc.

We should all stand up a a Obama rally and say "I'm angry as hell and yes BITTER and I'm not gonna take it any longer."

[1776Forever]

11. Irishman - thought you might like to see this - developing story on the blogger that wrote the crap

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5471473&mesg_id=5471845

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Thanks for that.

I seriously doubt it's an Obama supporter. If it had been, she would've abided by the rules which said NO RECORDING ALLOWED.

[depakid]

14. Sorrry, but Obama DOES act condescending at times

he also looks the part at times.

The whole deal with his criticism of the Alito filibuster was about as arrogant and condescending, actually- INSULTING as anything I've heard from a Democrat over the past several years.

Particularly since it came from someone who's taught constitutional law, and knew better than most what the stakes were, yet chose not to rally the troops in the fight, but rather criticize those who'd been in office for a whole lot longer than he had- and who didn't get there by running against the likes of Alan Keyes.