Comments on: What deep pockets say http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/ Technology, politics, culture Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:39:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NotMajella77 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/comment-page-1/#comment-3129 NotMajella77 Mon, 12 May 2008 06:28:46 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/#comment-3129 It is indeed a sick twist of irony for the Clintons (pick your poison) to be considered more appealing to middle-America. Perhaps if she wins she can bring back the items she stole from the White House 8 years ago. The one thing that I predict will hold Obama back in this regard is his wife, who, by all accounts, truly seems to regard herself and her husband as being above all others. As a tangent, his association with Mr. Wright speaks to this also. It is indeed a sick twist of irony for the Clintons (pick your poison) to be considered more appealing to middle-America. Perhaps if she wins she can bring back the items she stole from the White House 8 years ago.

The one thing that I predict will hold Obama back in this regard is his wife, who, by all accounts, truly seems to regard herself and her husband as being above all others.

As a tangent, his association with Mr. Wright speaks to this also.

]]> By: Steve Michel http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/comment-page-1/#comment-3062 Steve Michel Thu, 08 May 2008 23:26:57 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/#comment-3062 Don't forget the candidate who has 8 houses! Don’t forget the candidate who has 8 houses!

]]> By: Sam Penrose http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Sam Penrose Thu, 08 May 2008 17:55:49 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/#comment-3060 There's a lot to unpack here, and lord knows the campaign coverage has been horrid as usual, but I think this particular point is not quite what you're making it out to be. Obama really does appeal to the real socioeconomic groups often labelled as "liberal elites" -- coastal, overeducated, socially very liberal, diverse in acquaintances -- and Clinton really does appeal more to the group labelled as "real Americans" or "the Heartland": non-coastal, moderate, older, Protestant. It is outrageous that the media consider my gay African-American atheist attorney friend who voted for Obama from San Francisco "less American" than my white Lutheran inlaws from small-town Texas who voted for Clinton, but the problem is the characterization of THEM, not of the basically accurate assesment of who they voted for. There’s a lot to unpack here, and lord knows the campaign coverage has been horrid as usual, but I think this particular point is not quite what you’re making it out to be. Obama really does appeal to the real socioeconomic groups often labelled as “liberal elites” — coastal, overeducated, socially very liberal, diverse in acquaintances — and Clinton really does appeal more to the group labelled as “real Americans” or “the Heartland”: non-coastal, moderate, older, Protestant. It is outrageous that the media consider my gay African-American atheist attorney friend who voted for Obama from San Francisco “less American” than my white Lutheran inlaws from small-town Texas who voted for Clinton, but the problem is the characterization of THEM, not of the basically accurate assesment of who they voted for.

]]> By: Scott Rosenberg http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/comment-page-1/#comment-3048 Scott Rosenberg Thu, 08 May 2008 01:43:28 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/#comment-3048 Anyone who is in the US Senate is very much a part of the ruling class. I'm with you on that. ("Snob" to me means something else entirely.) But only one of these two candidates can dip into her pockets for $6M. And I'm sorry, but it's funny and strange that she is the one who assumed the mantle of "the little people" this season. Anyone who is in the US Senate is very much a part of the ruling class. I’m with you on that. (“Snob” to me means something else entirely.)

But only one of these two candidates can dip into her pockets for $6M. And I’m sorry, but it’s funny and strange that she is the one who assumed the mantle of “the little people” this season.

]]> By: Vanderleun http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/comment-page-1/#comment-3043 Vanderleun Wed, 07 May 2008 22:45:27 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/2008/05/07/what-deep-pockets-say/#comment-3043 Fact is they're both snobs. Neither one is "of the people." And you know it. Fact is they’re both snobs. Neither one is “of the people.” And you know it.

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